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22 Panels Episode #237 - Copra Round Eight · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everybody, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and across the interwebs.
• 0:16
  Tyler Johnson: Is Tad and Phil… how's it going, guys?
• 0:20
  Phil: Oh, it's going, you know.
• 0:21
  Tyler Johnson: Were the thwips good, or were they okay?
• 0:23
  Phil: No, that was solid. Yeah, yeah, we heard them.
• 0:25
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, alright, it's prop… Yeah, it's your…
• 0:27
  Phil: You're swippin'.
• 0:28
  Tyler Johnson: It's the must… if the mustache is in the way, tell me, because, I mean, I know.
• 0:34
  Phil: I think, I think, between… I think your headphone, your, headset changeup, amplified your beard acoustics, because, yeah, it's definitely… Ted is, is, kicking us with, okay, with, is that a bendy or an action figure of Luffy?
• 0:49
  Tad Eggleston: I actually.
• 0:50
  Phil: Action figure? Okay, yeah, I couldn't… I couldn't see the joins. Oh, he comes in half!
• 0:55
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, that's cool.
• 0:56
  Tad Eggleston: Well, only because it's got that middle… Definitely.
• 0:59
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that.
• 1:00
  Phil: enjoying it, yeah.
• 1:01
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 1:02
  Phil: Interesting. That's not a, he… I was gonna say, I have to imagine that he does not ever, go in two pieces in, in one piece.
• 1:09
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think so.
• 1:11
  Phil: Yeah, that'd be odd.
• 1:12
  Tad Eggleston: Not yet.
• 1:13
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:13
  Tyler Johnson: Nope, he just stretches, right?
• 1:18
  Phil: From the gummy fruit. That's what I remember.
• 1:20
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, gum gum fruit. But you know.
• 1:23
  Tad Eggleston: For me, I do lots of pitching, and I figure he's one of the ones that would, like…
• 1:30
  Tad Eggleston: really rear back to throw a fastball.
• 1:34
  Phil: Oh, yeah, he would…
• 1:34
  Tad Eggleston: I would probably.
• 1:35
  Phil: Loosen up an arm, and… Get rolling.
• 1:38
  Tad Eggleston: Lean back.
• 1:38
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, can you imagine?
• 1:40
  Tad Eggleston: Full extension, right?
• 1:42
  Phil: We'd probably have a.
• 1:42
  Tad Eggleston: simultaneously.
• 1:43
  Phil: Arm and leg windup, you know?
• 1:46
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:46
  Tad Eggleston: Also, because I finally on… on…
• 1:50
  Tad Eggleston: packed it from C2E2, because I talked to Olivia Quartero-Briggs this week. Luffy and Miles have been using their Jill and the Killers skateboard quite a bit lately.
• 2:05
  Phil: Cool.
• 2:06
  Tyler Johnson: Is that a tech deck, or is that a specific brand?
• 2:09
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if it's a specific brand, but it's a… it's a good quality one.
• 2:14
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 2:16
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 2:17
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Phil, you get to… you get to start the news.
• 2:21
  Phil: You could lose off.
• 2:22
  Tad Eggleston: This is your thing.
• 2:23
  Phil: Yeah, it was! Well, so, last week we, we talked a little bit about, Kickstarter's
• 2:28
  Phil: policy change, and over this past week, they actually did get enough feedback from it that they, apologized to their user base and creators, saying that they botched the rollout of it, and they didn't explain things right, and you know, as we had surmised, the pressure was coming from Stripe, the payment processor, and now they're going back to
• 2:50
  Phil: basically how things were before, which, you know, while also in that apology, posting, like, 3 or 4 guides, how to… how to, you know, put your project on Kickstarter and hopefully not get it taken down by Stripe. So, you know, it's an evolving situation, and I saw that as a good signal, you know? I think the CEO even said that…
• 3:10
  Phil: He's… he's gonna fight like hell for this one, because, the way that… the way that it was rolled out last week was not in alignment with their beliefs at all, so…
• 3:18
  Phil: You know, it was just, it was a good, it was a good moment to see, a corporate apology actually feel like it, and, you know, seem like, wow, okay, these people probably, do want to do things different and better.
• 3:32
  Phil: That's it, that's all I got.
• 3:33
  Tyler Johnson: That's it. Like, I like that. We let it hang there to make you feel uncomfortable.
• 3:36
  Phil: Right?
• 3:39
  Phil: I mean…
• 3:39
  Tad Eggleston: I care just as much as I cared last week.
• 3:43
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, man, that's funny.
• 3:47
  Tad Eggleston: Actually, do either of you listen to Pod Save America?
• 3:51
  Tyler Johnson: No, no.
• 3:52
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so this week, the governor of…
• 3:56
  Tad Eggleston: Colorado commuted the sentence of… of, yo.
• 4:02
  Tyler Johnson: Indeed.
• 4:03
  Tad Eggleston: The lady that had election…
• 4:11
  Tad Eggleston: You know, had a 5-year sentence for election fraud because she'd stolen voting machines.
• 4:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yup.
• 4:19
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, huge numbers of people were all up in arms about it, etc, and… .
• 4:27
  Phil: Yeah, that doesn't seem like one of those, innocent crimes.
• 4:30
  Tad Eggleston: Tommy Vietor was essentially…
• 4:36
  Tad Eggleston: Honestly, I don't give a shit. It's just below my radar. There's too much other stuff going on. I don't have the bandwidth for it. And Jon Favreau was like…
• 4:48
  Tad Eggleston: I might have an even less popular opinion than Tommy.
• 4:52
  Tad Eggleston: Because I think an argument can be made that it was the right move. We're always talking about lower sentences from people who are first-time offenders of nonviolent crimes, and besides, now we can stop talking about this bullshit.
• 5:12
  Tad Eggleston: He didn't… he didn't pardon her. She's no… she's still a felon.
• 5:17
  Tad Eggleston: And then… and then John Levitt was like.
• 5:20
  Tad Eggleston: I might need to join the bulwark, because the bulwark had done up a huge piece on how it was horrible.
• 5:28
  Tad Eggleston: So, I feel like on this issue, I'm the…
• 5:33
  Tad Eggleston: I don't give a shit guy. Bordering on the they might have done the right thing.
• 5:40
  Tad Eggleston: Because here's the thing…
• 5:47
  Tad Eggleston: I can't believe I'm taking this to spend a little bit more time on it, but it's how my brain works. If they hadn't done anything…
• 5:54
  Phil: I want to get the motion.
• 5:54
  Tad Eggleston: Shit.
• 5:55
  Tyler Johnson: Phil and I, Phil and I are…
• 5:56
  Phil: You don't give a shit about…
• 5:57
  Tyler Johnson: We're not talking, if you notice.
• 5:59
  Tad Eggleston: And I know.
• 6:01
  Tad Eggleston: If it hadn't… if it had started from Stripe rather than Kickstarter, that would have been.
• 6:08
  Tad Eggleston: So, did they do it as well as they could have? No. But what would have been worse is if some campaign was successful, but then the funds didn't come through because Stripe said no.
• 6:22
  Phil: Well, I think that has happened in the past, and that's what kicks.
• 6:25
  Tad Eggleston: hasn't.
• 6:25
  Phil: Yeah, that's what they mentioned, that they're, they were posting guides to help creators, avoid those possibilities, and so they were changing…
• 6:37
  Phil: They were announcing…
• 6:38
  Tad Eggleston: These hadn't been… there hadn't been big, huge…
• 6:41
  Tad Eggleston: Stripe fucked my campaign stories yet.
• 6:45
  Phil: I hadn't heard a ton of them, but, I have… I mean, there have been times where, you know, campaigns have to go on hold or push back suddenly, and it might have been… I mean, they talked about how there are times that, Stripe would suddenly reverse approval on things, how they would approve it at one point, and then
• 7:04
  Phil: unapprove it after a certain other point. So, it's one of those things where even.
• 7:07
  Tad Eggleston: But that's where Kickstarter has to do something, and, like, what to do is hard, because they're not the one making any of the policies.
• 7:15
  Phil: Yes, and so that's why… that's why I'm saying that, this seemed like a good apology and, like, an immediate rollback, along with… along with them saying, like, hey, here's the actual issue, you know, here's what we're doing to try to help people with it.
• 7:29
  Phil: in the meantime, you know, and so it was… the tone was totally different. It, you know, it's one of those things where
• 7:36
  Phil: it… it restored faith in the company, and that's, you know, which is not something I say terribly often about companies, but .
• 7:44
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, really, the only time I lost faith in Kickstarter was when they started talking NFTs, and then they backed off of that, so…
• 7:51
  Phil: Yeah, so I mean, here's the thing, I will always.
• 7:54
  Tad Eggleston: But that was because they lost their key creators when they started talking blockchain.
• 7:59
  Phil: Exactly.
• 8:00
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's when… that's when Iron Circus did a… did a crowdfunding campaign without them. That's when… Couple other…
• 8:08
  Tad Eggleston: big, regular contributors to campaigns without them. They went, oh.
• 8:15
  Tad Eggleston: We're not the only game in town.
• 8:18
  Tad Eggleston: So… And similarly, I only kind of care business news, but it's…
• 8:28
  Tad Eggleston: It's significant, and it'll be interesting to see where it leads.
• 8:34
  Tad Eggleston: publishers of both Marvel and Boom have moved on, so we've got some shake-up at the top.
