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22 Panels Episode #259 - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and then other we E word, elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and across the interwebs.
• 0:16
  Tyler Johnson: from me is, Tad and Phil, did you hear the thwips that time?
• 0:20
  Phil: Those were… those were crisp, crisp.
• 0:22
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 0:23
  Phil: That's like a… it's like a fresh web cartridge right there.
• 0:26
  Tyler Johnson: I thought so, you know what I mean? I was working on it. And I thought we were at school.
• 0:31
  Phil: Slating comics this week.
• 0:33
  Tyler Johnson: That would be funny. An escalating… Emancipating.
• 0:41
  Phil: Tad's giving me the finger right now, so…
• 0:44
  Tyler Johnson: What happened?
• 0:45
  Phil: He doesn't appreciate the,
• 0:47
  Tad Eggleston: Hard on that phrase.
• 0:49
  Phil: so elevated.
• 0:50
  Tyler Johnson: You did.
• 0:50
  Phil: escalate. It is.
• 0:51
  Tyler Johnson: You did, Tad. I love it.
• 0:53
  Phil: Elevate, I'm sure.
• 0:55
  Tyler Johnson: You know what?
• 0:56
  Tad Eggleston: Don't fuck with the tagline.
• 0:57
  Phil: I'm not talking about the tagline.
• 0:59
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, I really appreciate that you made that. It's a good tagline. I've just always struggled with memory, and I don't like to make notes.
• 1:06
  Tad Eggleston: That's why I'm pointing at Phil, because Phil's the one that suggested a different E-word.
• 1:16
  Phil: It's still vertical movement. I'm sorry.
• 1:19
  Tyler Johnson: Congratulations.
• 1:20
  Phil: Escalade is not the better word. Elevate is a better word.
• 1:23
  Tyler Johnson: Escalate, yeah, almost like it's like, this is not good, let's escalate the problem.
• 1:27
  Phil: Right.
• 1:28
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I feel like Kevin Smith while, while, while filming Clerks. Read the words! The words are on the page!
• 1:37
  Phil: Oh, I love how he talked about, he used to, he used to be like, yeah, you know, with the guys I know, I can just, you know, take them behind the camera, smack around a little bit, and tell them what they need to say. But when he had to direct Bruce Willis, he couldn't, he couldn't do that.
• 1:51
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 1:52
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 1:53
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and apparently Bruce Willis was just… weird on set, too. I wonder if it was, like, early in his.
• 1:59
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I'm sure with the dementia.
• 2:01
  Tyler Johnson: Because, listen, guys, my dad is in the early stages of that, and I can account for that… at the time that he was filming the Kevin Smith movie, I can imagine that things were starting to set in, and like Tad said, just weird.
• 2:15
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I, I, I heard, I heard… Kevin, talk about cop-out.
• 2:21
  Tad Eggleston: before that had been announced. I'm like, well, Bruce sounds like a dick, but that also sounds like…
• 2:29
  Tad Eggleston: something's going on. And then it was, like, a year or two later that his dementia was announced. I'm like…
• 2:36
  Phil: I had never put that together before now, so that's.
• 2:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 2:40
  Tyler Johnson: It makes sense, I mean, like.
• 2:41
  Phil: It's a little sad, but, you know.
• 2:43
  Tyler Johnson: It is, yeah, it is.
• 2:44
  Phil: Yeah.
• 2:45
  Tyler Johnson: My stepmom has told me stories about my dad and his bizarre antics and behavior, so I can imagine.
• 2:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah?
• 2:55
  Tad Eggleston: Last in, first out.
• 2:58
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm.
• 2:58
  Tad Eggleston: And that makes for… and also, the things that you do the least of will vanish.
• 3:04
  Tad Eggleston: fastest.
• 3:06
  Tad Eggleston: You know, so yeah, it's… it's…
• 3:09
  Tyler Johnson: It's sad, it's scary. It's scary. I am so concerned about where my dad…
• 3:17
  Tyler Johnson: will eventually end up, right? Will it keep progressing until the end of life? Will it… you know what I mean?
• 3:24
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know.
• 3:26
  Tad Eggleston: Unfortunately, probably.
• 3:28
  Tyler Johnson: Ugh.
• 3:29
  Tad Eggleston: But I'll tell you right now, from my experience.
• 3:36
  Tad Eggleston: There's only one stage that's truly bad if you can accept it.
• 3:42
  Tad Eggleston: Okay? And that is… The period where they know something's wrong, and they keep forgetting what.
• 3:54
  Tyler Johnson: Mmm.
• 3:55
  Tyler Johnson: And you have to remind them?
• 3:56
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 3:57
  Phil: Yeah, that sounds…
• 3:58
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, yeah, kind of, it depends on what makes them most comfortable. I mean, the general industry wisdom is don't remind them.
• 4:08
  Tad Eggleston: there are some people that will just fixate on what is wrong with me, and will actually be calmed when you say, well, you've got Alzheimer's.
• 4:16
  Phil: Yeah.
• 4:17
  Tad Eggleston: That'll make them sad, but at least they'll understand.
• 4:21
  Phil: Huh.
• 4:22
  Tad Eggleston: For as long as they can hold it in their head.
• 4:26
  Tad Eggleston: But then you wind up sometimes having that conversation over and over and over and over and over.
• 4:34
  Tad Eggleston: But until you get to that point, they don't realize anything's wrong, and they're gonna be happiest if you don't point it out to them.
• 4:43
  Tad Eggleston: If you just kind of work around it as much as possible.
• 4:47
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Encourage them to do the… like, that's the period where you need to encourage, like, as much activity, particularly brain activity, as possible.
• 4:56
  Tad Eggleston: Because again, the things you don't do, you lose.
• 5:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. So… so, encourage them to keep making themselves lunch, or encourage them to do anything they enjoy doing.
• 5:08
  Phil: Okay. Yeah, that's good advice.
• 5:10
  Tad Eggleston: actually do it.
• 5:12
  Tad Eggleston: Right, great.
• 5:15
  Tad Eggleston: Like, there are a lot of drugs out there right now, and most of them will pause things for a year.
• 5:23
  Tad Eggleston: That's the best time to be taking them.
• 5:27
  Tad Eggleston: Isn't that early stages, when you can see it and they can't, which is problematic, because you need to talk to them at least enough that they understand that they're slipping.
• 5:39
  Tad Eggleston: to slow down the… because the last thing you want is for them to get stuck in that miserable stage. I mean, way too many times when I was in dementia care, I saw people who were on the drugs that slowed them down for the stage where they knew something was wrong, but didn't know what it was. And I'm sitting there going, you're just prolonging their agony.
• 5:59
  Phil: Ish.
• 6:00
  Phil: That's rough.
• 6:01
  Tad Eggleston: And then there's the stage that's the hardest for the family to really…
• 6:09
  Tad Eggleston: be okay with, and this is where, like, when they hit this stage.
• 6:14
  Tad Eggleston: I don't blame the families who don't come.
• 6:17
  Tad Eggleston: to visit.
• 6:18
  Tad Eggleston: Right? But it's not actually a bad stage, and that's like the end stage, where they've forgotten that they've forgotten.
• 6:25
  Phil: Yeah.
• 6:26
  Tyler Johnson: Mmm, I'm.
• 6:27
  Tad Eggleston: They're just living in the moment.
• 6:29
  Tyler Johnson: They're living in the dream, you know what I mean?
• 6:31
  Tad Eggleston: As long… as long as they're put in an environment where the moments are pretty good.
• 6:37
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, this is where, like.
• 6:40
  Phil: Yeah.
• 6:41
  Tad Eggleston: The quality of their home care, or the quality of whatever facility they're in matters, and the things… and the things that matter are way more
• 6:51
  Tad Eggleston: entertainment and interaction opportunities than… Like, healthcare stuff, because…
• 6:59
  Tad Eggleston: There's also nothing crueler than trying to prolong the life of somebody who's not really themselves anymore.
• 7:10
  Phil: Yeah.
• 7:10
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 7:12
  Tad Eggleston: So, that, that's my, that's my two cents from a decade in dementia care.
• 7:18
  Tyler Johnson: I agree, yep.
• 7:20
  Tad Eggleston: You know, but again, like…
• 7:22
  Tad Eggleston: I'll go a little bit deeper, like, for that end stage, like, if you can accept them and meet them at that point, that can be one of the happiest points, because they're always having a good time. They might not remember who you are, but they're happy to have a good time with you.
• 7:39
  Phil: that's one of the only… it was, like, I forget the exact relation to them, but it was, like, distant family member, great-aunt, or somebody.
• 7:47
  Phil: when I was a kid and we were visiting relatives that we only saw the one time, you know, my dad was like, oh, she has Alzheimer's or dementia. So… so you can talk to her like normal, and it's fine, but she's not… she's never gonna remember you. She's never gonna remember who you are, like.
• 8:02
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 8:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 8:03
  Tad Eggleston: But then the other thing is, if you show up.
• 8:08
  Tad Eggleston: and you can't handle it, if you show up and seeing them like that makes you sad, or you wind up crying, or you're trying to get them to remember things that they just won't remember, that sort of thing, you can fuck up their day. Yeah. You can fuck up their week.
• 8:24
  Phil: Yeah.
• 8:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, for sure.
• 8:26
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, again, like, I used to… I mean…
• 8:31
  Phil: I went over…
• 8:32
  Tad Eggleston: only say it to family members if I needed to reassure them if they weren't coming as often, like, if they were going, I know I should visit more, right?
