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22 Panels Episode #217 - Best of 2025 pt. ii · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, back for the second week in a row.
• 0:16
  Tyler Johnson: Across the interwebs from me is Chad and Phil. Hey guys, what's up?
• 0:22
  Phil: Hey, how's it going?
• 0:23
  Tyler Johnson: Not much, just hanging out.
• 0:25
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't… I didn't hear any webs.
• 0:27
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, shoot! And across the interwebs.
• 0:30
  Phil: No, no, I'm running away!
• 0:31
  Tyler Johnson: Hold on. And across the interwebs, From me, it's Tad and…
• 0:39
  Phil: Well, now let's just getting into farts.
• 0:41
  Tyler Johnson: That's… now it's just gross.
• 0:43
  Tad Eggleston: I ran out of web fluid.
• 0:45
  Tyler Johnson: That sure was.
• 0:47
  Phil: That excuse only works once in a while.
• 0:50
  Tyler Johnson: That's what that was. Alright, how's it going, guys?
• 0:55
  Tad Eggleston: It's been a day.
• 0:57
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 0:58
  Phil: It's been a year and… A year?
• 1:01
  Tad Eggleston: A year in a day?
• 1:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's been quite the… quite the year so far.
• 1:06
  Tad Eggleston: Like, okay, before we get into what kind of week slash day has it been.
• 1:12
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 1:13
  Tad Eggleston: Let's do a little bit of comics news. First, and I say this not having actually done it myself yet, because it's been that kind of week. Go check out the Beats Annual Creator Survey. It's always great, so I assume it's great again this year.
• 1:28
  Tad Eggleston: Also, January 1st is Public Domain Day, and we got some interesting ones. Betty Boop?
• 1:35
  Tad Eggleston: Blondie and Dagwood, Nancy Drew, The Little Engine That Could…
• 1:42
  Phil: And the original…
• 1:43
  Tad Eggleston: Maltese Falcon novel all hit public domain.
• 1:47
  Tyler Johnson: But it's.
• 1:47
  Phil: Is the Maltese Falcon from Maltese Falcon in the public domain now? That's the real question.
• 1:55
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if you could actually copyright that. The movie's not in public domain, but the novel is.
• 2:00
  Phil: Hmm, okay.
• 2:02
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, also, I mean…
• 2:05
  Tad Eggleston: when Gatsby went public domain, we immediately got, like, 4… Gatsby comic adaptations.
• 2:14
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 2:14
  Tad Eggleston: So, I mean, that's the sort of thing that I'm… and yes, Tyler, there is already a Betty Boop slasher movie that's been filming and will be out soon.
• 2:26
  Tyler Johnson: You were close. I know. You were close. I know that's where we were going. No, no, it was actually more about, Betty… it wasn't Betty Boop, but it was, but, more so, like, who's gonna make the first disgusting Betty Boop thing?
• 2:40
  Tad Eggleston: Again, there's already a Betty Boost…
• 2:42
  Tyler Johnson: I meant… no, I meant… I meant porn-wise, you know.
• 2:45
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I mean, I mean, there is already the, the Mr. Boop comic.
• 2:52
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know about that, okay.
• 2:54
  Tad Eggleston: I don't actually think it's disgusting, but there is parts of it that could be argued to be pornographic.
• 3:01
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, no, I'm… I'm just, you know, there's…
• 3:04
  Tyler Johnson: Betty Boop's now in public domain. I can't, believe we haven't seen more of the…
• 3:11
  Tad Eggleston: It's…
• 3:12
  Phil: The pornographers have been waiting until now, now.
• 3:16
  Tyler Johnson: to release it.
• 3:16
  Tad Eggleston: Because, well, because pornographers are totally known for…
• 3:22
  Tyler Johnson: Following the law.
• 3:23
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and, and, like, not hiding behind the idea that it's a parody.
• 3:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 3:31
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, how many movies are called a porn parody?
• 3:38
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, Tad, how many?
• 3:40
  Tad Eggleston: That's not really Captain Kirk.
• 3:44
  Phil: Whoa!
• 3:46
  Phil: Oh, boy.
• 3:47
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I'm interested.
• 3:49
  Phil: If we could keep… if we could keep it to comics talk, you know?
• 3:53
  Tyler Johnson: That's true. We gotta stay on topic.
• 3:55
  Phil: Certainly cut down on the porn.
• 3:58
  Tyler Johnson: We gotta go home.
• 3:59
  Tad Eggleston: I can't…
• 4:00
  Phil: 22 panels after dark!
• 4:03
  Tad Eggleston: It's…
• 4:03
  Tyler Johnson: the ass.
• 4:04
  Tad Eggleston: Too dark. Yeah, we can't quite, because we did,
• 4:10
  Tad Eggleston: Bomb a foreign nation late last night, early this morning?
• 4:14
  Tyler Johnson: Holy buckets, can you believe that?
• 4:16
  Tad Eggleston: And, and kidnap a foreign leader?
• 4:19
  Tad Eggleston: Like…
• 4:19
  Tyler Johnson: You know what? It's happening!
• 4:22
  Tad Eggleston: I think my best take is, I think… I think it was Aaron Rupar who pointed out that, so… there's something darkly humorous about all of his cronies making the argument that…
• 4:35
  Tad Eggleston: that the fact that Maduro has been indicted in the Southern District of New York is evidence that he's a dictator and overall bad guy.
• 4:47
  Phil: Right, yeah, the implication.
• 4:49
  Tad Eggleston: We don't know anybody who's been indicted in the Southern District of New York.
• 4:54
  Phil: Certainly not charged with 36 felonies.
• 4:58
  Tyler Johnson: Was it 37?
• 4:59
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, no. That was New York State felonies, and he wasn't charged, he was convicted. Southern District of New York is where he was…
• 5:09
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, what did he get charged for… charged with in… in Southern District of New York?
• 5:17
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I don't know, just take your picture.
• 5:19
  Tad Eggleston: I think that was actually where the insurrection one got charged.
• 5:23
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 5:25
  Tyler Johnson: Where was I? What insurrection are you talking about?
• 5:28
  Tad Eggleston: What insurrection?
• 5:30
  Phil: Where the hell? Is this a joke?
• 5:32
  Tyler Johnson: Yes. Okay.
• 5:34
  Phil: Okay.
• 5:35
  Tyler Johnson: I mean…
• 5:36
  Tad Eggleston: You must remember that Tyler's from Bumfuck, Minnesota. Exactly. So, like…
• 5:43
  Phil: Exactly! This is… I don't know…
• 5:45
  Tad Eggleston: He is regularly brainwashed and indoctrinated.
• 5:49
  Phil: You know, have we asked him where he was on January 6th?
• 5:54
  Phil: I'm so sorry.
• 5:56
  Tyler Johnson: Let's see, where… where was that? Like, I was…
• 6:00
  Tad Eggleston: Was I? He was teaching.
• 6:03
  Phil: I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 6:05
  Tyler Johnson: Jenny…
• 6:07
  Tad Eggleston: I seem to remember he and I texting about it while we were both teaching.
• 6:11
  Phil: And, like, trying to teach while it was going on, and wanting to keep track of it. Yeah, that's pretty impossible. That's… that's.
• 6:19
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 6:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he had even less ability to talk about it than I did.
• 6:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I think… because I think when… now that I'm remembering, I think your texts were in the morning, so I was in elementary classes, you know, if it was morning time, so…
• 6:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it was.
• 6:38
  Tyler Johnson: Good times!
• 6:40
  Tyler Johnson: But… Anywho, yes, Venezuela. What's going on in Venezuela?
• 6:46
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we don't know for certain yet, except that, like.
• 6:51
  Tad Eggleston: Our dear leader does say the,
• 6:55
  Tad Eggleston: The quiet part out loud, he wants the oil.
• 6:59
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 7:01
  Tad Eggleston: It's not gonna cost us anything, because we're taking their oil. He said those words. Maybe, maybe I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but not much.