• 8:40
  Tad Eggleston: This… this goes along with… with Mike Richardson at Dark Horse recently moving on.
• 8:48
  Tad Eggleston: So we've got… a lot of… recent shakeups.
• 8:53
  Phil: Killing?
• 8:54
  Tad Eggleston: At the time.
• 8:55
  Tyler Johnson: Change on the horizons, but… I don't know.
• 8:57
  Tad Eggleston: For that matter.
• 8:59
  Tyler Johnson: barely care.
• 9:01
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, with, with, with, with the, with the Paramount…
• 9:05
  Tad Eggleston: deal likely to go through soon, it'll be interesting. I mean, like…
• 9:12
  Tad Eggleston: I don't care until I see what happens.
• 9:14
  Tad Eggleston: with the possible exception of Richardson, none of these guys have, like, enough of an industry track record that I believe… I mean, Dan Buckley's a good guy.
• 9:24
  Tad Eggleston: You know, but, like, Kai Day McDonald was essentially…
• 9:30
  Tad Eggleston: reporting that, oh, he seemed more relaxed at the Kirby dedication, maybe this is why.
• 9:37
  Tad Eggleston: ready to be gone. Yeah.
• 9:39
  Phil: My thought is, I mean, do they announce who's coming to those positions? Basically…
• 9:44
  Tad Eggleston: It, it is.
• 9:45
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know for certain at Boom, at Marvel, it looks like, Kevin Feige's getting to put his guys in place.
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: Which could actually wind up being a thing, because during the Perlmutter years, and Perlmutter is, like.
• 10:01
  Phil: Oh, yeah, he was terrible.
• 10:03
  Tad Eggleston: true piece of… of human garbage.
• 10:13
  Tad Eggleston: and understandably, Feige and most people don't get along with him well. So, like, one of the things Heidi had mentioned, and I don't know if she's done the deeper dive that she said she was planning to do yet.
• 10:26
  Tad Eggleston: Is that it kind of looked like the beginning of…
• 10:30
  Tad Eggleston: or the end of the power struggle that started in those years, where Feige finally got it so that
• 10:37
  Tad Eggleston: Look, I know that I'm gonna be able to work with the people on the comic side, rather than…
• 10:43
  Phil: need a…
• 10:44
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know who's one of Ike's guys who's…
• 10:47
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
• 10:48
  Tad Eggleston: This is not to say that Dan is one of Ike's guys, because I don't want to say anybody's one of Ike's guys.
• 10:53
  Phil: That was what I was getting at, is I didn't know that he had anyone who liked him in the comics industry.
• 10:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't know that he does, but he definitely had people who worked with him, and, like…
• 11:04
  Tad Eggleston: He had some interesting work, you know, you never know…
• 11:08
  Tad Eggleston: Like, one of the things I think about a lot in a general sense is, like.
• 11:12
  Tad Eggleston: how much Reaganomics has just become economics for certain?
• 11:18
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 11:19
  Tad Eggleston: age group of people. How much of the stuff that has no basis in fact, reality, any sort of research, whatnot, but was really, really popularly said in the early 80s, is just taken as fact by a certain generation?
• 11:39
  Tad Eggleston: Because they've rejected the bigger things and not realized that the bigger things were being backed up by these smaller things. They thought the bigger things were the wrong answer to these smaller…
• 11:52
  Tad Eggleston: or falsehoods.
• 11:54
  Tad Eggleston: But in fact, the smaller falsehoods only existed so that they could have the big wrong answer.
• 11:59
  Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?
• 12:04
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 12:06
  Tad Eggleston: That falls more into, hey, did you know that even some Republicans aren't okay with the president having a $1.776 billion slush fund?
• 12:19
  Tyler Johnson: It's reasonable.
• 12:19
  Phil: Apology Fund?
• 12:22
  Tyler Johnson: A treason apology fund.
• 12:24
  Tyler Johnson: They left town.
• 12:26
  Tad Eggleston: rather than funding ICE.
• 12:30
  Tad Eggleston: they left town rather than, like, like, they couldn't get the votes in the House to, to not…
• 12:38
  Tad Eggleston: Like, they passed in the Senate a bill that would have ended his ability to
• 12:48
  Tad Eggleston: It's the word I'm looking for, execute the Iran war.
• 12:51
  Tad Eggleston: And they… they knew they didn't have the votes in the House to shoot it down, so… so the House…
• 13:00
  Tad Eggleston: Went home early, rather than…
• 13:04
  Tad Eggleston: passing the law that would have ended the Iran war, so the house is still kind of on his side, except that obviously not, because they had to leave home.
• 13:14
  Tad Eggleston: Or they had to leave to avoid passing a bill.
• 13:20
  Tad Eggleston: the Senate left early because they refused to pass ICE funding.
• 13:25
  Phil: Mmm.
• 13:27
  Tad Eggleston: the House had passed.
• 13:28
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 13:30
  Tyler Johnson: S1 does.
• 13:32
  Tad Eggleston: After having a, like, 3-hour closed-door meeting with Todd Blanch that, seemed to have them more upset, not less upset, with the whole slush fund thing.
• 13:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 13:47
  Tyler Johnson: Crazy.
• 13:48
  Phil: Yeah, the…
• 13:49
  Tad Eggleston: cut.
• 13:50
  Tyler Johnson: As usual, it's… it's always a clusterfuck here in the United States.
• 13:55
  Tad Eggleston: And I saw a clip of Blanche on…
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: I forget if it was CNN or Fox, it'd be even funnier if it was Fox, but…
• 14:05
  Tad Eggleston: But he'd been introduced as… as Trump's…
• 14:09
  Tad Eggleston: Former personal attorney and… and the acting…
• 14:13
  Tad Eggleston: Attorney General, and he got all pissed off.
• 14:18
  Tad Eggleston: You don't have to say that first part. That first part's irrelevant. I'm the Acting Attorney General. Show me your respect, blah blah. They're sitting there going, no, the first part is not irrelevant, because generally, in the history of the United States, the fact that you were his personal attorney would make you
• 14:36
  Tad Eggleston: pretty much ineligible to be… Right. Attorney General.
• 14:45
  Tad Eggleston: That would have been the first question in hearings, and the last question in hearings.
• 14:56
  Phil: Truly a…
• 14:57
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, we have a brand new catalog with some really good-looking stuff in it. Tyler, you want to lead us off with this series?
• 15:04
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, Batman Bad Seeds, this is Sunset No. 1 from Matt Fraction, G. Willa Wilson, and Euseppe Kamankoli, and Cliff Rathburn. Gotham's
• 15:17
  Tyler Johnson: Gotham City's new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies, both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight.
• 15:29
  Tyler Johnson: Having already declared war on the Bat family and flooded the streets with his private paramilitarized police army, Police Commissioner Van Dale Savage sees an opportunity to solve two problems at once.
• 15:42
  Tyler Johnson: Storylines converge in Batman Bad Seeds, a Gotham City event spanning one long, dark night in Gotham that threatens to turn the entire city into a hostile world, a prehistoric plant life.
• 15:55
  Tyler Johnson: Unlike anything on Earth for a millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding. As the sun goes down.
• 16:04
  Tyler Johnson: And Gotham loses power!
• 16:07
  Tyler Johnson: Dot, dot, dot… I should have pre-read that.
• 16:14
  Tyler Johnson: Check it out, it's on, of course, DC. Final order cutoff is August 3rd, and be in shops August 26th.
• 16:23
  Phil: Alright, next up we've got Kachu No. 1 from Iman Velani and Mariana Ignazi, and colors by Jordy Belair from Image.
• 16:36
  Phil: 1979, Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian girl, stands on the cusp of adulthood, eager to experience the real world for the first time.
• 16:46
  Phil: With a head full of Hollywood dreams and a penchant for pulp novels, she ventures to California to connect with her estranged uncle, her
• 16:54
  Phil: Kachu, a middle-aged, semi-retired private eye who gained brief fame after marrying the starlet he was initially hired to find. But when Kachu's wife goes missing once again, the two are forced on an impromptu road trip to track her down.
• 17:07
  Phil: With Layla navigating young adulthood, and Kachu confronting his own mortality and regrets. And that's gonna have a final order cut off of July 13th in stores, August 5th, once again, from Image Comics.
• 17:20
  Phil: After that, we've got another one from Image that is Hammer Fist No. 1 from Rick Remender and Steve Epting and Matt Hollingsworth. Meet Mike Denton, a dirtbag, hitman, junkie, and absentee father who spent his life chasing the easy fix. Drugs, cheap sex, and murder for money, while failing the one person who still believes he can be better. His daughter.
• 17:43
  Phil: Now, on the eve of Black Noon, an ancient darkness that erases the light in all things, Mike has to drag himself out of the gutter, awaken a supernatural weapon powered only by love, and fight his way through the living embodiment of evil to save her. It's gonna have a final order cutoff of August 3rd, in shops, August 26th for ImageCops.
• 18:03
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 18:04
  Tyler Johnson: Tad still doesn't get to talk, but we're at midnight… Midnight X-Men number 1 from Jonathan Hickman and Matteo De Lafonte from Marvel. The clock strikes midnight, and it's the dark dawn of a new era. The shadows of New York City are stalked by vampires and the mutant empires.
• 18:24
  Tyler Johnson: The sword of Damocles hangs over the peace between these two species.
