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Heavy Metal Book Club #41 - December 1979 · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:00
  Tad Eggleston: No problem. No problem.
• 0:03
  Tad Eggleston: Good evening, everybody. Welcome back to 22 Panels and the Heavy Metal Book Club.
• 0:10
  Tad Eggleston: I am Tad, I've got Dylan Gilbertson, I've got Peter, I've got Matt, we've got Heavy Metal, December 1979, we're…
• 0:19
  Tad Eggleston: celebrating Christmas in June, which makes way more sense to me than celebrating Christmas in July, because why would you celebrate Christmas 5 months early, rather than half a year early? But…
• 0:32
  Tad Eggleston: I think I made that point last month.
• 0:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: mine.
• 0:36
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway… What?
• 0:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I said, I think you might have.
• 0:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Inc.
• 0:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's sad.
• 0:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: you know, I think July's a better month than June.
• 0:48
  Tad Eggleston: It's hotter.
• 0:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: Fireworks are in July, I guess. Comic-Con, San Diego Comic-Con's in July.
• 0:56
  Tad Eggleston: Of course, we're actually celebrating it in May, so, like, we fucked up anyway.
• 1:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, crap.
• 1:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, this is not…
• 1:03
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 1:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Either.
• 1:04
  Tad Eggleston: Like, screw all that.
• 1:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Where we're trying to, like… Go read something else, and then…
• 1:11
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe I'll sit on it for a while. Well, we did think about the new metal Erlot.
• 1:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll have to read that about later.
• 1:20
  Tad Eggleston: Zoom.
• 1:22
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway… Initial thoughts, or should we just start rolling through the, the, the magazine?
• 1:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I liked it, I thought it was good.
• 1:32
  Matt: Yeah, very, post-apoc… apocalyptic…
• 1:38
  Matt: not really apocalyptic, but, you know, that future society shit. I dug it, it was a good issue.
• 1:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Future Society, Christmas.
• 1:47
  Tad Eggleston: I like the, electronic reindeer.
• 1:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, the.
• 1:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The cover… the cover with the electronic reindeer is pretty interesting.
• 1:54
  Tad Eggleston: A rocket reindeer?
• 1:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: really into the Giants.
• 1:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: I want to track down the collected book that they advertise at the front.
• 2:04
  Tad Eggleston: That was pretty cool.
• 2:05
  Matt: Me too.
• 2:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: John's was pretty nice.
• 2:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: I might, I might ask Jason to take inspiration from one of the giant's pages for the cover of Necromancer 4.
• 2:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go.
• 2:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We're kidding.
• 2:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: getting preview hints to Necromancer 4.
• 2:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: Gettin' there. Gonna… might… might think about starting the…
• 2:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Starting the pre-launch page in the next month or so, so look out for that.
• 2:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, overall, I'd say it was pretty solid.
• 2:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 2:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Heavy metal.
• 2:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 2:45
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think there was a story where I think they called Native American savages, so I wasn't super into that, but…
• 2:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, there… I remember that coming up at some point, that someday was called Savages, and it was, like…
• 2:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hmm, maybe we don't do that.
• 3:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Was that the Pao Pele story?
• 3:04
  Matt: Yeah, I think it was.
• 3:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah…
• 3:10
  Tad Eggleston: Damn.
• 3:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I think the people who called them savages also got… Anyhow, we'll get to that.
• 3:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: I can't remember how it ended, to be honest.
• 3:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe it was something else, actually.
• 3:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: We'll get there.
• 3:23
  Tad Eggleston: Midnight.
• 3:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: Fair.
• 3:25
  Tad Eggleston: Feast.
• 3:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Midnight Feast.
• 3:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know if I, if there was much of a point to Midnight Feast, but I enjoyed it. Just a nice.
• 3:35
  Tad Eggleston: I enjoyed it a lot.
• 3:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just a scene in a diner one night.
• 3:39
  Matt: Yup.
• 3:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, it was… it was fairly,
• 3:41
  Matt: It's New Year's. I feel like it's New Year's Eve.
• 3:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I mean, like, what's kind of interesting about it, though, is, like, most of the time we're seeing heavy metal, and it's fantasy, or it's, sci-fi, and I gotta say, I don't…
• 3:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: feel like… I'm not sure how Midnight Feast fits into either of those?
• 4:03
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 4:03
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, no jello melts like that, and that plant looks like a skeleton.
• 4:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, okay.
• 4:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Are you sharing… are you sharing the… sharing the screen?
• 4:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Are you gonna show your.
• 4:14
  Tad Eggleston: And then there's the pinball.
• 4:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, well, I'll be honest, on the first… yeah, the first… I mean, the second panel of that story, when he throws… he throws a streamer…
• 4:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: And, like, it crosses over the plants that you said does look like a skeleton, and it made it look like it had a backbone, and so I was, like, I had to stare at it for a little bit.
• 4:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: And think, like, just wonder, like, where these…
• 4:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: These, like, deer skeletons came from, or something like that.
• 4:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I don't know.
• 4:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean… Needs are… Agents.
• 4:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: semi-valid points, I guess? I mean, the plant does look like it could be a skeleton, it also just looks like a fucking plant, so, you know.
• 4:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: I was gonna say that they're points, I'm gonna say that they're more observations, but go off.
• 5:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
• 5:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, like, it was just a fun, fun little scene inside of a random diner one night.
• 5:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's very true. I like it a lot. I don't want to dissuade people from liking it, and I think it's great.
• 5:14
  Matt: God!
• 5:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Let me… let me just shit on it some more, man.
• 5:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just,
• 5:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: thinking about it, like, and then thinking about, oh, this is heavy metal, and then, like, this one thing, it's like, wow, this… I'm not really sure where this fits into heavy metal.
• 5:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I'm also not sure at all.
• 5:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But it's amusing. I love it. Or it's amusement.
• 5:38
  Dillon Gilbertson: This comic was also very confusing. Coming out… coming out the kinks.
• 5:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: Combing out the.
• 5:43
  Tad Eggleston: Homing.
• 5:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Apologies. Like, he… I don't know where his dad stands.
• 5:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: His dad is…
• 5:50
  Tad Eggleston: and a half.
• 5:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sweet asshole, yeah.
• 5:52
  Matt: Yeah.
• 5:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: but his dad's being an asshole, but then he's all… he's like, he's like, suddenly these eggs affect your cortex, the government outlawed them. Oh, I guess he's calling him an asshole, is what he's doing.
• 6:05
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like he's…
• 6:07
  Tad Eggleston: The asshole dad is calling the son an asshole in part because he's taking the wrong drugs.
• 6:14
  Matt: Exactly.
• 6:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: Okay, alright, guess that helps.
• 6:17
  Tad Eggleston: It's not… it's not that he's taking drugs, it's that he's taking the wrong drugs.
• 6:23
  Matt: Yes, and he married a Jew.
• 6:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 6:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that was… that was another one of the, okay, that was kind of a little bit of a line that, you know, maybe…
• 6:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But I am.
• 6:35
  Matt: Start this issue strong, heavy metal, thank you!
• 6:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I think the fifth panel.
• 6:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: were you talking about the government outlawing them? I initially read it as he was calling the government assholes for outlawing these drugs, but he doesn't want him to take the drugs, and I think from that point on, I was like, I'm confused about this man. I don't know what to think anymore.
• 6:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just saw him as being an asshole.
• 7:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, he was, he was definitely a vessel.
• 7:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Diving into his son and, you know, completely…
• 7:05
  Matt: How long is he… 4 years. He hasn't seen him in 4 years! And he's jumping down his shit.