• 7:12
  Tyler Johnson: And of course, like… Yeah, he made a comment…
• 7:14
  Tad Eggleston: His life doesn't mean anything to him, so…
• 7:16
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 7:17
  Tyler Johnson: He made the comment that, Columbia better watch out.
• 7:22
  Tad Eggleston: Watch their ass.
• 7:24
  Tyler Johnson: That's what he said. That's what he said, yeah.
• 7:26
  Phil: Shit.
• 7:29
  Phil: That's, yeah.
• 7:31
  Tyler Johnson: Let that sink in.
• 7:32
  Tad Eggleston: They've, they've also, they've also made, .
• 7:36
  Tyler Johnson: Isn't Trump also the guy that constantly brags about being the only president not to start wars?
• 7:42
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, he did win the FIFA Peace Prize.
• 7:49
  Tyler Johnson: Where's… where's mine? I heard that's a participation trophy, anyway.
• 7:53
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, you can get one in every Happy Meal.
• 7:56
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 7:56
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, no, I'm sorry, that… McDonald's, please don't sue me.
• 8:01
  Tad Eggleston: At least don't swim at McDonald's. That wasn't… that wasn't aimed at you, McDonald's. Oh, boy.
• 8:06
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, boy.
• 8:08
  Tad Eggleston: Except for the one that let him work the drive-thru window.
• 8:12
  Phil: Oh.
• 8:12
  Tad Eggleston: The weirdest drive-thru ever.
• 8:15
  Phil: Why couldn't someone have done the shake bomb just then, you know?
• 8:19
  Tyler Johnson: You know, just chuck it at him.
• 8:23
  Tad Eggleston: Well, because they vetted the people who went through the drive-through window.
• 8:26
  Phil: I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 8:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, dude, I'll be honest.
• 8:29
  Phil: Yeah.
• 8:32
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, guys, how's…
• 8:34
  Phil: Alright.
• 8:34
  Tyler Johnson: How does it sound to you guys? Let's get rolling in comics.
• 8:37
  Tad Eggleston: I-I-I think I'm okay with that.
• 8:41
  Tad Eggleston: I think that, maybe…
• 8:46
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe this whole comic thing that we came for is… is something that we should do, so why…
• 8:54
  Tad Eggleston: Don't we discuss?
• 8:56
  Tyler Johnson: I'm pretty sure I'm the first one up.
• 8:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, some new-to-order books, and I think you are up first, Tyler.
• 9:03
  Tyler Johnson: This works great. So, Tad went through a ton of work putting together a.
• 9:08
  Tad Eggleston: really wasn't.
• 9:09
  Tyler Johnson: it wasn't. It looks cool.
• 9:12
  Tad Eggleston: No, it's mostly cut and pasting, though I do just notice that I did make a… if we post this video, is Baby Garfield number 1, not Baby Garfield number exclamation point?
• 9:25
  Phil: starting to trend.
• 9:26
  Tyler Johnson: Yep. Alright, so it's Baby Garfield number one. Meet the tiny troublemaker before he became the lasagna-loving legend. A baby's big little moment… a baby's big little moments are some of the most special and cherished experiences across
• 9:44
  Tyler Johnson: dating… doting parents, pet parents included. Join this sassy but oh-so-adorable baby Garfield in navigating a series of universal firsts. In this positivi… positivity…
• 9:58
  Tyler Johnson: silly new comic series, perfect for Garfield lovers, feline fanatics, and readers of all ages. Oh, you see what they did there with the little cat puns? This is going to be, from Grace Ellis, Michael Northrop, and Asia Simone, and, Rob, Justice.
• 10:18
  Tyler Johnson: And, final order cutoff is February 9th, it will be in stores March 18th.
• 10:25
  Tad Eggleston: from Kaboom.
• 10:26
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, didn't I say Boom Kaboom?
• 10:29
  Tad Eggleston: Damn.
• 10:31
  Tad Eggleston: Dead teenagers.
• 10:33
  Tad Eggleston: Number one, there's no escaping high school. Since 1997, five friends have been trapped in the ultimate nightmare, as a mysterious entity forces them to relive their first prom night over again.
• 10:47
  Tad Eggleston: And over again. And re-kills them in new and increasingly insane ways each time. Don't get any ideas, Phil, for Die. No, I do not. I do not want to relive prom.
• 11:00
  Tad Eggleston: Particularly not a horror prom. They dress up, they party, they make out, and no matter what they try to change, they always die.
• 11:08
  Tad Eggleston: Until now.
• 11:09
  Tad Eggleston: Something is about to break the cycle that has kept Alicia, JT, Ryder, Brandy, and their group of friends locked in a bizarre purgatory beyond all understanding, but what they find on the other side will be the most disturbing revelation of all. This is from Jude Ellison S. Doyle.
• 11:27
  Tad Eggleston: With art by Caitlin Yarsky. Final order cutoff is February 23rd, in stores March 18th from Onei Press.
• 11:38
  Phil: Next up, there's Gru, the prophecy, number 1, from the living legends Sergio Argones and Marc Evanier. Gru and Ruferto travel far over the land and across an ocean to get away from those who fear Gru and his infamous bad luck.
• 11:53
  Phil: Our hungry pair of adventurers seems to be running toward catastrophe, though. The priestess Sibilia has visions of terror after terror arriving to her village, with only Gru also arriving to seemingly save her townspeople.
• 12:07
  Phil: Sergio Argones and Mark Evanier deliver another Wild Grew ride with Eisner-winning lettering by Stan Sakai in exquisite colors by Carrie Strachan.
• 12:18
  Phil: That's gonna be a final word cutoff of February 23rd, in stores April 1st, from Dark Horse Comics.
• 12:27
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, I was really excited for this one. This is Lobo number one. We got a Lobo series back, guys. The main… the main man's back, baby, and his ride is a motorcycle. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 12:39
  Tyler Johnson: His ride is a motorcycle that moves at the speed of sound, but only if that sound is a rippin' guitar solo, and you better hop on before he leaves you in the dust with all the bastiches he's frigged.
• 12:52
  Tyler Johnson: bragged for money or convenience. The Eisner-nominated creative team that brought you a fantastic parody of Adolescents in the Midwest.
• 13:01
  Tyler Johnson: The story of an artist who embraces darkness a little too closely, and the tale of a gunslinger with too much grit to stay buried brings you a classic yarn… yarn spun in the star-kissed threads of the
• 13:14
  Tyler Johnson: Cosmic DC Universe. It's a gut-soaked path from DCKO to the end of the universe, where Lobo is going to scratch his name and number in the source wall with a cool knife. Don't miss the Mayhem special guests, or
• 13:30
  Tyler Johnson: Tasty, tasty continuity?
• 13:33
  Tyler Johnson: Don't you do it. Let's see here, February 23rd is final order cutoff. It'll be in stores March 18th, and I forgot to mention, this is Scotty Young.
• 13:45
  Tad Eggleston: And Jorge Corona.
• 13:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, and, Jorge Corona, and, from DC Comics.
• 13:53
  Tad Eggleston: Narco number one.
• 13:56
  Tad Eggleston: Marcus Westphal has a rare form of narcolepsy. When he gets excited, he passes out.
• 14:02
  Tad Eggleston: He's adapted. Homebound life, a harmless infatuation with the girl next door, but when he witnesses her murder and collapses, he becomes suspect number one. Now he must leave his apartment to pursue a killer.
• 14:17
  Tad Eggleston: This is from our dear friend Doug Wagner and Daniel Hilliard, in stores March 4th, final order cutoff, February 9th from Image Comics. I cannot wait for the insanity.
• 14:32
  Tyler Johnson: It'll be cool.
• 14:34
  Phil: Right, then there's Tigris Island. A group of down-on-their-luck actresses are kidnapped to an island prison run by a sadistic female warden. Working together is their only chance of escape, but trust issues abound. Action-adventure inspired by exploitation films. Ridiculously fun, seriously sexy. From, kindlyn and…
• 14:54
  Tad Eggleston: Patrick, Kendland, and EPHK, I think?