• 18:29
  Tyler Johnson: and the factions within them. An outright war is brewing, and the unturned will be caught in the crossfire. Blockbuster comic book writer Jonathan Hickman returns to the X-Men with a hunger for blood, as…
• 18:44
  Tyler Johnson: This new world of terror reimagines the heroes of the Marvel Universe. Final order cutoff will be July 6th, and this will be in shops August 5th.
• 18:56
  Tad Eggleston: Money Shot, the fuck offs, number one, from Tim Seeley, Patton Oswalt, and Garth Graham. It had to happen. In the grand tradition of Secret Wars, Crisis of Absolute Proportions, and Battle of the Network Stars comes a massive cosmic crossover. The Strange Force has returned after millennia to gather the finest champions from across the galaxy to compete in grand games.
• 19:21
  Tad Eggleston: But there's no fighting here. No, this is the fuck-offs. Some will win, some will lose, and everyone will come.
• 19:30
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Vault Comics, final order cutoff is July 6th, in stores on August 5th.
• 19:38
  Tad Eggleston: And finally, 6 of Us, number one, from Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta.
• 19:46
  Tad Eggleston: Chapter 1, The Thing About Me Dying.
• 19:49
  Tad Eggleston: Six actors built America's favorite sitcom. Millions tuned in. Billboards lit the sky. Then one of them died. A beloved cast member of the hit ensemble sitcom dies under mysterious circumstances, sending shockwaves through Hollywood and revealing the secrets, betrayals, and desires lurking beneath the glittering facade.
• 20:10
  Tad Eggleston: As the surviving cast members confront their past, old rivalries and hidden truths emerge, and the fine line between life and performance begins to blur. This is from Dark Horse Comics. Final order cutoff is August 3rd, in stores on September 19th.
• 20:28
  Tad Eggleston: Some graphic novels.
• 20:30
  Phil: We've got, first up is Conquest of the Cosmos by Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Francis Descharnay, over at Pow Pow, a wild ride into the depths of outer space as the heights of hubris. October 4th, 1957, the launch of Sputnik, a piece of orbital space junk that goes beep-beep, kicks off a battle for celestial
• 20:55
  Phil: supremacy between the USSR and the USA, rival superpowers armed with massive rockets, galaxy-sized egos, and zero chill. Over the course of a decade, scientists, politicians, and regular folks on both sides of the Iron Curtain grapple with the big questions. How do you convince a dog to volunteer for a one-way trip into orbit? Wouldn't it be easier to just fake the whole moon landing thing in a movie studio? And how are we supposed to sell command roof t-shirts
• 21:20
  Phil: coffee mugs if we don't get the sweet logo designed ASAP.
• 21:24
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cutoff of July 13th, in shops August 26th, again, from PowPow.
• 21:32
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 21:34
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome. Alright, Disciples of the Soil from B. Muir, out from… on Avery Hill.
• 21:42
  Tyler Johnson: When the Prime Minister announces a new rail line in Istmire, there are protests from the wizards, who are concerned about the country's magic, from the naturalists, who fear the damage to the soil, plants, and animals.
• 21:55
  Tyler Johnson: And from the sisters of Our Lady who slumbers under the earth, who would prefer their giant serpent deity to rest peacefully.
• 22:03
  Tyler Johnson: As the railway proceeds, the worries of the wizards and the naturalists come to pass, and the earth has begun to shake. This has a final order cut off of July 13th, and will be in shops August 12th.
• 22:21
  Tyler Johnson: Ted, you got some instant noodles.
• 22:24
  Tad Eggleston: I do. Instant Noodles and Beyond from Robin Ha! This fun and unique cookbook meets graphic novel is a love letter to Instant Noodles, and their infinite versatility is a starting point for a satisfying, nutrient-packed meal.
• 22:38
  Tad Eggleston: Filled with Robin Haas' playful and colorful illustrations and imaginative instant flavor combinations, Instant Noodles and Beyond easily elevates your bowl or cup of noodles with easy-to-follow-through detailed visual recipes that leave no room for cooking confusion, plus amusing anecdotes and comic strip-style essays.
• 22:56
  Tad Eggleston: Explore the world of instant noodles, from Japanese ramen and Korean ramayan, to Southeast Asian noodles and mac and cheese, plus recipes to make instant noodle besties like kimchi, pickled radish, chili oil, and a marinated egg. Robin shares her favorite flavor combinations, transforming packets into kimchi…
• 23:16
  Tad Eggleston: Is she guy? Carbonara? Pazzoli?
• 23:20
  Tad Eggleston: Shrimp alfredo, Mapo Tofu, okan… Namiyaki, a sheet pan dinner, or even carrot, or a carrot or kale salad.
• 23:31
  Tad Eggleston: And, thanks completely outside the box, with instant noodle french fries, Rice Krispie Treats, and even Chex Mix. Perfect.
• 23:40
  Tad Eggleston: for a busy or lazy night, beginner or ambitious cooks, and especially lovers of instant noodles, this unique cookbook is sure to become a staple in your kitchen as much as instant noodles are. I have been eating a lot of instant noodles lately, so this caught my attention quite a bit.
• 24:00
  Tad Eggleston: Islands in the Sky. I have plugged the hell out of this, and I'll continue plugging the hell out of this. A People's History of Hurricane Helene by Andrew Iden, Brian Michael Bentis, Matt Fraction, Steve Orlando, Gene Lewin Yang, Josh Adams, Valentine Delandro, June Kim, Nate Powell, and more?
• 24:21
  Tad Eggleston: The story of Hurricane Helene is told by those who survived. Islands in the Sky brings those stories to life by pairing real survivors with award-winning comics creators to preserve what happened and help the region recover. This project, the first from Appalachia Comics Project, an imprint of Good Trouble.
• 24:39
  Tad Eggleston: is part record, part resistance, and part recovery. It's a testament to the power of community and creativity to bring healing and preserve the truth, but about one of America's deadliest and costliest
• 24:52
  Tad Eggleston: national disasters. Final order cutoff is June 29th, in-store is August 5th. Instant Noodles, the final order cutoff was July 27th, and in-stores August 26th.
• 25:05
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, second book by B. Muir, this is Terrible Means, out on Avery Hill. In the city of Ismire, something is stirring. An aristocratic businessman reveals the latest must-have, Pillar of Crystals.
• 25:21
  Tyler Johnson: The latest one, I'm not sure. A pillar of crystals that allows for the creation of beautiful illusions and powerful spells to be performed. At the same time, Henriette, a disgraced biology professor.
• 25:34
  Tyler Johnson: Feels the disquiet in the air as specimens she has studied for years begin inexplicably dying out. On traveling to Ismaier to warn the current Prime Minister and Council of an imbalance within the world's ecosystem and magic.
• 25:50
  Tyler Johnson: She encounters a young magician called Niklas, who is there for a very different reason. Alongside a crew of ex-academics and inhabitants of smaller surrounding villages, Henriette and Niklas work together to uncover the strange imbalance being created in the world.
• 26:08
  Tyler Johnson: This is, final order cutoff of July 13th, and will be in shops August 12th.
• 26:16
  Phil: Next up, there's Unfinished Tales, a graphic novel from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Finnegan Blake is one of the most successful authors in the world, but he can't enjoy all the fame and fortune anymore.
• 26:29
  Phil: Because Finn is 10 years past his deadline on the final book in his epic fantasy series, and has no hope of ever finishing it. Until a little old friend shows up with the perfect solution to his writer's block. But their pact soon turns dark as egos clash and old secrets emerge, leading Finn to wonder exactly what kind of deal he's made, and how…
• 26:48
  Phil: And how far he's willing to go to get his final book onto the bestsellers list. Most writers would kill for Finn's life. Will he?
• 26:56
  Phil: It's gonna have a final cutoff of June 29th in stores November 11th from Image Comics.
• 27:04
  Tad Eggleston: It's not hyperbole to say that this is the book that I am most looking forward to this summer. I have read the first third of it. I am anxiously awaiting the final two-thirds. Worst man from…
• 27:17
  Tad Eggleston: Branton Stein. Titan Comics, a professional worst man, Radcliffe Raleigh, is hired by the mother of the bride and merciless tech mogul Valentina McElligott to stop the wedding of her youngest daughter. With the price of failure being his life, and less than 30 hours till I do, Rad's ready to pull out every trick in his arsenal to stop the wedding and save his skin.
• 27:41
  Tad Eggleston: Until he meets best man and beefcake, Chris Kafka.
• 27:45
  Tad Eggleston: Determined to keep the best man close for… hmm…
• 27:49
  Tad Eggleston: Purely professional reasons, Rad quickly realizes he may be on the wrong side of the aisle, and the only mistake needing to be rectified is of his own making. But with six sick guests, a ruined dress, and the smell of a conspiracy wafting from the Vallo vents.
• 28:06
  Tad Eggleston: Is it too late for Radcliffe to get the ceremony back on track?
• 28:12
  Tad Eggleston: From Titan Comics, final letter cut off is August 3rd, in stores on August 26th. How about some collections?
• 28:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, collections, I'm looking forward to this one, so that's why I picked it. Hank Howard, Pizza Detective, Volume 1, A Slice of Life from Robert Venditti and David Laffem.
• 28:32
  Tyler Johnson: From Bad Idea, Howard, or Hank Howard is back in the one place he thought he'd finally left behind, his hometown of Tampa.