• 7:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 7:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Reminding him that his mother Didn't approve, and blah blah blah.
• 7:17
  Matt: married a Jew.
• 7:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Cityville, too. I found this one super entertaining, and…
• 7:23
  Tad Eggleston: This one was both entertaining and way too real.
• 7:28
  Matt: very.
• 7:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's a little bit depressing, yeah.
• 7:31
  Tad Eggleston: Good evening, consumers and consumers.
• 7:36
  Matt: Consumers is not… Gender-specific, so that's really kind of funny that they did that.
• 7:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It is, it is really funny.
• 7:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: I wanna say that this guy…
• 7:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: Not in personality, per se, just in physical appearance. This man, the man here.
• 7:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, the president.
• 7:53
  Matt: protagonist, or the TV guy?
• 7:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: the guy who's not in the TV. The man in the black shirt.
• 7:58
  Matt: Gotcha.
• 7:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: Not in personality, per se, but, like, in physical appearance, looks like a mix of Jim Henson and Tad.
• 8:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, there you go.
• 8:08
  Tad Eggleston: I'll take…
• 8:09
  Matt: What do you… Woody Allen, no, I'm kidding.
• 8:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just with the.
• 8:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Jim Henson and Tad.
• 8:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just the hair, the beard, and the glasses in general, I think, are very tacky.
• 8:20
  Matt: Ron? What's going on?
• 8:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 8:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Turns out that there was original Cityville, which was built by rich people, and then Cityville, too, was built by the government.
• 8:31
  Matt: Yup.
• 8:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Support rich people.
• 8:34
  Matt: Yep.
• 8:36
  Tad Eggleston: I particularly like the way they walk him back home.
• 8:41
  Tad Eggleston: Encourage him to take his shower, and then lock him back in.
• 8:45
  Matt: And remind him to wear his badge.
• 8:49
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, we're being so nice to you, let us take you back to prison.
• 8:53
  Matt: It's very concentration camp feeling. Oh, no, he didn't…
• 8:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I've.
• 8:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You didn't read all the text. He never left prison. He just left his cell.
• 9:04
  Matt: Yeah.
• 9:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 9:07
  Tad Eggleston: No, I know.
• 9:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I know, I'm just being… Pedantic. Anyhow.
• 9:14
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 9:15
  Matt: I'm gonna shit on this one too, Peter!
• 9:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, they essentially took, what was that,
• 9:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: World War II internment camps and turned into a comic that almost fucking represents modern day. Yeah.
• 9:32
  Matt: Yeah, I agree.
• 9:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: put on a…
• 9:34
  Matt: Talking to the dude through the toilet. That's so great.
• 9:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's actually, like, a really good and solid comic, again, it's just… Really bleak and dark.
• 9:43
  Tad Eggleston: Way too real.
• 9:45
  Dillon Gilbertson: happy.
• 9:46
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, it's not a… it's not a joyful comic.
• 9:50
  Matt: No. So… No, it's got a Fahrenheit 451 feel to it.
• 9:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yes.
• 9:57
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 10:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: After the fall…
• 10:01
  Tad Eggleston: to the fall, Serge Clerk.
• 10:06
  Tad Eggleston: I… I don't get why so many of these Russian guys are upset that they're… they're… they're keeping the camera on the room where the woman might get up dressed.
• 10:16
  Matt: Amuse me, too.
• 10:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 10:17
  Matt: It doesn't matter.
• 10:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Russian guys, I thought they were.
• 10:20
  Matt: However.
• 10:21
  Dillon Gilbertson: It says CCCP.
• 10:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They're Americans, and they're fighting the Russians, right?
• 10:25
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay.
• 10:27
  Matt: I'll see the same channel.
• 10:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, they keep seeing the woman.
• 10:32
  Matt: Yeah.
• 10:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And they're all angry, well, some of them are angry about it for some reason, and then they go off and take, take the, take the, camp.
• 10:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then I gathered that the Russians blew up everything.
• 10:45
  Matt: Yes.
• 10:45
  Tad Eggleston: Well, because that's… of course… I mean, I feel like that is the theme of this issue.
• 10:53
  Tad Eggleston: And then everybody dies.
• 10:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, it seemed to me like the Russians actually got out, and then they used it as a trap to kill them. That's what it sounded like.
• 11:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Cool. I totally got it. Thank you, Matt.
• 11:05
  Matt: My fault.
• 11:06
  Matt: They were like, oh, let's feign, retreat, and let them take over, and then we'll blow them up.
• 11:11
  Matt: Yep.
• 11:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It was great.
• 11:13
  Matt: Yeah.
• 11:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And by great, I also mean fucking terrible, but…
• 11:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It was great to read. It was a lot of fun.
• 11:21
  Matt: Yup.
• 11:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: to read.
• 11:26
  Tad Eggleston: I do, I do like the, the, the cry…
• 11:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah.
• 11:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's a very nice explosive sound.
• 11:37
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if that's what I imagined that a big explosion would sound like, but I like it.
• 11:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: cry.
• 11:43
  Matt: Honestly, I feel like that should be bigger.
• 11:46
  Matt: There's so much negative space there.
• 11:49
  Matt: They could have been so much more impactful.
• 11:51
  Tad Eggleston: Well, except that I can't 100% tell if this is, like, an explosion explosion, or if there's some level of implosion going on with the explosion.
• 12:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Good question.
• 12:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just, like, because it's not a boom, it's, like, kind of an interesting… like, and I didn't even notice this, so thank you for bringing it up. Like, it's kind of an interesting, like, sound to try and, like.
• 12:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Imagine of, like, what the hell… what the hell is actually, like.
• 12:21
  Dillon Gilbertson: I…
• 12:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: of this…
• 12:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: I actually kind of like it. To me, it feels… because there's so much negative space, so it feels like we're at a great… it's a very large explosion from a very great distance.
• 12:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: And I can kind of imagine… a sound… That's supposed to be big.
• 12:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know, for some reason, craw… I think if there was a K in, like, it was a K dash CRAW, like a k-craw.
• 12:50
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 12:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know.
• 12:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just imagine metal twisting.
• 12:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know why, like, that would go, yeah, go with a… go with an explosion, but…
• 13:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: Crawl almost sounds like more of a monster yell of some kind, I guess.
• 13:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Could be.
• 13:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hmm.
• 13:10
  Tad Eggleston: Well, that's the metal twisting and becoming a monster.
• 13:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Metal twisting and becoming a boom.
• 13:18
  Matt: The heavy metal twisting.
• 13:20
  Tad Eggleston: And here… here's your Giants.
• 13:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: Giants! Yes.
• 13:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fuck yeah, look at that giant.
• 13:26
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know if this was just a me thing, or… I mean, clearly not, but, like, or if this was just very, very common that everybody kind of did, but when I was a kid, I actually imagined, like, the hills around my town were, like, the bodies of giants.
• 13:40
  Tad Eggleston: You're… you're just… you're weird.
• 13:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: Is that not…
• 13:44
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe a little fucked up.
• 13:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: Did everybody do that, though? Was that a… is that a normal thing? I feel like it is, maybe.
• 13:52
  Matt: Normal-ish?
• 13:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, that's what's sick.
• 13:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: But, like, so from page 1 on Giants, I was like, I'm sold.
• 13:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: This book's for me, I love it.
• 14:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: you're prob- I mean, you're definitely not alone in it.
• 14:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know.
• 14:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: if, like, I said, would think like that. I definitely stared off in the distance and had, like, weird ideas about what might be out there.