• 14:57
  Phil: That's a final order cutoff of February 16th, and stores March 11th from Image Comics.
• 15:05
  Tad Eggleston: See, see, like, there's… we still have, what's the word I'm looking for?
• 15:10
  Phil: Kings Iron?
• 15:11
  Tad Eggleston: Bugs in the system, yeah, still have bugs in the system.
• 15:16
  Tad Eggleston: Some… some graphic novels, all the cameras in my room.
• 15:22
  Tad Eggleston: Razor-sharp short stories from the greatest contemporary comic stylists
• 15:27
  Tad Eggleston: In all the cameras in my room, Michael DeForge's hilarious and horny approach to comics fiction never disappoints. In figure skating, a star athlete's impossible feats captivate the world.
• 15:37
  Tad Eggleston: Turning a simple skater's rotation into a catalyst for national paralysis. While in Holiday Special, a narrator tells us about his favorite Christian holiday special that bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain bald-headed boy and his dog, classic.
• 15:53
  Tad Eggleston: No matter the conceit, characters in all the cameras in my room stretch and flatten and spiral around each other and burrow deep into the folds of a reader's brain. This is for Michael DeForge at Drawn and Quarterly.
• 16:09
  Tad Eggleston: Final air cutoff is February 9th, in stores on April 9th.
• 16:17
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 16:18
  Phil: Oh, that's you?
• 16:19
  Tyler Johnson: This is me! Beat everyone up.
• 16:22
  Tyler Johnson: Written by Lan Pitts, and art by Joe Hunter. Listen up, this is the fisticuff-filled tale of Princess Hylia of Terragher.
• 16:33
  Tyler Johnson: A natural-born fighter since childhood, Helia must head out into the wider world when her soon-to-be husband is groom-napped on their wedding day by the atrocious ape and would-be conqueror, Gogo.
• 16:48
  Tyler Johnson: But what does a sheltered princess know of the other realms? Well, not a whole lot. Luckily, Hylia is joined by her only and only friend and bodyguard, the Ice Witch, Sidra.
• 17:01
  Tyler Johnson: Together, the pair will brave the deserts of Flatera, the blizzards of Frosterra, you get the idea. Final order cut off February 23rd, and this'll be in shops March 18th from Mad Cave.
• 17:18
  Phil: Alright, this is the Book of Murmurs from Candace Perwin. Not all stories are spells, but all spells are stories. Thus begins the Wisdom of the Book of Murmurs, a storybook Little Moon's mother reads to her at bedtime.
• 17:34
  Phil: But one day, her parents are slain by the frightful Schneck, and the book is stolen by the mischievous Catholic Church.
• 17:41
  Tad Eggleston: Shank.
• 17:42
  Phil: Shank, my bad. Stolen by the mischievous catwitch, these words will guide the girl on her quest to piece her world back together. It's gonna be, final or cut off February 2nd, in stores March 18th from Fanta Graphics.
• 17:59
  Tad Eggleston: And check out my recent discussion with Eric Reynolds, the VP and co-publisher of Fanta Graphics.
• 18:05
  Tad Eggleston: That was a fun one.
• 18:08
  Phil: This one is certainly a fun title. He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsugi, a manga icon's most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horror and surrealism by the mid-70s.
• 18:23
  Phil: Sugi Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance, something his work from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. The confusion and mental illness simmering beneath the surface of his more surreal works come to a rolling boil, reaching an unsettling and horrific crescendo in a series of nightmarish delusions.
• 18:44
  Phil: Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid captures a mid-career author taking stock of his anxieties and suspicions while connecting the dots between his seemingly monstrous present and his complicated past. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. It's gonna be a final or a cutoff February 2nd, in stores April 1st for John and Porter. That sounds fantastic.
• 19:04
  Tad Eggleston: And I think it was a monotonous present.
• 19:07
  Tad Eggleston: Not a monstrous present.
• 19:10
  Phil: I've got monsters on the mind today.
• 19:12
  Tyler Johnson: Either way, monotonous does look like monstrous a little bit.
• 19:17
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, Human Nature from Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel and Jeff Welch.
• 19:23
  Tyler Johnson: With art by Martin Mrazzo, meet Duke, once just an ordinary nobody, now an ego-driven billionaire, chicken magnate with nearly limitless wealth and power.
• 19:35
  Tyler Johnson: But even endless fortune has limits, and Duke is obsessed with breaking the final barrier.
• 19:40
  Tyler Johnson: Death itself. Can he buy the key to defy death? Or has his unchecked ambition finally gone too far?
• 19:48
  Tyler Johnson: Overflowing with twisted humor, surreal adventures, and dazzling visuals, human nature, hurdles readers into a bizarre yet unsettling familiar future, confronting unimaginable obstacles at every turn.
• 20:04
  Tyler Johnson: This sounds great. Final order cut off February 9th. We'll be in shops March 8th… March 25th from Abrams.
• 20:13
  Tad Eggleston: Lights of Nideroy, from Marcelo Quintanilla.
• 20:19
  Tad Eggleston: In 1950s Brazil, somewhere by the beach, not far from Rio, Helsio, a young and promising soccer player and his friend Noel, spot someone fishing with dynamite. They decide to take a boat and steal some of the dead fish to make some money.
• 20:34
  Tad Eggleston: The boat trip turns into a perilous journey as the two thieves embark on an adventure that will challenge their friendship.
• 20:40
  Tad Eggleston: Inspired by the life of Marcella, Marcello Quintanilla's father.
• 20:45
  Tad Eggleston: Hercio Quintanilla. This graphic novel is both a suspenseful thriller and breathtaking story about friendship.
• 20:53
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off of February 16th in stores April 1st from Fanta Graphics.
• 21:00
  Tad Eggleston: And now, let's, let's check out some collections.
• 21:04
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, The End League, from Rick Remender, art by Matt Broom, Eric Canete, Andy McDonald.
• 21:13
  Tyler Johnson: The New York Times best-selling hit series collected in one gorgeous volume.
• 21:18
  Tyler Johnson: When gods fall and heroes fail, who saves the world? In a devastated world ruled by supervillains, the last surviving heroes embark on a desperate quest to find the mythic hammer of Thor.
• 21:31
  Tyler Johnson: Believing it to hold the key to restoring hope to humanity. This has a final order come off of February 2nd, will be in shops March 11th from Image.
• 21:43
  Tad Eggleston: The Ends from David and Maria Lapham.
• 21:47
  Tad Eggleston: It's 1985, and Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez are deeply in love.
• 21:53
  Tad Eggleston: But Jennifer can't reveal their relationship to her family. The ends are considered by some to be traditional.
• 22:02
  Tad Eggleston: But to most, they're known as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted.
• 22:06
  Tyler Johnson: Her brother, Jack.
• 22:08
  Tad Eggleston: is the worst of the bunch, a full-blown hardcore skinhead. When Jennifer travels to Oceanside, a retirement home for veterans, to be with Angelo under the guise of visiting her grandparents, Jack discovers their relationship.
• 22:21
  Tad Eggleston: Jack is crushed by the betrayal and decides it's time to take a stand.
• 22:26
  Tad Eggleston: This was so fucking good. David Lapham just…
• 22:31
  Tad Eggleston: He's ridiculous, he's… he's ridiculous. February 9th, final order cut off, in stores March 11th. This is actually a colored version, even, which means that even though I have my nice hardcover, I might…
• 22:43
  Tad Eggleston: pick it up, because there's been some interesting colorization of Lapum stuff lately. I forget who the colorist on this is, but it's someone who does good stuff.
• 22:54
  Phil: Alright, then there's The Voice Said Kill by Cy Spurrier and Vanessa Del Rey. Fargo meets Deliverance in this trippy fever dream thriller, juxtaposing gorgeously pastel sunsets and vibrant hues of the wilderness with shadowy nightmares of dark deeds.