• 28:42
  Tyler Johnson: But unfortunately for Hank, pizza crime doesn't take a vacation.
• 28:46
  Tyler Johnson: Before he knows it, he's knee-deep in his homicide case, in his first homicide case, facing down lawyers, locking lips with a long-lost flame, punching pirates, and dodging bullets as he races against time to solve his first-ever homicide case.
• 29:03
  Tyler Johnson: Final order cutoff of July 6th, and will be in shop August 5th.
• 29:09
  Tyler Johnson: And let me tell you, this has been really fun to read in issues.
• 29:13
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I love Hank Howard.
• 29:15
  Tyler Johnson: Phil, if you're not reading Pizza Detective, Heincoward Pizza Detective, it's really funny.
• 29:20
  Tad Eggleston: I have the complete hardcover already. You do.
• 29:23
  Tad Eggleston: It was kick-started.
• 29:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's true.
• 29:27
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Tad Eggleston: Peep Show! Show Matt at Fanagraphics.
• 29:32
  Tad Eggleston: Luffy just fell apart.
• 29:34
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, Luffy!
• 29:37
  Tad Eggleston: I dropped his head on the floor. Well, really his… really the top half of his torso.
• 29:43
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, that's better. Now we're good. A few comic book series can claim to have influenced a generation of cartoonists, comic fans, and comedians the way Joe Matt's Peep Show did during his 14 issues from 1992 to 2006.
• 29:58
  Tad Eggleston: With an often alarming and always hilarious compulsion to confess, Matt found no aspect of his life that wasn't more grist for the humor mill. His dysfunctional and sometimes abusive relationships, his Catholic refression, his horrible social skills, his addiction to pornography, his masturbation habits, etc.
• 30:16
  Tad Eggleston: This book collects, for the first time the entire original 15-issue series in one hardcover volume, each presented as painstakingly restored facsimiles of the original issues.
• 30:27
  Tad Eggleston: The definitive Joe Matt collection also includes other art and ephemera.
• 30:32
  Tad Eggleston: from the artist's personal archives, including a handwritten introduction to a complete peep show collection that at the time was purely hypothetical, and was only discovered after his death in 2023.
• 30:44
  Tad Eggleston: Peep Show is routed out with an insightful afterword by Diana Schutz, and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame comics writer and… er, the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.
• 30:54
  Tad Eggleston: comics writer and editor, and longtime friend of Matt's, and sister of Trish, Matt's ex-girlfriend, and a key player in Peep Show's cast.
• 31:05
  Phil: Alright, and last up we have Voyeur by Leah Williams and David Baldian over at Ignition. The sexiest comic of the year is finally collected, and we promise this climax will be worth the wait. A lavish resort, a dangerous beauty, a security guard who can't keep his eyes to himself, and a heist like no other.
• 31:22
  Phil: Voyeur is a steamy art heist like nothing else on the shelves. Gonna have a final order cutoff of July 6th, in stores August 11th.
• 31:30
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, final artic cutoff for this week, due on Monday, June 1st. We've got Batman The Long Halloween, the last Halloween collection edition from Jeff Loeb and various artists, out from DC on August 25th.
• 31:46
  Tad Eggleston: Bloodwire, number 1 from Paul Alor and Hermes Blanco from Mad Cave, out June 24th.
• 31:55
  Tad Eggleston: Click from Kayla Miller, out from HarperCollins on July 1st. The Dingoliath one-shot from Robert Vendini, Brockton McKinney, and Mannix Abrera out from Bad Idea on July 1st. The Eye Collector number one, and I just read in advance of this.
• 32:11
  Tad Eggleston: Fuck, is it trippy? From Jonathan Ball and GMB Chamachuk.
• 32:18
  Tad Eggleston: Image Comics, out on June 24th. Fear of Death, a Rachel Rising story, from Terry Moore at Abstract Comics.
• 32:26
  Tad Eggleston: or Abstract Studio, out on July 8th. This is,
• 32:32
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, God, what's the main character in Serial? Do you remember who I'm talking about, Tyler?
• 32:38
  Tad Eggleston: The little girl. She's in Rachel Rising 2, the girl.
• 32:42
  Tyler Johnson: I know!
• 32:43
  Tad Eggleston: I know, this is, like, her origin story, it's amazing. Yeah. Foundation's 1-1…
• 32:49
  Tad Eggleston: One shot from Three Worlds, Three Moons universe from Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, Mike Delmundo, and Mike Huddleston, out from Dark Source on July 8th.
• 32:57
  Tad Eggleston: Heaven from Katie Skelliott, Fanet Graphics, final order cut off.
• 33:02
  Tad Eggleston: is obviously June 1st, I didn't delete that part.
• 33:07
  Tad Eggleston: In stores July 8th, in Iranian Metamorphosis from Mana Niestani at Uncivilized, out on July 1st. Kirby's Lessons for Falling in Love from Laura Gow at HarperCollins, out on July 1st. Laser Quest from Harry Nordinger at Floating World, out on August 26th. Museum of Mistakes from Julia Wertz at Uncivilized, out on July 1st.
• 33:30
  Tad Eggleston: Operation Iron Coffin number one from Kenny Porter and Terrell Cannon at Dark Horse out on July 8th. The Rocketeer, Infiltrator number 1 from Gabrielle Hartman, and Dean Kotts out
• 33:42
  Tad Eggleston: from IDW on July 8th.
• 33:45
  Tad Eggleston: UK in a bad way, and other stories from James Harvey at Living the Line, out on July 8th. Very bad at math from Hope Larson, out from HarperCollins on July 1st. Witness point number one from Nathan Fillion, Heath Corson, and Sue Lee.
• 34:03
  Tyler Johnson: Is it…
• 34:03
  Tad Eggleston: our course on…
• 34:04
  Tyler Johnson: Nathan Fillion?
• 34:05
  Tad Eggleston: It is.
• 34:06
  Tyler Johnson: the act.
• 34:07
  Tad Eggleston: On July 8th.
• 34:08
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 34:09
  Tad Eggleston: Wanton soup?
• 34:10
  Tad Eggleston: from James Stacco, out from Onei on June 24th.
• 34:18
  Tad Eggleston: and wrestle heist out from Kyle Starks and Vladimir Popov at Image Comics on July 8th. And I'm gonna let somebody else read the crowdfunding, though I have…
• 34:30
  Tad Eggleston: I have or will talk to all of the people involved in these projects.
• 34:35
  Tad Eggleston: by Tuesday.
• 34:37
  Tyler Johnson: That's awesome. Wow. Phil, you want to read them, and I'll get the humble bundles?
• 34:42
  Phil: Sure. First up, there's Lab Zero Remix, a comics magazine hacking pop culture from Ronald Wimberly, on Kickstarter through June 9th. Tad just talked to Ronald before talking to us.
• 34:56
  Tad Eggleston: I got done talking with Ronald at about 5 o'clock. So, yeah.
• 35:00
  Phil: Whenever that gets posted, definitely go to listen to that one. Wimberly is a totally awesome artist.
• 35:06
  Tad Eggleston: It'll be up by the time this one is.
• 35:08
  Phil: There you go, that one Matt Boers comic, from Glenn Fleischman and presumably Matt Boers, on Kickstarter through June 11th, then there's.
• 35:19
  Tad Eggleston: I'm talking to them on Tuesday.
• 35:21
  Phil: Talking to them on Tuesday, alright. Stellar Remnant number 2 from Damon Jord Hampton on Kickstarter through July 15th.
• 35:30
  Tad Eggleston: Also talking to him on Tuesday?
• 35:31
  Phil: It's a big Tuesday. Then the Forgotten Divine from Mark Russell, Russ Braun, and Ahoy on Kickstarter, launching soon.
• 35:41
  Tad Eggleston: Already talked to Mark Russell and Russ Braun, and we talked to Tom Pyre and Stuart Moore at Ahoy.
• 35:48
  Phil: It's a double whammy there. And then, Tezuka, God of Manga, from Jason Cohn.
• 35:53
  Tad Eggleston: Tezuka. Tezuka. I learned this. Tezuka.
• 35:56
  Phil: Tezuka, okay. Yeah.
• 35:59
  Tad Eggleston: I wouldn't have known before I watched the trailer for this, either.
• 36:04
  Phil: This is excellent.
• 36:05
  Tad Eggleston: It's really a… this is a… this is a documentary film.
• 36:08
  Phil: Okay. When did… when did you or will you talk to a.
• 36:12
  Tad Eggleston: I talked to him last week.
• 36:14
  Phil: Okay, and then there's Scar Tissue Bargains, from Steven Box, also launching soon on Kickstarter.
• 36:23
  Tad Eggleston: And I talked to him last week.
• 36:24
  Phil: Alright, there we go.
• 36:26
  Phil: And with that, Tyler, what's on Humble Bundle right now?
• 36:30
  Tyler Johnson: combo bundles, we've still got the complete Terry Moore, and that's not to sound like that's… oh, man, we've still got.
• 36:36
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's good. That's a good thing. They keep extending it. And if you haven't picked yours up yet, you really, really should.
• 36:43
  Tyler Johnson: Correct.
• 36:44
  Tad Eggleston: As you should The next two, the next two are fantastic.
• 36:48
  Tyler Johnson: It's got the… back to the Terry Moore, it's got everything, on it from the, the Terry Moore universe.
• 36:55
  Tad Eggleston: the Terry version.
