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22 Panels Episode #244 - Comfort & Joy · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Uncle Fester: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. I almost forgot the title of the show. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and across the interwebs.
• 0:17
  Uncle Fester: From me is Phil and Ted. Hello guys, I am Uncle Fester today.
• 0:22
  Phil: -Oh.
• 0:23
  Uncle Fester: I don.
• 0:23
  Phil: I don't know if that lines up with getting webbed up, man, you know, I don't remember.
• 0:28
  Uncle Fester: Nope.
• 0:28
  Phil: Professor Shamus for.
• 0:30
  Uncle Fester: The Adam family. He would light up a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth.
• 0:35
  Phil: Okay, okay.
• 0:36
  Phil: A junior electro, if you will.
• 0:40
  Uncle Fester: I just thought it would be funny to change up my name every once in a while on these Zoom calls.
• 0:46
  Phil: Well, and we're starting to see some Halloween items in the solicits, you know, already, which is throwing me for a seasonal loop.
• 0:54
  Uncle Fester: I know, you guys, it's July, let's take it easy. You know what I mean.
• 0:58
  Phil: If Halloween starts in July, before we know it, Christmas will want to start in July. And that's just that's way too far.
• 1:05
  Uncle Fester: I know.
• 1:05
  Phil: It's too much.
• 1:06
  Uncle Fester: Yeah.
• 1:07
  Uncle Fester: It's crazy. As soon as 4th of July was over, I was seeing, Halloween stuff in stores. Or, no, more like Memorial or Labor Day stuff, I guess.
• 1:17
  Phil: Labor Day stuff. Is that just lawn furniture and, like, leftover grilling materials?
• 1:23
  Uncle Fester: And American flags and bunting.
• 1:25
  Phil: Oh, OK, OK, you got to get, you know, I didn't realize I've never decorated for Labor Day or Memorial Day. So, you know, just not that patriotic.
• 1:38
  Uncle Fester: I am, I am definitely.
• 1:39
  Phil: Cross my mind.
• 1:40
  Uncle Fester: So, listeners, Tad is also here. He is…
• 1:43
  Tad Eggleston: I am.
• 1:44
  Uncle Fester: He is mysteriously quiet.
• 1:47
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you know, you guys were, you guys were doing stuff. So, you know, we were.
• 1:52
  Phil: We were, you know…
• 1:54
  Uncle Fester: conducting business. He's got some… Phil has got a run of Hickman comics that I am very interested in, so…
• 2:00
  Phil: Yeah, that I am finding myself willing to part with in a less stuff to haul to a new city's kind of way.
• 2:08
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, we, we'll arrange something for… if you want to do a mass quantity of stuff, we'll… we could, like, meet halfway and exchange.
• 2:16
  Phil: There we go. Find the midpoint between.
• 2:19
  Uncle Fester: You're.
• 2:19
  Phil: Sioux Falls and Nashvill.
• 2:21
  Tad Eggleston: Chicago.
• 2:24
  Phil: It's a decent, it's.
• 2:26
  Uncle Fester: Chicago.
• 2:26
  Phil: Are you like eight hours away from Sioux Falls? Is that it?
• 2:32
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, right about…
• 2:33
  Tad Eggleston: Wait.
• 2:34
  Uncle Fester: I can get from my house to Niles, Illinois, which is where my son had lived. Okay. I could get there in, nine and a half.
• 2:44
  Phil: Okay, yeah, so it's a little further, so it's a little closer to me. I guess, you know, that'.
• 2:49
  Tad Eggleston: It takes you… it takes you nine and a half?
• 2:52
  Uncle Fester: when I had kids with me, and we'd stop, you know, and.
• 2:55
  Tad Eggleston: See, see.
• 2:57
  Phil: Yeah, kids… kids will have time, you know?
• 2:59
  Uncle Fester: What did what did you and Kelly do it in to Sioux Fall.
• 3:02
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's about 9 to get to Sioux Falls, but that's past Laver.
• 3:07
  Uncle Fester: That's a half hour past me, right? So I'm spending, yeah, I'm just spending my time on the total time traveling in the past has been between 9 and 10 hours.
• 3:20
  Tad Eggleston: So, right now… Chicago might be.
• 3:22
  Uncle Fester: the place. Are you looking at that with the halfway point?
• 3:25
  Tad Eggleston: Does it, well, no, it says that Laverne to, To my house is.
• 3:34
  Tad Eggleston: 7 hours and 24 minutes.
• 3:38
  Uncle Fester: Really?
• 3:41
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 3:42
  Phil: St. Bishop'.
• 3:43
  Tad Eggleston: If we go to Nashville, then it becomes 1533.
• 3:49
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 3:51
  Phil: Okay.
• 3:51
  Tad Eggleston: It actually has you as slightly closer.
• 3:56
  Uncle Fester: Tad's house. We'll we'll meet up at Tad's house for a special episode.
• 4:00
  Phil: He'll broker the deal.
• 4:02
  Uncle Fester: Where we are going to… we'll do it on the… on the show, where the deal goes down.
• 4:08
  Phil: Oh, how the negotiations were made, you know? Yep. Yep. That'll, that'll start the, the.
• 4:14
  Uncle Fester: I'll.
• 4:15
  Phil: Artifact.
• 4:15
  Uncle Fester: That kind of stuff.
• 4:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, no.
• 4:17
  Phil: God, I haven't.
• 4:18
  Tad Eggleston: be 728 to get to my house and 812 from now with with both Laverne and Nashville I'm just putting in the the so it's going from City Center yeah yeah you guys gave me your address.
• 4:32
  Uncle Fester: That's where I live. I live in the city center.
• 4:34
  Tad Eggleston: I know it doesn't actually change anything for you, but Nashville's a little bit bigger than that.
• 4:39
  Phil: Yeah, just a wee bit. I mean, I'm, I'm like, I'm on, you know, it at most it'll add like extra 15, 20 minutes to for off the spoke of highway that that we are towards Hermitage. So yeah.
• 4:50
  Uncle Fester: move.
• 4:51
  Phil: Move, November. So, it might… Alright. The timing, it might be a little…
• 4:56
  Tad Eggleston: And then you'll be closer.
• 4:58
  Phil: True, that'.
• 4:59
  Uncle Fester: So, let's do this in, like, September. We'll…
• 5:03
  Phil: Interesting, I mean… I, you know.
• 5:05
  Uncle Fester: No, I'm dead serious, Phil. Let's take a road trip, we'll each meet up, and.
• 5:10
  Phil: You know.
• 5:10
  Uncle Fester: Chicago.
• 5:11
  Phil: That doesn't that doesn't sound the worst. The only, you know, the only hard stop there is is I've already burned up all my time off for the year. But if I find a new job before then, that's a that's a new round of of PTO. So, you know.
• 5:23
  Uncle Fester: Oh, yeah.
• 5:24
  Phil: If you.
• 5:24
  Uncle Fester: have to build it up, though. Do they give it?
• 5:27
  Tad Eggleston: Depends on where.
• 5:28
  Uncle Fester: It works.
• 5:28
  Tad Eggleston: Some places just give it to you off the bat.
• 5:31
  Phil: We'll see. We'll see. I don't know.
• 5:34
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil, Phil, you came up with our comics news this week. I did! So why don't you start us out with our comics news, and we should probably say, we don't say this often enough, is episode 240 fucking 4?
• 5:45
  Phil: Yep.
• 5:46
  Uncle Fester: That's a.
• 5:46
  Phil: Almost more episodes than years of America. We're closing in on it. We'll be bigger than America in no time, guys.
• 5:55
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, America has been here much longer than that.
• 5:59
  Phil: Fair, too shallow.
• 6:00
  Tad Eggleston: Unless you're talking about the United States of America.
• 6:03
  Phil: Unfortunately, I was. I have a bad habit of referring to the.
• 6:07
  Tad Eggleston: Canada, America…
• 6:09
  Phil: You're right, you're.
• 6:10
  Tad Eggleston: America, Bolivia, America, Argentina, America.
• 6:15
  Phil: Agreed.
• 6:16
  Tad Eggleston: Brazil is America.
• 6:18
  Phil: Mexico, America.
• 6:19
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, and also, believe it or not, even the United States of America was here before it was formed as the United States. It had even been named America.
• 6:32
  Phil: Buy one Americo Fespucci.
• 6:35
  Tad Eggleston: Right!
• 6:38
  Phil: If rumors are to be believed, indeed.
• 6:42
  Uncle Fester: So how was your guys's 4th? Pretty good?
• 6:45
  Phil: Fourth. Fourth was last week.
• 6:48
  Uncle Fester: I know.
• 6:48
  Phil: Yeah. But this week we did via the beat a headline that indie printer comics Wellspring has had to suspend receiving new orders and.
• 7:00
  Phil: Fulfilling current orders, they had to stop printing altogether due to quote unquote unforeseen operational challenges, which is leaving some indie creators in limbo. The recommendation from Comics Wellspring is to seek out Gecko printing, which is apparently run by the original founders of Comics Wellspring. The Beat article also mentions Comics One as a good indie comics printer that has recently released a statement saying, hey, we are
• 7:25
  Phil: open for business and have not been facing, you know.
• 7:30
  Phil: unforeseen operating obstacles.
• 7:34
  Phil: So that's a bit of a bummer. Bit of a bummer. But on… on Brighter News, this week saw a, career profile of acclaimed artist Nick Dragata of…
• 7:45
  Phil: absolute Batman and East of West fame. Jugado's art is absolutely incredible. If you are interested in him and interested in comics, which I would hope so, listening to this podcast, go check out Sketched, for their career profile on…
• 8:00
  Phil: Nick Dragata. Tad, what kind of week has it been?
• 8:04
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, until yesterday… When… when Lindsey Graham
• 8:14
  Tad Eggleston: Also joined the list of people who have.
• 8:17
  Tad Eggleston: talk to Mitch Mcconnell for 20 minutes.
• 8:21
  Tad Eggleston: only, you know… More credibly in some ways and, and I've heard that they both say it's hot.
• 8:29
  Tad Eggleston: I think the most interesting thing to me this week is like, as Republicans pile on Graham Plattner. And don't get me wrong, like, it turns out Graham Plattner is a pretty bad actor, or at least credibly enough so that it's good if he's not our candidate. Yep.
• 8:50
  Tad Eggleston: But it's kind of ironic to hear the Republicans pile on them, considering that, true to form.
• 8:57
  Tad Eggleston: The only Republican that hasn't piled onto him
• 9:01
  Tad Eggleston: It is Donald Trump who says that like, yeah, if you believe the woman, but you know, sometimes.
• 9:07
  Phil: Holy shit.
• 9:08
  Tad Eggleston: just are trying to get attention and they like to get their names in the papers and stuff.
• 9:13
  Phil: Whoa!
• 9:14
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 9:15
  Phil: Absolutely horrifying, like.
• 9:17
  Tad Eggleston: So, so true to form.
• 9:20
  Phil: Well, this is where, I mean, I'm sorry, if the, if someone as repugnant as Trump endorses a candidate, that's typically a sign.
• 9:27
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he didn't endorse him, but still.
• 9:30
  Phil: I mean, it's as close to an endorsement as you get. It says, defends publicly.
• 9:36
  Tad Eggleston: But the bulwark put together the supercut of Trump.
• 9:42
  Tad Eggleston: Trump defending sex predators over the years. He was quite outspoken about, like, Mike Tyson even after the conviction.