• 14:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: I also love, any… any story or writing that attempts to give, like, scientific explanations to the way of an imaginary creature's body is.
• 14:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Like, in the next page, it talks about, like, the fact that their hands hang just by their knees.
• 14:38
  Dillon Gilbertson: And the evolutionary reason for that is so that they can feel the things that are below their large bellies that they can't see. So they can't see down by their feet, so their hands have to drag that low for them to feel what's down there. And I was like, oh, that's interesting.
• 14:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: I thought it was… thought it was fun. I like John.
• 14:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 14:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I also talk about why they made the clothing the way they did.
• 15:02
  Matt: Yup, yup.
• 15:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Then they, like, just throw in a Frost Giant and don't give any description.
• 15:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: I know you.
• 15:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Whatever off.
• 15:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Feel like… feel like they were rushed and couldn't write anything. Oh, fuck it, Frost Giant.
• 15:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then they're like, a giant pastime is exactly what we know giants for.
• 15:20
  Dillon Gilbertson: Wait, Frost Giant is the cover that I want.
• 15:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 15:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: It looks really cool. There's no writing. I guess there doesn't have to be, I guess, but…
• 15:29
  Tad Eggleston: Everybody knows what a frost giant is.
• 15:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
• 15:33
  Matt: Loki!
• 15:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, clearly.
• 15:38
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, there was an…
• 15:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Spoilers!
• 15:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think we… I think we glossed right over it, but at the beginning of this issue, there was an ad for, like, I think a collected edition of.
• 15:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, there was. We didn't gloss over it, you said you wanted one.
• 15:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: I know I did, but, like, we didn't… we didn't pause, because I… I… I wanna… I don't know who, who illustrated that again?
• 15:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: It says right there in the.
• 15:58
  Tad Eggleston: Three illustrators, Julek Keller, Carolyn Scrace, and Juan Wingard.
• 16:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Guard. Wiggin' guard.
• 16:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You probably said it right, and I just…
• 16:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: you know, needed to emphasize the J.
• 16:17
  Matt: The J& Giants?
• 16:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, the J in Pigeon Guard.
• 16:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Wingard.
• 16:23
  Tad Eggleston: Wait a minute, are you ordering one for yourself?
• 16:26
  Matt: Yeah, actually, I am.
• 16:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, it's on Amazon, there it is.
• 16:29
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I was just about to order one for Dylan, so if he's ordering one for himself, I'll stop.
• 16:36
  Matt: No, I'm ordering it for the…
• 16:37
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like somebody wished him a happy birthday recently, so I was gonna send him one.
• 16:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, thanks!
• 16:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Aww. I will… I mean, I'll gladly accept that. I would…
• 16:48
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, then stop ordering, and now I can… you're in Bellingham, right?
• 16:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 16:57
  Tad Eggleston: because that's the only reason it hadn't been ordered already, is that… that I remembered that you moved, and I wanted to.
• 17:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thanks, sir, man.
• 17:05
  Tad Eggleston: Add the right address.
• 17:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I am so glad we said that on air.
• 17:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's right.
• 17:11
  Tad Eggleston: All I said was the town. I didn't even say the state.
• 17:15
  Tad Eggleston: And he's not in the more famous Bellingham.
• 17:19
  Tad Eggleston: And that one?
• 17:20
  Dillon Gilbertson: Let's narrow it down a little bit more. Docs me, I'll fight everybody.
• 17:24
  Matt: Can't read.
• 17:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 17:25
  Matt: Amazon?
• 17:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Say what?
• 17:30
  Matt: Tad, where are you ordering from, Amazon?
• 17:32
  Tad Eggleston: I'm ordering from Amazon, yeah.
• 17:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thank you, guys. I'm so excited for this. I'm legitimately excited for this book.
• 17:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh my god. Anyhow…
• 17:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: Cannot wait for it.
• 17:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, that'll be awesome. When you get it, you need to send us, I don't know, a few pictures of your favorites.
• 17:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: I absolutely will.
• 17:54
  Tad Eggleston: Now, should I… should I read out your address, and then…
• 17:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: You can.
• 17:58
  Tad Eggleston: Provide the social security number.
• 18:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, I'm not gonna give you my social, I'll do… I'll say the social security number, I'm not gonna give it to you, that's not secure at all.
• 18:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, man.
• 18:11
  Tad Eggleston: No, I just meant we'd put it all out over the air.
• 18:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah. What.
• 18:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: While you're at it, could you tell me your, tell me your credit card number and, three-digit passcode?
• 18:22
  Tad Eggleston: maiden name. Let's just get it all out there at once.
• 18:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: No more secrets, guys.
• 18:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, your mother's maiden name, obviously, but you also need to tell me what your preferred, question is, and what the answer to that question is.
• 18:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Matt: Where did you go to elementary school?
• 18:42
  Tad Eggleston: What's your first pet's name?
• 18:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, you're… the name of your element, your first grade teacher.
• 18:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: Do we want to take wagers on whether or not they added text to the Frost Giant, or do you think they just left it blank in the complete edition?
• 18:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: If they use the same stuff, my guess is they left it blank, but… Who knows?
• 19:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm kind of.
• 19:06
  Tad Eggleston: What I'm actually most curious about
• 19:08
  Tad Eggleston: Whether it's actually like this in the complete edition or not, or whether they took Parts of pages.
• 19:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Mmm…
• 19:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah, that could be interesting.
• 19:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Well, yeah, that's true.
• 19:20
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, this… this could be, like, the… the…
• 19:24
  Tad Eggleston: This could very much be, like, the… the Reader's Digest condensed version.
• 19:31
  Matt: That's true. There we could be.
• 19:32
  Tad Eggleston: that each of these pictures is a whole page in the book, and then you get, like, a whole page of writing.
• 19:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 19:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right, right, right, right, right. But yeah, that Frost Giant is, wicked cool, so… I will look forward.
• 19:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: Cheers.
• 19:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: What happens with your, next.
• 19:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Cover.
• 19:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: I will update what's received.
• 19:54
  Tad Eggleston: It says, it says estimated delivery is… is in…
• 19:58
  Tad Eggleston: A little more than a week.
• 20:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Okay, noted.
• 20:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: One year and one week. Got it.
• 20:03
  Dillon Gilbertson: I will still hopefully still be living here.
• 20:06
  Matt: I was gonna say, at least you don't have to drive back to your old apartment.
• 20:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah. It was worth it, though.
• 20:12
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, sorry I'm not sending an original baby bear… er, bear-arm baby.
• 20:18
  Tad Eggleston: not that cool.
• 20:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean…
• 20:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: I had somebody come…
• 20:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Pretty cool.
• 20:26
  Tad Eggleston: Happy birthday!
• 20:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thank you very much.
• 20:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Happy birthday, Mr. Gilbertson.
• 20:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thank you very much.
• 20:32
  Tad Eggleston: And just in case I don't get this up immediately, and because she's behind on listening now that she doesn't have to drive to work, we'll say happy birthday to Mom right now, cause, like…
• 20:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, yep, that's common.
• 20:45
  Tad Eggleston: It's only a couple days.
• 20:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There's a wag.
• 20:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, and Happy Mother's Day to everybody, since that was yesterday.
• 20:53
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, Matt, happy Mother's Day.
• 20:55
  Matt: And Happy Mother's Day to you too, buddy!
• 21:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Let me rephrase that. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, I was saying.
• 21:06
  Tad Eggleston: Matt.
• 21:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And Matt.
• 21:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And Tad.