• 36:56
  Tyler Johnson: the Terryverse, excuse me, the 54 items for $16. It goes to the World Central Kitchen, and it's extended till May 28th. A few days left to get in on that. Infinite Dead horror comics from Oni Press. This includes.
• 37:12
  Tad Eggleston: Infinite.
• 37:13
  Tad Eggleston: bed.
• 37:14
  Tyler Johnson: What did I…
• 37:14
  Tad Eggleston: Dread. There's an R. You said dead.
• 37:17
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, Infinite Dread Horror Comics from Oni. $18 gets you 23 different items, such as Cemetery Kids Don't Die, Dwellings.
• 37:28
  Tad Eggleston: Don't die, so they wouldn't work very well in the infinite dead. It's gotta be dread, because the cemetery kids don't die.
• 37:34
  Tyler Johnson: You are so correct. Book Industry Charitable Foundation is where that's going.
• 37:40
  Tad Eggleston: Also, Dwellings which you love, and meat eaters, which I love.
• 37:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Going till June 6th.
• 37:47
  Tyler Johnson: Last, we've got Hot Mess Express, a big bundle of misfit heroes and hilarious hijinks from Image Comics. You get 49 items for $18, things like God Hates Astronauts, I Hate Fairyland, Monkey Meat, goes to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.
• 38:06
  Tad Eggleston: What do you have against Shirtless Bear Fighter, 8 Billion Genies, and Snot Girl?
• 38:10
  Tyler Johnson: Well, Snock Girl was really good, but I had to drop it.
• 38:16
  Tad Eggleston: You didn't like the last volume?
• 38:18
  Phil: I mean, I haven't read it at all, but why'd you have to drop it?
• 38:21
  Tyler Johnson: I just felt like it really dropped off as far as, like.
• 38:25
  Tad Eggleston: Why?
• 38:26
  Phil: I…
• 38:26
  Tad Eggleston: Doug the new volume.
• 38:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I…
• 38:29
  Tad Eggleston: I dug the new volume.
• 38:31
  Tyler Johnson: the plot changed, Phil, and I was like, yeah.
• 38:34
  Tad Eggleston: agree to disagree. Yeah.
• 38:37
  Tyler Johnson: The plot… here, I mean, this is the nicest way I can say it. The plot changed, and I wasn't on board.
• 38:42
  Phil: That's fair. That's totally fair. Yeah, no, I've… that's been one that I've seen, but haven't really heard yay or nay on, so…
• 38:48
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so true.
• 38:49
  Phil: abuse.
• 38:50
  Tyler Johnson: Dottie is this online influencer, and she, has green hair, but she has really bad allergies, too, so she's always got, you know, snot coming out, right? So, it's… it's gross and funny.
• 39:03
  Tyler Johnson: But, that goes to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. That is extended, not extended, but it's, you can get on that till June 9th.
• 39:15
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, 3 amazing books that you read this week.
• 39:19
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I threw him in the second spot for ones that I was hoping was spectacular, but, Condon knocked it out of the park on both his new series of the Earth.
• 39:29
  Tad Eggleston: Andrew Eric and Charlie Adlard, and his Ultimate Impact Reborn number one, with, Stefano Caselli.
• 39:39
  Tad Eggleston: Extra points because he used the spot.
• 39:42
  Tad Eggleston: The spot might be my favorite Spider-Man villain.
• 39:46
  Tyler Johnson: And… boom, right?
• 39:48
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right. The spots.
• 39:49
  Tyler Johnson: For our listeners that don't know, the spot is silly. But…
• 39:54
  Tad Eggleston: He is, and he isn't.
• 39:56
  Phil: He's in Spider-Verse 2, so it's hard to…
• 39:58
  Tad Eggleston: Hard to imagine how people.
• 39:59
  Phil: Who don't know about the spot anymore.
• 40:01
  Tyler Johnson: You're right.
• 40:01
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 40:02
  Tyler Johnson: I was in the Across the Spider-Verse.
• 40:05
  Phil: And presumably he will also be in, Beyond the Spider-Verse.
• 40:09
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 40:09
  Tad Eggleston: Wait a sec.
• 40:10
  Tyler Johnson: It's coming out, by the way.
• 40:11
  Phil: At some point. This year, next year? Let me check, let me check.
• 40:15
  Tyler Johnson: 20.
• 40:15
  Tad Eggleston: I'll let you check, because I should be talking. Okay.
• 40:19
  Tad Eggleston: Number 2 spot is actually gonna go to one that somehow flew under my radar, and I read the first 3 issues.
• 40:28
  Tad Eggleston: This week, of Hannah Rose May and Mariana Puglia's Smile for the Camera.
• 40:34
  Tyler Johnson: It's… oh, in 2017.
• 40:36
  Tad Eggleston: 18th of next year.
• 40:38
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 40:38
  Phil: June 18th next year.
• 40:39
  Tyler Johnson: Smile for the camera is really good, Ted, I agree with you.
• 40:42
  Tad Eggleston: It really is. It really is. Well, I like everything Hannah Rose May does, which is why I was surprised that it managed to float under my radar. But I saw it, and I'm like, oh wait, Hannah Rose May has another book? Let me read these. And they're very, very good.
• 40:58
  Tad Eggleston: And then the, End of the Arab of the Future, Volume 1, A Youth in the Middle East, Riyadh Sattoof at Banographics was a fantastic read. Lot of other good reads this week,
• 41:11
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I'll shout out some American Capers, some Barbarian Beyond Bars, End of Life, Dead Teenagers, Everyone Loves a Jewel Thief was really good, Narco was good, Neighborhood Watch number 2 was great, Powers 25, number 9, continues to just be…
• 41:28
  Tad Eggleston: Like, both a warm hug and an amazing, like, mystery…
• 41:33
  Tad Eggleston: Power's story, all at once, every issue.
• 41:37
  Tad Eggleston: I liked where Usagi Yojimbo Kaido went this week. I was… like…
• 41:43
  Tad Eggleston: pleasantly, pleasantly surprised with how much I liked Seven Wives,
• 41:50
  Tyler Johnson: It was good.
• 41:50
  Tad Eggleston: Tom King, and Tom King continues to kill it on Wonder Woman.
• 41:55
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 41:58
  Tad Eggleston: So… so… Yeah, I don't even know how to… Phil, just take a walk, because I don't even know.
• 42:05
  Tyler Johnson: We don't know how to… we don't know what you're talking about here. Walk with Phil.
• 42:08
  Phil: Right? I… see, and I… I… if I… if I was predictable, it would… it would be a walk with somebody else, surely. No, this week, I, got my hands on a book, that I'd been… I'd talked about on… on here several times, you know, every chance I got,
• 42:23
  Phil: And it was…
• 42:24
  Phil: even though I didn't really have any expectations for it, it was still nothing like I expected, and, that was, for our, for our One Piece race, that was, He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Sugi Yoshiharu, which is just a really bizarre collection of, vignettes that…
• 42:44
  Phil: seemingly were about the author, but also hopefully not about the author, because those are some pretty terrible people doing some terrible things, and a good amount of surrealism. So yeah, I…
• 42:55
  Phil: I something it.
• 42:57
  Tyler Johnson: Dad and I are both looking it up right now.
• 42:59
  Phil: Yeah?
• 43:00
  Tad Eggleston: I already know it.
• 43:01
  Phil: Yeah, it's the… so I now have to look up more of his work, and well, I still have to read the essay at the back, sort of, you know, providing additional context, hopefully, you know.
• 43:10
  Phil: details about his life that might, elucidate, you know, which parts are fact and which are fiction. But yeah, he's got at least two more books in my library that, I'm gonna check out, because this was apparently the fifth
• 43:22
  Phil: In a series of collecting his work from the 70s, which is also interesting.
• 43:27
  Tad Eggleston: Luffy is breakdancing on top of a skateboard.
• 43:30
  Phil: Skateboard breakdancing. I'm glad to know that… Skateboard breakdancing. Yeah, I was gonna say, so, so.
• 43:35
  Tad Eggleston: Muffy's totally got the ability to do that.
• 43:37
  Phil: Right, well, no, I… so I was gonna say that, interrupting this, the… I was gonna say that the… a special reason to… to look at more of his work is that, Suge just passed away in March of this year. Oh, he did. So, you know, yeah, I didn't realize that, so…
• 43:51
  Tyler Johnson: Fabulous.
• 43:51
  Phil: Until, like, this morning. So, yeah, looking forward to learning more about it.
• 43:56
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it was a news item on 22 Panels.
• 43:59
  Phil: I believe so, yeah.
• 44:01
  Phil: It sounds like it would be.
• 44:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 44:03
  Tad Eggleston: So, anyway.
• 44:05
  Tad Eggleston: I am now 691 chapters in.
• 44:10
  Tad Eggleston: in week 100, so just under 7 chapters a week, but it's spring break, so… or not spring break, it's summer break. Yeah. Summer break! So hopefully, I will… I will start really…
• 44:24
  Tad Eggleston: Really laying on some… Some speed for a while.
• 44:29
  Tad Eggleston: As we have… you saved the kids that the government was…
• 44:34
  Tyler Johnson: Do you do your summer teaching this summer?
• 44:37
  Tad Eggleston: I am not. I'm taking the whole summer off.
• 44:41
  Phil: Good for you.
• 44:44
  Tyler Johnson: Cool, cool.