• 9:49
  Phil: Of course.
• 9:50
  Tad Eggleston: So… I mean, like, his words on, on Ghislaine Maxwell and, and Jeffrey Epstein are well documented.
• 10:00
  Phil: Mmhm.
• 10:00
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, like, yeah.
• 10:02
  Phil: Still not well enough documented.
• 10:03
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, but, but yeah, no, he's, he's, he's got a real, real track record for, oh, somebody said they committed sex crimes.
• 10:14
  Tad Eggleston: But did they?
• 10:15
  Phil: Oh, they probably did.
• 10:18
  Phil: Unfortunately, unfortunately…
• 10:20
  Tad Eggleston: You're famous. You don't commit sex crimes. People just say you committed sex crimes because they want to get their names in the paper.
• 10:31
  Phil: Cheers.
• 10:32
  Tad Eggleston: This is the Donald Trump defense. It's unf.
• 10:34
  Phil: Yeah, and like what?
• 10:35
  Tad Eggleston: No, I was, I was thinking on it because like it, like one of the biggest things of the U2 movement or MeToo movement is.
• 10:48
  Tad Eggleston: That there is not as much of a knee-jerk anywhere to go, well, you know…
• 10:55
  Tad Eggleston: This needs to be investigated because…
• 10:59
  Phil: Yeah.
• 11:01
  Phil: when in reality the evidence provided in the form of rape kits largely go untested.
• 11:08
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but I would go beyond that. Like, in reality, not many people really want to be famous for having been sexually assaulted.
• 11:20
  Phil: Exactly.
• 11:21
  Tad Eggleston: That's, that's not actually.
• 11:22
  Phil: Yes.
• 11:22
  Tad Eggleston: thing.
• 11:23
  Phil: It's one of those things where when the crime actually doesn't get investigated and the desire to be known for it is not there, you face pretty much uniform social ridicule. Like, no, false accusations are not prominent under these circumstances.
• 11:39
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I refuse to guarantee that, like, there are any absolutes, but…
• 11:47
  Phil: Nope.
• 11:47
  Tad Eggleston: It'.
• 11:48
  Phil: And as hard as I'm willing to go on that because it's…
• 11:51
  Phil: Is there at least one case ever? Probably. Right. Is that notable? Not in this case.
• 11:56
  Tad Eggleston: Well it's it's it's like notable because there's it's notable like the way that the the the the small amount of voter fraud that happens in the ways that that.
• 12:09
  Phil: Right.
• 12:09
  Tad Eggleston: Republican like you are taking you are taking the the one in a billion.
• 12:17
  Phil: Right, right. You're taking the most outstanding…
• 12:19
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it's possible!
• 12:21
  Phil: Yeah, and using that as justification.
• 12:23
  Tad Eggleston: Isn't it possible?
• 12:24
  Phil: Doing even worse things, arguably, yeah.
• 12:26
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there was that one guy that he wasn't murdered. He accidentally fell on that other dude's sword. Isn't it possible that I was just target shooting?
• 12:40
  Phil: Oh.
• 12:41
  Tad Eggleston: I stood in front of my bullet.
• 12:45
  Phil: That's why he apologized to Channing.
• 12:49
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly.
• 12:50
  Phil: Yeah.
• 12:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 12:53
  Uncle Fester: Did he really apologize to Cheney?
• 12:54
  Tad Eggleston: He did.
• 12:55
  Phil: for getting shot in the face.
• 12:57
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Yeah.
• 12:58
  Uncle Fester: God, yeah, I didn't know that.
• 13:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 13:00
  Uncle Fester: Sorry, sorry, I got in the way of your gun. Yes, that.
• 13:04
  Phil: That was exactly, like, how do you apologize for that?
• 13:07
  Tad Eggleston: So one of my all time favorite daily shows was like right after that because they actually did it up. So they had the Cheney's got a gun.
• 13:21
  Uncle Fester: Good, good.
• 13:22
  Phil: Oh…
• 13:23
  Uncle Fester: Dude, dude, dude.
• 13:25
  Tad Eggleston: Dude, dude, dude.
• 13:30
  Tad Eggleston: Actually, like in in in like, since since we're we're plugging.
• 13:39
  Tad Eggleston: Other sites.
• 13:42
  Tad Eggleston: I'll plug another podcast right now, because Jon Stewart for The Weekly Show, his guest this week, And, and…
• 13:53
  Tad Eggleston: Talk about an interesting.
• 13:56
  Tad Eggleston: Choice for the second.
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: Second people to talk to, Once he finally broke his his silence,
• 14:06
  Tad Eggleston: John Stewart had a nearly 2-hour conversation with Jack Smith.
• 14:11
  Tad Eggleston: And Brian Driscoll, who was, who was briefly acting head of the FBI.
• 14:19
  Phil: Oh.
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: the weaponization of the justice system, about…
• 14:24
  Phil: Wow. Yeah.
• 14:25
  Tad Eggleston: It was, it was a fantastic conversation.
• 14:30
  Tad Eggleston: But also, like…
• 14:36
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I just… I think back to… John on… Crossfire.
• 14:47
  Tad Eggleston: And, and the fact that he's sitting there, you know, screaming at them, I come on!
• 14:56
  Tad Eggleston: Between South Park and Puppet City.
• 14:58
  Phil: Right.
• 14:59
  Tad Eggleston: Crank calls.
• 15:00
  Phil: Jeez.
• 15:01
  Tad Eggleston: Do you not understand the difference?
• 15:06
  Phil: Yeah.
• 15:07
  Tad Eggleston: Which somehow didn't totally end Tucker Carlson's career.
• 15:11
  Tad Eggleston: Umm.
• 15:13
  Phil: Only.
• 15:13
  Tad Eggleston: So it wasn'.
• 15:14
  Phil: Could.
• 15:14
  Tad Eggleston: So it wasn't, so it was a spe.
• 15:16
  Phil: us, right?
• 15:20
  Phil: Oh, oh.
• 15:20
  Tad Eggleston: Like like the fact that like John not only like had to come out of retirement essentially because of the the fact that he is.
• 15:31
  Tad Eggleston: One of the most trusted.
• 15:33
  Tad Eggleston: Voices in news, as much as news isn't really what he wants to be doing.
• 15:39
  Phil: Right.
• 15:42
  Uncle Fester: I agree. Like, he… he… him coming…
• 15:44
  Tad Eggleston: The fact that, like, he would be picked by Jackson, I mean, because I got to assume that Jack Smith picked him. I can't even imagine that Jon Stewart would have been reaching out to Jack Smith.
• 15:55
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 15:57
  Phil: What kind of contacts does Stuart have to reach out to Jack Smith?
• 16:01
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, again, like, he does deal with this stuff and, and like, it's not completely out of
• 16:08
  Tad Eggleston: Out of like.
• 16:10
  Phil: He's, he'.
• 16:11
  Tad Eggleston: Out of line with his other shows, particularly his audio podcast stuff.
• 16:16
  Phil: Yep.
• 16:17
  Tad Eggleston: Which tends to be longer conversations that really get into stuff.
• 16:22
  Tad Eggleston: But John also strikes me as somewhat humble, so I just don't see him as the one going, oh, I'm the right person to have the first really long… I mean, I think Smith had talked to MSNBC for, like, half an hour, 45 minutes. That was the first time.
• 16:39
  Phil: Yep.
• 16:42
  Tad Eggleston: You know, and essentially that's one of the things that Jack and Brian discuss is like.
• 16:48
  Tad Eggleston: one of the things, and this goes back to an argument that we've had both on and off the air regarding Tom King and the CIA,
• 16:59
  Tad Eggleston: You know, one of the things they discuss is, is like most of the people who work for these organizations are there to serve.
• 17:07
  Phil: Mmhm.
• 17:08
  Tad Eggleston: You know, whatever you think about the organizations and not, like, like, and this is why we see so many people getting fired because they won't do things, or resigning rather than doing things, or whatnot, is, is that, like.
• 17:25
  Tad Eggleston: You may disagree… with… the route that they're going. But they they really are generally
• 17:37
  Tad Eggleston: Moral and upstanding people who are doing this because they think it's the way to help make the world better.
• 17:44
  Phil: Yeah, I think seeing…
• 17:46
  Phil: Kash Patel, as the head of the FBI, certainly puts a lot of prior heads into perspective, you know? Right, right.
• 17:54
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but all of the heads are slightly more political figures.
• 17:59
  Phil: Yeah, okay.
• 18:00
  Tad Eggleston: We're not talking heads, we're talking rank and file type people. The people who, you know, they don't get to choose what they investigate, they get told what to investigate.
• 18:09
  Phil: Right, right. And that's a very different job.
• 18:11
  Tad Eggleston: And do you want a person who does it, who believes in the laws, and is going to try to investigate inside of the laws, and whatnot? Or do you really want hacks there, that when so-and-so says go… I mean…
• 18:26
  Tad Eggleston: And the FBI does have a sordid history, which is, like, not something that Driscoll or Smith
• 18:34
  Tad Eggleston: Didn't acknowledge but but like what what makes it so that those things don't be more sorted is is having.
• 18:46
  Tad Eggleston: Rules and and oversight and whatnot.
• 18:50
  Tad Eggleston: Which is stuff that's going away.
• 18:54
  Tad Eggleston: But I think as a nation, and this, like, something I've been thinking about a lot, one of the panels I put in for
• 19:01
  Tad Eggleston: new York City is two things can be true dealing with complex issues in comics.
• 19:10
  Tad Eggleston: Because I think, as a nation.
• 19:13
  Tad Eggleston: As a society, we have more and more trouble with with things that
• 19:21
  Tad Eggleston: aren't… Easily categorized as good or bad.
• 19:26
  Uncle Fester: Right.
• 19:28
  Tad Eggleston: We want big sweeping. This is good. This is bad rather than.
• 19:34
  Uncle Fester: And not only that.
• 19:35
  Tad Eggleston: This part is good. That part's not as good. This part depends on your perspective.
• 19:41
  Uncle Fester: And to justify your position on those things that are not so bad, you make them, both parties do this.
• 19:50
  Uncle Fester: you make them as villainous as possible, right? For doing, or liking, or supporting something that is slightly right or left of center, and they just make it the biggest deal
• 20:07
  Uncle Fester: Ever, right? And it's all theater, it's all pomp and circumstance, it's
• 20:12
  Uncle Fester: It's all magic, and it's just fluff, you know?
• 20:16
  Uncle Fester: Anyway…
• 20:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 20:18
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't want to get too deep into that, because this is the comfort and joy.
• 20:23
  Uncle Fester: Comfort and joy.
• 20:24
  Tad Eggleston: But but but it might be. It might be an interesting one for for later is to pick books that we think really deal with
• 20:33
  Tad Eggleston: complexities of things that people like to oversimplify.
• 20:38
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, when we get to our great responsibility, I will explain why I picked the books I picked for comfort and joy.
• 20:46
  Tad Eggleston: No, I, no, I, I was able to guess it, but yeah, you're going to possibly need to for our audiences, but let's get into.
• 20:54
  Tad Eggleston: are new to order books with initial orders due July 23rd.
• 20:59
  Uncle Fester: This first one is awesome because, if you have been enjoying the Absolute, line, this is Absolute Cassandra Cain, the Shadow's Hand number 1, from Che Grayson and Matthias, Bergara.