• 23:09
  Phil: The wet heart of the Louisiana Bayou. Alligator poachers prowl the mud bug mire.
• 23:16
  Phil: Park ranger, heavily pregnant, raises a hateful mug of moonshine with a criminal matriarch, and one deadly son of a bitch out of his mind on shrooms and retribution.
• 23:26
  Phil: loads his rifle for the human hunt and screams down the stars. That is a final word cutoff of February 16th, in stores March 25th, over at Image Comics. That was, yeah, definitely a hell of a series. I do need to reread it all at once, but it is damn good.
• 23:43
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 23:44
  Tyler Johnson: Looks good, yeah.
• 23:46
  Tad Eggleston: Some final order cutoffs… We have…
• 23:55
  Tad Eggleston: All the Living from Roman Murdoch at Fanographics in stores February 25th. Archie X, The Army of Darkness, number 1, from Eric…
• 24:04
  Tad Eggleston: Burnham and Bill Galvin at Dynamite, in stores February 4th. Black Moon Ritual.
• 24:11
  Tad Eggleston: The Protopias Collection from Itasha Womack and Aletha Martinez at AWA, Future Fic, in stores February 25th. Daredevil No. 1 from Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbel. Garbit at Marvel, in stores March 25th. Dork.
• 24:27
  Tad Eggleston: Number one, from Brett Bean and Jean-Francois.
• 24:30
  Tad Eggleston: Belu?
• 24:32
  Tad Eggleston: From Image Comics, in stores February 4th, First Freedom, the story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, from Angelique Rocher, Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe.
• 24:44
  Tad Eggleston: Bex Glendening from Oni Press in stores February 4th, and Medidagos from Berenice, Motre des Narbonne at Drawn and Quarterly in stores on March
• 24:59
  Tad Eggleston: 4th.
• 25:00
  Tad Eggleston: Still crowdfunding, we have…
• 25:02
  Tad Eggleston: Slice of Life, an anime character brought to life from Cat Kalemia and Phil Falco, Valeria Perry at Lifeline Comics on Kickstarter through January 8th.
• 25:11
  Tad Eggleston: And from Chile to the edge of imagination, Jodorowski and Rodriguez. At Humanoids on Kickstarter on January 14th, a dual Kickstarter with Cosm Pirates from Alejandro Jodorosky and Pete Woods, and the Chasm of Resurrection from Gabriel Rodriguez and Haraji. And if you go full in for the $150, two hardcovers.
• 25:36
  Tad Eggleston: Plus, the… the original short story comic from… from,
• 25:43
  Tad Eggleston: Jodorowski and Gabriel Rodriguez, then you'll be like me and a sucker. Anyway, moving on…
• 25:55
  Tad Eggleston: Humble Bundle still has Adventure Time, $18 for 25 items for the Hero Initiative and Book Industry Charitable Foundation.
• 26:05
  Tad Eggleston: through January 8th.
• 26:09
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 26:11
  Tad Eggleston: Three amazing books.
• 26:14
  Tad Eggleston: This week, I mean, we kinda… we kinda knew how it was gonna…
• 26:19
  Tad Eggleston: Play out, just because, there were 4 books.
• 26:23
  Tad Eggleston: Coming out that I even had interest in reading, and I still haven't managed to get my hands on a copy of Mary Sue number 1, so I haven't read 2 or 3.
• 26:34
  Tad Eggleston: But I did read… Farrell number 19, is it? Was… was really, really good.
• 26:41
  Tad Eggleston: Tin Can Society number 9 wrapped up the series and was really, really good. Lucky Devils number 6, was…
• 26:50
  Tad Eggleston: I'm not gonna say really, really good, but I think that's more,
• 26:55
  Tad Eggleston: a function of where in the series it is. It's the… it's the sixth of nine, so it's kind of that… that turn.
• 27:04
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Tad Eggleston: You know what I mean? So, it's gonna be essential, and, like, it will read great, but, like, as an individual comic, it's…
• 27:17
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 27:17
  Tad Eggleston: It's not all that it might, might be.
• 27:21
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah, that's my, 3 amazing books this week, because they're just… Light Weekend.
• 27:28
  Tyler Johnson: It was a short week, man, or a small week.
• 27:31
  Tad Eggleston: Damn.
• 27:32
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil, it sounds like your walk is almost as interesting as my three comics.
• 27:39
  Phil: Yeah, it's, it's, you know, it's not a whole lot going on, didn't, didn't, didn't get out to the, to the shop this week either. I don't think anything I was reading was coming out, so…
• 27:48
  Phil: You know, yeah.
• 27:51
  Phil: Yeah, I, I, I can, I can tell you that, hmm…
• 27:58
  Phil: I, I have good news and bad news, in, in the, MLB25 department.
• 28:06
  Phil: Yeah. So the bad news is that I still need to get in… The good news is…
• 28:13
  Phil: That, it'll… the switch will show up with the game already on there for you.
• 28:17
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay, so I won't have to load it.
• 28:20
  Phil: Yeah, the digital deluxe Edition was on sale for 10 bucks.
• 28:24
  Tad Eggleston: Nice.
• 28:24
  Phil: Down from 100, so.
• 28:26
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wow.
• 28:27
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:28
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:29
  Phil: So, yeah, it was one of those rows.
• 28:30
  Tad Eggleston: So I even got the digital deluxe version.
• 28:33
  Phil: Digital Deluxe.
• 28:34
  Tad Eggleston: That's the one that I buy for myself, so that makes me really happy.
• 28:37
  Phil: Heck yeah, so, you know…
• 28:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, I'm literally running out of things to do on the last 3.
• 28:43
  Tad Eggleston: Versions, because…
• 28:46
  Phil: The last 3 years.
• 28:48
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I pretty much wrapped up the stuff that I could do on 22, and now I'm…
• 28:52
  Tad Eggleston: kind of going through, and there's… there's a handful of stuff that I hadn't done on 23, and I…
• 28:57
  Tad Eggleston: had literally done pretty much everything on 24, getting ready for 25, only to discover that it wouldn't play on my PlayStation 4, which made me really, really sad. Oh, yeah. And I didn't play any baseball for, like, 6 months, because I was really, really sad.
• 29:13
  Tad Eggleston: And then I started playing 22 again, because that was the one that I'd played the least of.
• 29:17
  Tyler Johnson: They bring you out of your sadness, out of your funk?
• 29:21
  Tad Eggleston: It did a little bit, because, you know, I like playing baseball.
• 29:25
  Tad Eggleston: But when I finally get to play 25, I'll get to play with Oscar Charleston.
• 29:30
  Phil: I don't get to play with…
• 29:32
  Tad Eggleston: Cool Papa Belle, and, like…
• 29:36
  Tad Eggleston: they haven't been on previous versions. I was a little disappointed, because I may, like, sometimes read about stuff. Normally, they have all of…
• 29:48
  Tad Eggleston: all of the new Hall of Famers, they'll do something for?
• 29:53
  Tad Eggleston: And… this year, they didn't. Ichiro didn't get a Hall of Fame card. And… because that's when I really went, oh, I want this, because Ichiro's in the Hall of Fame, and I haven't gotten to play with Ichiro yet.
• 30:06
  Tad Eggleston: I still won't get to play with each hero, so… hopefully next year's.
• 30:10
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 30:12
  Tyler Johnson: We'll get the 26th one.
• 30:13
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 30:15
  Tad Eggleston: So, One Piece Race. Tyler, did you read any One Piece this week?
• 30:22
  Tyler Johnson: No, but I did watch some a little bit while I was working at the store.
• 30:26
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay.
• 30:27
  Tyler Johnson: I have no idea where it was at.
• 30:29
  Tyler Johnson: Had it on.
• 30:31
  Tad Eggleston: Just rub it in. Just rub it in, because I didn't read or watch any One Piece.