• 8:41
  Phil: For some reason…
• 8:42
  Tad Eggleston: But I'd say it to my staff members a lot, like, look, you're complaining that their family doesn't visit them, but you were also really, really frustrated about the 48 hours after the last time their family visited. Maybe…
• 8:56
  Tad Eggleston: Those are connected.
• 8:59
  Phil: I was just about… not to… not to derail completely, but do you have a best, comics about dementia? Have you ever… have you ever read a good one?
• 9:06
  Tad Eggleston: There have been, there have been a few good. I like, Wrinkles from Self Made Hero. I just saw there's another one that I… I just heard about that I need to read, and I don't remember the name of it.
• 9:19
  Phil: The only one I can think of is there's actually one of the later issues in Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated run.
• 9:26
  Phil: That was about dementia. It was, like, the maze that Bruce and Damien were going through was, like, Dr. Dedalis, I think it was? And… and it was, like, a representation of his mind and how he had dementia.
• 9:40
  Phil: All that kind of stuff. Gotcha. It was a good one. It was a really good issue.
• 9:43
  Tad Eggleston: But Tyler is on the clock, so he should start moving on a little bit, particularly because there's happier news! The Milwaukee Brewers are up two games to none in the World Series. What's more is…
• 10:00
  Tad Eggleston: I almost hope… That there's drama, and it goes more than 4 games, because, like… if…
• 10:12
  Tad Eggleston: I can already feel that this could be one of those sweeps.
• 10:17
  Tad Eggleston: That gets treated like… Ew.
• 10:21
  Tad Eggleston: Was one team dominated the other, when it was really just…
• 10:25
  Tad Eggleston: one team out-gridded and caught the brakes a little bit better than the other. Like, historically, everybody looks back at… I mean, at least everybody in Chicago, I don't know how many people outside of Chicago will remember it, but the 2005 World Series between the White Sox and the…
• 10:42
  Tad Eggleston: the… the Astros was a White Sox sweep.
• 10:46
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, they won the 4 games by a total of five runs. One of the games was a 14-inning affair, the longest in World Series history at the time. One of the games was a 1-0 shutout. You know, they were 4
• 11:06
  Tad Eggleston: REALLY good games.
• 11:08
  Tad Eggleston: that all just happened to fall the White Sox direction. And I can already kind of feel like… like the Brewers took an early lead in Game 1, and managed to…
• 11:18
  Tad Eggleston: hold back.
• 11:20
  Tad Eggleston: the Rays to win 3-2, and then last night, they actually fell behind 5- or 4-0 before they even came to bat, and clawed their bay back.
• 11:33
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, and, and, and… Took a 5-4 lead in the 8th, and held it for…
• 11:41
  Tad Eggleston: an inning to win the game. So, like, Really, really good games.
• 11:46
  Tad Eggleston: and I just hope the narrative doesn't…
• 11:49
  Tad Eggleston: become that, like, the Brewers dominated the Rays, because it's just not true.
• 11:54
  Tyler Johnson: Anyway, I hope…
• 11:55
  Phil: That's how you know people… that's how you'll know if someone hasn't watched the games, if that's what they say.
• 12:00
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and also, also how much they pay attention to, like, the intricacies of baseball, rather than just the…
• 12:08
  Tad Eggleston: final score.
• 12:09
  Tyler Johnson: the final score. Yeah, because dominated doesn't mean just one, you know what I mean?
• 12:14
  Tad Eggleston: Right, I mean… It's got some basic…
• 12:17
  Phil: The wall is…
• 12:18
  Tad Eggleston: And I think it's because baseball is such a… different sport?
• 12:24
  Tad Eggleston: In terms of the… The amount of luck that's involved.
• 12:30
  Tad Eggleston: You know, there is a real amount of luck involved.
• 12:33
  Phil: Interesting.
• 12:33
  Tad Eggleston: You can't control Anything along… around… along the edges, right?
• 12:41
  Tad Eggleston: You know, the difference between a line out to third and a double can be inches, and like…
• 12:51
  Tad Eggleston: the batter doesn't get to decide whether or not those inches are… you know what I mean?
• 12:57
  Tad Eggleston: I can tell you guys are loving this. I'll get this slide done, and we'll move on.
• 13:06
  Phil: I was just about to say, I was just.
• 13:07
  Tyler Johnson: I just have…
• 13:08
  Phil: My favorite…
• 13:08
  Tyler Johnson: I have nothing to add. I'm not a baseball aficionado.
• 13:12
  Phil: Except for that one… that one issue of Uncanny X-Men where they play baseball. That's, like, my favorite baseball moment.
• 13:17
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, what?
• 13:18
  Phil: cross.
• 13:18
  Tyler Johnson: What about the Clark and Bruce issue? Remember the Clark and Bruce issue where they play baseball with their ladies?
• 13:24
  Phil: That was a fun one. That was a nice one.
• 13:27
  Tad Eggleston: There's been a lot of good baseball and comics.
• 13:30
  Phil: Pretty sure, I just haven't read most of it.
• 13:31
  Tad Eggleston: We have the Baseball and Comics Roundtable coming up in a little bit more than a week on 225.
• 13:37
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, really? That's awesome.
• 13:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, we do. But what I was saying is, like, almost every other sport, It's not inconceivable.
• 13:48
  Tad Eggleston: That a team could go undefeated.
• 13:53
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 13:53
  Phil: Maybe basketball. I don't think that there's.
• 13:55
  Tad Eggleston: The hockey and basketball seasons are a little bit too long.
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: to pull it off, but, like, the Bulls went 70-12 once.
• 14:04
  Phil: Yeah.
• 14:05
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's, like, absolutely unheard of.
• 14:09
  Tad Eggleston: Like, the greatest baseball teams of all time win 2 games out of 3.
• 14:18
  Tad Eggleston: You know what I mean? That's just the type of sport it is.
• 14:22
  Phil: Oh yeah.
• 14:23
  Tad Eggleston: So, like, winning 4 games in a row… is something…
• 14:31
  Tad Eggleston: It's not the same, like, automatic domination of…
• 14:35
  Tad Eggleston: Of a football team that wins four games in a row.
• 14:39
  Phil: You know what I mean?
• 14:40
  Tad Eggleston: So, anyway…
• 14:42
  Tad Eggleston: Back to comics! Publishers Weekly has added a comics category to their Book Life Prize, the Book Life Prize.
• 14:49
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, that's cool.
• 14:50
  Tad Eggleston: Ew.
• 14:51
  Tad Eggleston: Is… it's $100 to enter, though…
• 14:57
  Tad Eggleston: The beat has a code for $20 off right now.
• 15:01
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 15:03
  Tad Eggleston: But… Importantly, just your… Entrance.
• 15:11
  Tad Eggleston: actually get… you not only become eligible for a $5,000 brand prize, or a $1,000
• 15:27
  Tad Eggleston: a $1,000 da-da-da category prize, I think?
• 15:33
  Tad Eggleston: But… Finalists get an industry blurb.
• 15:40
  Tad Eggleston: A publisher's Weekly featured, dedicated coverage.
• 15:44
  Tad Eggleston: Bringing booksellers, librarians, and industry inter…
• 15:48
  Tad Eggleston: and a $1,000 Book Baby ad package of targeted Facebook and Instagram campaigns to boost their book's visibility.
• 15:56
  Tad Eggleston: all entries.
• 15:59
  Tad Eggleston: Get it.
• 16:00
  Tad Eggleston: A professional evaluation written by Publisher's Weekly Reviewer, complete with numerical scoring and detailed feedback. So, to a certain extent, you could consider it
• 16:12
  Tad Eggleston: $100 that you're paying for a professional critic's report.
• 16:16
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there's nobody more professional in the industry right now
• 16:20
  Tad Eggleston: When it comes to books in general, the publishers weekly, and they do a really good job with comics as well.
• 16:27
  Tad Eggleston: With the possibility to get it back and more if it turns out you're one of the best submissions.
• 16:32
  Tad Eggleston: So, so it's, it's cool that they added a, a… Illustrated.
• 16:41
  Tad Eggleston: Tier that includes comics.
• 16:44
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 16:44
  Phil: Yeah.
• 16:45
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 16:46
  Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been? Phil? Do you really want to move to Ohio?
• 16:50
  Phil: Yeah.
• 16:51
  Phil: I mean, I know that Ohio is not.
• 16:53
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 16:54
  Phil: I want to be part of the swing that…
• 16:58
  Tad Eggleston: So, next important question.
• 16:59
  Phil: Huh.
• 17:00
  Tad Eggleston: Can you move before… next Tuesday, and what are their voter registration rules?
• 17:07
  Phil: Unfortunately, it's not too… it's too late for me to vote in Ohio, but I can at least cast one in Tennessee right before… we actually… that was… Spoilers for my walk, but we got an apartment.
• 17:19
  Phil: So… Yeah.
• 17:22
  Tad Eggleston: T.
• 17:22
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I'm giving the two thumbs up right now.
• 17:25
  Tad Eggleston: Tennessee does also need your vote, but
• 17:28
  Phil: And unfortunately, I only get one, unlike some rich people.
• 17:32
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, holy shit.
• 17:34
  Phil: Yeah.
• 17:34
  Tad Eggleston: Did Vivek Ramaswamy stoop low this week?
• 17:37
  Phil: Yeah. And then double…
• 17:39
  Tad Eggleston: down on it, and double down on it some more.