• 21:13
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• 21:27
  Uncle Fester: Learn the origin of Absolute Universe's most formidable assassin, and how her story is one that is intertwined with the greatest thief, the world's greatest thief, Selina Kyle. Yeah, woman.
• 21:40
  Uncle Fester: This has a final order cutoff of August 17th, and will be in shop September 9th.
• 21:47
  Uncle Fester: Dad, you didn.
• 21:48
  Tad Eggleston: I'm, I'm not gonna read the, the.
• 21:51
  Tad Eggleston: the…
• 21:53
  Tad Eggleston: solicit text for either one of these, but… but we've got two new DC work-in-progress editions, and I haven't talked about these since the… I want to say it was the All-Star
• 22:04
  Tad Eggleston: Superman 1 was the one that I got.
• 22:08
  Tad Eggleston: But, but we're having a, both Batman The Dark Knight Returns number one and Watchmen number one are getting the DC work in progress treatment.
• 22:24
  Tad Eggleston: For, for September, Dark Knight is, is final order cut off of August 17th out September 16th,
• 22:33
  Tad Eggleston: Watchmen, August 24th, out September 23rd, but why I like to bring these up every once in a while when they're in the solicits is, like, a lot of us would love to own all of the beautiful
• 22:46
  Tad Eggleston: Artist editions… Of books and like the $100 to $150 price tag is just really.
• 22:54
  Tad Eggleston: Outside of of what we can do.
• 22:58
  Tad Eggleston: And what the work in project additions are is essentially that for a single issue and done.
• 23:09
  Tad Eggleston: In an oversight… in, like, a…
• 23:12
  Tad Eggleston: I forget the name of the word for that size book.
• 23:15
  Tad Eggleston: treasury size.
• 23:18
  Tad Eggleston: Addition.
• 23:18
  Phil: It's a larger size paper that they're printing on.
• 23:22
  Tad Eggleston: It's, it's essentially the same size paper as like an artist's edition.
• 23:26
  Phil: Oh, so it's.
• 23:27
  Tad Eggleston: But it's, but it's done up as a comic.
• 23:31
  Phil: Okay.
• 23:32
  Tad Eggleston: Like a cardstock cover.
• 23:34
  Phil: Yes.
• 23:34
  Tad Eggleston: Right, so you're getting very much a single issue version
• 23:40
  Tad Eggleston: Of an artist's edition. So if you want to have that little bit of really being able to see.
• 23:47
  Tad Eggleston: the process…
• 23:50
  Tad Eggleston: these are great at a tenth of the price of your average artist edition, because I think that they weigh in at, like, $15 a piece. So I do like to bring them up from time to time, because, like.
• 24:01
  Tad Eggleston: Again.
• 24:02
  Uncle Fester: I'm looking at them right now, and they are 14. 99.
• 24:07
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Give me a second. Let me see if my… I have one. Let me see if it's nearby. I'm going to step away. You guys fill… Actually, go ahead and read the next one, and I'll come back to it.
• 24:20
  Uncle Fester: All right, the next one, up on our final order cutoff list. This is Fixation by Amy Chase and Savannah Mayer from IDW.
• 24:29
  Uncle Fester: When superfan Taylor Van Owens wins a contest to stay in the legendary Mallard House, the most iconic filming location for the hit vampire book turned movie, Blood Mountain.
• 24:41
  Uncle Fester: She and her best friend Kara arrive in Vail, expecting to sink their fangs into a weekend straight from a fangirl's dream.
• 24:50
  Uncle Fester: The cast has reunited for a 10th anniversary celebration, and devotees have descended on a small town, and nostalgia hangs thick in the air. But shortly before their arrival, a young woman is found dead inside the Mallard House.
• 25:06
  Uncle Fester: Final order cut off August 3rd, will be in shop September 9th.
• 25:12
  Uncle Fester: Chad, what do you got?
• 25:14
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I was.
• 25:15
  Phil: Like, wow, that is such… So…
• 25:20
  Tad Eggleston: And.
• 25:21
  Tad Eggleston: It's essentially just the penciled edition, but it's got the lettering so you can read it.
• 25:27
  Phil: Okay.
• 25:27
  Phil: And it is, it is easily twice the size, if not two and a half times the size of a Tesla.
• 25:33
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, easily. I mean… Yeah.
• 25:35
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, here's the way to put it. I've got an absolute edition of Day Tripper right here, too.
• 25:41
  Phil: -Hu Oh, it's larger even.
• 25:44
  Uncle Fester: Oh!
• 25:45
  Phil: Holy cow.
• 25:46
  Phil: Yeah, right.
• 25:47
  Uncle Fester: It is big.
• 25:48
  Phil: That is big.
• 25:49
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 25:49
  Phil: I think it might actually be double the size of a typical.
• 25:52
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, easily. Easily.
• 25:53
  Phil: If it's… if it's, like.
• 25:55
  Tad Eggleston: Essentially, what.
• 25:56
  Phil: By 20 kilos.
• 25:57
  Tad Eggleston: It's the original art size, it's the size of the boards they work on.
• 26:00
  Phil: Oh, wow, that's amazing.
• 26:03
  Tad Eggleston: So… so if you really wanna…
• 26:07
  Tad Eggleston: You know, for people who like to look at Again, the process…
• 26:13
  Tad Eggleston: Who get to like to, you know, and it doesn't have as many bells and whistles as some of the.
• 26:19
  Tad Eggleston: Some of the…
• 26:23
  Uncle Fester: color.
• 26:23
  Tad Eggleston: Artist editions ones will have that sort of thing.
• 26:26
  Phil: Mmhm.
• 26:27
  Tad Eggleston: But… It's still… It's still cool, and it's much more affordable.
• 26:34
  Tad Eggleston: Which is why I like to call them out from time to time.
• 26:38
  Uncle Fester: I think I'm gonna get the Watchmen one for sure, because I kind of have an obsession with collecting Watchmen editions.
• 26:46
  Uncle Fester: Anyway, Phil, next comic book.
• 26:48
  Phil: All right, we're moving on. This is the Carmen Blade. Carmen Blade number one from Darcy Van.
• 26:56
  Phil: Holgiest and Ian Bertram over at Image Comics. The Carmen Blade, a dying world under a tyrant god, a blade to free them all. A young man on the outskirts of a dying world is chosen by a blade forged of stars to slay the des…
• 27:10
  Phil: deity Kalu and free the water he hoards in his kingdom. Yet before the boy can begin his journey, he must first face the demons in his own life and answer the Carmen Blade's call. Are thou he who taketh me in hand? Are thou he who shall slay a god? This is an awesome looking dark fantasy series coming from Image Comics with a final order cut off of August 17th in stores September 9th.
• 27:38
  Tad Eggleston: All right. The book.
• 27:41
  Tad Eggleston: No, not quite the book that originally had the same text as that. I'll get to that in a minute. Kill All Immortals number volume three from Zach Kaplan and Francesca Mortarino this time around. This is the conclusion of his Kill All Immortals.
• 27:59
  Tad Eggleston: cycle.
• 28:00
  Tad Eggleston: The Oswalds were once a billionaire Viking family with a secret to immortality. Until the family's only daughter, Frey Oswald, led a rebellion against their barbaric father. Now with their family splintered and wounded, they find a daunting world of rival immortals seeking their demise at every turn. As Frey takes on her most deadly adversaries yet, she must finally decide what is most important.
• 28:22
  Tad Eggleston: Her freedom from war, or her Viking vengeance?
• 28:26
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off of August 31st, and in stores on October 7th.
• 28:32
  Tad Eggleston: the… the…
• 28:34
  Tad Eggleston: Next book is the one where we had to go nuts to find the solicit text, because somehow, both at Lunar and at Image, they had the same solicit text for the Carmen blade for Gwillim March's Afiusa, which I can only assume is because Gwillim March did a book called Carmen.
• 28:54
  Tad Eggleston: Spelled…
• 28:55
  Tad Eggleston: with an E rather than the A of Carmen's blade, and somebody just I don't know. But anyway, the actual solicit text for for Afiusa is in Afiusa. The romance between the irresistible Mar and the young entrepreneur. Joan gets off to a flying start.
• 29:10
  Tad Eggleston: In another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island, a love triangle in which everyone is hiding something while a dark secret
• 29:20
  Tad Eggleston: From the past awaits to be revealed. With exquisite artwork that evokes paradise and a story that gradually lays bares the characters souls while also leaving room for fun, seduction, and the search for truth. Be careful when diving into the waters of Afiusa. This is from Gwillim March.
• 29:39
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off of August 24th in stores, September 16th.
• 29:46
  Uncle Fester: Okay, the rising from Greg Wyden and Lacey from AWA.
• 29:53
  Uncle Fester: Ray and his daughter Addie live in a dying industry town set deep in the Badlands.
• 30:00
  Uncle Fester: But this is an industry town like no other. The industry is intercontinental ballistic missiles, and with the missile base closing down, it is time for everyone to move on. But for six coma patients asleep for 40 years after a mysterious accident on the base.
• 30:17
  Uncle Fester: Things are just getting started. As Ray begins to notice strange glitches in the missile system, and Addie finds grass stains on the coma patient's feet.
• 30:27
  Uncle Fester: They soon realize that something evil is lurking in the base, and that the fate of the planet itself is on the line. The Rising has a final order cut off of August 10th, and will be in shop September 23rd.
• 30:43
  Phil: All right, next up there's Scream Halloween Special 2026 from Alex Pacnadel, Zach Thompson, Zoe Tunnell, Oliver Gerlach, Alejandro Aragon, Chloe Brailsford, Vic Malhotra, and Babs Tarr over from Rebellion.
• 31:02
  Phil: doppelgangers and horrifying transformations lurk in the shadows of the screen. 2026 Halloween special, as the lines between reality and nightmare blur across 5 twisted tales, ranging from vampire conspiracies to an AI software update from hell to bloody, altering to body, altering experimental tech to a mutating archaeological find.
• 31:25
  Phil: Following Scream's 40th anniversary and success of the Eisner-nominated Scream the Specials , the anthology comic is back with new episodes of The Dracula File and The 13th Floor, and brand new one-shots to keep you up at night all through Halloween season and beyond.
• 31:42
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cut off of July 27th in stores. October 28.th
• 31:48
  Phil: After that there is Superman, the stranger number one from Wes Craig, artist of Kaya and deadly class, and is an absolute badass with pencil step into the golden age and witness the 1st adventures of Superman. During the day Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down he leaps into action to keep the
• 32:11
  Phil: city streets safe, as Superman Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he's not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden? With a final order cutoff of August 10th.
• 32:25
  Phil: And in stores September 2nd.
• 32:28
  Phil: Next up we got some graphic novels, Tyler.
• 32:31
  Uncle Fester: They look pretty good too. All the people I have been from Alfonso Casas from Ablaze.
• 32:38
  Uncle Fester: It's better to laugh in life, and if possible, to laugh at yourself. In this new graphic novel, cartoonish Alfonso Casas reflects on the various phases of life.
• 32:48
  Uncle Fester: Portrayed through beautiful illustrations created to remind us of the power of our thoughts and the new worlds in which we constantly find ourselves. As in his previous title, Monster Mind, Casas focuses on the premise, that all humans live their own lives within their own minds, which deserves to be treated with grace as our homes among this crazy.