• 44:45
  Tad Eggleston: Podcasting, reading comics, working at the comic shop.
• 44:49
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 44:50
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe a little bit of travel, I know I'm gonna go…
• 44:52
  Tyler Johnson: Pretty much what… that's almost exactly what I'm doing, but, like, a little bit different.
• 44:57
  Tyler Johnson: Podcasting a little bit. You're doing mostly podcasting. Comic shop, working at the comic shop, reading comic books.
• 45:08
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, yeah.
• 45:09
  Tyler Johnson: Anywho, I have not… I have not been getting back into One Piece like I've wanted to, but I still want to, so that's something.
• 45:20
  Tad Eggleston: Your goal is to get back before the new anime series?
• 45:24
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 45:26
  Tyler Johnson: I'll do my best.
• 45:27
  Tad Eggleston: I guess you… was that… was that a week that you missed? Did you see that Netflix is doing a new…
• 45:33
  Tad Eggleston: Anime of One Piece?
• 45:35
  Phil: THE One Piece, where, the pacing is dialed up. They're gonna do, like, the whole Gray and Blue Saga in seven episodes.
• 45:42
  Tyler Johnson: Wow.
• 45:43
  Phil: Yeah.
• 45:44
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, no, I was not on that episode, I'm taking… I don't remember that conversation, but very cool.
• 45:50
  Phil: Yeah, no, I was gonna say, I really hope that, you, like, when you do get a taste for One Piece again, that you just keep it quiet, so that you might be able to, like, Dark Horse return and, you know, overtake Ted.
• 46:03
  Tyler Johnson: just start… well, that, and just start talking about it, the current story, like, I know exactly what it is.
• 46:10
  Phil: Right?
• 46:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yup.
• 46:11
  Phil: There we go.
• 46:12
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 46:12
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's one option.
• 46:14
  Phil: Unless he's already been doing that, and he's just waiting for his moment to strike.
• 46:17
  Tad Eggleston: That, that is always possible.
• 46:19
  Tyler Johnson: No. Hey, guys, did you, both read Copra Volume 8?
• 46:25
  Phil: Yep.
• 46:25
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 46:26
  Phil: The death of Copra.
• 46:27
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, what'd you think?
• 46:28
  Tad Eggleston: at the Cobra.
• 46:30
  Tad Eggleston: First of all, I don't think that they're completely dead. I think that there is…
• 46:35
  Phil: I mean…
• 46:36
  Tad Eggleston: is an opening.
• 46:37
  Phil: But I also… I land firmly on the other side of that. I think that's the end of the series, you know?
• 46:43
  Tad Eggleston: I think it's meant to be.
• 46:45
  Phil: Yeah, yeah. I mean, the fact that it ties up loose ends while also leaving them as loose ends for the characters, I think, to me, is what felt the most, like, climactic, like, okay, this is over.
• 46:58
  Tad Eggleston: No, that felt a lot like a…
• 47:02
  Tyler Johnson: I felt open-ended, like…
• 47:05
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, what I felt like was, I am done with Copra for the foreseeable future, but I am not going to end it in a way that if I change my mind 5 years from now, 10 years from now, whatever, that I can only tell prequel stories, or…
• 47:25
  Tad Eggleston: Whatever.
• 47:26
  Phil: Like, he's also at the point where he'd have to… like, the cast is… I mean, sure, everybody could just start waking up from their comas together, you know? But, like, it seems like…
• 47:37
  Tad Eggleston: Or you could not tell that part. I mean, this volume of Copra has worked a lot in real time.
• 47:44
  Tad Eggleston: But he could choose to do 10 years later, and then just…
• 47:50
  Tad Eggleston: tell what needs to be told in backstory, is what I mean.
• 47:54
  Phil: I guess… well, and that's where I… I guess what I'm saying is that it… it really feels like…
• 47:59
  Phil: I mean…
• 48:01
  Tad Eggleston: What it feels like to me is that if you asked him right now if he was ever gonna do Copra again, he'd say, I'm done.
• 48:08
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:09
  Tad Eggleston: But, if you were a good friend, and you asked him.
• 48:12
  Tad Eggleston: can you possibly imagine it? He'd say, I can imagine it, I just don't think it's likely.
• 48:20
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 48:21
  Tyler Johnson: I agree.
• 48:22
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I kind of wonder what, like… what they say now is that they always expected to get back to it, but I kinda wonder if you had asked…
• 48:35
  Tad Eggleston: Brian and Michael about powers…
• 48:42
  Tad Eggleston: 10 years ago… If they were gonna, like, ever return to it, return to it.
• 48:49
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if you would have gotten the answer that would have led to Powers 25.
• 48:54
  Phil: Right, and I guess my point is that a return to Copra would be a different book from what it has been.
• 49:02
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 49:03
  Phil: Yeah. That's…
• 49:05
  Tad Eggleston: You're certain.
• 49:06
  Phil: Yeah, and so, I guess…
• 49:09
  Tad Eggleston: But it then also makes me that much more interested in what's next for Michael Fifay.
• 49:14
  Phil: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I am very excited.
• 49:16
  Tyler Johnson: You guys, did he do all 50 issues by himself?
• 49:19
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 49:20
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so the.
• 49:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, not just by himself, like, with few exceptions.
• 49:29
  Tad Eggleston: Printed them, had them sent to his house, he mailed them out, or the stores that were getting them, like…
• 49:35
  Tad Eggleston: It didn't run the printing press.
• 49:37
  Phil: People that were getting them more than stores.
• 49:40
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 49:40
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so, I mean, this is as close to DIY as you can get. Yeah.
• 49:46
  Tad Eggleston: He said, he didn't physically run the printing presses?
• 49:51
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 49:51
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 49:53
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 49:53
  Tad Eggleston: Which is, like, the only thing he didn't do.
• 49:56
  Tyler Johnson: So, I hope that he does not do more, because I like these packages. He did this compact 50, you know, issue run.
• 50:06
  Tyler Johnson: Of something he did all by himself. Yeah. So yeah, what you guys just said, what's gonna happen next for Michael Fife, I hope it's something cool. And I like that this didn't end with the typical superhero ending, you know what I mean?
• 50:23
  Tyler Johnson: It's kind of different for a revenge comic.
• 50:26
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 50:27
  Phil: Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, it… I feel like…
• 50:30
  Phil: what this volume did was it… he was able to outdo himself with, like, previously the… the Ochazan saga was, like, an event for Copra. It was, you know, the… the biggest, the high stakes, the… all the interdimensional, otherworldly,
• 50:47
  Phil: Kirby New Gods-esque stuff going on. And I feel like with this one, he was able to…
• 50:54
  Phil: surpassed that. He was able to surpass himself, while also then, for the very last issue, returning to, like, the superhuman level, okay, this is what it's like being a person
• 51:05
  Phil: Who lived through all this shit, you know?
• 51:09
  Phil: like, it's… it was… it was the kind of thing where it's like, okay, you know, Floyd is gonna keep
• 51:14
  Phil: Doing his thing.
• 51:17
  Phil: Until he's the one who's getting shot by somebody… somebody after him, you know?
• 51:23
  Phil: And I guess where I was going before is that I think that in that, oh, it's open in case you want to return to it, I think every story is like that. I don't think there's any story that is 100% done, no way to follow up, like, it's impossible, it can't be done. No.
• 51:39
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 51:39
  Phil: You can… you can continue any story.
• 51:42
  Tad Eggleston: Well, honestly, I guess, I guess, I guess what pops into my head.
• 51:48
  Tad Eggleston: Cal Penn.
• 51:50
  Tad Eggleston: Was… hanging out…
• 51:53
  Tad Eggleston: Forgive who's on a Pod Save America episode, or who's on a Love It or Leave It episode, because Cal Penn worked in the Obama White House. He actually left…
• 52:04
  Tad Eggleston: A co-starring role in-house to go work for the Obama White House.
• 52:10
  Tad Eggleston: And one of the things he talked about that kind of, like, struck him is apparently he went to the showrunner and said, hey, you know, I know that this isn't easy, but, like, I really want to go do this, I think it's an important thing to do, and, like, he got… the response he got in person felt very, oh yeah, no problem.
• 52:32
  Tad Eggleston: blah, blah, blah, and you know… His script for the next episode, he committed… The character was committing suicide.
• 52:40
  Phil: Right.
• 52:41
  Tad Eggleston: So I don't know how you continue that story. I think there are ways… Oh, you fake his death.
• 52:48
  Tad Eggleston: I think there are ways…
• 52:49
  Phil: Not necessarily good, but it's doable.
• 52:51
  Tad Eggleston: I think there are ways to end things. We're continuing the story… is…
• 53:04
  Tad Eggleston: beyond…
• 53:07
  Tyler Johnson: Possible.
• 53:08
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, it might not be impossible, but it's beyond, beyond, like…
• 53:14
  Tad Eggleston: Anything that's likely to be tasteful or interesting.
• 53:17
  Phil: Right. Like, I mean, to take a recent example from comics,
• 53:24
  Phil: what's it? Spider- Reign! You know, who would really want to follow up a story like that, where, you know, it was already so tragic and ended so… so finality? But yes, of course, you can still dig them back up, but I think, like.
• 53:41
  Phil: for, like Tyler was saying, for a story about revenge, all the best revenge stories, like.