• 17:42
  Tad Eggleston: And… and while there have been…
• 17:45
  Tad Eggleston: a number of Republicans that have actually managed to find
• 17:50
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I want to call it a spine, since I think that they're much more willing to denounce brown people anyway, and, you know, Vivek has never been their favorite Republican just because his name is Vivek.
• 18:08
  Tyler Johnson: I wonder if his last name is more of a problem.
• 18:11
  Tad Eggleston: Probably, but I want to give him as little attention as possible on this show right now, so I don't even feel like saying it.
• 18:21
  Tyler Johnson: All I know.
• 18:22
  Tad Eggleston: But of course, a fellow Ohioan, J.D. Vance, who spoke.
• 18:29
  Phil: Just be a…
• 18:30
  Tad Eggleston: party leader, rather than condemning the… Absolutely.
• 18:39
  Tad Eggleston: to… Based.
• 18:42
  Tad Eggleston: Like… We have seen some
• 18:45
  Tad Eggleston: Awful political ads in my lifetime.
• 18:48
  Tad Eggleston: And for that matter, we're seeing some other.
• 18:52
  Tad Eggleston: Awful political ads right now.
• 18:54
  Phil: Yep.
• 18:55
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I caught a couple of the ones getting run against Adam Hamilton in Kansas, and I'm sitting there going.
• 19:01
  Tad Eggleston: He's, you know, essentially, like, one member of his church that he had
• 19:08
  Tad Eggleston: some sort of interaction with, was arrested for pedophilia, and because he somehow didn't…
• 19:15
  Tad Eggleston: know about it, and wasn't the one that… that turned him into the police. He supports pedophilia.
• 19:24
  Phil: I was just about to say.
• 19:24
  Tad Eggleston: And I'm sitting there going.
• 19:27
  Phil: Let's, let's, let's not, you know, like…
• 19:31
  Tad Eggleston: And man…
• 19:31
  Phil: longest!
• 19:32
  Tad Eggleston: The man has a mega… the man has a megachurch.
• 19:38
  Phil: I mean, it's… it's more of a.
• 19:39
  Tad Eggleston: He's got a congregation of 40,000. And beyond that, you're a fucking Republican.
• 19:49
  Phil: It's about sex.
• 19:50
  Phil: That's the last party that gets to say anything about that.
• 19:53
  Tad Eggleston: What?
• 19:53
  Phil: Like, it's ridiculous.
• 19:54
  Tad Eggleston: You've had a Speaker of the House go to…
• 19:58
  Phil: Or kale for pets.
• 19:59
  Tad Eggleston: I feel ya. And O! And O!
• 20:03
  Tad Eggleston: Will you vote to… to release the Epstein files? If what we suspect is in them about your dear Commander-in-Chief, will you vote to impeach him? Shut the fuck up!
• 20:19
  Tad Eggleston: And even with that sort of thing, like, the ad that Vivek
• 20:25
  Tad Eggleston: Not only ran, but after it leaked, went ahead and took credit for, and doubled down on it, and spent $4 million in…
• 20:34
  Tad Eggleston: Spreading it.
• 20:38
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, seriously, the fact that it leaked was his way out.
• 20:44
  Phil: I bet.
• 20:45
  Tad Eggleston: I all but guarantee that it was leaked by a staff member that was hoping it would never get tied to the campaign.
• 20:55
  Tad Eggleston: Because that's… I mean, apparently, like, he's having campaign events get canceled by the venues.
• 21:03
  Phil: That's fantastic. Let's keep that trend going.
• 21:06
  Tad Eggleston: What's really fantastic is he's on a bus tour with other Ohio Republicans.
• 21:10
  Phil: That's an interesting bus, I bet.
• 21:15
  Tad Eggleston: Well, particularly because their events are getting canceled at the same time!
• 21:22
  Tad Eggleston: Wow! Anyway, we have a new catalog!
• 21:26
  Tyler Johnson: Usually.
• 21:26
  Tad Eggleston: orders are due November 26th.
• 21:30
  Tad Eggleston: Phil, talk to me… talk to me about Blue Samurai.
• 21:34
  Phil: Blue Eyes. Yeah, first up, that is…
• 21:37
  Phil: you know, spin-off from the hit, animated series on Netflix, Blue Eye Samurai Cry of the Yure number 1 from Kay Perkins and Aviv Orr over at Dark Horse, when both her gender and her mixed race are revealed to be
• 21:53
  Phil: To the samurai Daisuke, a cruel client of the Swordmaker, young Mizu is forced to confront her vulnerability. She escapes to the woods, but finds little safety there, fighting and fleeing as Daisuke pursues her. Lost and hunted, confused and ashamed, Mizu stumbles upon Sachiko, a wronged housemaid who sympathizes with Mizu's plight. Can both put aside their fears and suspicions long enough to help each other?
• 22:18
  Phil: Find out after the final order cutoff of December 14th, and in stores February 3rd.
• 22:25
  Phil: I'm excited for this next one.
• 22:27
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it looks really good. This is BPRD declassified from Mike Mignola and Mike Norton. The search for a missing aerospace engineer leads BPRD agent Susan Yang, and…
• 22:40
  Tyler Johnson: Victor Kossler on a top-secret mission to Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 22:46
  Tyler Johnson: Henry Roush was overseas working on a classified government project before he mysteriously vanished. The supernatural circumstances surrounding his disappearance means the BPRD
• 22:59
  Tyler Johnson: has been called in to investigate, but the agents soon discover that there's much more to be… to this missing person case than meets the eye. This is from Dark Horse, with a final order cutoff of January 11th, and will be in my store on February 17th.
• 23:17
  Phil: And real quick, also right in that is Chris Robertson.
• 23:21
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, did I forget that one? Yeah.
• 23:23
  Phil: Yeah, just wanted to, you know, make sure we credit him, too.
• 23:26
  Tad Eggleston: My fault. He's been doing it.
• 23:27
  Phil: Cowboy stuff for a while.
• 23:28
  Tad Eggleston: Sometimes it doesn't always make it into…
• 23:33
  Phil: Don't blame the cops.
• 23:33
  Tad Eggleston: Copy-past.
• 23:34
  Phil: Yeah.
• 23:35
  Tad Eggleston: Well, they don't put all of the names in the spreadsheet.
• 23:38
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 23:40
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't always…
• 23:42
  Tad Eggleston: go back and do as good of a check as I should. I do want to point out, we know of Yvor. We've had him on.
• 23:50
  Phil: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Tad Eggleston: waves.
• 23:51
  Phil: Her?
• 23:53
  Tad Eggleston: No, Aviv was the gentleman, Aaron.
• 23:55
  Phil: Oh! I thought…
• 23:57
  Tad Eggleston: I thought, or is it…
• 23:58
  Phil: No, I thought… I thought Aviv was the artist.
• 24:01
  Phil: Oh, yeah. I believe so, yeah.
• 24:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 24:05
  Phil: Yeah, she was a great artist, and that's really exciting to see.
• 24:08
  Tad Eggleston: Mark.
• 24:08
  Phil: on BPRD.
• 24:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 24:11
  Tad Eggleston: So, no, on Blue Eye Samurai.
• 24:13
  Phil: Oh, Blue Eye Samurai, right, right, getting everything mixed up.
• 24:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and I'm like, I recognize that name, so I literally had to go, like, search.
• 24:25
  Phil: Your back catalog.
• 24:27
  Tad Eggleston: I had to search the back catalog to go, oh, okay, yeah, I do know that name.
• 24:33
  Tad Eggleston: So, Dr. Sin, number 1, for Michael E. Uzlan and Sebastian… Cabral at Oney Press,
• 24:44
  Tad Eggleston: Some rebellions never die. Traitor. Rogue, Revenant, Rebel.
• 24:49
  Tad Eggleston: He's been known by many names, and now modern masters Michael Ozlan and Stephen S. Denite join riveting artist Sebastian Cabral to chronicle the fiery origin of the once-forgotten revolutionary who first watered Liberty's tree with the blood of tyrants.
• 25:05
  Tad Eggleston: Once…
• 25:06
  Tad Eggleston: The Reverend Dr. Christopher Sinn waged a guerrilla insurgency across 18th century England. Justice for the cruel deaths of his family at the hands of King George III and the rest of England's persecuted and oppressed.
• 25:18
  Tad Eggleston: Hidden behind a terrifying mask to keep his true identity concealed, Sin's rebellion soon became legend, inspiring copyright uprisings across the English countryside as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
• 25:30
  Tad Eggleston: became a beacon of resistance against the nation's mad monarch. But that's where history's chronicle of the scarecrow's reign is about to go violently, terribly wrong.
• 25:40
  Tad Eggleston: Now, Dr. Sinn has been captured, tried and condemned for his crimes, forced into death by exile and the British Empire's most inhospitable outpost.
• 25:51
  Tad Eggleston: The American penal colony known as Georgia.
• 25:55
  Tad Eggleston: Sin has found himself imprisoned alongside a hardscrabble crew of the king's most notorious undesirables. With a mismatched team of allies fueled by the same burning vengeance for justice at his side, can England's most dangerous revolutionary.
• 26:08
  Tad Eggleston: Finally, bring the Empire down in an inferno of roaring flames. And could this backwater collection of pestilence-ridden colonies, called America, provide the spark?
• 26:18
  Tad Eggleston: The year is 1775, and Dr. Sin's war is about to begin.
• 26:24
  Tad Eggleston: A final order cutoff of… November 30th, and stores on January 6th.