• 33:10
  Uncle Fester: big, diverse, world. And, like, again, this is from Ablaze, final order cut off July 27th, and will be in shop September 2nd.
• 33:24
  Tad Eggleston: Alrighty.
• 33:26
  Tad Eggleston: Dig and Drift from Delphine Panique.
• 33:30
  Tad Eggleston: At New York Review Books, dreamlike and darkly humorous stories of migrant labor and the gig economy for fans of Black Mirror and the Twilight Zone.
• 33:38
  Tad Eggleston: In a delicate, sometimes searing send-up of documentary cartooning, Delphine Panik stitches together vignettes of an eerie dream world not dissimilar from our own, and its most marginalized workers, single migrant mothers.
• 33:52
  Tad Eggleston: A seasonal worker trains messenger pigeons necessary in a country that can't give up instant communication after the disappearance of electricity. A woman who never wanted to be a mother is tricked into caring for a house full of strange children in a coastal town whose rising waters its wealthy residents are fleeing. A fleet of couriers circulated among people who live completely
• 34:15
  Tad Eggleston: Or circulate among people who live completely indoor lives supported by deliveries until one day the packages seem.
• 34:22
  Tad Eggleston: different.
• 34:24
  Tad Eggleston: Vibrant, smart, and masterfully spun, Dig and Drift at once summons humor, tragedy, and ironic, steely optimism.
• 34:32
  Tad Eggleston: The indomitable spirit of working women reverberates through the book, translated into English for the first time by Deborah Fischler. This is a final order cutoff of August 24th, and in stores on September 22nd.
• 34:48
  Uncle Fester: Hey.
• 34:49
  Uncle Fester: This is Dr. Strange and Dr. Doom, Triumph and Torment. This is a reprint, from Roger Stern, Mike Mignola from Marvel.
• 34:57
  Uncle Fester: An all-time classic graphic novel from fan-favorite Marvel writer Roger Stern and visionary artist Mike Mignola, reprinted in comic book format, Doctor Doom has a plan to rescue the soul of his mother from Mephisto. All he needs is the unwilling help of Doctor Strange.
• 35:15
  Uncle Fester: But why would Earth Sorcerer Supreme join the world's greatest villain on a deadly quest into Mephisto's realm?
• 35:21
  Uncle Fester: What price must be paid before the Lord of Lies will release his prize? And will Victor Von Doom be prepared to make that sacrifice?
• 35:31
  Uncle Fester: Final order cutoff of August 3rd, and get the issue on September 2nd.
• 35:39
  Phil: All right, next up there is Forming from Jesse Moynihan at Fantagraphics. Originally begun in 2009, Jesse Moynihan's acclaimed magnum opus was never completed until now.
• 35:50
  Phil: Spanning Atlantis, 10,000 BC, across eons and galaxies, religions and myths, humanity emerges from the primordial soup only to be exploited for its labor by an alien superbeing, leading to wars and forces between the likes we could hardly comprehend if not given life before our very eyes via Moynihan's breathtaking and hand-painted gouache, ink, and airbrushed images.
• 36:14
  Phil: Forming Herald?
• 36:15
  Phil: Forming heralds the birth of civilization and maps out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, followed by the raging war that ensues in the universe's years of adolescence and beyond, as the final fate of the universe unfolds. It's going to have a final order cut off of August 10th in stores October 7th, once again from Fantagraphics.
• 36:43
  Tad Eggleston: Havana split from Bramod and Vic Makioki at Mad Cave, Cuba, 1958. Lily is reunited with her father, the owner of a seedy detective agency in Havana. Well, reunited.
• 36:58
  Tad Eggleston: Rather, she catches a glimpse of him. Her father, a gambling addict, has been kidnapped along with his secretary by Alfonso, a mafioso and sports betting boss. The deal is simple. Her father in exchange for a starlet, a failed film actress, but above all, the mistress of Alfonso's great rival.
• 37:16
  Tad Eggleston: Simple. Easy. Facile. Especially since Lily can…
• 37:20
  Tad Eggleston: Count on the help of John, an ex-CIA agent, and Jose, a handyman in his spare time, and a full-time coward. And all this in the middle of the revolution.
• 37:32
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of August 10th in stores on September 2nd.
• 37:40
  Uncle Fester: All right.
• 37:41
  Uncle Fester: Hocus Focus from Ian Flynn and Ryan Jampol from Mad Cave.
• 37:47
  Uncle Fester: An easily distracted young wizard named Hocus is on a magical quest across a fanciful world of adventure. Hijinks and laughs. Hocus is on the road with her frog companion, Pocus, and will need all the help she can get to find the powerful arcane relic known as the Yundu.
• 38:06
  Uncle Fester: She'll need to brave the spooky road through Spiderweave Glade, the icy storms of Sunblister Valley, and the questionable cuisine of Grimlon.
• 38:16
  Uncle Fester: Along the way, she'll encounter talking spiders, talking skeletons, talking flames, and a very well-meaning ogre named Ugh. He's also quite chatty. Hocus may command powerful magic, but the elements don't bow to just anyone.
• 38:31
  Uncle Fester: And especially not bratty novice wizards. Hocus will have to grow and learn a lot in her journey, not just about magic, but about herself and what it means to be a good friend.
• 38:42
  Uncle Fester: Lucky for her, she'll be meeting all sorts of great teachers along the way. Come along for a whimsical romp full of magic, mystery, and monsters, as we all say, focus, focus! Final order cut off August 31st, and in shop September 23rd.
• 38:59
  Phil: All right. Identical by Leah Hayes with Fantagraphics. Identical is the story of two twin girls born in the not so distant future, where fertility treatments have begun to use new AI technology with air quotes around it.
• 39:14
  Phil: Their mother, desperate to have a baby, has sought out this new technology to get pregnant. After they are born, she slowly begins to suspect that one twin is human while the other is not.
• 39:25
  Phil: Narrated by one of the twins themselves, Identical takes the reader down an uncanny odyssey of self-discovery, one where you are never sure which "self" you really are. Hayes uses her own experience as an identical twin to explore the realms of sameness and difference, separation and unity. After many years of illustrating books for others, Identical marks Hayes' first time turning the pen inward, bravely exploring the powerful bond that has defined
• 39:49
  Phil: her entire life.
• 39:51
  Phil: Finally, we're gonna cut off of August 10th in stores. September 16.th.
• 40:00
  Tad Eggleston: All right. Mess from Noah Van Skyver at Fantagraphics. When her semi-estranged and penniless hoarder father dies, Aaron Messina is tasked with cleaning out his house before the bank forecloses on it. This otherwise thankless task is given purpose.
• 40:17
  Tad Eggleston: However, when she remembers the original Picasso drawing, her father was gifted in 1964. She enlists her teenage son, Jackson, to spend spring break.
• 40:26
  Tad Eggleston: Looking for their possible ticket to long-term financial stability. Jackson, resentful and eager to shirk responsibility, befriends twin skateboarders who live in the hood and tell him about the violent murder that happened directly across the street from his grandfather's home. And the murderer who still lives there.
• 40:44
  Tad Eggleston: Emotional baggage, paranoia, and frayed nerves stretch the Messina's relationship to the brink, as the mess careens to a thrilling final act that includes two-way radio communication with the dead?
• 40:56
  Tad Eggleston: From Noah Van Skyver and Fantagraphics, final order cutoff of August 17th, and in stores on September 23rd.
• 41:06
  Phil: All right. Moondear from Johan Cavej at ONI.
• 41:12
  Phil: To keep his precious egg safe from the mysterious huntress on his trail, Little Moondeer must flee across the infinite and empty space at the risk of his life. In this mostly wordless, breathtaking graphic novel, an intergalactic chase unfolds that could steal the fate of the universe, ravaged by the dreaded true silence where one small deer is the last thing standing between life and complete annihilation.
• 41:35
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cutoff of August 31st, in stores October 20th.
• 41:41
  Phil: And, next up, we've got some collections, which I'm starting off. 51, from Kurt Piers and Jock at Batcave.
• 41:50
  Phil: When the President's black sheep son is caught on a bender in Malibu, he's sent off to Area 51 to work in the warehouse as discipline. It doesn't take long for him and his coworkers to mess up. When they do mess up.
• 42:03
  Phil: When they do, they mess up big, and all the secrets, horrors, and wonders housed at the black site are now leaking into the world and wrecking havoc. Their task? To put the genies back in the bottle and bury the stories. And to do so, they'll have to contend with aliens, superheroes, and all manners of experimental weapons.
• 42:19
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cut off of August 31st in stores. September 23rd.
• 42:31
  Tad Eggleston: Hold hard cash from Gary Phillips and Adriana Mello at Ablaze. Former Vegas showgirl Martha Cheney.
• 42:41
  Tad Eggleston: is a statuesque.
• 42:45
  Tad Eggleston: Woman of color? Yeah, no, I was just caught off guard that they decided to to abbreviate that. Yeah.
• 42:55
  Phil: Interesting choice for sure.
• 42:57
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 42:58
  Phil: Of all places.
• 42:58
  Uncle Fester: Well, they didn't when I no, I'm just kidding.
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: Walk.
• 43:03
  Tad Eggleston: A statuesque woman of color with a penchant for martial arts. Done with the spotlight and the 40-pound headdresses, Martha's foregone the usual path of winding up arm candy and has taken up a career as a
• 43:16
  Tad Eggleston: A courier of off-the-books money, cold, hard cash. When a former colleague with a more legit line of work asked her to discreetly recover $10 million in solo funds, of course Martha's on the case. The mission takes her all over California and through more than a few mo…
• 43:33
  Tad Eggleston: MOOCs.
• 43:34
  Tad Eggleston: But will her head-slamming sleuth skills be enough to recover the cash? Final order cut off of July 27th and in stores September 2nd from Ablaze.
• 43:46
  Uncle Fester: The EC Comics Treasury of Terror, Volume 1, various writers and artists.
• 43:53
  Phil: Prol.
• 43:53
  Uncle Fester: Move by rate. What's that?
• 43:55
  Phil: I said the prolific various.
• 43:58
  Uncle Fester: the prolific variants, right? Fueled by rage and revenge, Oni Press is positively thrilled to present this specially selected
• 44:07
  Uncle Fester: Fantastically curated collection of our very best horror tales, combs from across, epitaphs from the abyss, catacombs of torment, brutal kingdom.
• 44:17
  Uncle Fester: giver suspense stories, and more of EC's most infamous comic publications. I know why EC's unexpected Eisner Award-nominated Resurrection Return from the Tomb has fans screaming for more.
• 44:32
  Uncle Fester: And mercy. In this tastefully morose, gorgeously reproduced collection celebrating EC's greatest tales of grim vengeance and stomach-turning tension.
• 44:42
  Uncle Fester: Forged in the Immortal EC Comics Manor.
• 44:46
  Uncle Fester: This has a final order cutoff of August 17th and will be in shops September 8th.
• 44:55
  Uncle Fester: Alright.
• 44:56
  Tad Eggleston: I want to be your dog omnibus from Hochi Anderson at Fantagraphics. The first new edition in 30 years, I Want to Be Your Dog, is the story where Hochi Anderson announced himself as a creative force to be reckoned with. Mary Greenberg, a Jewish Guyanese woman living in Toronto, is recovering from a bad breakup.
• 45:14
  Tad Eggleston: One that makes her want to be bad all by herself.