• 30:36
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. That's funny. No, I had… I absorbed it by osmosis from some kid who was…
• 30:43
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, and I'm sad, because, like, we've just gotten to, like, the part where they start dealing with racism and slavery in the past.
• 30:51
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. And it's, like, getting really topical in really cool ways, and… I gotta catch up. It's been really, really busy, so I'm still on Chapter 626.
• 31:00
  Tyler Johnson: 626, where am I? 626.
• 31:03
  Phil: Probably in the 300s, I don't know.
• 31:05
  Tad Eggleston: I think you were in the 400s before you left.
• 31:07
  Tyler Johnson: 4. Okay, four. Then that's where I'm at.
• 31:10
  Tad Eggleston: You might… you might have even cleared 5, I don't remember.
• 31:14
  Tyler Johnson: I'm gonna go back and look.
• 31:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, we'd have to… I'd have to go… I'm not gonna go look at the notes right now.
• 31:20
  Tyler Johnson: I could probably figure it out, but…
• 31:22
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you just have to pull up your app and see where it's at.
• 31:27
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, that's true. My iPad's wrong here somewhere.
• 31:30
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil, did you read any manga?
• 31:33
  Phil: I… I did not, unfortunately.
• 31:36
  Tad Eggleston: You know what I did read this week, though? Because I did… because there was so little other stuff coming out, I did… I did take the time to do some reading that I hadn't…
• 31:45
  Tad Eggleston: gotten around to. First, because it's part of my next American Nature Presents column, and…
• 31:54
  Tad Eggleston: and he's such a weird dude that it's the part of it that I have had trouble writing. I read some more Jodorowski. I read El Topo.
• 32:04
  Tad Eggleston: and… er… son of El Topo, rather, which is, like, the sequel to his movie, which I watched the movie a while ago, too. And I read a couple more volumes of The Bouncer.
• 32:15
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, his westerns are as funky and weird and cool as his sci-fi, and, like, it's weird to, like, talk about westerns and sci-fi as being the same…
• 32:29
  Tad Eggleston: philosophical, surreal… I mean, you remember when we read The Inkl, Tyler? Yeah. Imagine that in a Western.
• 32:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, exactly, yep.
• 32:39
  Tad Eggleston: So, I read some Jodorowski, and I also read some, Married Life with Archie.
• 32:49
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's good.
• 32:50
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, some married life with Archie.
• 32:52
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, yeah. And I need to… I have… I have lined up to read.
• 32:59
  Tad Eggleston: Kelly Thompson's run on Sabrina.
• 33:04
  Tad Eggleston: The teenage witch.
• 33:06
  Tad Eggleston: So… gonna have to… Do that soon.
• 33:12
  Tad Eggleston: Sounds good. Most of that doesn't have anything to do with one piece.
• 33:16
  Tyler Johnson: Yo, but…
• 33:19
  Phil: But what if… Why don't…
• 33:21
  Tyler Johnson: What if it did?
• 33:22
  Tad Eggleston: Why don't we, jump into…
• 33:26
  Tad Eggleston: our… our best of 2025. This is…
• 33:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 33:30
  Tad Eggleston: Part 2.
• 33:31
  Tad Eggleston: This is where we make up categories, so I kind of feel like I like the older work that we discovered slash rediscovered enough.
• 33:42
  Phil: Huh.
• 33:42
  Tad Eggleston: that I want to keep it for next year.
• 33:44
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 33:45
  Tad Eggleston: be the single issue.
• 33:46
  Phil: I've decided on the single issue.
• 33:49
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe the single issue. So we might be down to only one rotating category.
• 33:54
  Phil: Okay.
• 33:54
  Tad Eggleston: That's all I'm saying.
• 33:55
  Phil: I'm kind of, I mean, I also like those categories as, you know.
• 33:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 34:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so, so…
• 34:03
  Phil: the guaranteed to be rotating category again, because I feel like every year has a different, like, last year it made sense to have the animal. There were so many good animal-related comics, right?
• 34:15
  Tyler Johnson: We had animals here on Ferrell.
• 34:17
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, this year, it felt like it was a big monster year, so… so Hear There Be Monsters is our… is our category.
• 34:25
  Tyler Johnson: I gotta be, honest, I took this kind of loosely, because mine don't have literal monsters. They don't have literal monsters in them, but…
• 34:33
  Tad Eggleston: But, but you took it less loosely than Phil.
• 34:36
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I… well, so, I mean, I saw… I saw what,
• 34:40
  Phil: what, you know, you picked the traditional monster books, and they all sound great, but it's… it's one of those things where I realized that, like, I didn't want… I didn't want too many repeats of what I read, you know? Yeah, yeah.
• 34:52
  Phil: it was one of those where I had to think outside the box. This first one, you know, I guess part of it's because
• 34:59
  Phil: You know, monstrosity and monsters are something that's important to me.
• 35:03
  Phil: And, the way I think about them is… is less that they're about things that are scary or evil, and just more about representations of the unknown. So I wanted the first, the first, Hear There Be Monsters award to go out to all of the awesome comics that I haven't even heard of yet.
• 35:21
  Phil: Just because there are so many out there that I have to know.
• 35:26
  Tad Eggleston: This is how Phil is very different from you, Tyler. You're very literal. Phil's like, how can I take this and completely not answer the question while still philosophically saying that I'm answering the question?
• 35:39
  Phil: is an answer to the question, it's celebrating… it's celebrating continuing to find new series, you know? And also recognizing…
• 35:46
  Tyler Johnson: Creative. Isn't that what this is?
• 35:48
  Tad Eggleston: Their show is, though?
• 35:50
  Phil: Well, yeah…
• 35:50
  Tad Eggleston: That's not a best of 25.
• 35:54
  Tyler Johnson: I guess it's, it's also… That's the best of all ways.
• 35:57
  Tad Eggleston: The best of all time.
• 35:59
  Phil: You know, it sounded… it sounded more fun.
• 36:01
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I mean, that could… that could be your entire reintroduction list.
• 36:08
  Phil: Reintroduction list. What's that?
• 36:11
  Tad Eggleston: That's the third one. That's the next one.
• 36:13
  Phil: Polar work that we discovered or rediscovered.
• 36:15
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Tad Eggleston: True.
• 36:17
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, but, like, there's that… but I'm talking about, I'm talking about, like, even now, like, knowing that…
• 36:22
  Tad Eggleston: This is… in the year of monsters, Phil couldn't come up with 3 monster books, because he's a.
• 36:28
  Phil: Why? What's right now.
• 36:30
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just saying.
• 36:30
  Phil: I'm saying I didn't… I didn't want to throw in a book, like, I didn't want to mention, oh, I'm going to mention Lazarus for the 16th time, because billionaires are monsters, you know? Like, that's… that's…
• 36:40
  Tad Eggleston: You could have…
• 36:41
  Tyler Johnson: Almost.
• 36:41
  Tad Eggleston: Scott…
• 36:42
  Tyler Johnson: You have Hoopla.
• 36:43
  Tad Eggleston: You have Hoopla. You could have read one of the 17 Godzilla books that came out this year that were…
• 36:50
  Tyler Johnson: spot.
• 36:51
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 36:51
  Tyler Johnson: There were a lot.
• 36:52
  Phil: I mean, Godzilla Heist? I think… was that this year? Was that this year? No, I think it was last year was the Valentine's Day special. I'm… I'm…
• 37:01
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, the Valentine… no? No!
• 37:04
  Phil: I did read that. What's that?
• 37:05
  Tad Eggleston: That was this year. Yeah. I got a… yeah, yeah.
• 37:08
  Phil: I… I apologize, because…
• 37:10
  Tad Eggleston: See?
• 37:10
  Phil: I picked that up.
• 37:11
  Tad Eggleston: this!
• 37:12
  Phil: what… I gotta look that up right now. That doesn't feel like it was this year. That feels like it was last year.