• 26:32
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, next up we have…
• 26:33
  Tad Eggleston: graphic novels.
• 26:34
  Tyler Johnson: Graphic novels, The Ballad of X-Ray and Coco, from Nicole J, Nicole J…
• 26:42
  Tyler Johnson: let's see, George's, and from Candlewick.
• 26:47
  Tyler Johnson: Zena, nicknamed X-Ray, loves just one thing in this world, her pet chicken and best friend, Manicotti. So when her mother's new boyfriend threatens to get rid of Manicotti, there's just one thing for X-Ray to do. Fake her own death and live life on the run with Manicotti.
• 27:03
  Tyler Johnson: As one does. But when the two get separated in the wilds of Oregon, X-Ray thinks all is lost, until she meets Coco, that is. Together, they'll go on an adventure that will see them crashing funerals, playing talent shows, fighting bullies, and above all…
• 27:19
  Tyler Johnson: Saving manicotti. This is, again, from Candlewick, final order cut off December 21st, and will be in shops January 19th.
• 27:33
  Tad Eggleston: Alrighty, I'm assuming that the pause is, I'm next. Say their name!
• 27:36
  Phil: beans.
• 27:37
  Tad Eggleston: Pan Cook.
• 27:38
  Tyler Johnson: Same a name.
• 27:40
  Tad Eggleston: Kids have made their voices heard throughout the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements, and this absorbing introduction to that history, told through the fictional story of a young activist, will galvanize the next generation of changemakers. When a woman in town is shot by a police officer, Sage's social studies teacher decides to start a black history unit called Say Their Names.
• 28:01
  Tad Eggleston: He tells the class the stories of the Civil Rights Movement most
• 28:05
  Tad Eggleston: movement's most influential figures, and he tells the stories of various Black people who were killed by police, and the youth-led movements that emerge as a result. While listening, Sage becomes more and more convinced that she needs to take part in her local protest. She needs to do something.
• 28:21
  Tad Eggleston: About the injustice in her town.
• 28:24
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of December 14th in stores on January 12th.
• 28:32
  Phil: Alright, next up, there is Viridian Book 1, Makes His Mark from Roland Bowles at IDW. Viridian V. James is an average middle schooler with a habit of drawing comics and cartoons on the back of his worksheets. When another kid in class finds these comics, he's nervous, but… it turns out they're great! His classmate shares them with friends and encourages Viridian to make more.
• 28:53
  Phil: Quickly growing more confident, V decides the best way to get his work out there is to enter a contest to become the official cartoonist for the school newspaper. How hard could it be?
• 29:02
  Phil: But he won't be the only one gunning for the job, and he's got a lot to learn about making comics. It's gonna have a final order cutoff of December 21st in stores January 26th.
• 29:13
  Phil: Next up, some collections, starting with Arcadia, Volume 1 from Inaki Miranda and Roy Miranda over at Ignition Press. In a future where humanity has vanished, a new form of life rises from the ruins. The serants, artificial beings born from mysterious technology, chrysalises known as superdragons. Each one carries a pearl, a biotechnological core that holds their consciousness, their memories.
• 29:38
  Phil: their soul. Halou is a seront born late, emerging from a forgotten silo. He is rescued from destruction by Weedy, an eccentric scavenger obsessed with the remnants of the past and the search for meaning in their own existence. Soon after, Halou meets Fix, a practical, strong, and luminous young mechanic who awakens something deep within him.
• 29:58
  Phil: Together, in a world of ruins and dangers, they search for meaning, connection, and a reason to endure. Arcadia is a work of existential science fiction, profoundly human, where memory and love endure as a precious mystery that refuses to fade. A story that explores what makes us human when humanity is no longer there to tell us the answer.
• 30:17
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cutoff of December 14th in stores January 19th.
• 30:24
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, concrete stars over sand from Paul Chadwick, out on Dark Horse. Concrete has entered the desert and not come back. Larry and Maureen are frantic. Reports that he is wandering the nearby…
• 30:39
  Tyler Johnson: Excuse me. Arid mountains covered with blood attacking people. Concrete, lightning struck, confused, roams a frightening world he can't understand. Roars tear across the sky. A strange globe rises. His body is sheathed in stone. He thinks he is being hunted.
• 30:59
  Tyler Johnson: People are a threat. His journey back to life and his friend's dire search against a looming deadline is as strange and tense as any concrete story ever told. This will be, final order cut off December 7th in shops March 16th.
• 31:15
  Tyler Johnson: You guys, I am reading this in issues, and it has been really good, so definitely check out this, version of it.
• 31:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 31:25
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 31:25
  Phil: I, want to read some content.
• 31:27
  Tad Eggleston: Just brutal! From Dennis Hopeless and Brown Revel at Ignition Press, will their ancient mortal enemies return, reunite the fractured Savage family, or doom the Earth? In this Mitchells vs. the Machines meets Vox Machina saga?
• 31:45
  Tad Eggleston: Jordan Savage is a normal 16-year-old kid, barely holding it together after his parents' recent divorce. His twin sister, Winter, is the opposite in every way, including how she is coping with the changes in the Savage family's lives. And those changes are bigger than they could even imagine. They're about to find out that the boring.
• 32:05
  Tad Eggleston: Bickering parents they've lived with.
• 32:08
  Tad Eggleston: this whole time are secretly ancient, death-dealing barbarian warriors. They have been living quietly for 3,000 years, having defeated their nemesis, the evil sorcerer Lord Farklar, the fleshless, leaving the world safe for humanity.
• 32:25
  Tyler Johnson: Did you say Park Quad?
• 32:27
  Tad Eggleston: Or car.
• 32:28
  Tad Eggleston: Only now, Farklar has returned, and his army of hideous Mordarchs are about to devour Des Moines. Now, the savages are piled in Mom's minivan, headed to Iowa to wage war against black magic Armageddon.
• 32:42
  Tad Eggleston: Jordan is freaking out. Winter thinks it's all pretty cool, and no one is sure if mom and dad can get along
• 32:52
  Tad Eggleston: Long enough to save civilization from destruction.
• 32:57
  Tad Eggleston: just brutal.
• 32:58
  Tad Eggleston: Is an action-packed thriller ride that stacks the trauma of family against the challenge of saving the world.
• 33:07
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of December 7th in stores on January 12th.
• 33:14
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 33:16
  Tyler Johnson: Can I do final order?
• 33:17
  Phil: I got cut off.
• 33:19
  Tyler Johnson: Who wants it? You go, you go. Carl Banks, or Carl Barks, God. God damn it! Carl Barks, pencils and Storyboards, King Scrooge I, and Other Stories, the studio edition, from Phanographic, out December 2nd.
• 33:34
  Tyler Johnson: The Complete Quarter Maltese Volume 1, The Ballad of the Salt Sea from Hugo Pratt, December 2nd.
• 33:41
  Tyler Johnson: Fantasy from Johan Kevich from Mad Cave Maverick, November 25th.
• 33:46
  Tyler Johnson: Fire, Hideko Muzuno from Uncivilized, December 2nd. The Forgotten Divine from Mark Russell, Russ Braun from Atahoy, December 2nd.
• 33:57
  Tyler Johnson: The Fugitive X-Force from Tim Seeley, Athila.
• 34:02
  Tyler Johnson: Fabio, out on Marvel, December 9th. Lancer from Mike Costa and Jake Baker from Bad Idea, December 2nd. Navigating With You, Volume 2 from Jeremy Whitley, Felia Hanakata from Mad Cave Maverick on November 25th.
• 34:19
  Tyler Johnson: Prometheus Graft, the Slayings at Death's End from George Northie and Caitlin Yarsky from Onei on December 9th, and Vampire Hunter D… Vampire Hunter D, Fortress of Blood from Chris Condon, and Haidyuki Kit…
• 34:37
  Tyler Johnson: Kikuchi, Felipe Andrade from Dark Horse on December 16th.
• 34:43
  Tyler Johnson: Crowdfunding!
• 34:44
  Phil: Next up, crowdfunding, we've got Fever Dream, a cursed comic book by Becky Clunan, and Kinetic Collectibles on Kickstarter through October 29th. Dracula, Book 4, The Undead from Matt Wagner and Kelly Jones over at Orlok Press on Kickstarter through October 31st, appropriate. The Tezuka God of Manga documentary from Jason Cohn on Kickstarter through November 13th.
• 35:08
  Phil: And Space Hell, a, in-space horror one-shot from Adam P. Knave, DJ Kirkbride, and Felipe Sobrero, and Frank,
• 35:19
  Phil: Chekovic on Kickstarter through November 20th, as well as launching soon. Keep an eye out for Sync, number 18, Pineapple, from the Maniacs John Leaves and Alex Cormac and Comics Tribe, which will be on Kickstarter.
• 35:34
  Phil: Tad, what's on Humble Boy?
• 35:35
  Tad Eggleston: Bumblebuddle, we've got…
• 35:38
  Tyler Johnson: I just bought this one, by the way, and I'm buying it in the, in the, giant, physical editions, too.
• 35:45
  Phil: Committed.
• 35:46
  Tad Eggleston: We have the,
• 35:47
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 35:48
  Tad Eggleston: Kurt Busiek's Astro City, the 30th anniversary, $18 for 22 items for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, has been extended through October 27th. Totally worth the money, all of Astro City, some Aerosmiths, some… some… I forget what else, but good stuff.
• 36:04
  Tyler Johnson: It's good. You guys, like I said, I'm buying this in the Metro Book format, and I bought this whole Humble Bundle. I love Astro City.