• 45:18
  Tad Eggleston: Mary's ex, Zal, is a sadomasochistic abuser and petty thief lying low in New York City with his brother, Baron.
• 45:25
  Tad Eggleston: Mary has Zal's colored dog, but this time around, she wants to be the one holding the leash. That's when she meets Damien, sweet, soft, and woefully insecure about sex. What starts as a genuine connection becomes an ugly web of moral corruption, domination, and submission. To make matters worse, Mary wants to know what it's like to kill someone.
• 45:47
  Tad Eggleston: And that's before it all washes up back in Toronto.
• 45:51
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Fantagraphics in stores on September 16th, with a final order cutoff of August 10th.
• 46:01
  Uncle Fester: Right.
• 46:02
  Uncle Fester: Star Trek The Last Starship, Volume 1 from Colin Kelly and Jackson Lansing, and Adrian Vanilla, 3.
• 46:11
  Uncle Fester: A galaxy shattered, a legend reborn, a new frontier begins. After the cataclysmic burn brings warp travel to a standstill and shatters centuries of unity.
• 46:23
  Uncle Fester: The dream of the United Federation of Planets collapses almost overnight. Worlds are cut off, civilizations tumble.
• 46:31
  Uncle Fester: Chaos fills the void where hope once thrived. Out of this cosmic wreckage rises an unlikely beacon, the USS Omega, a lone vessel crewed by survivors of a navigate by survivors navigating a lawless, uncharted galaxy nearly 300 years after the fall.
• 46:51
  Uncle Fester: With no federation to guide them, they must carve out a path through the ruins facing warlords, scavengers, and the raw unknown. This will be in shops August 3rd, excuse me, final order cutoff of August 3rd, in shop September 8th.
• 47:07
  Phil: All right. And finally, there is Vengeances for the Living by Keenan Marshall Keller and Alex Delaney over at Floating World.
• 47:15
  Phil: Her children savagely murdered.
• 47:17
  Phil: Her husband missing, soon dead. Hand mangled, throat slit, voice gone, left for dead. Her life over.
• 47:26
  Phil: Consumed by the loss of all she's ever loved, Sheila Knox has nothing left to live for but the simmering rage within her heart. So when the men responsible for hurting her and her family come after Sheila to finish the job, they unwittingly let loose an angel of death, hell-bent on hunting down those responsible and making them all pay. With the help of her ex-marine sister Maureen, Sheila sets out to lay waste to the scum that took her
• 47:50
  Phil: Family from her at.
• 47:52
  Phil: All. Costs.
• 47:54
  Phil: Final order cut off July 27th in stores October 28th.
• 48:01
  Tad Eggleston: All right, we need to make a quick news update.
• 48:05
  Phil: Dun dun dun.
• 48:08
  Tad Eggleston: It's it's I got the news alert from New York Times, but it's being being announced or reported by the Washington Post, BBC, Fox News, AP.
• 48:18
  Tad Eggleston: CNN, CBS, NBC, all have it.
• 48:22
  Tad Eggleston: Mitch McConnell has, has, has spoken.
• 48:27
  Phil: What?
• 48:29
  Tad Eggleston: Says he was hospitalized due to a fall and contracted pneumonia.
• 48:35
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. Briefly unconscious.
• 48:38
  Phil: Brief… briefly.
• 48:40
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I know But, but like actual pictures of him and his wife.
• 48:46
  Phil: Mh.
• 48:46
  Tad Eggleston: So, oh, and this is how you know it's real.
• 48:51
  Phil: Mmhm.
• 48:52
  Tad Eggleston: This is, this is…
• 48:54
  Phil: Has anyone made sure they're not AI generated images?
• 48:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it, it, it, it does, it, it does, it sounds like there's, there's actually.
• 49:04
  Tad Eggleston: released an image of himself in the hospital with his wife, Elaine Chao, and a statement.
• 49:12
  Tad Eggleston: And, and where, where I was going to say is how you know it's real is he's, he's, he's holding a current newspaper.
• 49:20
  Phil: Oh.
• 49:20
  Tad Eggleston: He's not quite holding it up in the ransom way. Yes, this is.
• 49:27
  Tad Eggleston: Let me, let me show you the picture, because…
• 49:31
  Phil: Apparently, Satan couldn't pay the ransom, and that's why he's back out.
• 49:35
  Tad Eggleston: Something like that.
• 49:36
  Uncle Fester: Wait, wait, wait, what? But just.
• 49:38
  Tad Eggleston: look at the way he's holding the newspaper does doesn't that just look like see.
• 49:42
  Phil: Oh.
• 49:43
  Tad Eggleston: I'm alive today!
• 49:45
  Phil: I… you know the… oh god, I…
• 49:48
  Uncle Fester: Wow!
• 49:48
  Phil: Yeah, that's freaky. I don't know, man.
• 49:51
  Uncle Fester: Hey, hey, don't.
• 49:53
  Phil: Trust?
• 49:54
  Uncle Fester: Do you guys remember, in the movie, Hannibal?
• 49:59
  Uncle Fester: Where Gary Oldman is all disfigured.
• 50:03
  Uncle Fester: Did you guys watch that?
• 50:04
  Phil: No, unfortunately.
• 50:05
  Uncle Fester: Okay.
• 50:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Which…
• 50:07
  Uncle Fester: God almighty.
• 50:08
  Phil: Lambs.
• 50:09
  Uncle Fester: That picture of McConnell there looks just like Gary Oldman in after he had been mangled by by.
• 50:15
  Phil: Not ready.
• 50:16
  Uncle Fester: But yeah.
• 50:16
  Phil: I'm.
• 50:17
  Uncle Fester: Hannibal. I know.
• 50:19
  Phil: A downright cheery Mitch McConnell in the hospital bed. That was, that was terrifying.
• 50:23
  Tad Eggleston: Well, well, but, but, but also, also like.
• 50:26
  Phil: I mean, this is.
• 50:27
  Tad Eggleston: This is the statement. My doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past weeks, I've also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.
• 50:48
  Phil: Well, well…
• 50:50
  Uncle Fester: What are the Republicans going to do now about their weekend at Bernie's plan?
• 50:55
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, are we certain that the weekend at Bernie's plan isn't over?
• 50:59
  Uncle Fester: I'm really not! Have you ever… Oh.
• 51:01
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, like that. That feels that, I mean.
• 51:04
  Phil: It's on, it's.
• 51:05
  Tad Eggleston: I am just asking questions. Let me make that clear. I'm just asking questions. But doesn't that picture look like it might have been helped out by, like, a mortician?
• 51:17
  Phil: It looks… it looks…
• 51:19
  Uncle Fester: It's.
• 51:20
  Phil: Durbington.
• 51:21
  Uncle Fester: We went into the, into the…
• 51:22
  Phil: Wait.
• 51:23
  Uncle Fester: Or smile. Take it away. I don't.
• 51:26
  Phil: Wanna see whatever that creature is.
• 51:28
  Uncle Fester: Good luck.
• 51:29
  Phil: You know?
• 51:30
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just asking questions. Does this actually prove he's a lawyer?
• 51:33
  Phil: I think that if Donald Trump was allowed to ask for Obama's long-form birth certificate back in, what.
• 51:41
  Uncle Fester: 08.
• 51:42
  Phil: Yeah, 08, then we here at 22 Panels are demanding video of Mitch McConnell alive presently, and we're.
• 51:49
  Tad Eggleston: No, we want, we want him to come on the show and.
• 51:52
  Phil: Come on, Jo.
• 51:52
  Tad Eggleston: Create the video.
• 51:53
  Phil: Oh, God, I don't. I couldn't. I would die. I would die. I just.
• 51:57
  Uncle Fester: Oh.
• 51:59
  Phil: Oh my god, I, I mean…
• 52:00
  Tad Eggleston: I'd ask him hard-hitting questions.
• 52:03
  Phil: I'd shout fuck you. You know, it'd be great.
• 52:07
  Tad Eggleston: It wouldn't be helpful.
• 52:08
  Phil: Great.
• 52:08
  Tad Eggleston: He needs to hear it from someone. No, my goal would be to piss him off so much that he shouted fuck you at me.
• 52:17
  Phil: Okay, that's fair. That's the true interview spirit right there.
• 52:22
  Phil: You…
• 52:23
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean…
• 52:26
  Tad Eggleston: Even if you're not doing a Pure News interview, even if you're doing more of the I'm-putting-you-on-the-spot interview.
• 52:33
  Tad Eggleston: Like your goal should never be to show yourself as crazy. It should be to be the sane one in the room that drives them crazy.
• 52:43
  Phil: But it's too much fun to be crazy, Ted.
• 52:46
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it's awfully fun to make people crazy, too.
• 52:51
  Tad Eggleston: All right.
• 52:52
  Phil: Oh.
• 52:52
  Uncle Fester: Let's go down the final order cutoff, guys. I gotta eat in half an hour, my wife said.
• 52:57
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 52:58
  Phil: Alright, we're real buckling down here. That's enough.
• 53:02
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off.
• 53:06
  Tad Eggleston: I'm sorry, I opened it in the same window, I thought it was in a different window. Final order cutoff for Monday, July 20th. There's actually a lot of collections and graphic novels, so this is a good week if you're a trade waiter to make certain that you go talk to your comic shop.
• 53:24
  Tad Eggleston: Batman and Robin Year One Dynamic Duos Number One from Mark Waid and Chris Samney, DC Comics in stores on August 12th. The Collected The Blood Brothers Mother from Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Rizzo at
• 53:38
  Tad Eggleston: Distillery in stores on September 29th. The Collected Crownsville from Rodney Barnes and Ellia Benetti at Oni Press in stores on August 11th. Like Swimmers, graphic novel from Dash Shaw at New York Review in stores August 25th. The Collected Masterminds from Zach Kaplan and Stephen Thompson from Dark Horse Comics in stores October 20th. The complete
• 54:00
  Tad Eggleston: Once and Future Omnibus from Kieran Gillen and Dan Mora at Boom in stores October 20th. On Their Front Lines, The Lives of Japanese War Brides, Volume 1 from Marina Lisa Komiya.
• 54:13
  Tad Eggleston: at Thana Graphics in stores on September 2nd. Regicide number 1 from Patrick Kindlin and Ludovic Laliat.
• 54:22
  Tad Eggleston: From Image Comics in stores August 12th. UK in a bad way and other stories from James Harvey at Uncivilized in stores on August 19th.
• 54:32
  Tad Eggleston: the complete collection of We Only Find Them When They're Dead, weren't you just talking about this, Phil? I was! From Al Ewing and Simone DiMaio at Boom in stores on October 20th, and Yumi00X, number one, from Doug Wagner and Hoyt Silva.
• 54:49
  Tad Eggleston: at Image Comics in stores on August 12.
• 54:54
  Phil: Does it also say that once in future, if you haven't read it, it's also a great book, for sure, for
• 54:59
  Phil: Indie series from both crowdfunding. First up there is nerd emergencies and other misunderstandings, a comics showcase of neurodivergent perspectives from Andrew Coltrane and partly robot and Zazu cartoons on Kickstarter through July 14.th You only have a day or so after this episode drops to fund it. Please, please.
• 55:19
  Phil: Get that out in the world. Stellar Remnant #2 from Damon George Hampton on Kickstarter through July 15th. The Arms Smugglers Who Helped Win the Revolution from Jordan Mechner, Etienne Leroux, Loic Chevalier, and Neurobellum Productions/Magnetic Press on Kickstarter through July 22nd. Subculture on In Crowds and Outliers by Comics Finest Writers.