• 21:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, complete, complete, tangent, side note, Adam Mashinsky says hi, Peter.
• 21:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, well, hello, Mr. Mishinchi.
• 21:21
  Dillon Gilbertson: He also says Happy Mother's Day. He also says Happy Mother's Day, I'm sure.
• 21:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alright, so…
• 21:26
  Matt: Nice.
• 21:28
  Tad Eggleston: As we get to Harlan Ellison, and, like, most of the time, I would read Harlan Ellison, but this time I didn't. Did anybody read Harlan Ellison?
• 21:39
  Dillon Gilbertson: Unfortunately. Nope.
• 21:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I didn't read any of the pros this time.
• 21:44
  Matt: No picture, though, of Santa Claus holding the flamethrower.
• 21:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 21:49
  Tad Eggleston: Again, Wilson?
• 21:51
  Matt: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that was an interesting picture. I spent a lot of time on that one for some reason, but it was pretty good.
• 21:59
  Tad Eggleston: And like I said, under normal circumstances, I totally would have read Harlan Ellison, but… I was in a hurry.
• 22:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I was just.
• 22:07
  Matt: And you knew we'd only have an hour for this episode.
• 22:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Right, right, yeah.
• 22:11
  Tad Eggleston: So, work and win.
• 22:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Another one that'll hit a little bit too close to home…
• 22:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Don't get me wrong, it is amazing, like, what the… actually, I don't even remember the image. I do remember this robot in the lower corner and being like, oh, that's cool, but…
• 22:32
  Tad Eggleston: I don't remember.
• 22:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I remember the imagery so much, as I remember how…
• 22:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: At the top of this episode, Peter was like, yeah, it was a pretty solid episode that every story's like, I hated this.
• 22:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know, Yeah, I've just given shit to everything, so…
• 22:47
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just gonna… I'm just gonna toss this out here.
• 22:51
  Tad Eggleston: It's almost like… People saw what Reagan was doing.
• 22:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 22:57
  Tad Eggleston: in 1979…
• 22:59
  Matt: Yep.
• 23:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And…
• 23:01
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, maybe we could have taken… we could have made different decisions over the last 47 years.
• 23:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yes, I ain'.
• 23:13
  Tad Eggleston: That's what this episode, or this issue feels like. It's like, oh, wait a minute, you mean… you mean…
• 23:20
  Tad Eggleston: Some of this shit wasn't surprising?
• 23:26
  Tad Eggleston: Or was it only… you know, you know…
• 23:30
  Tad Eggleston: That the way they pulled it off is they said, oh, those are just drugged-out hippie ramblings.
• 23:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yo.
• 23:37
  Matt: It just… it…
• 23:39
  Matt: Ugh, it reminds me of that line in Spaceballs where Dark Helmet's like, evil always wins because good is done.
• 23:45
  Tad Eggleston: Don't.
• 23:47
  Matt: And it's like, fuck!
• 23:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 23:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Spaceballs 2 coming? It is!
• 23:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 23:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Evil one.
• 23:54
  Tad Eggleston: will always win, because…
• 23:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Thank you so much.
• 23:57
  Tad Eggleston: is dumb.
• 23:58
  Matt: Hmm, you know?
• 24:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I should rewatch that soon.
• 24:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's so good.
• 24:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Anyhow… So good.
• 24:05
  Tad Eggleston: It is, it is. I'm a big spaceballs fan.
• 24:09
  Tad Eggleston: Roll up!
• 24:10
  Matt: I've seen Space Balls more times than I've seen Star Wars.
• 24:14
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I haven't counted, but it's probably…
• 24:17
  Matt: I'll say closer than what.
• 24:18
  Tad Eggleston: would imagine.
• 24:19
  Matt: I just know…
• 24:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I mean…
• 24:21
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know, because I've watched Star Wars in all.
• 24:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I was gonna say, I'm… I would be heavily surprised if you'd seen Spaceballs more times than you'd seen Star Wars. But that's me.
• 24:36
  Tad Eggleston: I think it depends on if we're counting any individual Star Wars movie.
• 24:42
  Tad Eggleston: Like, I bet you I've seen Star Wars more than… er, Spaceball…
• 24:46
  Matt: All the views of all the movies, I've seen Star Wars more than Spaceballs.
• 24:52
  Tad Eggleston: I've definitely seen Spaceballs more than Episode 3.
• 24:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 24:58
  Matt: Where are my notes on?
• 24:59
  Tad Eggleston: 4789.
• 25:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Here would be my argument.
• 25:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think you've seen Spaceballs as many times as you've seen the complete run of episodes 4, 5, 6.
• 25:11
  Tad Eggleston: Probably not, but it's probably actually close on Empire.
• 25:15
  Matt: Yep.
• 25:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, fair enough.
• 25:19
  Tad Eggleston: Because Empire's the one that I'm most likely to skip, even though it's the best. Because it's a downer.
• 25:25
  Matt: Yup.
• 25:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 25:27
  Matt: Wow, everyone.
• 25:29
  Tad Eggleston: guarantee that I've seen Return of the.
• 25:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Jedi.
• 25:31
  Tad Eggleston: More times than baseballs.
• 25:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hey, that's Peter's logic for this whole issue, is that it's the best, but it's just a downside.
• 25:39
  Tad Eggleston: It's entirely possible that I've seen…
• 25:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: The whole thing.
• 25:41
  Tad Eggleston: the Jedi more times than you.
• 25:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Me too.
• 25:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's the best issue, it's just a real downer.
• 25:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.
• 25:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sadly, like, that's all true of a lot of things that I kinda like.
• 25:53
  Matt: I don't shit on Christmas, dude, what the fuck?
• 25:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I'm sorry, have we hit a Christmas one yet?
• 25:59
  Matt: This is just…
• 25:59
  Tad Eggleston: Not yet, well…
• 26:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: The Santa one that we just passed over and didn't read.
• 26:03
  Matt: Beautiful!
• 26:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 26:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The Santa one no one read?
• 26:07
  Matt: Milk!
• 26:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I really shot on that one.
• 26:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah, that…
• 26:14
  Tad Eggleston: It wasn't Christmas…
• 26:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: None of them.
• 26:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know if that.
• 26:16
  Tad Eggleston: This one could have been Christmas.
• 26:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No…
• 26:20
  Tad Eggleston: It would have made it even worse.
• 26:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's not even Die Hard, like…
• 26:26
  Dillon Gilbertson: -
• 26:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Midnight Feast feels less like Christmas than it does New Year's.
• 26:31
  Matt: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Matt: True.
• 26:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I think you're right. I don't think we've gotten to our… to our, christmas yet.
• 26:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, there's, like, one fairly clearly Christmas one, if I remember correctly, other than the Santa Claus thing that I didn't read.
• 26:47
  Tad Eggleston: No, there are at least two.
• 26:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, okay. I forgot one then, maybe, even though I read it yesterday. Rolf!
• 26:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Bro!
• 26:54
  Tad Eggleston: We're all.
• 26:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I have nothing negative to say about Rolf.
• 26:57
  Matt: I think it was amazing.
• 26:59
  Matt: Right.
• 26:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I think it might be my… I might be with you on that one, Matt, but it feels a little bit like an Indiana Jones scene, and that's fucking amazing.
• 27:10
  Matt: Good stuff!
• 27:11
  Matt: Yep.
• 27:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know why we're going backwards.
• 27:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, where are we going?
• 27:15
  Tad Eggleston: Because I needed to remember something.
• 27:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: As you did.
• 27:21
  Tad Eggleston: The problem with you guys not bringing your own?