• 36:13
  Tad Eggleston: Equally good, maybe even better, 50 essential phantographic titles! $25 for 51 items for the Freedom of Press Foundation has been extended through October 29th?
• 36:25
  Tad Eggleston: Also awesome, and we'll be talking about some of the books that you can get from it, The Dark Places and Endless Night, Sheer Horror from IDW, $18 for 33 items, including all of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and All of Lock and Key for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, has been extended through October 27th.
• 36:45
  Tad Eggleston: all-star, creator-owned comics from Distillery. Distillery is just rolling out the amazing stuff, and right now you can get, for $18, you can get 41 of their…
• 36:57
  Tad Eggleston: They're already released titles from the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, or for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation through October 29th.
• 37:07
  Tad Eggleston: Dynamite has a Trick or Treat bundle, $18 for 98 items.
• 37:12
  Tad Eggleston: for the HERO Initiative through November 5th.
• 37:16
  Tad Eggleston: New this week, and both very impressive.
• 37:22
  Tad Eggleston: The EC Archives, Tales from the Crypt, and Other Stories from Dark Horse EC. $18 for 19 items for the Freedom of Read Foundation, November 10th. Both Dark Horse and Phanographics have been…
• 37:36
  Tad Eggleston: collecting EC. Fanographics collects them by…
• 37:43
  Phil: Artist?
• 37:44
  Tad Eggleston: artist, generally, and does them in black and white, and they're beautiful, and I love them. EC, er, not EC, Dark Horse collects them by title.
• 37:55
  Phil: Mmm.
• 37:59
  Tad Eggleston: in retouched color, which some people are not happy about, but I…
• 38:05
  Tad Eggleston: I… I go back and forth. I don't know if I truly believe that the faded color that's what you can get if you don't recolor it is what was intended.
• 38:18
  Phil: We'll need a time machine to figure that out.
• 38:19
  Tad Eggleston: Right. So, so yeah, the EC Archives from Dark Horse are collections of the issues, so you get to see them as they were…
• 38:29
  Tad Eggleston: Originally.
• 38:29
  Phil: That's really interesting.
• 38:30
  Tad Eggleston: presented.
• 38:31
  Phil: That's pretty cool.
• 38:31
  Tad Eggleston: and in color. So they're, they're actually nice companion pieces to each other. So this is, this will definitely be something that I will be picking up,
• 38:41
  Tad Eggleston: as will possibly, the Blue Lock Perfect Shop Bundle from Codansha, $30 for 45 items for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation through November 13th. It includes all of the currently available Blue Lock, 38 volumes, the 7 volume
• 39:01
  Tad Eggleston: prequel series, and, and I've never seen this before, a code for Cadansha.us.
• 39:09
  Tad Eggleston: for when Volume 39 releases. Interesting. So, like, you're buying this, actually buys you a unreleased book as well, which is kind of cool.
• 39:21
  Tad Eggleston: So, anyway… I didn't…
• 39:25
  Tyler Johnson: Bloom.
• 39:25
  Tad Eggleston: syncbook.
• 39:27
  Tyler Johnson: You did a lot of amazing books.
• 39:29
  Tad Eggleston: 3 of them.
• 39:30
  Tyler Johnson: Tad?
• 39:30
  Tad Eggleston: Was… was not possible this week.
• 39:33
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, 9 is okay, but 10 is too many.
• 39:39
  Tyler Johnson: You have a tenth one for honorable mentions, is all.
• 39:43
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I have lots of honorable mentions, and some of them, shocked didn't make the…
• 39:52
  Phil: Do you…
• 39:53
  Tad Eggleston: But I actually have 10 books. I actually have 10 books in the top 9, because…
• 39:58
  Phil: Oh, snap!
• 40:00
  Tyler Johnson: I'm king.
• 40:00
  Tad Eggleston: Only got one spot on the,
• 40:03
  Tad Eggleston: on the list, even though he wrote two amazing books this week. Six of Us, number two, just… anybody not reading Six of Us, this is just… it's like a murder mystery about…
• 40:16
  Tad Eggleston: like… a friends-type cast.
• 40:21
  Tad Eggleston: 10 years after the show.
• 40:24
  Tyler Johnson: Ended.
• 40:25
  Tad Eggleston: And did… er…
• 40:27
  Tyler Johnson: That's cool.
• 40:27
  Tad Eggleston: number of years after the show ended. So good. So good.
• 40:33
  Tad Eggleston: Also, it was a great week for graphic novels this week, which is why, like…
• 40:40
  Tad Eggleston: I had to go long, because number 2 is gonna be Nate Powell's Diana. A little bit of time traveling, little bit of…
• 40:49
  Tad Eggleston: timey-wimey shit, but also ties together, come together, and fall through.
• 40:55
  Tyler Johnson: me, whimy.
• 40:56
  Tad Eggleston: just…
• 40:57
  Tyler Johnson: Wow.
• 40:57
  Tad Eggleston: just an amazing book. You can listen to the conversation that Dan and I had with Nate Powell, already.
• 41:06
  Tad Eggleston: Dracula Book 3, The Count from Matt Wagner and Kelly Jones. This is the one that, like, most directly relates to the novel. Like, what they've been doing with these four books are… are essentially telling…
• 41:20
  Tad Eggleston: Everything that's hinted at, and…
• 41:23
  Phil: And…
• 41:23
  Tad Eggleston: And from the Count's point of view, from Dracula's
• 41:28
  Tad Eggleston: point of view, whereas the novel is epistolary, so…
• 41:32
  Tad Eggleston: It's… it's a series of letters, etc. Newspaper articles… Documents.
• 41:39
  Phil: That sort of thing.
• 41:39
  Tad Eggleston: What they're doing is, like, taking some of history and mostly from the book, and that's, you know, so the first two volumes are mostly things that were alluded to
• 41:53
  Tad Eggleston: in the book, and the count is… is when Dracula's getting to London.
• 41:59
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, some of the brides were, you know, he had the solicitor come out to meet him.
• 42:06
  Tad Eggleston: to arrange for the trip of London, but this is… the count is that Dracula getting to London and starting his…
• 42:13
  Phil: It also makes me wonder how you would do an epistolary graphic novel.
• 42:17
  Phil: That is subtly interesting to me.
• 42:21
  Tad Eggleston: Well, go read letters to Joe.
• 42:23
  Phil: Oh, okay, yeah, there we go.
• 42:26
  Phil: I'll write that down.
• 42:26
  Tad Eggleston: Siraki, Joe Siraki, and and, Kelly Williams. Okay.
• 42:37
  Tad Eggleston: It's been a while since I read it, so I don't know… I know that it's based on letters that Joe's grandfather wrote his grandmother.
• 42:47
  Tad Eggleston: from World War II. I forget exactly how epistolary they… they went with…
• 42:54
  Tad Eggleston: the book itself, because it's been a while since I read it.
• 42:57
  Tad Eggleston: But that's what immediately pops into my head, because I know it was derived from actual letters.
• 43:06
  Phil: Very interesting.
• 43:07
  Tad Eggleston: The Forever Home, number 2 from Christian Ward and Sammy Cavello was amazing, as was Forged, number 14, from Greg… Greg Rucka, Eric Troutman, and Mike Henderson. The Last Drive, number 3, this book is so… Tyler, are you reading The Last Drive?
• 43:23
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, driver, the last driver, you mean?
• 43:25
  Tad Eggleston: Last driver, yeah.
• 43:26
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Yep.
• 43:27
  Tad Eggleston: Fuck, man!
• 43:29
  Tyler Johnson: It's crazy.
• 43:29
  Tad Eggleston: Good. I hate that it's number 6 this week, and that's why I had to go 9, because you know I can't just go 6.
• 43:38
  Tyler Johnson: You can, you just have a… have a, no, I can't.
• 43:41
  Tad Eggleston: No.
• 43:42
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I guess.
• 43:43
  Phil: There's no sh…
• 43:44
  Tad Eggleston: This is in baseball.
• 43:47
  Tad Eggleston: 27…
• 43:49
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, when people… when people describe you, do they describe you as quirky? I mean, how… how do they put this into… I'm just cheating.
• 44:00
  Tad Eggleston: Is that shit crazy?
• 44:01
  Tyler Johnson: I agree.
• 44:01
  Tad Eggleston: Die Loaded, number 10 from Kieran Gillen, Stephanie Hans at Image, Dork, number 9 from Brett Bean at Image, and again, like, coming in at number 9, a book that I loved so much, Yumi WX, number 3 from Doug Wagner and Hoyt.
• 44:20
  Tyler Johnson: It was good. It was good.
• 44:21
  Tad Eggleston: Not even making my list was dog tag number 6, and a life number 9, iCollector number 5, Destruction Beer a lot number 5. Didn't even manage to read it, demands sacrifice number 1 this week.
• 44:33
  Tyler Johnson: It's good. It's good.
• 44:35
  Tad Eggleston: I, I've heard!
• 44:36
  Tyler Johnson: I mean…
• 44:38
  Tad Eggleston: So, it was a ridiculously good week in comics, and I, and I see that,
• 44:44
  Tad Eggleston: I mentioned all 3 of Tyler's, though.
• 44:46
  Tyler Johnson: I know! Dork, you guys.
• 44:48
  Tad Eggleston: Didn't even quite make my top 9.
• 44:51
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, Dork is my favorite series going on right now, by far.