• 55:44
  Phil: Artists and Record Thieves, edited by Shelly Bond on Kickstarter through July 23rd. Ghost Brawler, number one, from the team of
• 55:53
  Phil: Legendary Comic Series Chew, John Layman, and Rob Guillory on Kickstarter through July 23rd. The Monuments Volume 2: Let His Death Be a Warning from Oliver Mertz on Kickstarter through July 29th. Outlaws Apprentice, Broken Blade from Chris Schweizer on Kickstarter through July 30th.
• 56:12
  Phil: Think Your Teeth In number two from Zoe Tunnell, Lauren Knight, JP Jordan, Jordy Troutman, and Michelle Abinator on Kickstarter through August 6th. I believe you can also pick up number one if you didn't already. And then still launching soon is the God of Manga documentary from Jason Cohn on Kickstarter at some point, hopefully soon, so the world can see
• 56:35
  Phil: The God of Manga in action.
• 56:38
  Phil: Humble Mother, what's on Humble Mother.
• 56:42
  Uncle Fester: Nothing. No, I'm.
• 56:44
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 56:44
  Uncle Fester: Sonic the Hedgehog has the, their 35th anniversary from IDW. For $18, you guys, you're gonna get 27 items, and this goes to the Children's Miracle Network, and it's recently been extended to July 18th.
• 57:02
  Uncle Fester: Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow and More from DC comes in at $18 for 30 items. So a little more bang for your buck. And this goes to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Also, July 18th is the cutoff for that.
• 57:22
  Uncle Fester: There's a new one up here that I haven't seen yet. Clip Studio Creative Collection. Paint, draw, and animate. For $25, you get 10 items, and I am just looking at them right now.
• 57:36
  Phil: Drawing software, Clip Studio.
• 57:37
  Tad Eggleston: It is the premier comic makeup.
• 57:40
  Phil: Heck yeah! That is…
• 57:43
  Uncle Fester: Yeah.
• 57:43
  Phil: Awesome.
• 57:44
  Tad Eggleston: It is the software that almost everybody, a lot of people use Procreate and this, some people use this and some Photoshop.
• 57:54
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 57:55
  Tad Eggleston: But, but yeah, when, when, like…
• 57:59
  Tad Eggleston: when I asked Spike Trotman what to get, because I have a…
• 58:04
  Tad Eggleston: A cousin who's, who's getting into making comics on her own. This was immediately what she said.
• 58:11
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 58:12
  Uncle Fester: Studio. OK. All right. How come I'm not finding it? I'm I'm looking for it.
• 58:16
  Tad Eggleston: It well, because it's under the software packages rather than the book packages.
• 58:20
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, okay, there you go.
• 58:23
  Phil: Yeah, I'll have to look.
• 58:26
  Uncle Fester: The last one… oh, let me finish that there. You get, 10 items for $25, and the donors choose, a public education charity for the money to go to.
• 58:37
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, if you open… if you opened it up, go ahead and go through the items, because it's essentially a year of…
• 58:43
  Phil: Okay.
• 58:45
  Tad Eggleston: A year of the main program.
• 58:48
  Phil: Yeah, Clip Studio Paint Pro version 5. There's the Ultimate Brush Pack, 200 Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop brushes.
• 58:55
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 58:56
  Phil: Hero brush pack, then a hundred, a comic brush pack. So there's, that's 500 brushes. Yeah. And then plus 100 3D paint models.
• 59:09
  Phil: Plus 100 more 3D poses.
• 59:12
  Phil: plus 200 speech bubbles and 100 comic and manga panels, and then 400 storyboard assets.
• 59:22
  Phil: And then, Moho Debut 12.5. That's… it looks like also software for creating cartoons and animations. That's probably their animation software as compared to Clip Studio Paint, which is the drawing and comic software. So that is…
• 59:36
  Phil: a total of 500, 700, 800, 900.
• 59:41
  Phil: Right. 1,400 digital assets to use with a year license to Clip Studio Paint Pro version 5.0. I'm actually, I'm looking at this for my wife because she is a graphic designer and I mean like just having this on hand would be convenient.
• 59:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well…
• 59:57
  Uncle Fester: Myself, you guys.
• 59:59
  Tad Eggleston: Right, and that's one of the reasons…
• 1:00:00
  Uncle Fester: $30.
• 1:00:01
  Tad Eggleston: We talked about it.
• 1:00:02
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:00:03
  Tad Eggleston: 25.
• 1:00:03
  Uncle Fester: $30.
• 1:00:04
  Phil: Yeah, hu.
• 1:00:05
  Uncle Fester: Okay, but the, the $30 version, I have it, clicked on, you get $407 worth of things, right, worth of stuff.
• 1:00:15
  Phil: Yes.
• 1:00:16
  Uncle Fester: That is, that is a steal.
• 1:00:18
  Phil: Bonk.
• 1:00:18
  Tad Eggleston: And this is, this is where I will also toss out that one of the things that
• 1:00:30
  Tad Eggleston: One of the things that Spike told me was to also follow them on Blue Sky, because they semi-regularly do
• 1:00:42
  Tad Eggleston: Really big sales on…
• 1:00:48
  Tad Eggleston: They're, like, forever.
• 1:00:50
  Tad Eggleston: License.
• 1:00:51
  Phil: I've heard that as.
• 1:00:52
  Tad Eggleston: For the… Right.
• 1:00:54
  Phil: Which is notable because Adobe doesn't do that anymore. You cannot get just the software of Adobe products.
• 1:01:02
  Tad Eggleston: But, I mean, even so, like, it looks like it's $27 a year for a 12-month license on Clip Studio. I mean, a lot of what you're getting here is all the extra packages are $30 to $50 extra packages.
• 1:01:19
  Tad Eggleston: So.
• 1:01:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. For, for, for those, for those of our listeners who are comics creators, this is a highly
• 1:01:32
  Tad Eggleston: Recommended. I'll take it.
• 1:01:35
  Tad Eggleston: And again, $25 and, and like,
• 1:01:39
  Tad Eggleston: I kind of like this charity. I read about Donors Choose, founded in 2000 by Bronx history teachers. Donors Choose has raised more than 510 million for America's classrooms. Teachers come to Donors Choose to request the materials and experiences they need most for their classrooms, and donors give to the projects that inspire them.
• 1:01:57
  Tad Eggleston: More than 2.5 million people and partners have funded 870,000 projects on the site, reaching 21 million students and making donors choose the leading platform for supporting U.S. public schools.
• 1:02:10
  Tad Eggleston: DonorsChoose is the only crowdfunding
• 1:02:13
  Tad Eggleston: platform that vets each request, delivers materials directly to schools, and captures the impact of every funded project with photos, thank yous, and a cost report showing each dollar… how each dollar was spent.
• 1:02:25
  Phil: Wow.
• 1:02:25
  Tad Eggleston: Learn more at donorschoose.org. So on one side, I hate it that we have to crowdfund public education. Right. Just like I hate it every time I need to share somebody's GoFundMe page for the surgery they just had.
• 1:02:43
  Tad Eggleston: But on the flip side, that's the world we live in.
• 1:02:48
  Phil: Unfortunately.
• 1:02:49
  Tad Eggleston: So while we should fight hard to improve that world while we live in it, doing things to
• 1:02:56
  Tad Eggleston: to, further, better public education, etc, is a big deal.
• 1:03:02
  Tad Eggleston: So that, yeah. But now I'll let you move on to Blade Runner.
• 1:03:07
  Uncle Fester: Okay, we've got one left and it's the Blade Runner collection from Titan Alcon. $18 gets you 17 items. This goes to the Direct Relief Emergency Medical Charity. July 30th is the cutoff for that. I'm going back to my comic thing here quick.
• 1:03:27
  Uncle Fester: So I can pull that up, Blade Runner.
• 1:03:31
  Uncle Fester: To check out what's in that one. Okay.
• 1:03:36
  Uncle Fester: There is a lot of good stuff in this as well.
• 1:03:44
  Tad Eggleston: It's essentially all a Titan's Blade R.
• 1:03:46
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, it's it's everything. Yeah.
• 1:03:48
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 1:03:49
  Uncle Fester: That's great, that.
• 1:03:50
  Phil: I wasn't even aware that there were Blade Runner comics.
• 1:03:53
  Tad Eggleston: There have been for a while.
• 1:03:54
  Phil: All right.
• 1:03:55
  Phil: Missing out.
• 1:03:56
  Tad Eggleston: And Direct Relief is a emergency medical charity, kind of similar to DonorsChoose only.
• 1:04:03
  Tad Eggleston: Obviously, when you're doing emergency medical funds, it's got some Red Cross-type stuff to it, but it specializes more in
• 1:04:13
  Tad Eggleston: Or at least, like, looking at it, it looks like it specializes more in,
• 1:04:18
  Tad Eggleston: Where Red Cross is doing, like, the emergency first aid, it's kind of doing, like, the second wave.
• 1:04:25
  Tad Eggleston: Areas that have been hit, getting drugs in, getting.
• 1:04:31
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, okay.
• 1:04:32
  Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?
• 1:04:34
  Uncle Fester: Yep.
• 1:04:37
  Tad Eggleston: So.
• 1:04:37
  Uncle Fester: Well.
• 1:04:38
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, 3 books that I loved!
• 1:04:40
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, what were they?
• 1:04:42
  Tad Eggleston: Heaven from Katie Skelly came out. Katie's first graphic novel in, I think, five or six years.
• 1:04:49
  Tad Eggleston: So good. I liked it. I liked it very much.
• 1:04:53
  Uncle Fester: I'm just kidding, it was really.
• 1:04:54
  Tad Eggleston: Thank you.
• 1:04:55
  Uncle Fester: Very well.
• 1:04:57
  Tad Eggleston: Did you read it?
• 1:04:58
  Uncle Fester: Yes, I did. It's really good.
• 1:05:01
  Tad Eggleston: I thought it was good. And I get to talk to Katie this week, so that.
• 1:05:04
  Uncle Fester: Yep.
• 1:05:05
  Tad Eggleston: Fun.
• 1:05:06
  Tad Eggleston: Witness point from Nathan Fillion Orson and Sue Lee at Dark Horse was.
• 1:05:11
  Uncle Fester: Yes, that Nathan Phillips. Number one.
• 1:05:14
  Tad Eggleston: It was that Nathan Philly. It was a pleasant surprise.
• 1:05:18
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you can tell that Fillion and Corson come from TV writing, but Sue Lee is definitely a comic book artist. So, like…
• 1:05:26
  Tad Eggleston: It was a good pairing to make a good comic from people who aren't necessarily used to writing.
• 1:05:33
  Tad Eggleston: comics, if that makes sense.
• 1:05:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 1:05:37
  Tad Eggleston: So I'm interested to see where it goes. It's kind of a.
• 1:05:41
  Tad Eggleston: it's kinda in plain sight meets…
• 1:05:46
  Tad Eggleston: Law and order. Only, I don't know if we'll have any of the orders, so.
• 1:05:50
  Phil: Just me.
• 1:05:51
  Uncle Fester: Good lord.
• 1:05:52
  Tad Eggleston: Well, well, meet meets meets.
• 1:05:54
  Uncle Fester: Oh my.