• 37:16
  Tyler Johnson: Alright. So, you did that for your.
• 37:19
  Phil: First pick, what's your second pick?
• 37:21
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, we all…
• 37:23
  Tad Eggleston: Round robin, man. Oh, okay. I get to go now. We go in alphabetical order.
• 37:28
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 37:29
  Tad Eggleston: Phil Tad Tyler.
• 37:32
  Tad Eggleston: Learn to spell. You have a comic shop now. You need to know how to alphabet.
• 37:36
  Tyler Johnson: I gotta alphabetize everything.
• 37:38
  Phil: the dude with initials PU is at the top of the alphabet around here.
• 37:42
  Tad Eggleston: I never thought about that, that sucks, dude.
• 37:45
  Phil: My parents didn't name me Peter because they didn't want me to be made fun of, so they really, they really thought outside the box on that one.
• 37:53
  Tad Eggleston: So, so yeah, my top monster book is a, is, is a hilarious swords and sorcery, feminist swords and sorcery book called Babs from Garth Ennis and Jason.
• 38:04
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 38:04
  Tad Eggleston: Rose and ahoy.
• 38:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. It's just fucking…
• 38:08
  Tad Eggleston: Great.
• 38:09
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Tyler Johnson: That's awesome, I got… I'm gonna have to check it out, because I'm a really big Garth Ennis fan, but I went with someone that you're a fan of, Tad, Tyler Boss.
• 38:19
  Tad Eggleston: Though, I do have one quick thing. Wasn't this part of your… one of your lists last week?
• 38:27
  Phil: Gasp.
• 38:28
  Tyler Johnson: What's it?
• 38:30
  Phil: I'm pretty sure it was.
• 38:31
  Tad Eggleston: He doesn't even remember!
• 38:35
  Tyler Johnson: No. Check the tape? It was.
• 38:37
  Phil: Yes, it was. Yeah, we're covering the tape.
• 38:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, it was.
• 38:41
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 38:41
  Tad Eggleston: Go ahead.
• 38:42
  Tyler Johnson: But anyway, he'll do bad things.
• 38:44
  Tad Eggleston: That's great. You'll do.
• 38:45
  Tyler Johnson: I loved it. Yeah, Adriano Tortolici was on art, it was just really good.
• 38:51
  Tad Eggleston: boss writing, yeah. Yeah, it was, it was very good. It was very good.
• 38:55
  Tyler Johnson: I won't use it again.
• 38:58
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it would be a legit miniseries pick.
• 39:02
  Tyler Johnson: No, I got some… I got a few others for that.
• 39:04
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, okay, it just…
• 39:06
  Phil: Like it enough?
• 39:06
  Tad Eggleston: to pick it up.
• 39:07
  Phil: twice.
• 39:07
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it was a little weird that you picked it as the nonfiction, but, I mean…
• 39:12
  Phil: No.
• 39:13
  Tyler Johnson: I didn't pick for nonfiction! Whoa!
• 39:16
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, you didn't pick anything for nonfiction, that's where the joke was, Tom.
• 39:20
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, okay, I'm like, look, I'm…
• 39:23
  Tyler Johnson: I'm a little bit stressed lately, but I do know that that's… fiction, yeah.
• 39:28
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you think it's fiction, but really, it was your own story. He was writing about you, you didn't…
• 39:35
  Tyler Johnson: I didn't even know that it was me being written about.
• 39:39
  Phil: All the bad things you don't even remember doing. Right.
• 39:44
  Tad Eggleston: So, your top pick.
• 39:47
  Phil: What's that?
• 39:48
  Tad Eggleston: your top pick.
• 39:49
  Phil: No, I didn't.
• 39:51
  Tyler Johnson: No, Phil, this is your top pick, because you didn't pick a top one.
• 39:54
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, this is…
• 39:55
  Phil: No, I just…
• 39:56
  Tad Eggleston: This is your third pick.
• 39:58
  Phil: No, no, we skipped… we skipped the second one. I'm messing with you. This is… I don't like… I don't know about 22 Panels After Dark anymore, guys. I'm too… I'm too easily bullied. My… my number 2 pick… my number 2 pick is gonna be.
• 40:11
  Tad Eggleston: Your number 3 pick wasn't anything, but okay, your number 2 pick.
• 40:15
  Phil: My number 3 pick… it was existential. Anyway.
• 40:20
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but I'm reading this here, and so is your number 2 pick, in parentheses.
• 40:27
  Phil: Yeah.
• 40:28
  Phil: Yeah. So, so, so I actually, I read the first issue of this. I did pick up the first issue of this on a whim.
• 40:34
  Phil: I like… it says Lost Fantasy, by Kurt Pires, Franklin Jonas, Maxie Dallow, and Mark Dale and Micah Myers over at Image. I read the first issue, I found it very intriguing, but it, it, it was literally… it was like a Trade Waiter sort of thing. It's like, okay, this.
• 40:51
  Tad Eggleston: I've actually read the first three. Okay. But I need to read the trade.
• 40:57
  Tyler Johnson: What's the current one? I just saw it on my shelf, but I don't remember what number it is.
• 41:01
  Phil: 5 or 6?
• 41:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 41:03
  Phil: Yeah, so it's good. If the first trade isn't out already, then it is soon. But yeah, so, you know, it was one… it's just, again, it's me finding a way to celebrate a book that looks cool, that I want to read, that without, you know, re-tapping the well.
• 41:18
  Phil: Too many times. And it is a book that has monsters.
• 41:22
  Phil: Yeah.
• 41:23
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is. It is.
• 41:26
  Tad Eggleston: 8 is coming out in February, 7 comes out in January, so 6 is the one that just hit the shelves.
• 41:36
  Tad Eggleston: Secondly.
• 41:37
  Phil: So, Tad, what's your… what's your number two, model?
• 41:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, and Volume 1 hit the shelves on… on November 19th, so, like…
• 41:44
  Phil: Well, there we go.
• 41:45
  Tad Eggleston: For Trade Raider, you should have the Trade Raider.
• 41:48
  Phil: I might have… it's… well, but that also requires spending money. It will be…
• 41:53
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, I have only read the single issues on Hoopla, so I'm pretty certain the trade is also on Hoopla.
• 41:59
  Phil: Exactly, yeah.
• 42:02
  Phil: I just… I… I… this is… this is why… That's my…
• 42:06
  Tad Eggleston: My number… my number 2 book,
• 42:09
  Tad Eggleston: is… is Godzilla vs. America?
• 42:14
  Tad Eggleston: there were, I think, 4 issues of this so far this year. You had Godzilla, the LET, LET… I mean…
• 42:20
  Tad Eggleston: leading off was Godzilla vs. Chicago, and it had both Tim Seeley and Carolyn Cash doing… which, I mean, that just set the tone right there. It's like, oh, so we're gonna have… we're gonna have both mainstream people and, like, alternative comics people fucking A.
• 42:39
  Tad Eggleston: And it literally ended with Godzilla going off to Indiana, and the main characters saying, fuck Indiana. So, I mean, you just can't get better than that.
• 42:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and then… then Dave Baker brought footnotes to the LA stories, and… and Jesse Lonergan had one of the Boston stories, and…
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I just loved my Godzilla vs. America.
• 43:07
  Tyler Johnson: They were good.
• 43:08
  Tad Eggleston: It's really… it was hard, actually, not to make Godzilla vs. America my top Monster Book.
• 43:17
  Tad Eggleston: this.
• 43:19
  Tyler Johnson: Well, you put yours…
• 43:21
  Tad Eggleston: But there's…
• 43:21
  Tyler Johnson: a good reason.
• 43:21
  Tad Eggleston: Recent.
• 43:23
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, your next one was a big one for me, for sure, but, my next one is Far Down Below, from Chris Condon in, is it Gage? Shaw? Geggy. Geggy Shaw, and Nathan Kemp from Mad Cave.