• 27:23
  Tad Eggleston: You rely on me.
• 27:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then if I.
• 27:25
  Tad Eggleston: I want to look at something, I'm gonna flip.
• 27:27
  Matt: I've got my own up, so… Flip all you want, Ted.
• 27:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You're fine. I'm just giving you shit.
• 27:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, but it definitely reminds me of, like, the tank scene in.
• 27:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The Holy Grail.
• 27:47
  Matt: Yeah, that's crusade.
• 27:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alaskers.
• 27:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 27:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That one.
• 27:52
  Tad Eggleston: Last Crusade, Holy Grail, same.
• 27:54
  Matt: The one with Sean Connery in River Phoenix.
• 27:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, well, the tank… well, I guess there's… that's fair. I guess… I guess in Raiders, I guess they were on foot carrying the Ark around.
• 28:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 28:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's funny.
• 28:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think they had a few tanks, but… The tank scene, like.
• 28:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The Crazy Tank thing was, definitely.
• 28:14
  Tad Eggleston: Chase is different.
• 28:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Pretty… yeah, it's pretty good.
• 28:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 28:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But…
• 28:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: Carry on, Rolf.
• 28:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, this was a fairly action-packed issue of Ralph, where he,
• 28:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Can't catch up with soldiers, and then…
• 28:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Then steals the demon army's tank and runs away with it.
• 28:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: After blowing up every other tank that they have.
• 28:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, and I love… I love the end where he,
• 28:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: He's with his tank, and he's got all these,
• 28:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That guy is strung up to make it look like they're still in the tank.
• 29:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah, alright, alright.
• 29:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 29:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Last four panels.
• 29:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Dillon Gilbertson: Had a boy, Ralph.
• 29:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep. Rolf in that uniform is also pretty wicked cool, too.
• 29:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, agreed.
• 29:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: On the side of the highway, it was a lot of fun as well.
• 29:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: On the side of the highway.
• 29:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Kinda just, like, escaping… you know… the city, and…
• 29:38
  Dillon Gilbertson: Go on.
• 29:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: free…
• 29:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: She goes off and has her own little… little mini… mini freedom spirit journey.
• 29:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, can I…
• 29:48
  Tad Eggleston: Can I toss out really quick that I want to read 1941 by Steve Bissett and Rick Feich.
• 29:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 29:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Toss it out, sure, yeah.
• 29:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: You can certainly toss that out.
• 30:00
  Tad Eggleston: I mean.
• 30:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I do.
• 30:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: Horace comic version of the Columbia Pictures Universal Studios blockbuster film. Alright.
• 30:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Hmm.
• 30:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 30:08
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, the, the, the classic… Swamp Thing Team?
• 30:15
  Tad Eggleston: Doing Belushi?
• 30:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, there you go.
• 30:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that just seems cool.
• 30:29
  Tad Eggleston: I like that we got another language for our Galactic geographic, that was also kind of cool.
• 30:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think I missed.
• 30:37
  Tad Eggleston: the Neuron Edition.
• 30:39
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 30:45
  Tad Eggleston: And a spaceship that looks kind of like a book.
• 30:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It also looks kind of like a projector.
• 30:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: It also just seems like a poor design for a spaceship, but…
• 30:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but… I mean, here's the thing that I've always, like…
• 31:04
  Tad Eggleston: Space is a vacuum, so is there such thing as poor design?
• 31:08
  Matt: for a spaceship.
• 31:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, so, yeah, I think about that all the time with, like, the Starship Enterprise and with the Millennium Falcon and stuff like that. That stuff doesn't make sense much on, like, an Earth perspective, but in space, they work fine. But still, their thrusters are, like, on equal sides. Like, I don't know how, like, an axis works in space. Like, this just looks like it's gonna spin in a circle, but, like, I don't know if that would even make sense in
• 31:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: space. I have no idea.
• 31:37
  Matt: Maybe that.
• 31:38
  Tad Eggleston: I'd have to talk to my space people.
• 31:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: Well, you contact your space people, and then we'll come back and we'll edit this episode.
• 31:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it's.
• 31:46
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, last… I just texted her during the episode, so…
• 31:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, there you go. Just say it. Just take a picture of this senator and be like, does this make sense in space?
• 31:58
  Matt: with email.
• 32:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, because, like, it being a block, like, you don't have to worry about wind resistance and stuff, but…
• 32:06
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 32:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I don't know.
• 32:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: I have no idea if that would work in space.
• 32:13
  Tad Eggleston: This is the one that I didn't like, and I think I could have liked it, but, like, the…
• 32:19
  Matt: Agreed.
• 32:21
  Matt: The artwork ruined it for me.
• 32:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: Did the board.
• 32:24
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I…
• 32:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: morphing into sex art? Is that what was happening?
• 32:28
  Matt: I don't know, but that looks like a butt plug there on that other page.
• 32:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Everything looks, like, phallic or young.
• 32:32
  Matt: anger.
• 32:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: Everything looks.
• 32:34
  Tad Eggleston: Well,
• 32:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: In some ways.
• 32:35
  Tad Eggleston: And for me, it was like…
• 32:40
  Tad Eggleston: The colors were just a little…
• 32:44
  Tad Eggleston: Too harsh, and not enough contrast to the backgrounds.
• 32:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Like, like… Just… yeah, it's just…
• 33:02
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like it's, it's, it's… a… a minor…
• 33:07
  Tad Eggleston: Color alteration away from me liking it.
• 33:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: Okay.
• 33:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But it's…
• 33:13
  Tad Eggleston: It's too shiny metallic.
• 33:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: In contrast, I found this, fairly entertaining. Oh, sorry, go ahead, Matt.
• 33:20
  Matt: I would say complete recolor, but whatever.
• 33:24
  Tad Eggleston: You would say what?
• 33:26
  Matt: Complete recolor.
• 33:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: I can see that.
• 33:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean… I think you.
• 33:31
  Tad Eggleston: You'd have to do a complete recolor, but I think you could do most of the shades, just do a little bit more of a matte.
• 33:41
  Tad Eggleston: To make it work.
• 33:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Is it mainly, like, the borders? I mean, that feels like… The borders certainly…
• 33:48
  Tad Eggleston: They don't help.
• 33:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: The borders look like a Van Halen album cover.
• 33:53
  Matt: Yup.
• 33:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean…
• 33:55
  Tad Eggleston: The thing looks like a Van Halen album cover.
• 33:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, maybe what's the point, but…
• 34:00
  Matt: when I was in school.
• 34:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That was what I was kind of curious about, if it was, like… I mean, like, honestly, like, the thing that I had more trouble with was, like, some of the text is harder to read, like, and it's not… not even all of it. It's like, some of the text is fine, and then some of it is just, like, blurring.
• 34:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's a problem with the scan, probably, right?
• 34:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I imagine that's more of a scan than the picture themselves, but…
• 34:20
  Matt: Could be.
• 34:21
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, but that's, that's definitely how I felt, was like.
• 34:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I mean…
• 34:29
  Tad Eggleston: close. I mean, there's little things. I love this saxophonist against the moon, except that, like…
• 34:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hmm.
• 34:36
  Tad Eggleston: All of the gold all over is pulling you away from him.
• 34:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: go to the latest.
• 34:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I agree.
• 34:44
  Matt: I mean, like…
• 34:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I…
• 34:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I like a lot of what they're doing, and I think, like, even sort of what they're doing with the gold.