• 1:05:55
  Tad Eggleston: Police procedural. I mean, in plain sight is a little bit of a police procedural, but it's like WITSEC and a murder investigation.
• 1:06:04
  Tad Eggleston: collide.
• 1:06:05
  Uncle Fester: Converge, yeah.
• 1:06:06
  Tad Eggleston: Thank you.
• 1:06:07
  Tad Eggleston: And then Vampirates No. 1 from Fred Van Lente and Luca Pizarri was just… Swashbuckling fun.
• 1:06:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. It's clear…
• 1:06:17
  Uncle Fester: Think of your pirates coming from One Piece. Go to Vampirates. Right.
• 1:06:23
  Tad Eggleston: And I didn't manage to read any one piece yet. Preview. Preview.
• 1:06:27
  Uncle Fester: No.
• 1:06:28
  Tad Eggleston: The one piece.
• 1:06:28
  Phil: That's right, let me know.
• 1:06:32
  Tad Eggleston: Where I think I forgot to… I think we're on 107 now.
• 1:06:36
  Uncle Fester: Spoiler, I thought he was jumping ahead.
• 1:06:38
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, he's got to, no, no, no, he's got to, Phil.
• 1:06:41
  Uncle Fester: Okay.
• 1:06:42
  Phil: I was going to say, if we jumped to the one piece race, I would have to like dog paddle or flipper or something because we'd be treading water. I am in the midst of what I'm now referring to as my summer sabbatical. So I've been just recharging.
• 1:06:58
  Phil: Time off work, highly recommended. If you can take, like, a solid two weeks off of work, at least once in your life.
• 1:07:04
  Uncle Fester: You see my face, guys?
• 1:07:07
  Uncle Fester: What?
• 1:07:07
  Phil: You do.
• 1:07:09
  Uncle Fester: Is this your new thing now? You're just gonna, like, put in, like, here's why I'm not reading. You know what I mean? Here's why I'm not reading, guys.
• 1:07:18
  Tad Eggleston: I would actually, I would actually argue that this should mean that you're reading way more.
• 1:07:22
  Phil: Well, this week coming up, the first week has been a lot of relax and recharge, but now I have a docket of.
• 1:07:27
  Tad Eggleston: You don't relax and recharge with comics?
• 1:07:31
  Phil: Not always. The recharging is mostly getting as much sleep as I want every day. That has been a game changer.
• 1:07:38
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I get that.
• 1:07:39
  Phil: Yeah, like not waking up to an alarm has been absolutely stellar. Right.
• 1:07:46
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 1:07:46
  Phil: so so highly recommended. And and then and then the other. The other part of it is.
• 1:07:51
  Phil: when I do have energy, I've been on the job hunt. Sure.
• 1:07:54
  Phil: You know.
• 1:07:56
  Phil: Do you think, I mean, today is the most excited I've been to apply for a job. So fingers crossed. I hope I get it. We'll see. We'll see.
• 1:08:08
  Phil: Tad did not read any One Piece, but I finished up the first volume of Goodnight Pun Pun. So I'm 23 chapters in, and I've got the ILL, the interlibrary loan request for volume two. And in the meantime, we'll be picking up several other Inio Asano books from the library probably tomorrow.
• 1:08:26
  Phil: So that'll be good amount of the read.
• 1:08:29
  Tad Eggleston: Big, big Enio Sano fan.
• 1:08:31
  Phil: Yeah, this is, this has made me an instant fan of his. So I've got like Downfall, What a Wonderful World, Girl on the Shore, and Girl on the Shore.
• 1:08:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, the show is so good.
• 1:08:41
  Phil: Yeah, and I think Nakajima Hologram, all five of those I'm getting from the library for the weight between Pun Pun volumes. So it's going to, I'm on a good manga kick for sure.
• 1:08:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, okay, thanks.
• 1:08:57
  Tad Eggleston: So, comfort and joy is our great responsibility. We're doing another, another pick three.
• 1:09:03
  Tad Eggleston: I see Phil managed to pick one of the same books from last time. I actually deliberately didn't do that, and earlier you had one of the books that I had last time, the one that I was… the one that I had debated.
• 1:09:18
  Phil: Deleting on there?
• 1:09:20
  Tad Eggleston: weeks in a row.
• 1:09:21
  Phil: Yeah, right?
• 1:09:22
  Tad Eggleston: And I felt, I felt better about not picking it because it was on your list, but you took it off.
• 1:09:27
  Phil: I did… I mean, we can still mention… Calvin and Hobbes is.
• 1:09:30
  Tad Eggleston: Calvin and Hobbes, I think, is everybody's.
• 1:09:32
  Phil: And that's why, that's why when I was reminded.
• 1:09:35
  Tad Eggleston: Calvin and Hobbes, in some ways, everybody's everything book.
• 1:09:38
  Phil: Oh yeah.
• 1:09:39
  Tad Eggleston: Oh.
• 1:09:39
  Phil: And I was sort of, I was thinking earlier, I had forgotten the pick that I changed it to. So that's why I did all of a sudden, because I'm like, you know what? I mean, everybody already loves Calvin and Hobbes. So if they haven't heard of this book, then maybe that'll be a good one.
• 1:09:56
  Tad Eggleston: But I mean, everybody's heard of mine too, and I still had to go with it because.
• 1:10:03
  Tad Eggleston: Mad Magazine.
• 1:10:05
  Phil: A last minute audit.
• 1:10:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:07
  Phil: faster, scrambling in the end zone.
• 1:10:10
  Tad Eggleston: Picture got dumped.
• 1:10:11
  Phil: What?
• 1:10:12
  Uncle Fester: Yep, yep.
• 1:10:13
  Tad Eggleston: got dumped at the last minute. Also a great book, and I can see it being covered in a joy book. I still need to read what you put in, so we'll come back to that. But yeah, Mad Magazine always makes me happy, really from any era, but I really love, love the
• 1:10:29
  Tad Eggleston: The… the original… Harvey Kurtzman era
• 1:10:35
  Tad Eggleston: But I'm one that, like… Even when they went color.
• 1:10:40
  Tad Eggleston: Again, because, you know, they started color. But even when they went color again and whatnot, I didn't… I didn't find it…
• 1:10:48
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't think it had slipped as much as a lot of people did. I think more, like.
• 1:10:56
  Tad Eggleston: It set a certain standard for itself for edginess.
• 1:11:00
  Tad Eggleston: But then, what it was wasn't as edgy anymore.
• 1:11:04
  Tad Eggleston: And it didn't change what it was or when it did sometimes it missed sometimes it didn't so like.
• 1:11:10
  Tad Eggleston: To have have something for that long and and.
• 1:11:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's like the rock and roll band. Do you want to be an Aerosmith, where every album is…
• 1:11:27
  Tad Eggleston: is Aerosmith.
• 1:11:29
  Tad Eggleston: and almost interchangeable, or do you want to be a Pearl Jam or REM, where… where sometimes the new album sounds so different that, like, your fans are upset because they're like, I just want my Jeremy.
• 1:11:41
  Tad Eggleston: Where's everybody hurts?
• 1:11:44
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 1:11:44
  Uncle Fester: You know, for the band that sounds the same over every album, I would have picked ACDC.
• 1:11:49
  Tad Eggleston: Sure, works, too. Yeah.
• 1:11:53
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, so, so, Matt, I mean, any, I mean, this is, this is also a problem that lots of superhero comics have, is, is like, how, how do you remain
• 1:12:05
  Tad Eggleston: Fresh and.
• 1:12:08
  Tad Eggleston: and cutting edge, Well, at the same time, having your longtime fans not feel betrayed.
• 1:12:19
  Tad Eggleston: Et cetera, you know, so there's, there's a huge amount of balance, so, you know.
• 1:12:26
  Phil: So you're just an overall fan of MAD.
• 1:12:28
  Tad Eggleston: I am.
• 1:12:28
  Phil: journey, the whole, the.
• 1:12:30
  Tad Eggleston: I really, I mean, I…
• 1:12:33
  Tad Eggleston: I will say that I didn't read it as much during its last decade, but when I did… but more of that had to do
• 1:12:41
  Tad Eggleston: with…
• 1:12:44
  Tad Eggleston: just not being… I mean, I had to let my subscription lapse eventually, you know? I mean, it's one of the few things that I ever had, like, an in-the-mail subscription to.
• 1:12:57
  Tad Eggleston: And certainly the, the only comic type thing.
• 1:13:01
  Tad Eggleston: That that you know.
• 1:13:03
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I would get, like, It and Rolling Stone.
• 1:13:07
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:13:09
  Uncle Fester: Did you buy… did you buy Wizard when it was coming out?
• 1:13:13
  Tad Eggleston: I would buy it.
• 1:13:15
  Tad Eggleston: Month to month, and not a guarantee.
• 1:13:18
  Uncle Fester: Yeah, same.
• 1:13:20
  Uncle Fester: You know.
• 1:13:20
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 1:13:21
  Phil: The only magazine I ever had a subscription to, I'm pretty sure, was Nintendo Power.
• 1:13:26
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Oh yeah, that was awesome. So, so like the 90s and 2000s, I, I loved.
• 1:13:33
  Tad Eggleston: But I also love everything that I go back on back to before that.
• 1:13:39
  Tad Eggleston: Again, like I watched, there was a, there's a great mad documentary out right now. I'm trying to remember.
• 1:13:47
  Tad Eggleston: what it's called.
• 1:13:50
  Tad Eggleston: I think I think I found it on either Tubi or Amazon or both.
• 1:13:57
  Tad Eggleston: When we went mad.
• 1:13:59
  Tad Eggleston: Is the name of the documentary and it kind of kind of dealt with that a little bit like like part part of what they think.
• 1:14:08
  Tad Eggleston: made it hard, and it actually looks like it is on both… both Prime and Tubi, so it's free in multiple places.
• 1:14:18
  Tad Eggleston: But, is that, like…
• 1:14:22
  Tad Eggleston: The same… when you reach a generation whose parents grew up on MAD, it's not as subversive.
• 1:14:29
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:14:30
  Uncle Fester: Yes.
• 1:14:30
  Tad Eggleston: So, so part of what made it, part of what made it sell so many copies.
• 1:14:38
  Tad Eggleston: You know, but, but yeah, fascinating documentary, fascinating, I mean, I just love the book.
• 1:14:44
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like, I've been thinking…
• 1:14:47
  Tad Eggleston: As, as we're, we're definitely in the second half of the Love and Rockets.
• 1:14:53
  Tad Eggleston: book club, and I wonder if we'll continue trying to be weekly, or… I mean, I think we're gonna, with that, try to…
• 1:15:03
  Tad Eggleston: I think we're gonna go through Love and Rockets again, but in, like, collected forms, where we're doing
• 1:15:08
  Tad Eggleston: story arcs rather than single issues. But if we do that, it's not as likely to be weekly.
• 1:15:16
  Tad Eggleston: And I kind of like having the weekly thing, and Mad Magazine is, like, high on my list of options.
• 1:15:22
  Tad Eggleston: to do… Like, let's start at number 1.
• 1:15:27
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 1:15:30
  Uncle Fester: Do it, just…
• 1:15:31
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:15:33
  Tad Eggleston: That would be…
• 1:15:34
  Uncle Fester: Fun.
• 1:15:34
  Tad Eggleston: Fuck.
• 1:15:35
  Uncle Fester: But, hey, let's keep going.