• 43:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that was really good. I waited for the trade for that one.
• 43:44
  Tad Eggleston: So I literally just read it, because the trade's so good.
• 43:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 43:48
  Tad Eggleston: It was so good, though.
• 43:50
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 43:50
  Tad Eggleston: This is why Chris Condon all over the place was my wild card, because, like…
• 43:55
  Tad Eggleston: This was maybe the least of his books this year, and it was still that fucking good.
• 44:01
  Tyler Johnson: It was really good. I mean, I love the whole story, you know, of the house, everything.
• 44:07
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 44:10
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 44:11
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, Phil, let's get to it. Your…
• 44:15
  Phil: Oh, my number one?
• 44:17
  Tad Eggleston: I'm bringing that one.
• 44:17
  Phil: for Hear Me Monsters is, is, FML by Kelly Hsu, David Lopez, Chris Peter, and Clayton Coles at, Dark Horse. Yeah, it's, it's one that I really, really loved.
• 44:31
  Tad Eggleston: Fucking good.
• 44:32
  Phil: Her son just turned into a weird, fuzzy monster.
• 44:36
  Tad Eggleston: Wolf.
• 44:37
  Phil: Yeah. Well, he doesn't even seem wolf-eyed.
• 44:39
  Tad Eggleston: of…
• 44:40
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:40
  Tad Eggleston: Kind of, kind of a werewolf.
• 44:42
  Phil: He's a big fuzzy guy. You know, he's something alright, but .
• 44:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 44:46
  Phil: You know, so… so yeah, it's… it's… it's the way…
• 44:49
  Tad Eggleston: He's like a cross between a werewolf and Grimace.
• 44:53
  Phil: Well, he's not purple. That's just… Grimace is a little too horrific here, you know? I wouldn't, I would,
• 44:58
  Phil: won't worry about that guy. But, but yeah, you know, it's… it's a representation of monstrosity that, definitely speaks to me, and, you know, it's reflective of how I'd want to treat monsters in my own work. So, yeah, that's why it's my top spot.
• 45:12
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and similarly, Orla from John Lee's and Sally Cantorino takes my top spot, because the ick…
• 45:20
  Tad Eggleston: Is the coolest monster ever.
• 45:24
  Tyler Johnson: I've got, I've got, Orla coming up later in the conversation.
• 45:29
  Tyler Johnson: Didn't I?
• 45:30
  Tad Eggleston: I thought, I thought it came.
• 45:30
  Tyler Johnson: Maybe I.
• 45:31
  Tad Eggleston: time for you.
• 45:32
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, last time, yep.
• 45:33
  Phil: Oh, no, it's so…
• 45:34
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it's so incredible.
• 45:35
  Tyler Johnson: Nope, it's here, it's here. Yep.
• 45:38
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, so yeah, you're getting all over the Orla this year.
• 45:45
  Tad Eggleston: Be careful, Tyler.
• 45:48
  Tad Eggleston: Because if you're not nice to her.
• 45:52
  Tad Eggleston: It won't go well for you.
• 45:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Tyler Johnson: Can you imagine being… being the guy that likes her? That guy when he discovers, like, what's going on? He's like.
• 46:01
  Tad Eggleston: He's pretty awesome. The fact that he just, like, kicked back, he's pretty awesome.
• 46:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 46:10
  Tyler Johnson: Do you got Orla… Exquisite Corpses from James Tiny and IV and Michael Walsh.
• 46:17
  Tyler Johnson: This has been… this has been fun.
• 46:21
  Tad Eggleston: It has. I'm a couple issues behind.
• 46:24
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, then I won't spoil, which… which…
• 46:26
  Tad Eggleston: I…
• 46:28
  Tad Eggleston: I totally love the whole concept of, like, these crazed killers getting dropped in a small town to duke out who gets to rule the world for the next 5 years.
• 46:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, right, so these political leaders, they, they hire…
• 46:44
  Tad Eggleston: Business leaders.
• 46:46
  Tyler Johnson: Business leaders, yeah.
• 46:47
  Tad Eggleston: Way more business leaders than… I mean, I know that we… we…
• 46:51
  Tyler Johnson: It's a… it's a… it's a dogfight, but it's in… but it's with serial killers, you know?
• 46:56
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 46:57
  Tyler Johnson: Right.
• 46:58
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 46:59
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, butts. It's…
• 47:01
  Tad Eggleston: Pretty ridiculous. It's been great.
• 47:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 47:04
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 47:06
  Tad Eggleston: So, our, our… another new category, but one that we like enough that I think it's coming back next year, an older work that we either discovered or rediscovered this year.
• 47:19
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm.
• 47:20
  Tad Eggleston: And Phil actually literally just changed his, and he's not actually…
• 47:26
  Tad Eggleston: it's not that old of a work, because I think… I think, like, the number that he's putting up there is, like, maybe 2 years old, but I'll allow it.
• 47:35
  Phil: Okay. You know, it's still… it didn't come out this year. This is the designated…
• 47:41
  Tad Eggleston: That's true. That's true.
• 47:42
  Phil: It didn't come out this year one. But you know, it was especially…
• 47:46
  Tad Eggleston: I think there was an issue this year.
• 47:49
  Phil: Okay.
• 47:49
  Tad Eggleston: I thought.
• 47:50
  Phil: Okay.
• 47:51
  Phil: I'm not sure which one that was, but…
• 47:54
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, to be fair, there was an issue in my top book this year, too, so…
• 47:59
  Phil: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 48:01
  Tad Eggleston: camp.
• 48:01
  Phil: you know what happens. But this is… this is PeePee Poo Pooh, by Carolyn Cash over at Silver Sprocket. I picked this up when I visited Portland this year, back in February, number 420, and it was fucking hilarious and magnificent. Oh, yeah. So, it… it was… it was one that, you know.
• 48:19
  Phil: It's kind of funny, because I remembered one of the other… one of the other one-shots that I picked up there was, Sobek by James Stoko, so I… I probably should have put that in my Hear Me Monsters, but, you know, I didn't think of it fast enough.
• 48:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:33
  Phil: That's why I, you know, I had to… I had a last-minute change.
• 48:37
  Tad Eggleston: Carolyn, we gotta… I still need to get Carolyn on the show. We've talked about it a few times, but we haven't actually pulled it off.
• 48:45
  Tad Eggleston: She's taking over, Nancy, I think.
• 48:48
  Phil: Oh, wow.
• 48:49
  Tad Eggleston: Holy cow. She'd done a fill-in for Olivia… she'd done, like, a week of fill-ins for Olivia James already, but she's the official new…
• 48:59
  Tad Eggleston: new Nancy artist, I believe, as of the 1st.
• 49:03
  Phil: just artists, or, do we, like…
• 49:07
  Tad Eggleston: everything.
• 49:07
  Phil: Well, yeah, I mean, Olivia James was a pen name, right? For someone? Right.
• 49:12
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:13
  Phil: So… Interesting, very interesting.
• 49:19
  Tad Eggleston: So… Yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm definitely looking forward to…
• 49:25
  Tyler Johnson: So, was… are there actually 420 issues, or was that a one-off?
• 49:30
  Tad Eggleston: No, no. In no way. I don't know anything about…
• 49:34
  Tad Eggleston: You've never read Pee Pee Poo Poo?
• 49:36
  Tad Eggleston: No, you would like pee-pee poo-poo.
• 49:38
  Phil: Yeah, it's…
• 49:39
  Tad Eggleston: It's damn far.
• 49:39
  Phil: It's on Hoopla!
• 49:41
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, okay. There are four issues. The numbers are, number one.
• 49:45
  Phil: Number 69, number 420, and number, 80,085.
• 49:51
  Tad Eggleston: That's awesome. Was the first one actually number one? I don't feel like the first one was number one.
• 49:57
  Phil: I don't know. I just know that… I just have…
• 50:01
  Tad Eggleston: She hasn't actually had a number 1 yet.