• 44:56
  Tad Eggleston: So good.
• 44:56
  Tyler Johnson: Brett Bean, I mean, like, he's my new favorite guy. And then end of life, you guys, Kyle Starks.
• 45:03
  Tyler Johnson: If his writing's just on its own, it's… I mean, it's strong when he does the art, too, but the writing in End of Life is so good. And then Steve Pugh is killing it on the artwork.
• 45:16
  Tyler Johnson: Forever Home number 2, Christian Ward. This was a, you know, it was a number 3, but it, it barely was a number 3. There, I, I, I almost picked, like I said, Demand Sacrifice number 1, or It Demands Sacrifice, but…
• 45:34
  Tyler Johnson: But… Forever Home number 1 was really good, so I had to go with number 2 and see where it's gone.
• 45:41
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, a walk with Phil.
• 45:43
  Phil: Yep, yep, I'm walking here. Yeah, unfortunately, I mean, I did get to the store, but, didn't have a chance to read it, because I got there late, right before driving, up to Louisville and Cincinnati, you know? So even though I do… I am excited to read, Diloaded, number 9 and 10, because that's… I haven't… I haven't been there for a minute now.
• 46:02
  Phil: You know, which I'm surprised that it made Tad's, amazing list. That's fantastic. That's… that's even more exciting. And then, Volume 6 of Goodnight Pun Pun is also coming at the library for me, so I should… I… there's a decent chance I'll read the rest of this series by next week.
• 46:18
  Tyler Johnson: That's a great name.
• 46:20
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, it's… have you read, Punk Pun at all?
• 46:23
  Tyler Johnson: No. Nope. It's good.
• 46:24
  Tad Eggleston: You should've got it.
• 46:25
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 46:26
  Phil: I think you would. It's weird, there's stuff in it,
• 46:30
  Phil: They, you know, there's a Porn Watchers Club,
• 46:33
  Tyler Johnson: While we're on the podcast, I am thumbing through this beauty. Have you guys seen this before?
• 46:37
  Phil: I have not.
• 46:39
  Tyler Johnson: Preach comics.
• 46:40
  Phil: Okay.
• 46:41
  Phil: It's really… I mean, Based on the cover. But no, but we did…
• 46:45
  Phil: It was, like, Jaws jumping up, saying something funny.
• 46:49
  Phil: Anyway, but, no, we got our apartment in Cincinnati, and I'm pretty sure it's locked in, because we put down the deposit, if not last night, then this morning. So, yeah. Yeah, it's a whole new era. You know…
• 47:03
  Phil: Tad was also becalmed.
• 47:05
  Phil: On one piece.
• 47:06
  Tad Eggleston: I was.
• 47:07
  Phil: I was also the calm.
• 47:08
  Tad Eggleston: pumped.
• 47:08
  Tyler Johnson: I like that that's the term we're using.
• 47:11
  Phil: It is, yeah. Well, because it's… the one-piece race has to be on water, you know, it doesn't make sense for it to be a land race for pirates.
• 47:18
  Tyler Johnson: Nope, nope.
• 47:20
  Phil: Which takes us right to Great Responsibility and Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees. A little book… have you guys heard of this before? Are you guys familiar with this title?
• 47:28
  Tyler Johnson: So, Patrick Horvath just, took me by surprise with that first… first run of Beneath the Trees.
• 47:37
  Tyler Johnson: the artwork was so sublime and so calm, and then all of a sudden, you are realizing you are reading a serial killer story. And, I mean, you probably knew that going into it, but when it starts to take shape.
• 47:51
  Tyler Johnson: you know, Sam is so, like, nonchalant, do you know what I mean? She's not scary and aggressive, she's just this calm hardware lady.
• 48:02
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:02
  Tyler Johnson: And… it's… it's creepy as hell. I mean, like, Extra level, you know?
• 48:09
  Phil: I'd say creepier than Dexter, honestly. I mean…
• 48:12
  Phil: The… yeah. Yeah. I… it's… it's also funny, because as I… I flipped through all of the, like, alternate covers that were, like, you know, parodies of… of kids' books and whatnot, and, it was… it was… while it was interesting seeing Samantha drawn by other artists, I feel like nobody draws her like Patrick. Like…
• 48:32
  Tyler Johnson: No, no, because his drawing of her is so… Yeah. Like, I don't know what the word is, it's so calming.
• 48:39
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:40
  Tyler Johnson: book is. I mean, from the characters, like the little duck character.
• 48:43
  Phil: Mr.
• 48:44
  Tyler Johnson: You're like, this should be a children's book, really. But then you realize…
• 48:49
  Tyler Johnson: But then you realize that, oh no, this poor kid is looking for his dead dad that she killed.
• 48:54
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:57
  Tyler Johnson: And then we…
• 48:57
  Phil: Savage.
• 48:58
  Tyler Johnson: It's great. Then we go into beneath the trees where nobody sees, the rites of spring.
• 49:06
  Tyler Johnson: And… what'd you think of that? Like, kind of the…
• 49:09
  Phil: Oh my gosh.
• 49:09
  Tyler Johnson: Follow-up story of what happened.
• 49:11
  Phil: So, okay, so here's… I had a little mix-up on… on Hoopla, where, they… I saw that, they had the Halloween special.
• 49:21
  Phil: And then they have…
• 49:22
  Tad Eggleston: Special's great, too.
• 49:22
  Phil: And then they had the Rite of Spring.
• 49:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 49:25
  Phil: oh no, they don't have the first one anymore, so I just started with Rite of Spring.
• 49:30
  Tyler Johnson: Whoa.
• 49:31
  Phil: And yeah, so I jumped… which was actually really great. Was it? Well, it let me connect with, the… the duck character in the first issue, where she's looking for her brother and doesn't know what's going on.
• 49:44
  Phil: And I mean, I knew about the premise of the series, from how much you guys had talked about it, and it was one… so here's why I hadn't read it until now, is because a lot of times when I see a book that's like, that looks perfectly designed for my tastes.
• 49:58
  Phil: I will prolong
• 50:01
  Phil: reading it, because I know that I'm going to like it, so it's like delayed gratification kind of thing. Sure. So even though I started with Rite of Spring, I am super excited to go back and read Volume 1 and figure out all the details of what was happening, because Rite of Spring, like, oh my…
• 50:15
  Tyler Johnson: It's kind of like watching Star Wars, starting at New Hope, and then going back and having to watch the, the prequels.
• 50:22
  Phil: A little bit, well, because even…
• 50:23
  Tad Eggleston: Best order for Star Wars. Let's just be clear.
• 50:27
  Phil: Yeah.
• 50:28
  Tad Eggleston: New Hope, Empire Strikes Back.
• 50:31
  Tad Eggleston: prequels, Return of the Jedi, because…
• 50:34
  Phil: See that?
• 50:34
  Tad Eggleston: You… if you watch the prequels…
• 50:37
  Tad Eggleston: before you watch Empire Strikes Back.
• 50:41
  Tad Eggleston: That's spoil. He steals from the…
• 50:43
  Tad Eggleston: the power of Luke, I am your father.
• 50:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yup, yup.
• 50:49
  Phil: Okay, I can see that.
• 50:50
  Tyler Johnson: True. It does ruin it.
• 50:51
  Phil: I think that would actually make the prequels better, putting them between Empire and Jedi. It's been a while since I've considered Star Wars takes, but I like that one.
• 50:59
  Tad Eggleston: really completely redeem… Well, any of them, but certainly not,
• 51:05
  Phil: Revenge of the Sith?
• 51:07
  Tad Eggleston: us.
• 51:08
  Phil: Oh…
• 51:08
  Tyler Johnson: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Phantom Menace was way worse than Revenge of the Sith.
• 51:13
  Phil: I don't…
• 51:14
  Tad Eggleston: I said…
• 51:14
  Phil: It's hard.
• 51:15
  Tyler Johnson: You're talking about Phil? I don't…
• 51:17
  Phil: It's hard for me to… so, okay, so, like, quick tangent. It's hard for me to compare, because I saw them… they came out when I was a child, and my, you know, sense of taste was still developing.
• 51:28
  Tyler Johnson: Dr.
• 51:28
  Phil: But Revenge of the Sith was probably one of the biggest disappointments for me. Like, I remember seeing it in 8th grade and thinking, wow, this is not good. This is not a good movie. This is bad. This is terrible. Because, by contrast.
• 51:41
  Phil: I'd been watching the Lord of the Rings films that, you know, kind of solidified, like, wow, this is a… this is quality, this is good, this is good story.
• 51:49
  Tyler Johnson: That's what storytelling should be, yep.
• 51:51
  Phil: Yes, exactly, and then having, you know, because I'm pretty sure Return of the King and Revenge of the Sith came out, if not the same year, really close to each other, and so…
• 52:00
  Tyler Johnson: I think so.
• 52:00
  Phil: seeing the wrap-ups, the two trilogies, and then the Matrix trilogy, I think, was around then, too, so, like, I was starting to develop a critical eye, and, no, I… admittedly, Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie to laugh at. I love.
• 52:14
  Tyler Johnson: Mmm.
• 52:14
  Phil: being able to say you were the chosen one, you were supposed to save us, in comedic contexts.
• 52:19
  Phil: You're right back!
• 52:20
  Tyler Johnson: I was just saying that?