• 34:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, the shapes that they're creating with the gold, and sort of, like, the… the…
• 34:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The, oh, hey, this is, like, kind of shiny is kind of fun, but the fact that, like, you know, it's so shiny that it's drawing you away from
• 35:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The other things does make it a little bit harder to, like, see, like, some of the more interesting imagery that they're… they're doing.
• 35:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So I'd almost say, like… go ahead.
• 35:21
  Tad Eggleston: I was just gonna say, I also think that, like, this is exactly what they wanted it to be. And for some people, this is perfect.
• 35:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 35:31
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 35:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I mean, like, it's still really…
• 35:33
  Tad Eggleston: All of the things I'm complaining about were a deliberate choice.
• 35:38
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, and, like… It just doesn't work for me.
• 35:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 35:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I get that, too.
• 35:45
  Matt: I'm in your camp, Tad, so I get it.
• 35:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not, yeah.
• 35:52
  Tad Eggleston: And that's one of the reasons it's hard for me to critique it too much, because, like… I do…
• 35:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: None.
• 35:59
  Tad Eggleston: I think that it's, like.
• 36:00
  Tad Eggleston: a missed opportunity, I don't think it's sloppiness, I don't think it's badly rendered, I don't… you know… Again, I have a feeling that this looks exactly like it was intended to, and the people who like it love it.
• 36:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Also, did they sneak the tire man in here? Oh, a couple times?
• 36:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: If you look at that page.
• 36:24
  Matt: Oh, it is!
• 36:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: a couple pages, he's on a roof, too. One more.
• 36:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's referred.
• 36:30
  Matt: I did not notice that. Damn.
• 36:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I like the guy on the upper left, as well, with the exclamation point, especially the big red exclamation point. Oh, apparently they were doing exclamation points in the one before it, too.
• 36:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: All sorts of exclamation points going on.
• 36:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Matt: Those exclamation points are phallic.
• 36:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's true.
• 36:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 36:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: That is true.
• 36:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's absolutely true.
• 37:03
  Tad Eggleston: Chainmail. This one I liked a lot.
• 37:06
  Matt: Really?
• 37:07
  Tad Eggleston: I did. But I like folk art.
• 37:11
  Matt: Yeah, sometime.
• 37:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I did pretty well.
• 37:14
  Tad Eggleston: It didn't… it, like…
• 37:18
  Tad Eggleston: And I like Trina Robbins. I didn't even realize it was Trina Robbins until right now. I mean, I knew Trina had one in this, but it hadn't connected that it was this one.
• 37:30
  Tad Eggleston: I… I also think that, like.
• 37:36
  Tad Eggleston: Given our other problematic things, it's great that we have this… This, this, like…
• 37:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: problematic, or Christian's having a problem with, Pele.
• 37:51
  Matt: Everything?
• 37:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 37:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then, you know, they're like, they keep getting messages from people being like, hey.
• 37:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, this is not gonna work.
• 38:01
  Tad Eggleston: That idea.
• 38:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: fire.
• 38:02
  Tad Eggleston: Hey, this is a bad idea. Oh, oh, but I… I have the new god, I'm fine. Okay.
• 38:10
  Matt: Have fun with that!
• 38:12
  Tad Eggleston: Lava's still lava, but alright.
• 38:15
  Matt: Yup.
• 38:16
  Tad Eggleston: My own real knock on it was this text here, but I also think that that was kind of on purpose.
• 38:26
  Matt: Hmm?
• 38:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, maybe?
• 38:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know if it was on purpose or not.
• 38:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I couldn't…
• 38:34
  Tad Eggleston: I can't tell for certain.
• 38:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: particularly hard to read, and I'm not sure I like that.
• 38:39
  Tad Eggleston: But that, yeah, it being hard to read was what I didn't like about it.
• 38:46
  Tad Eggleston: But I don't know that that was an accident, because it kind of, like, when you do read it, it kind of feels like it's supposed to be, like, a background chant.
• 38:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I guess, but I'd still rather…
• 38:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Be able to read it, or…
• 39:00
  Tad Eggleston: And that I get, but like with the last story, I think it was a conscious choice.
• 39:07
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. And one that I kinda dig, but I.
• 39:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Completely kidding.
• 39:10
  Tad Eggleston: people not.
• 39:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I would… I would go the other way and say it's… it's one I don't dig at all. Like, even if it's a conscious choice, it was a bad conscious choice. That… that… that would be my opinion.
• 39:22
  Matt: Well, poor design. Legibility, readability, it's all important.
• 39:26
  Tad Eggleston: Also, as compared to the last one, I love the colors in this.
• 39:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fair enough.
• 39:38
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I loved.
• 39:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think that's the one that goes off and calls them Indigenous savages somewhere.
• 39:45
  Matt: I think…
• 39:46
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's… I thought the next one.
• 39:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, is it the next one?
• 39:52
  Tad Eggleston: Because didn't that one involve Christmas?
• 39:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, it is the next one.
• 39:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, the next one… Oh, it…
• 40:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's supposedly a tale of Christmas, even though I don't know how that has… the next one has anything to do with Christmas, it's just by Mobius.
• 40:12
  Tad Eggleston: I did enjoy the Mobius.
• 40:14
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 40:14
  Matt: This was the hunting, those dudes, yeah, yeah.
• 40:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that's right. And you're right, I don't know how it was a tale of Christmas.
• 40:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's… it's not.
• 40:27
  Matt: hey.
• 40:28
  Tad Eggleston: It's the Christmas where the humans get impaled.
• 40:31
  Matt: Christmas pictures are different on different places!
• 40:35
  Tad Eggleston: I agree.
• 40:36
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like.
• 40:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They're hunting, like, other sentient beings.
• 40:43
  Matt: Yes.
• 40:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's pretty… pretty.
• 40:46
  Matt: The most dangerous game.
• 40:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They're not hunting each other.
• 40:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's a better short story than it was a movie, I feel like.
• 41:00
  Tad Eggleston: I don't disagree.
• 41:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It did okay as a movie.
• 41:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But, not great.
• 41:09
  Tad Eggleston: We watched it recently.
• 41:12
  Tad Eggleston: Was that your pick?
• 41:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 41:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it got told to me, it got suggested to me by, A friend.
• 41:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So…
• 41:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: Which movie is this?
• 41:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The most dangerous game, 1940-something edition, not… not the 2020 whatever.
• 41:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Which I also think I saw didn't get, like, particularly great reviews, but…
• 41:39
  Dillon Gilbertson: Watch the 1990s movie, The Pest, with John Leguizamo. Just do that instead.
• 41:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go.
• 41:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's a great, it's a great adaptation of the Most Dangerous game.
• 41:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think… oh, the past is a great adaptation of the most dangerous game,
• 41:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Have to check that out.
• 41:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But no.
• 42:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The nice thing about the 1940-something version of the Most Dangerous Game was it was only about an hour long, which is about what I imagine you could squeeze out of that story, realistically.
• 42:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 42:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Without making a huge amount of changes.
• 42:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The kind of dumb part was that, I don't know, it just felt like it was like, oh, well…
• 42:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, do this, and then do the same thing again, except… differently.
• 42:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then we'll run.
• 42:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: but it kept a lot of the same tone as the story, so… But, going back to…
• 42:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: A Tale of Christmas, which, again, no idea why it's called A Tale of Christmas. Probably…
• 43:00
  Tad Eggleston: Christmas… Issue.
• 43:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Probably something to do with Mobius.
• 43:04
  Matt: Happened.
• 43:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 43:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I guess these kind of look like angels, too. I mean, they got.
• 43:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:15
  Tad Eggleston: They're hunting angels, I like it.