• 53:46
  Phil: they don't actually end, it's not actually over, because, you know, revenge is like a continuous cycle. And so I feel like we got a glimpse of the cycle with the end of this. Right. And that's what felt conclusive for the reader, even though it's not conclusive for the characters.
• 54:04
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 54:05
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 54:07
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 54:08
  Tyler Johnson: I mean, one of the things that drew me to the comic book, as far as the DIY aesthetic, I'm talking about the overall whole series now, not just Volume 8, but…
• 54:18
  Tyler Johnson: The simplicity of his hand-drawn and hand-colored…
• 54:24
  Tyler Johnson: you know, I feel like it really alters the perception of comic books compared to today's, you know, very slick digital stuff that Marvel and DC are doing.
• 54:36
  Tyler Johnson: Right, and so this, this brings me back to, wanting to buy it and be involved in its creation, like, you know, just maybe if they do another round of something, because it…
• 54:51
  Tyler Johnson: It's someone's legit art piece, and I'm not saying that most commercial, Comic book writers aren't doing
• 54:59
  Tyler Johnson: Art, but this is… this is more personal, you know what I mean?
• 55:03
  Phil: Absolutely.
• 55:04
  Tyler Johnson: And I think it's just… Awesome.
• 55:08
  Phil: I mean, it's… it's… it's, like, up there with, you know, all-time great series. I'm excited to… to get my hands on… on hardcovers for these and put on a shelf, you know? Yeah. And if… if, you know, Copper 2, whatever, you know, honestly, whatever his next project is, I would love to, read it as it's happening.
• 55:26
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, definitely.
• 55:27
  Phil: we're at.
• 55:28
  Tyler Johnson: How do you…
• 55:29
  Tad Eggleston: Definitely.
• 55:29
  Tyler Johnson: how… for you guys, how does Copra rank in… in, like.
• 55:34
  Tyler Johnson: superhero books like Invincible, Hellboy, or The Boys, or whatever, like, how does Copra fit into that?
• 55:42
  Phil: I mean…
• 55:43
  Tad Eggleston: One of my favorite superhero stories.
• 55:45
  Tyler Johnson: It is, oh.
• 55:47
  Phil: I could… it definitely breaks the top 100, if not top 25 for me, but I don't have, like, a firm ranking system laid out, you know? .
• 55:58
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you cut out for a second for me, but I heard the boys. I think I like it more than the boys, and I like the boys. Yeah.
• 56:04
  Tad Eggleston: it'd be harder to rank it against Black Hammer or Astro City?
• 56:11
  Phil: I think…
• 56:13
  Tyler Johnson: I think… yeah, exactly.
• 56:15
  Phil: It might… it might be able… I mean, for me, just because Black Hammer isn't… isn't… I know you guys have read a lot more and loved it a lot more. It's definitely… I enjoyed it more than that, and I would even… I would even say I might put it above Astro City, you know? Like, I'd have.
• 56:29
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 56:31
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, for me, it's definitely enough in the argument that I, like.
• 56:38
  Tad Eggleston: I wouldn't be interested in, in, like, defending it as worse than Astro City.
• 56:44
  Phil: Orphan.
• 56:45
  Tad Eggleston: better than Astro City.
• 56:47
  Tyler Johnson: to this.
• 56:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 56:49
  Tyler Johnson: Over everything that we've read, Ted, everything you've introduced me to, I will say that Astro City has been the… my favorite, the most, that's resonated with me, that kind of stuff. Although Concrete came close, that's… that's pretty.
• 57:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 57:04
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 57:05
  Tyler Johnson: But, this.
• 57:06
  Tad Eggleston: And in some ways, I think this has almost as much…
• 57:09
  Tad Eggleston: similarity to concrete. Yeah. It's very stripped down, it's very personal.
• 57:14
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 57:15
  Tyler Johnson: It feels…
• 57:16
  Phil: It's ultra-violent, instead of ultra-pensive.
• 57:19
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 57:22
  Tad Eggleston: But… But it's still, like…
• 57:29
  Tad Eggleston: Doesn't spend a lot of time with the superhero stuff.
• 57:32
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 57:33
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, the violence of the superhero stuff, but we don't spend time dwelling on the powers, we don't spend time…
• 57:41
  Tad Eggleston: Dwelling on, like, all of this… all of the expository stuff that you have in so many…
• 57:48
  Tad Eggleston: superhero comics. It's like, just accept it.
• 57:52
  Phil: Yeah. I mean, not only that, but, like, I…
• 57:54
  Tad Eggleston: Which I'm big on.
• 57:56
  Phil: I feel wrong even calling Copra, like, a superhero book, just because it's like, these are definitely not heroes, you know?
• 58:03
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, a super-powered book? I don't know.
• 58:06
  Phil: I mean, I don't know if I… Looks like.
• 58:08
  Tad Eggleston: Totally agree with that.
• 58:10
  Phil: I mean, it fits in the genre. It 100% fits in the genre as communicating with it. I'm just talking.
• 58:15
  Tyler Johnson: Die Heroes, I guess, you know.
• 58:17
  Phil: Yeah, I mean, calling it anything else, but I mean, like, it's one of those things where it is a superhero book, but there are no superheroes in the book, you know? Like, it's.
• 58:26
  Tad Eggleston: It's like…
• 58:26
  Phil: all villains.
• 58:28
  Tyler Johnson: Oops, all villains, I like that.
• 58:30
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, I mean, like, how are we now defining our superheroes?
• 58:34
  Phil: I mean, people with powers and funny costumes.
• 58:38
  Phil: So yeah, that's why I'm saying, if it's the genre, it just lacks the heroes.
• 58:43
  Tyler Johnson: Got it. Yeah, you're right. But it's not… it's not…
• 58:46
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I buy the idea that weir is not a hero, or.
• 58:53
  Phil: He's a murderer! He kills people in cold blood! He strangled a dude and buried him…
• 58:58
  Phil: When, you know, like, In my head… They're not good people.
• 59:02
  Tyler Johnson: In my head, I pronounced it WER.
• 59:05
  Phil: We're… No.
• 59:06
  Tyler Johnson: We're… Yeah.
• 59:08
  Tyler Johnson: Lori's… yeah, and…
• 59:11
  Tyler Johnson: So…
• 59:11
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, but, like… So, who is a superhero, if all it takes is killing one?
• 59:19
  Phil: Well, that's… what do you mean by… that's what I'm saying, is that I don't think there's any, like, heroes in this book, you know?
• 59:26
  Tad Eggleston: No, I mean, period, not just in this book. Period.
• 59:29
  Phil: Oh, I mean, that's… that's…
• 59:31
  Phil: that's tough, because I don't… I mean, and that's where, again, I think if you're gonna be a superhero and call someone a superhero.
• 59:37
  Phil: murder should, generally speaking, be off the table. Like, once… once that's, like, normalized and accepted, it's like, okay, I don't know about…
• 59:45
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 59:46
  Tyler Johnson: Wolverine's not… Wolverine's not a hero to you.
• 59:49
  Phil: Well, he's interesting in the universe, but, like, he himself, like, it's…
• 59:53
  Tad Eggleston: But so, but here's my question, like, I mean, I think Daredevil has… Killed at this point.
• 1:00:00
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, but like…
• 1:00:01
  Tad Eggleston: when he saved… Bullseye, was that a heroic act?
• 1:00:08
  Phil: No, and that's what makes Daredevil interesting, and I'm not saying that, like.
• 1:00:12
  Phil: one murder makes him a villain, you know? But… it's… I think the way we're killed the guy is pretty villainous. It's not… it's pretty… it's pretty psycho-killer. It's not…
• 1:00:25
  Tad Eggleston: He's also a pretty bad guy.
• 1:00:26
  Phil: He was, exactly, but that's, that's, that's kind of it, is that, like, it's…
• 1:00:34
  Phil: The way that the violence is portrayed is not heroic.
• 1:00:39
  Phil: In the book. That's… that's the way I'd put it. And it's one of the.
• 1:00:43
  Tad Eggleston: See, and this is where, like, I would totally get behind an argument that there's no such thing as heroic violence.
• 1:00:53
  Tyler Johnson: That's why I called it revenge, because, you know, it is…
• 1:00:58
  Tyler Johnson: it is more visceral than just, like, a hero that has to kill, because there's no other options. Right, right. It is much more emotional, it's more real life, it is more…
• 1:01:08
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Because among other things, I, like, refuse to believe that there hasn't been collateral damage in any of Superman's fights.
• 1:01:18
  Phil: There absolutely has, you know? And I guess from there, it's that, like.
• 1:01:23
  Phil: part of the difficulty in… in looking at any, like, Marvel or DC superhero as either, you know, oh, are they good or bad, is the shifting nature of continuity, you know, and the way that
• 1:01:37
  Phil: their personalities change so drastically over time that it's almost like different eras feel like different types of what have you's. You know. But, like, I also do think that… that…
• 1:01:52
  Phil: in portraying, like, an action hero type character, for them to be, like, a superhero, I think that the defining trait is when they're more concerned with saving people than…
• 1:02:04
  Phil: beating somebody up, you know? And I think that a lot of the current trend of superheroes has leaned more on that dark and morally ambiguous stuff, and it's… it can be interesting when it's done well, Daredevil case in point, but I don't think it should be, like, the baseline metric that everyone is judged by on heroics.
• 1:02:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  Tyler Johnson: What's Ted looking up? He's got his phone out, people.
• 1:02:28
  Phil: He's got a charm.