• 52:21
  Phil: I was supposed to save us! Yeah, it's great. But, no, I mean…
• 52:27
  Phil: The other thing is that what kind of makes me feel comfortable in justifying saying, hey, if you want to read this series out of order like I did, it still works, is because the Rite of Spring has nonlinear storytelling elements, where the first and second issues take place over basically the same amount of time, I would assume.
• 52:44
  Phil: they end on the same note, and then we get the flashback to seeing Samantha with her parents, and I assume that was her first kill.
• 52:53
  Phil: You know, which was traumatic as hell. I loved that. That was so…
• 52:58
  Tyler Johnson: creepy.
• 52:59
  Phil: Yeah, it was so surprising.
• 53:02
  Phil: I guess the weird thing is, is, like, while I'm reading it, I know that it's factually, like, creepy and disturbing, but, like, I'm such a sicko that I was just thrilled by it, I guess.
• 53:12
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I get it, you're just like, wow.
• 53:15
  Phil: Yeah! This is… Yeah.
• 53:16
  Tyler Johnson: And then, what'd you think of the Halloween special, where kind of kids were, like, talking about… I didn't get to read that one yet. Oh, okay.
• 53:23
  Phil: I mean, you guys can talk about it, feel free.
• 53:25
  Tyler Johnson: So, the premise is… the premise is, is that, you know, the events of Samantha's killing spree are in the past, and now these children are telling horror stories about what they've heard about Samantha.
• 53:38
  Phil: Sounds awesome.
• 53:39
  Tyler Johnson: You know what I mean? So, it's really fun.
• 53:41
  Phil: That does sound super fun, super exciting. But I mean, even in Rite of Spring, the other moment to me that was great is when the bear, the non-anthropomorphized, like, fully wild.
• 53:53
  Tyler Johnson: The real beer, yeah.
• 53:54
  Phil: Yeah. Like, it was so funny, because I was thinking when… I think someone mentioned… I… I… it was one of those things I was flipping through, and I was like, I think I remember hearing you guys say that there's a real dog. And then I'm like, that's so weird. If this was a comedy series, it would be really funny to have, like, a tiny human, you know, instead of animals.
• 54:12
  Tad Eggleston: See, you didn't… you didn't read…
• 54:15
  Tad Eggleston: Volume 1, so you missed… there's literally…
• 54:19
  Tad Eggleston: a pig… Shopping at a butcher shop.
• 54:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 54:26
  Tad Eggleston: Oh. Pig.
• 54:27
  Tad Eggleston: In the window.
• 54:28
  Phil: Yep, that sounds… that sounds great, yeah.
• 54:31
  Tyler Johnson: The amount of, you know, like, the meta…
• 54:34
  Phil: and that's the crazy thing of… a bear shows up in town, and everyone is terrified of it. And, like, for Samantha.
• 54:42
  Phil: to… to watch them deal with the bear, and then quietly walk away from the crowd, it… it… that was a really great scene, too, where I'm like, holy shit, you know, just the parallels between,
• 54:56
  Phil: you know, it's almost like, what do other people see? Like, that's one of the things that's great about it, is that, like.
• 55:03
  Phil: I think in the first issue, one of the close-ups of, like, a duckbill with a cigarette hanging out of it, I was like.
• 55:08
  Tyler Johnson: I agree.
• 55:08
  Phil: love this.
• 55:10
  Tyler Johnson: Because it's legal.
• 55:10
  Phil: leaning so hard into the anthropomorphized, like, animal people, but then it also very clearly is taking place in the real world.
• 55:18
  Tad Eggleston: Does…
• 55:19
  Tyler Johnson: Doesn't it feel like… Go ahead, Ted.
• 55:22
  Tad Eggleston: I was gonna say, again, like…
• 55:24
  Tad Eggleston: the most shocking moment for me, and I think Tyler… Tyler was there with me when it was originally coming out, is, like, that first issue, you know, it's so anthropomorphized, and yeah, you know, there's lots of real-world feel to it and whatnot, but, like, when she actually…
• 55:43
  Tad Eggleston: Cuts up the body.
• 55:45
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, you see… the… the… the… The brains? Ducks… duck in, like, small pieces.
• 55:54
  Phil: Yeah!
• 55:56
  Phil: It's like…
• 55:58
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, he's going there. Yeah.
• 56:01
  Tyler Johnson: I remember, I don't know, Tad, maybe we're too old, but I remember my siblings watching it, the Busy World of Richard Scary.
• 56:09
  Tyler Johnson: This, this, artwork reminds me of that children's.
• 56:15
  Tad Eggleston: He's the serial killer in the busy world of Richard Scary.
• 56:18
  Tyler Johnson: the air.
• 56:19
  Tad Eggleston: Dustin Bears, take your pick.
• 56:21
  Tyler Johnson: Berenstein Bears, old-school Winnie the Pooh, like, the stuff that was really drawn, right, by Milne. You know.
• 56:28
  Phil: That was probably my favorite parody cover, was the Winnie the Pooh one.
• 56:31
  Tyler Johnson: To be honest.
• 56:31
  Phil: Yeah.
• 56:33
  Phil: Oh.
• 56:34
  Tad Eggleston: Drop, drop, drop a serial killer into any of those worlds, and this… This is what you get.
• 56:41
  Phil: I'm especially excited for where Rite of Spring ends, because it's like, okay, this is not over.
• 56:47
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, no.
• 56:48
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, more volume.
• 56:49
  Phil: at least… I was gonna say at least one more volume, because I don't know how long…
• 56:51
  Tad Eggleston: It's been announced. It's been announced.
• 56:54
  Phil: I will…
• 56:55
  Tad Eggleston: volume. The implication is that that's the end.
• 56:58
  Phil: Okay.
• 56:59
  Tad Eggleston: We'll see.
• 56:59
  Phil: Honestly, I really hope they put out, like, all the series collected in a hardcover, because I would buy the hell out of that.
• 57:07
  Tyler Johnson: They might… that would be cool, I'd buy that.
• 57:09
  Tad Eggleston: The reason… it's the only reason I haven't bought the hardcover for… for the first volume yet, is that, like…
• 57:17
  Tad Eggleston: I think there may be a better option.
• 57:19
  Phil: that's kind of… it was one of those where I was like, oh, maybe I'll pick up the issues, you know, I'm like, no, I'll probably end up reading on Hoopla, because I'm the type of weirdo who, like, if I start reading a series in issues, I want it all in issues, so this might be… this might be my full evolution into Trade Waiter of reading it from the library in issues, and then picking up the giant hardcover
• 57:41
  Phil: All in one book, because those are my favorite, favorite books.
• 57:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 57:45
  Phil: For comics.
• 57:46
  Tyler Johnson: Agreed.
• 57:46
  Phil: This is… honestly, the other thing, I feel like one of the real tests of this one is after I read Volume 1, I mean…
• 57:55
  Phil: I'm really tempted to give this to my mom.
• 57:58
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, really?
• 57:59
  Phil: Yes, here's the thing, though.
• 58:01
  Phil: is, like, cause she… I gave it to me.
• 58:03
  Tad Eggleston: My wife.
• 58:04
  Phil: Yeah, I know my wife would love this. I'm pretty sure she would be blown away, like, which actually…
• 58:09
  Tad Eggleston: This is literally one of… and thank God I'd had Patrick on, and we got to know each other a little bit more at C2E2, because it was one of the first books that my wife ever read as issues came out, and I remember she got to, like, issue 4 or 5, and she's like, what the fuck do you mean I need to wait for a month?
• 58:27
  Phil: That's fantastic.
• 58:30
  Tad Eggleston: And I sent an email, and she didn't have to wait.
• 58:33
  Phil: Nice, okay.
• 58:34
  Tyler Johnson: There's a PDF. A PDF arrives very quickly. Right. Right. Hey.
• 58:39
  Phil: That's a good marriage, when you can say, what the fuck do you mean I have to wait? And then she.
• 58:43
  Tyler Johnson: And then you're like, oh, hold on, dear, let me.
• 58:46
  Phil: Me too, right?
• 58:47
  Phil: I might have some connections that could.
• 58:49
  Tyler Johnson: Let me talk to Patrick.
• 58:51
  Phil: Oh my gosh, yeah. Nope, but speaking of, speaking of my wife would love this, is that actually, we… now that she's out of school, we actually just started about, possibly making a comic together, and she was really interested in, like, something that goes from
• 59:07
  Phil: cutesy to spooky to disturbing, so I'll have her read this for inspiration, for sure.
• 59:12
  Tad Eggleston: You should have her… you should have her read some,
• 59:15
  Tyler Johnson: Gays? I…
• 59:17
  Tad Eggleston: Farrell. That's what I was about to say. Tyler needs to get going.
• 59:21
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, not only that, but, like, Phil, I have finished, my script for my first comic. Oh, very cool. I'm editing right now, and then I'm gonna send it to Tad and you if you want to read it. Oh, cool. Give me any pointers on pace…
• 59:34
  Tad Eggleston: shreds. Yeah.
• 59:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, please do, because…
• 59:37
  Tad Eggleston: I'll warn you on air, Tyler, the more I rip it to shreds, the more I like it.
• 59:42
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 59:43
  Tad Eggleston: I know that seems counterintuitive.
• 59:46
  Tyler Johnson: Well, let me give you the beats… let me give you the beats of it and see what you guys think, quick.
• 59:51
  Phil: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, are you sure you want this going out?
• 59:53
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, don't do that on the air.
• 59:55
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, alright, alright, alright.
• 59:57
  Phil: I know you're excited. It's good you're excited.
• 1:00:00
  Tad Eggleston: We'll get to read it.