• 43:20
  Tad Eggleston: It feels like a total tale of Christmas.
• 43:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then the angels, turn out to be luring them into a trap.
• 43:28
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, is this, like, the literal war on Christmas? Like, the men are going to…
• 43:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: By the Kingdom of Heaven.
• 43:35
  Matt: Did we skip on the side of the highway?
• 43:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 43:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We went through it really quickly, we talked about it.
• 43:43
  Matt: You know what, I might have left the room, apologize.
• 43:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, like…
• 43:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: We enjoyed it.
• 43:49
  Tad Eggleston: boobies. I enjoyed it. I don't know what to say.
• 43:52
  Tad Eggleston: Very odd.
• 43:53
  Matt: I ran!
• 43:53
  Tad Eggleston: mad?
• 43:53
  Matt: Imus? It's not like me.
• 43:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I did like the boobies in that… that one.
• 43:57
  Matt: move.
• 44:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And the freedom.
• 44:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But yeah, no, I don't know. This is an interesting story, like, what I kind of liked about it, yeah, it is a little bit most dangerous game feel to it, just because it's like, they're hunting this sentient creature, and, like, they're like, oh, it's some, like, most dangerous game you can hunt, it's the most exciting, blah blah blah blah blah.
• 44:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then, like, these guys just end up luring them into a fucking trap and killing.
• 44:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And saying, like, we are now declaring open war on man.
• 44:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So…
• 44:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: No.
• 44:38
  Tad Eggleston: Then we have…
• 44:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: Gnomes felt like, like a worse version of giants.
• 44:45
  Matt: You know what I mean?
• 44:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 44:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: It had some… I had some jokes in there.
• 44:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's just humorous, but yeah, kind of stupid.
• 44:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm really at odds with the Ku Klux gnomes.
• 45:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, on one side, I'm like, that's actually really clever.
• 45:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: really clever and funny, but also, it doesn't seem like it bashes the KKK enough for my taste. Like, if they had talked more about how they suck, and they should all go away…
• 45:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, essentially it says that these gnomes, like…
• 45:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Like, didn't like.
• 45:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like humans, so they would just, like, stack up on each other, and then call themselves,
• 45:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, no.
• 45:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: gnome gnome, with using a K instead of a G. And then, you know, humans, being the stupid jerks they are, took after them and used it for something else.
• 45:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: They just, they just, they just twisted their hatred into something else.
• 45:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Also, why gnomes wear hats? Not sure I like that part either.
• 45:46
  Matt: That was funny, I thought that was great.
• 45:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You like the why gnomes wear hats?
• 45:50
  Matt: Yeah.
• 45:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Code has.
• 45:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Did you also like the movie Coneheads, Matt?
• 45:56
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, Coneheads is a good movie.
• 45:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It is actually a good movie, yeah.
• 46:00
  Tad Eggleston: We are from France.
• 46:01
  Matt: I don't know.
• 46:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: 5 more minutes.
• 46:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It was… it was actually pretty good. But, like, it's pretty stupid, because it's like, even if you look at the page before, where they have no homosexuals, it's like…
• 46:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There's a hat that's not sticking up like that, so I don't know.
• 46:19
  Matt: Maybe he needs Gnome Viagra.
• 46:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay, december 24th, 11.55pm, is that the name of it?
• 46:28
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 46:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, wow.
• 46:30
  Matt: Yes.
• 46:33
  Tad Eggleston: It's our Christmas orgy.
• 46:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah, it's fuckin'… Got some great, great fucking orgy art there.
• 46:44
  Tad Eggleston: And then we explode.
• 46:46
  Matt: Yep.
• 46:48
  Tad Eggleston: But the champagne bottle.
• 46:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's fine.
• 46:50
  Tad Eggleston: is still intact.
• 46:53
  Matt: Just like the terrorist passports on 9-11.
• 46:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, because he was holding it, and like, apparently, like, his arm, like… No, anyhow.
• 47:03
  Tad Eggleston: It's kind of like Ghostbusters and the flowers Still standing.
• 47:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's so sad. That looks like such a… anyhow.
• 47:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: -Oh.
• 47:18
  Matt: This is the…
• 47:19
  Tad Eggleston: won.
• 47:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, this was the one.
• 47:22
  Matt: Yes.
• 47:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 47:23
  Matt: There's the one, yeah.
• 47:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yup.
• 47:25
  Tad Eggleston: This is the…
• 47:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The one that really, really… Got done, and… oh, yeah.
• 47:32
  Tad Eggleston: Where he taught the, the, the, the…
• 47:35
  Matt: savages.
• 47:35
  Tad Eggleston: The Indian Camps About Christmas.
• 47:38
  Matt: Yup.
• 47:38
  Tad Eggleston: So that he could steal his horse back.
• 47:41
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 47:43
  Tad Eggleston: I… Well…
• 47:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: Texas the Kid.
• 47:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: The Texas King.
• 47:50
  Tad Eggleston: It says, after starting the fire. It doesn't say he burned them out, though it kinda does look like that. But, it, like, for good measure…
• 48:01
  Tad Eggleston: Kitty was okay with him not being there, because the Texas kid had been with her.
• 48:06
  Matt: That's right.
• 48:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, no.
• 48:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I didn't see the plume in the circle initially.
• 48:14
  Tad Eggleston: So I thought maybe he was just starting the cook fire.
• 48:18
  Tad Eggleston: But, no.
• 48:20
  Dillon Gilbertson: Vaguely looks like there's a swastika in the fire there.
• 48:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: What? Seriously?
• 48:28
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, and this fire.
• 48:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, and not fire.
• 48:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:34
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and there's also the… the…
• 48:37
  Tad Eggleston: The… the reference to alcohol, so…
• 48:41
  Matt: Yeah.
• 48:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Cheers!
• 48:42
  Matt: Cause he's more used to it.
• 48:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, they, they make… yeah.
• 48:46
  Matt: Yeah.
• 48:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They make a lot of negative, connotations.
• 48:50
  Tad Eggleston: And somehow, I don't know if it was my least favorite story, because I… Geely didn't like this one.
• 48:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know what I love…
• 48:59
  Matt: I love this car.
• 49:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I was gonna say.
• 49:02
  Matt: Sorry in this issue.
• 49:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: This was… I loved this one, it was amazing.
• 49:06
  Tad Eggleston: It just made me too.
• 49:08
  Tad Eggleston: comfortable.
• 49:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I fucking hate the main character, but I like it.
• 49:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: character, so… He's like, I'm a moron.
• 49:17
  Matt: Yup.
• 49:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna leave my wife with a strange man.
• 49:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: On Christmas.
• 49:26
  Matt: I loved this story.
• 49:30
  Matt: Definitely gets a favorite story for me.
• 49:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I might…
• 49:36
  Tad Eggleston: is… Couldn't get over the sexual assault.
• 49:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 49:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's… Pretty gross. It's true.
• 49:48
  Tad Eggleston: You know, the way it was telegraphed coming.
• 49:51
  Tad Eggleston: the way, like, he's kind of aware of it, but, like, she didn't mention it, so I'm not gonna mention it.
• 50:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yuck.
• 50:04
  Tad Eggleston: The art's gorgeous.
• 50:06
  Matt: That's why I love it.
• 50:08
  Tad Eggleston: And better for the fact that it didn't show the uncomfortable parts.
• 50:12
  Matt: Yeah.
• 50:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That was what I was gonna say, at least they didn't, like… Actually televise it.
• 50:21
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, some of the art is, like, Bernie Wrightson, almost, a little.