• 1:02:29
  Tad Eggleston: Responding to a text.
• 1:02:30
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 1:02:31
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, God, he's ready.
• 1:02:32
  Phil: He's ready to go to one person.
• 1:02:33
  Tyler Johnson: show…
• 1:02:34
  Phil: He's ready now.
• 1:02:34
  Tad Eggleston: show related.
• 1:02:36
  Tyler Johnson: He's not… It's show-related. Would you like to share with the class? Had?
• 1:02:42
  Phil: Little teaser.
• 1:02:43
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:02:44
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I mean, it's, it's, it's the Saga Book Club thread.
• 1:02:48
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. Well, hey, so any last words on COPRA? Because this is the wrap-up for all the 8 volumes. We've been doing this for 8 weeks, talking about.
• 1:02:59
  Tyler Johnson: Well, actually, longer, because there was one where, like, we're gonna.
• 1:03:02
  Phil: Talk about this. We did Volume 1, and then there was C2E2 for 3 weeks.
• 1:03:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 1:03:07
  Phil: Or 2 weeks, I think.
• 1:03:08
  Tyler Johnson: Something like that. What do you guys wanna read? What do you guys wanna read next?
• 1:03:12
  Phil: I've got a couple things in mind. I've got checked out from the library right now,
• 1:03:18
  Phil: Hello Sunshine?
• 1:03:22
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not…
• 1:03:22
  Tad Eggleston: Did you manage to read that.
• 1:03:24
  Phil: Yeah, it looks really good. I haven't read it yet. It's, it's like, a spooky mystery book sort of thing.
• 1:03:32
  Phil: by Keezy Young, looks really good. It's about mental health, and and slightly scary kids looking for another missing kid.
• 1:03:41
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, what was the first one you said? I gotta look it up here.
• 1:03:44
  Phil: Hello, Sunshine? That was… that's the only one I've said.
• 1:03:47
  Tyler Johnson: Oh. Oh, I thought you were talking about two different things.
• 1:03:51
  Phil: That's all we'll look.
• 1:03:52
  Tyler Johnson: That's all one book, okay.
• 1:03:53
  Phil: Oh, my man.
• 1:03:54
  Tyler Johnson: Click OK.
• 1:03:58
  Tyler Johnson: So, I think that would be a lot of fun. We should do that. See where…
• 1:04:04
  Tyler Johnson: I'm a train.
• 1:04:06
  Tyler Johnson: get it into my shop as well. Every time a book is, recommended or talked about on here, you guys, I always go,
• 1:04:15
  Phil: Nice.
• 1:04:16
  Tyler Johnson: get it in, because, you know, if people who are listening in my, neck of the woods… Hi, Mom. No, I'm just kidding, she didn't listen.
• 1:04:24
  Phil: You should put up a billboard for the show in, in Sioux Falls.
• 1:04:30
  Tyler Johnson: How much would that cost? That'd be crazy.
• 1:04:32
  Phil: I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:04:34
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, in Sioux Falls, probably a lot. In La Verne?
• 1:04:39
  Phil: There we go, there we go, Lover and billboard.
• 1:04:41
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, if we could make, like, one of those, like.
• 1:04:45
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you could put… you're on a corner, you could just put it in your yard.
• 1:04:50
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. I'll just make, like, political signs, but it's just for us.
• 1:04:56
  Tyler Johnson: You know. Best comic podcast on the internet.
• 1:05:01
  Phil: There you go. Fighting words.
• 1:05:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yup. Alright, well.
• 1:05:04
  Tad Eggleston: I don't even know if I agree with that.
• 1:05:06
  Phil: Ha!
• 1:05:07
  Phil: You gotta stand up for us, Tad, come on.
• 1:05:12
  Tad Eggleston: I think we're a singular entity.
• 1:05:15
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think there's any other podcast that you can really compare to us.
• 1:05:20
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 1:05:21
  Tyler Johnson: I don't even…
• 1:05:22
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I don't like the…
• 1:05:25
  Tyler Johnson: I don't even know what this is.
• 1:05:27
  Tad Eggleston: The word best a lot to begin with, so, I mean, that's part of the issue.
• 1:05:31
  Tyler Johnson: That's why…
• 1:05:32
  Tad Eggleston: It's too hard to compare certain things.
• 1:05:34
  Tyler Johnson: Because… because it, it, it, you know, the, the, arrogant spine saying the best, I think, is funny for us, because…
• 1:05:44
  Tyler Johnson: We're not arrogant people, and so that's…
• 1:05:47
  Tad Eggleston: Most prolific.
• 1:05:48
  Phil: Where it comes from, man.
• 1:05:49
  Tad Eggleston: We might be the most prolific…
• 1:05:51
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:53
  Tyler Johnson: Long-winded.
• 1:05:54
  Phil: We're… it's going with a… it's going with, like, a baseball…
• 1:05:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:57
  Phil: We just… if we could win…
• 1:05:58
  Tad Eggleston: We got some… Like, 100…
• 1:06:00
  Phil: Had a 300 podcast, that'd be great.
• 1:06:05
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:06:05
  Tad Eggleston: Hell yeah.
• 1:06:06
  Tyler Johnson: Well, let's get on to… I mean, anything left that anyone wants to say about that?
• 1:06:11
  Tyler Johnson: About coping?
• 1:06:13
  Tad Eggleston: No, I think we're…
• 1:06:14
  Tyler Johnson: I think we're ready.
• 1:06:14
  Tad Eggleston: a wrap.
• 1:06:16
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:06:16
  Tad Eggleston: Ready to ram.
• 1:06:17
  Tyler Johnson: We hope… well, we gotta talk about next week. Three books, we hope, will be spectacular tags.
• 1:06:22
  Tad Eggleston: Disploit number 3 from Laura Hudson, Tim Leong, and Emilio Pina at Mad Cave. I have been loving this series!
• 1:06:29
  Tyler Johnson: I've been loving mad.
• 1:06:30
  Tad Eggleston: Possibly.
• 1:06:31
  Tyler Johnson: I mean, holy.
• 1:06:32
  Tad Eggleston: Possibly even more than… than… than HAB No. 2 from Joshua Dysart, David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jacob Phillips, Charlie Adlard at Bad Idea has also been amazing. S has been… is Ted OK?
• 1:06:49
  Tad Eggleston: Number 4 from Dave Chisholm at Mad Cave.
• 1:06:52
  Tad Eggleston: I know that 5 gears in reverse.
• 1:06:56
  Tad Eggleston: A criminal book from Ed Brubaker.
• 1:06:58
  Tad Eggleston: And Sean Phillips is amazing.
• 1:07:01
  Tad Eggleston: And I know that at least the,
• 1:07:05
  Tad Eggleston: The first quarter of Halloween Boy, last of the Halloween Boys from Dave Baker is amazing, because I was reading that when it was time to start recording.
• 1:07:16
  Tad Eggleston: Couple of manga coming out this week that look really good. Record Journey Volume 1.
• 1:07:23
  Tad Eggleston: Backing up a second…
• 1:07:25
  Tyler Johnson: What do you think of Where Does the Rainbow End? Are you…
• 1:07:28
  Tad Eggleston: I loved that book. I loved that book.
• 1:07:30
  Tyler Johnson: I, I'm really.
• 1:07:31
  Tad Eggleston: I love everything from Francesca Perillo and Stefano Cardicelli.
• 1:07:36
  Tad Eggleston: Remember, they had the robot love story that I loved, too.
• 1:07:40
  Tyler Johnson: Well, yeah.
• 1:07:41
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 1:07:42
  Tyler Johnson: This is really good. But yeah, so…
• 1:07:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, lots of good comics next week.
• 1:07:48
  Tad Eggleston: Spencer Ackerman's plugin, Did You Hear About Mimi Green No. 1? He generally doesn't go wrong, so I'm looking forward to reading that. We got some more Brutal Dark next week, we got some more…
• 1:08:01
  Tad Eggleston: Kill All Immortals next week. Actually, I Should Move In Your Skin number 2 up to books that I know are spectacular, because I did read that earlier today, and it was indeed…
• 1:08:14
  Tad Eggleston: Spectacular from a… Aditya Biddikar, and Som at Image Comics.
• 1:08:21
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah, lots and lots of good stuff.
• 1:08:25
  Tad Eggleston: And you're going old school, Phil, with your giant-sized graphic novel.
• 1:08:31
  Tad Eggleston: Great Raider pick.
• 1:08:32
  Phil: Yeah, it's a new edition of Camelot 3000 by Mike Barr and Brian Boland over at DC. If you haven't read it, it's actually surprisingly good. You know, there's parts of it that have aged questionably, but they're trying, you know, that's the way I'd put it, and
• 1:08:51
  Phil: it's probably the biggest book of Brian Bolin's career, you know, doing interiors. So, for that matter alone, it's well worth seeking out. If you haven't checked it out, definitely go for it.
• 1:09:06
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome. Guys, it's been fun, but I'm gonna go eat dinner.
• 1:09:10
  Tyler Johnson: I suggest… I suggest… I smell the…
• 1:09:12
  Tad Eggleston: dinner.
• 1:09:12
  Phil: I see.
• 1:09:13
  Tyler Johnson: just at 5.30, not really thinking it through that I would be hungry. Right. So, anywho, thanks for listening, everyone, and we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:09:24
  Tyler Johnson: Later!