• 1:00:01
  Tyler Johnson: But it's a one… it's a one-shot, it's not an ongoing… it's not an ongoing idea.
• 1:00:05
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:00:05
  Tad Eggleston: Because I do sometimes have that issue when I'm in, like, writing groups, or…
• 1:00:10
  Tad Eggleston: or creative writing classes, that people will read the stuff that I write about their
• 1:00:16
  Tad Eggleston: their work, or the stuff I write in the margins, or whatnot, and think that I'm mean and I hate them. And I'm sitting there going, no, no, no, no. If I hate the work, it'll just say, nice job.
• 1:00:27
  Phil: Right? Because you have nothing to say.
• 1:00:29
  Tad Eggleston: Nothing else.
• 1:00:31
  Tyler Johnson: You don't wanna… you don't even wanna read it.
• 1:00:33
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:00:33
  Tad Eggleston: If I like it, if I like it, I'm, like, pointing out everything. And also, notice that I'm always asking questions. I'm not.
• 1:00:42
  Phil: Questions are good.
• 1:00:43
  Tad Eggleston: change this. I'm saying… Think about this. Think about that.
• 1:00:50
  Phil: I… I… I've taken a lot of creative writing… or I took a lot of creative writing classes in college. I can have a heavy hand. My… I'm telling you right now, my goal will be to not take over the project, but to try to see what you're trying to do with it and elevate that.
• 1:01:06
  Tad Eggleston: I have that goal, it doesn't always come off that way.
• 1:01:10
  Phil: Yeah. So, so yeah, so you have, you have a couple of harsh critics, but, but, that, that mean well.
• 1:01:16
  Tad Eggleston: Better!
• 1:01:17
  Tyler Johnson: That's great.
• 1:01:18
  Tad Eggleston: At least know that.
• 1:01:19
  Tyler Johnson: I can't do that.
• 1:01:21
  Tyler Johnson: Not that I'm expecting that this will be anything amazing, but you do have access to all kinds of different artists, too, that might be… that might want to pick this up, because I do not have time to draw a comic book.
• 1:01:33
  Tad Eggleston: You're not gonna draw it yourself?
• 1:01:35
  Tyler Johnson: I have, and my wife said the same thing. I have no time to do that.
• 1:01:39
  Phil: That's fair.
• 1:01:40
  Tyler Johnson: I can write in, you know, when I've got short little minutes of whatever in between stuff, but as far as, like, you know, sitting down and actually…
• 1:01:48
  Tad Eggleston: Definitely something that we'll have to talk about more off the air, because… because…
• 1:01:53
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 1:01:53
  Tad Eggleston: Like, most artists don't have time to do stuff unless they're getting paid.
• 1:01:58
  Tyler Johnson: Exactly. Yep, exactly, and I'm willing to do that, because I, and I'll tell you, I would know who I'd really want to do it, so…
• 1:02:09
  Phil: Nice.
• 1:02:10
  Tyler Johnson: But that's true.
• 1:02:11
  Tad Eggleston: But it's totally off-air, and if we want to.
• 1:02:13
  Tyler Johnson: be able to do.
• 1:02:13
  Tad Eggleston: anything off-air before you have to run, we should…
• 1:02:16
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, no.
• 1:02:17
  Tad Eggleston: Nope.
• 1:02:18
  Tyler Johnson: I'll have to talk to you guys about that later. We'll do the show, and then I gotta go.
• 1:02:22
  Phil: Yep.
• 1:02:22
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:23
  Phil: Next week.
• 1:02:23
  Phil: Put a pin in it.
• 1:02:25
  Tad Eggleston: I can say right now that I know that Archie No. 2 from Ben H. Winters and Fabio Moon.
• 1:02:32
  Tyler Johnson: It's good.
• 1:02:32
  Tad Eggleston: Spectacular.
• 1:02:34
  Tyler Johnson: Well, one is good. I haven't read 2.
• 1:02:36
  Tad Eggleston: I've read two as well, and it's really good.
• 1:02:39
  Phil: Hard to imagine bad comics from Fabio Moon.
• 1:02:42
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 1:02:42
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's true.
• 1:02:43
  Phil: It just can't.
• 1:02:45
  Tad Eggleston: I'm actually going to propose… Next week's…
• 1:02:52
  Phil: Great responsibility.
• 1:02:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, those are the words I was looking for.
• 1:02:57
  Tad Eggleston: Based on a collection coming out this week that's also timely for Halloween, and will be recording on November 1st, so we can count that as Halloween. Yeah. And Tyler's already held up his copy, because Afterlife with Archie comes out this week.
• 1:03:11
  Phil: Oh, that's okay.
• 1:03:11
  Tad Eggleston: and… Comics… er, Global Comics.
• 1:03:16
  Tad Eggleston: 10 issues. I think Tyler and I read the first 5 a long time ago, but I think it'd be worth reading all 10.
• 1:03:23
  Phil: Okay, yeah.
• 1:03:23
  Tad Eggleston: Afterlife with Archie for next week.
• 1:03:26
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:03:27
  Tyler Johnson: So, I picked that up.
• 1:03:28
  Tad Eggleston: And I just came
• 1:03:29
  Tad Eggleston: Great, great place, because not next week, but I think the week after that is when…
• 1:03:38
  Tad Eggleston: tying everything back together now, Patrick Korvath, and… and, tyler Crooks…
• 1:03:47
  Tad Eggleston: Aww.
• 1:03:48
  Tad Eggleston: Archie in Hell launches.
• 1:03:50
  Phil: Very interesting, okay.
• 1:03:52
  Tad Eggleston: So… so yeah, we'll get our Archie Halloween fix going.
• 1:03:57
  Tad Eggleston: But anyway, the other three books that I am excited for, and you can tell how many great books there were that I had to read this week, because there are a lot of weeks where all 3 of these would be in the books I know are spectacular. I have reader copies of.
• 1:04:14
  Tad Eggleston: all three of these books, and fully expect them to be spectacular. That Texas Blood, Hell Comes to Allison Ranch, number 2, from Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. Fort Psycho, number 3 from Matt Kent and Brian Hurt. And Crimes Against Nature, number 2 from Elliot Rahal, and Mattia
• 1:04:32
  Tad Eggleston: Monaco. Those are from Image, ONI, and Image, respectively.
• 1:04:39
  Tad Eggleston: Also worth pointing out is we have the collection of The Peril of the Brutal Dark, an Ezra Kane mystery from Condon and Phillips at DC Vertigo, and
• 1:04:51
  Tad Eggleston: You Have Killed Me from Joel Jones and Jamie S. Rich.
• 1:04:55
  Tad Eggleston: Which are… they're just… they… they do such amazing work together.
• 1:04:59
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:05:00
  Tad Eggleston: from Pony Press.
• 1:05:01
  Tad Eggleston: Graphic novel coming out next week.
• 1:05:04
  Tad Eggleston: fill.
• 1:05:07
  Tad Eggleston: Your trade waiter pick.
• 1:05:08
  Phil: It is in the run-up to Halloween, you should absolutely pick up In Your Skin from Siege of Biddikar and Som over at Image Comics.
• 1:05:17
  Tyler Johnson: agreed.
• 1:05:17
  Phil: Yeah, I… a close second, I almost picked… I almost picked The Peril of the Brutal Dark, that was a close one, because that looks really interesting, too.
• 1:05:26
  Tyler Johnson: good. Anything… Vertigo is putting out such good stuff, so you could have picked that, and it would have been great, the Ezra Kane Mystery.
• 1:05:34
  Tad Eggleston: They are absolutely living up to…
• 1:05:38
  Phil: criminal.
• 1:05:39
  Tad Eggleston: The Vertigo.
• 1:05:41
  Tyler Johnson: the vertigo, like.
• 1:05:42
  Tad Eggleston: to go labels.
• 1:05:42
  Tyler Johnson: type.
• 1:05:43
  Phil: I just said criminal because it's Jacob Phillips, and… No, I get it. And, like, there's a detective.
• 1:05:49
  Tad Eggleston: But I've actually been on record a few times already in saying that as much as I like Brubaker, Philip.
• 1:05:56
  Tad Eggleston: I think I like Condon Phillips better.
• 1:05:57
  Phil: Okay, I'll have to give him a shot then.
• 1:06:00
  Phil: That's a high bar.
• 1:06:01
  Tad Eggleston: I think… I think I like Cotton Phillips better.
• 1:06:04
  Phil: Alright.
• 1:06:06
  Tyler Johnson: Well, guys, I'm gonna take us out, my family's ready to go out the door.
• 1:06:11
  Tad Eggleston: Staring at you, going.
• 1:06:12
  Tyler Johnson: They are not, they're putting their shoes on.
• 1:06:15
  Phil: Okay, they're gonna leave it behind.
• 1:06:16
  Tad Eggleston: It would have been way more, way more fun if they were already in their shoes and jackets and just staring at you, Peggy tapping her watch, Raina tapping her foot.
• 1:06:27
  Tyler Johnson: So, no, here's Raina. You can see she's in her cute sweater. She's gonna sing for church today.
• 1:06:34
  Tyler Johnson: So…
• 1:06:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yay!
• 1:06:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yay!
• 1:06:36
  Phil: Congratulations!
• 1:06:39
  Phil: Oh, that's sweet.
• 1:06:40
  Tyler Johnson: So, anyway, guys, I got a hug. Anyway, guys, thank you for listening, and we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:06:49
  Tyler Johnson: See ya!