• 50:24
  Matt: Yes!
• 50:24
  Tad Eggleston: If it, if it was done.
• 50:27
  Tad Eggleston: style, I would have rewritten some parts.
• 50:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 50:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 50:32
  Matt: Bernie Racing thing? I thought that the whole time I read this.
• 50:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: my mom.
• 50:38
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, at least she kicks his ass at the end. Yup. I mean, I'll give you that.
• 50:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: For a bit… before you…
• 50:47
  Matt: Heals over the lamp. Yeah.
• 50:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Kills her, and then goes after all the… Twisted creatures.
• 50:54
  Tad Eggleston: I think I would have ended it at her kicking.
• 50:57
  Matt: Yeah, that probably would have made it a little better.
• 51:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Boom.
• 51:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, they probably should have, just…
• 51:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that… if he was on the floor like that, and he just said, like, the next scenes had actually been more, like.
• 51:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, just…
• 51:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then something came down, and then, like, you know, just stop of the text, because the text is his stream of conscience.
• 51:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Would have been peak.
• 51:29
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, this one was… was…
• 51:32
  Tad Eggleston: intensely uncomfortable to me, and not in a way that I was ultimately satisfied with. I'm not saying that uncomfortable art is in and of itself.
• 51:43
  Tad Eggleston: always bad, and I don't even know if this one qualifies as one that I think isn't worth making for its uncomfortableness, but it was…
• 51:53
  Tad Eggleston: It's too much for me.
• 51:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: I gotcha.
• 51:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fair enough.
• 51:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm with you.
• 52:01
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 52:03
  Tad Eggleston: Which doesn't mean you guys can't talk about what you like about it, because, like, if you're picking it for best story, you should say more than you've been able to, because I jumped in and… icky.
• 52:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I would…
• 52:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not picking it for Best Story. I did like it. It had a lot of, like, great art. I love the black and white.
• 52:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Or how… how they did the shading and all the black and white work.
• 52:31
  Matt: The inking, the ink works.
• 52:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's just…
• 52:35
  Matt: Phenomenal.
• 52:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And,
• 52:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Aside from, yeah, the really fucked up bit in the middle, the story is fairly interesting, I don't know.
• 52:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think, like, yeah, probably… If there was some form of rewrite where it was less implicative of
• 53:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That… and or, you know, even if they touched on that, and there was less of…
• 53:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The whole historic, oh, we're not gonna talk about this terrible thing that happened.
• 53:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: I knew you.
• 53:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Because you're a woman, And… what have you.
• 53:18
  Matt: Hey, if she doesn't bring it up, you don't have to talk about it.
• 53:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I'm not saying you should force the issue, but it's kind of like…
• 53:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I brought a man into our home and left him here.
• 53:33
  Matt: With you.
• 53:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So… when I went to work, instead of, like, forcing him up to get out, and…
• 53:40
  Matt: Give him a couple of dollars on his way out.
• 53:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 53:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then the man turns out to be a monster, and blah blah blah blah, but… you know.
• 53:51
  Matt: Which they could have seen.
• 53:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, it's pretty clear that he's, like, a little bit…
• 53:58
  Matt: Yeah.
• 53:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: different. And I mean, like…
• 54:01
  Tad Eggleston: Ellen… Is on the clock, and that was the last story.
• 54:07
  Tad Eggleston: So… we should run through picks.
• 54:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I did like the baby robot on the back, though. Just throwing that out there.
• 54:16
  Tad Eggleston: The baby robot on the back.
• 54:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Baby robot!
• 54:21
  Tad Eggleston: Kinda like how there's the baby robot and the, like…
• 54:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The little image of the baby robot.
• 54:28
  Tad Eggleston: Image of the baby robot? Yeah.
• 54:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Alright.
• 54:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 54:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: PEX. What are we doing?
• 54:34
  Tad Eggleston: My ongoings, Rolf.
• 54:36
  Matt: Rolf…
• 54:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Rolf.
• 54:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Is there even another ongoing in this issue?
• 54:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know.
• 54:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't think so.
• 54:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think so.
• 54:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: There, there was something, Part 2.
• 54:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, okay. Oh, no, there was the Cityville 2, but that's not part 2, it's just Cityville 2.
• 54:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, okay.
• 54:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 54:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, then I think it was just wrong.
• 54:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think it was…
• 54:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's just gonna…
• 54:59
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you know… There's only one choice. It was.
• 55:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, that, but it's also worth… worth giving, like, nomination to, right? If, like, there was only one choice and it was terrible, we could just be like, no, we're not giving it any.
• 55:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 55:12
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 55:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.
• 55:14
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 55:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But Rolf was really good.
• 55:18
  Tad Eggleston: I think I've got a tie for my top story between After the Fall and Paupele Paumanu.
• 55:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: My favorite story was actually the… the, off the highway one.
• 55:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: Is it after the fall?
• 55:43
  Tad Eggleston: what was that? Was that Side of the Highway?
• 55:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: highway, something like that? Let me go find it.
• 55:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: On this tablet.
• 55:54
  Matt: On the Side of the Highway by Harold, page 44.
• 55:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go.
• 56:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: On the side of the highway.
• 56:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, it's not really a story, it seems like, but I like… I just like Giants.
• 56:12
  Tad Eggleston: That works?
• 56:12
  Matt: And that's okay. You can do that.
• 56:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'll take that one as my…
• 56:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's fair.
• 56:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Fair story.
• 56:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Favorite images…
• 56:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I still have to decide on that.
• 56:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: My favorite image, slash.
• 56:31
  Matt: I'm going with the one on the contents page, I love that.
• 56:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah. It's good.
• 56:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah. But they mirror on the next page.
• 56:39
  Matt: Yep.
• 56:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That was pretty cool.
• 56:42
  Matt: Yep.
• 56:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Mine's the double page on the first… the intro of Giants, the mountain giant laying down.
• 56:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Doubling down on giants.
• 56:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Double down.
• 56:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: The giant doubled it.
• 56:57
  Tad Eggleston: The, the, the mountain giant for Dylan?
• 57:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 57:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, I might… I might actually go with Craw.
• 57:12
  Matt: Oh, it's your favorite panel?
• 57:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 57:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Crawl.
• 57:17
  Tad Eggleston: That's a good one. I like it.
• 57:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I'm going with the fact.
• 57:21
  Tad Eggleston: cover, though.
• 57:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I totally… I totally get what Matt was saying about it, where I was like, well, it's either Craw… It might have to take Ty. It might be… it's between Craw and in Rolf, the last four panels.
• 57:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah…
• 57:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But it's tied between those two.
• 57:42
  Tad Eggleston: I… Didn't actually wind up noticing until we were starting to record.
• 57:50
  Tad Eggleston: that…
• 57:55
  Tad Eggleston: the… the… the Jet Santa was connected to 8 jet reindeer.
• 58:02
  Tad Eggleston: Rather than just… I saw… I saw, I saw the, like, the… and I didn't realize that they kept the whole reindeer and sled thing going, but with, like…
• 58:12
  Tad Eggleston: Jets.
• 58:14
  Tad Eggleston: And when I noticed that, I just went, oh, that's just too cool.
• 58:19
  Tad Eggleston: And, and it became… My.
• 58:23
  Tad Eggleston: my thing.
• 58:25
  Tad Eggleston: So… Look at that. Dylan, we got you out. Max!
• 58:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Weak!
• 58:30
  Tad Eggleston: out.
• 58:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thanks, y'all.
• 58:31
  Matt: You're after the next page.