• 1:15:37
  Tad Eggleston: We need to keep going. Carl B.
• 1:15:38
  Uncle Fester: 90 minutes.
• 1:15:39
  Tad Eggleston: Duck Books and Bone by Jeff Smith, similar reasons. I mean, the reason Mad's on top is it just hits on so many… it makes me laugh, but it hits on, you know, so many cultural and societal…
• 1:15:53
  Tad Eggleston: Everything's whereas Bone and Carl Barks are both.
• 1:15:59
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, they do have societal whatnot, but it's like.
• 1:16:03
  Tad Eggleston: With Bone, it's one long story. With Carl Barks, it's not one long story, but it's one set of characters, that sort of thing. But they always make me feel warm and just happy to be alive. So those are my books. Tyler, you went, like, the exact opposite way, but I can totally see it, because these…
• 1:16:23
  Tad Eggleston: These are also books that, well, two of them are ones that I find a lot of joy in, and one is one of the glaring
• 1:16:30
  Tad Eggleston: Omissions, in my knowledge.
• 1:16:34
  Uncle Fester: Okay.
• 1:16:34
  Tad Eggleston: based.
• 1:16:35
  Phil: So…
• 1:16:35
  Uncle Fester: Okay, so here's how I went. these books I picked out of Times in My Life.
• 1:16:41
  Uncle Fester: where, I was more depressed, or just needing something, and getting into a good story really helped, do you know what I mean? And so, I went off to college after high school, and
• 1:16:56
  Uncle Fester: got really depressed and homesick. I didn't go with any classmates or anything, so I was…
• 1:17:01
  Uncle Fester: definitely isolated, and the one kid that I met handed me a copy of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
• 1:17:09
  Uncle Fester: And I think it was just his way of saying, hey, check this out, it's pretty funny. And then, yeah, it's dark, it's twisted, and it just made me go, oh my gosh, people write comic books that aren't superheroes? You know what I mean?
• 1:17:24
  Uncle Fester: And… and they're… and they're this good. Seeing the artwork, so stark, the black and white, was…
• 1:17:34
  Uncle Fester: Kind of new to me as far as realizing what comic books could be.
• 1:17:40
  Uncle Fester: And then a while later, I was going through a divorce, and again, like, well, I'm gonna dig deep into comics, because I need something to do with myself.
• 1:17:51
  Uncle Fester: And Sweet Tooth was the first, one that I, started reading in issues during that time period. And then Why the Last Man, I started at the same time, but started that in trades. So…
• 1:18:08
  Phil: It's an interesting pair.
• 1:18:09
  Uncle Fester: Got to… got to, like, jump in with these both amazing series,
• 1:18:15
  Uncle Fester: together when I was going through a pretty crappy period, you know?
• 1:18:21
  Phil: So, Tad, I can'.
• 1:18:22
  Uncle Fester: You've.
• 1:18:23
  Phil: Red Sweet Tooth.
• 1:18:24
  Tad Eggleston: No, I've read Sweet Tooth. I haven't read Johnny the Hom.
• 1:18:28
  Phil: Me neither. I've heard about it. I've heard a.
• 1:18:31
  Tad Eggleston: In fact, like, I was one of the people that didn't wind up going to the Jonan Vasquez thing at CXC last time. I had other stuff going on, among other things. But also, like…
• 1:18:44
  Tad Eggleston: I know of Invader Zim.
• 1:18:47
  Tad Eggleston: I know of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but I actually haven't read any of Jonan's work.
• 1:18:55
  Tad Eggleston: It's.
• 1:18:56
  Uncle Fester: Absolutely. The… the Johnny stuff is… and the… and then there's a spin-off called Squee. It… it… it's really good in the fact that it's so simple in its premise, is that there is this young kid named Johnny that…
• 1:19:12
  Uncle Fester: he just can't be around people. He will literally… I mean, the whole comic book is him obsessing about murdering, you know, and it's… it's dark, it's twisted, you're like, holy crap, what? I can't believe this guy wrote a book like this, but…
• 1:19:28
  Uncle Fester: it's… it's great, you know? And then as far as Invader Zim, that… that's just a really fun, quirky alien story, you know?
• 1:19:38
  Tad Eggleston: Right?
• 1:19:39
  Uncle Fester: And Vasquez's work on those two things really just, To me, shows…
• 1:19:45
  Uncle Fester: Creativity in a way that isn't…
• 1:19:49
  Uncle Fester: shown too much anymore? I mean, outside of, like.
• 1:19:52
  Uncle Fester: Tim Burton or something, people really aren't pushing that dark, macabre kind of stuff right now, you know?
• 1:19:59
  Phil: I, I mean, I think that, I think that the, the face of it is changing a lot where like, I mean.
• 1:20:07
  Phil: Tim Burton, in that same way that, you know, Tad mentioned that, oh, parents who grew up on MAD, it's not as subversive to their kids, like.
• 1:20:15
  Phil: parents who grew up on Tim Burton, it's not as, like, shocking and adult For their kids, you know?
• 1:20:23
  Uncle Fester: You're right, you're right, you're right. That is true. I show my kids Wednesday, I'm like, oh, this is Tim Burton, he did Bubble, and they're like, yeah, I.
• 1:20:32
  Phil: Yeah, just went right past him.
• 1:20:35
  Uncle Fester: Alright, how about you, Phil? What do you…
• 1:20:37
  Phil: Eight.
• 1:20:38
  Phil: So, I kept on my list from last week, Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui, because this is a series that does bring me comfort and joy. It's, it's really, it's a great blend of action and humor and just bizarre
• 1:20:54
  Phil: weirdness, of people eating monsters, and, you know, one of the best early stories is them finding out that, oh, living armor isn't, like, a spell cast on a suit of armor. It's actually a form of mollusk that, like.
• 1:21:08
  Phil: implants itself, like, seamlessly to the husks of all the joints in a suit of armor. So.
• 1:21:15
  Phil: one is, like, a colony of mollusks and weird stuff like that that they grill. It's just… it's so creative, it's also, you know, a good amount of, like I said, action, humor mix, and
• 1:21:26
  Phil: Jokingly, I don't know how long we're going to stick with the the you pick threes for great responsibility, but I want to see how long Delicious and Dungeon can can meet the criteria. How long can it reign supreme on in terms of?
• 1:21:39
  Uncle Fester: You're just gonna keep picking it, just.
• 1:21:40
  Phil: Just keep picking it. Just seeing how long, because it's a really good book that, you know.
• 1:21:46
  Tad Eggleston: It is a good.
• 1:21:46
  Phil: takes a really interesting point of view, and it goes places that I don't… I haven't seen in other books quite as well. It's… it's… it's super unique, it's great. It's one of those that got better as I kept reading it, and looked interesting, and then when I actually dug into it.
• 1:22:00
  Phil: Really hooked me. Next, the one that bumped off Calvin and Hobbes is Coda by Cy Spurrier and Matthias Bergera, which is another fantasy series, a post-apocalyptic fantasy series. And I mean, honestly, I'd use this to describe.
• 1:22:18
  Phil: Spurrier and Berguerre's work in general, of, same with, Step by Blaze Step, and I'm really excited for the upcoming, Parliament of Magpies, from them, but just… they do a great blend of, like, colorful fantasy action and…
• 1:22:35
  Phil: still a heart-wrenching story. They just work so well together between artwork and storytelling techniques. I really, I really love
• 1:22:43
  Phil: everything they do. And then lastly was, the Bo Jeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse that I reread a bit of, and we'll probably finish rereading, later tonight, of, it's…
• 1:22:57
  Phil: I just… I… upon starting to reread it, the first story had me howling in laughter, and my wife was like.
• 1:23:04
  Phil: Was that, was that from what you're reading or what we're watching? And I was like, oh my God, I'm like, this book is so funny. It seriously is like.
• 1:23:11
  Phil: just deeply, deeply humorous. And it's probably one of the most like human and like
• 1:23:21
  Phil: grounded perspective things, the more is written while still being absolutely him of like, here's a bizarre family with a vampire and a werewolf and a weird fungus monster in the greenhouse outside. So, yeah, yeah, it's a great time.
• 1:23:40
  Phil: Is that it? That's that's all. That's I guess that's all the time we got. We got a minute left. So so, Tad, what what books are.
• 1:23:47
  Tad Eggleston: What books are looking spectacular? As always, we have another great week.
• 1:23:53
  Tad Eggleston: So, so quick run through ones that I know are spectacular. Sort of crisis events number nine for Bennis Camp and Eric Zawadzki. Dork number six from Brett Bean. Fear of death, a Rachel Rising story from Terry Moore. It destruction be our lot number three from Matt Rosenberg, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Andy McDonald and Francesco Segala of the Earth number three from Chris Condon, Andrew Eric and Charlie Adlard.
• 1:24:17
  Tad Eggleston: And Tigris Island number five from Patrick Kindland and EPHK at Image, the three that I'm most looking forward to.
• 1:24:24
  Tad Eggleston: And I actually, it's so funny.
• 1:24:27
  Tad Eggleston: I don't have it yet, hasn't been sent out, but I have purchased a page of art from the one on the top of my list.
• 1:24:34
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:24:36
  Tad Eggleston: David Lapham had his, his crazy
• 1:24:42
  Tad Eggleston: $33 a page if you buy three or more. Holy crap. Once in every five years.
• 1:24:50
  Uncle Fester: You pull out 100, and you pull out your 100 bucks, and go, here you go.
• 1:24:53
  Tad Eggleston: I… I dropped it.
• 1:24:54
  Phil: 100.
• 1:24:55
  Tad Eggleston: box for three pages including a page from John Le Carre's The Circus Losing Control number three by Matt Kint and David Lapham at Dark Horse
• 1:25:05
  Tad Eggleston: I'm kind of curious as to how Lapham wound up taking over for Ibrahim Mustafa. For that matter, the cover that's posted still has Ibrahim Mustafa's
• 1:25:14
  Tad Eggleston: Umm.
• 1:25:15
  Tad Eggleston: Name on it?
• 1:25:17
  Phil: Oh.
• 1:25:17
  Tad Eggleston: This illicit text is changed to Lapham. I hope it's for good reasons because Ibrahim's a friend as well.
• 1:25:26
  Tad Eggleston: And a life number 6 from Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh at DC Vertigo and Junk Punch. Yes, Junk Punch.
• 1:25:33
  Tad Eggleston: It's exactly what it sounds like. The girl who will punch you in your junk.
• 1:25:38
  Tad Eggleston: From Paul Tobin, Carlos Javier Olivares, and Lynn Vizzle at Mad Cave.
• 1:25:46
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 1:25:48
  Tad Eggleston: What do you got, Phil?
• 1:25:50
  Phil: My all new Giant Size Tradewaiter graphic novel pick is Ghost Pepper Volume 2 by Ludo Lupin.
• 1:25:57
  Phil: Lulabi and Adriano Lucas over at Image Comics. It's a series I've had my eye on for a while, and who knows, I might just catch up on reading this week from Hoopla, because I'm pretty sure it's on there.
• 1:26:08
  Phil: but yeah, that's it, that's all.
• 1:26:12
  Tad Eggleston: Alrighty.
• 1:26:13
  Uncle Fester: Guys.
• 1:26:14
  Uncle Fester: Well, that's all she wrote. It is 7:01, and I am going to go eat dinner. Thanks for listening, everybody. And we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:26:25
  Uncle Fester: See ya!