• 50:03
  Tad Eggleston: Oh my god.
• 50:04
  Phil: No, so, okay, so if, if these dates on, on Hoopla are to be believed, issue 69 was, April 4th, 2023,
• 50:17
  Phil: issue 420 was April 18th, 2023, and then number 1 was August 13th, 2024, and number 80,085 is November 14th.
• 50:31
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, that's right. There was a number one, it just wasn't… The first issue.
• 50:37
  Phil: It was… it was the 4th.
• 50:39
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 50:39
  Phil: Yeah.
• 50:40
  Tad Eggleston: 420 was actually 20… yeah, 2021, so you're gonna…
• 50:43
  Phil: Oh, really? Okay.
• 50:44
  Tad Eggleston: I think she was… I think she was… well, that's when it went up on Hoopla.
• 50:50
  Tad Eggleston: But when it came out from Silver Sprocket, I think… I wanna say…
• 50:58
  Tad Eggleston: I want to say $420 she made while she was still in Chicago.
• 51:03
  Tad Eggleston: She's out in…
• 51:03
  Phil: There was some Chicago humor there.
• 51:05
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, yeah.
• 51:07
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, no… Carolyn's… Carolyn's fantastic.
• 51:13
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 51:15
  Phil: But Tad, what's your, what's your, your third… first… first older.
• 51:21
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and this is… this is another, tyler needs to come back.
• 51:27
  Tad Eggleston: Because we need to talk about Volume 10.
• 51:31
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 51:31
  Tad Eggleston: of… Monstrous.
• 51:34
  Tad Eggleston: Which, I just read also this week, and was so good.
• 51:41
  Tad Eggleston: This is one of those series that actually defines to me the books that I need to trade weight, because each issue is so dense.
• 51:50
  Tad Eggleston: that I have a lot of trouble reading it monthly.
• 51:53
  Phil: Yeah.
• 51:54
  Tyler Johnson: I agree.
• 51:55
  Tad Eggleston: I read the first trade relatively soon after it came out, and I kind of tried to pick up monthly then, and it just didn't work, and it wound up being years before I read the first book.
• 52:11
  Tad Eggleston: And then, years before, I actually managed to, like, get caught up after that. Not ever because it wasn't good, but because, like.
• 52:25
  Tad Eggleston: it's… a commitment.
• 52:28
  Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?
• 52:30
  Tad Eggleston: In a way that most comics aren't.
• 52:36
  Tad Eggleston: And not… not in a bad way.
• 52:39
  Phil: Yeah, I haven't figured out.
• 52:40
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 52:41
  Phil: similar experience. I actually was buying it monthly, I think, through, I want to say, issue 30 or 40, but hadn't read it since that first volume, you know, because of the same sort of thing of, oh, I couldn't really read it month to month, and I never sat down to binge through it all.
• 53:00
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 53:03
  Tyler Johnson: It's a great series, and I, like I said, yeah, we gotta do number 10.
• 53:07
  Tyler Johnson: Very soon. We should get that on the calendar.
• 53:12
  Tyler Johnson: Let's see…
• 53:16
  Phil: Well, Tyler, what's your, what's your, first pick for rediscovered older work?
• 53:21
  Tyler Johnson: Have you guys heard of… oh, it's not on my desk, it's on my kitchen table. It's a… it's a…
• 53:27
  Tyler Johnson: book called Motherfuckers.
• 53:29
  Phil: I have not heard of this book.
• 53:31
  Tad Eggleston: I have, because I… I only kickstarted it enough to… have the… the…
• 53:42
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and we talked about it on the air as well.
• 53:46
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, yeah.
• 53:47
  Tad Eggleston: Because when it was kickstarting, I… I… one of the things Magnetic does that I like is they'll let you do, like, a $2 support to open up the…
• 53:59
  Tad Eggleston: the,
• 54:04
  Tad Eggleston: what the hell do they call it? The… the…
• 54:09
  Tad Eggleston: give you access to the add-ons and whatever. So, so, like, you can… you can…
• 54:16
  Tad Eggleston: You can, you know, commit $2, and then when the thing's funded and whatnot.
• 54:23
  Tad Eggleston: decide if you're gonna do more, and I wound up, because I knew it was gonna be in comic shops, not actually…
• 54:29
  Tad Eggleston: doing anything through the… the Kickstarter, but it's… it's been on my…
• 54:35
  Tad Eggleston: radar since. You've been… you've been reading it? You like it?
• 54:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I have, the first 3… Hardcovers of it.
• 54:44
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 54:44
  Tyler Johnson: And…
• 54:46
  Tad Eggleston: Four total.
• 54:47
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. Or will be.
• 54:48
  Tad Eggleston: 4 total.
• 54:49
  Tyler Johnson: I have the first three, and I'm only in the first one right now, and it's… it's good.
• 54:55
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Well, isn't it… isn't it, like, both… Written and drawn by Run?
• 55:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 55:03
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 55:04
  Tad Eggleston: Ron of Run DMC is a cartoonist.
• 55:08
  Phil: Wow. Yeah. Holy shit.
• 55:10
  Tyler Johnson: Let me go grab it quick, and I'll show you what it looks like, Bill. It looks cool.
• 55:14
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, it's fantastic.
• 55:15
  Phil: Absolutely incredible.
• 55:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 55:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I definitely need to actually read it.
• 55:24
  Tad Eggleston: It's just.
• 55:25
  Phil: Yeah.
• 55:25
  Tad Eggleston: Ones that, you know…
• 55:29
  Tad Eggleston: I've known of it for a long time, and then Magnetic put it out, and I'm like, oh, now I really need to do it.
• 55:36
  Tyler Johnson: This is the Volume.
• 55:38
  Phil: Awesome.
• 55:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 55:40
  Tyler Johnson: It's very graffiti, like, you know, and it's just, it's awesome.
• 55:44
  Tad Eggleston: Nice.
• 55:45
  Tyler Johnson: It's really cool. Anyway, so I just discovered that recently, and I was kind of like, wow, that's been out for a while. How come I just bought out what this is?
• 55:53
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, really, because it…
• 55:56
  Tad Eggleston: It was made originally a long time ago, but it hasn't been available until…
• 56:01
  Phil: Mmm…
• 56:02
  Tad Eggleston: really recently. It was like…
• 56:04
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, sick?
• 56:05
  Tad Eggleston: One of those… it was, like, one of… well, 06 is when it was made, but, like, that version came out this year.
• 56:11
  Tyler Johnson: Correct.
• 56:12
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't think it's really been available in between.
• 56:16
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 56:17
  Tad Eggleston: One of those things that was, like…
• 56:20
  Tad Eggleston: I think it was… and I could be kind of wrong on this, but it feels like…
• 56:26
  Tad Eggleston: It spent most of the last 20 years being one of those books that lots of people had heard about, and nobody had ever actually
• 56:35
  Tad Eggleston: Scene?
• 56:36
  Tyler Johnson: Mmm. Okay.
• 56:38
  Tad Eggleston: Y-you know what I mean? Yup.
• 56:41
  Tyler Johnson: Well, well.
• 56:41
  Tad Eggleston: And obviously not nobody, but… but yeah. Oh, and you know, I just talked to the publisher, Magnetic Press, Mike Kennedy, recently, so that's another interview that people should go…
• 56:52
  Tad Eggleston: Listen to, because, he's a cool guy.
• 56:56
  Phil: There you go.
• 56:57
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil?
• 56:59
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 57:00
  Phil: My number 2 is, Bitch Planet by Kelly Sudakonic, Valentin D'Alandreau, Chris Peter, Clayton, coals.
• 57:10
  Phil: Yes?
• 57:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yep, you got it right twice today. Okay, I'm on.
• 57:14
  Tyler Johnson: Look at you!
• 57:15
  Phil: Alright, Anno.
• 57:16
  Phil: What, what I, what I lack in, in being widely read, I try to make up for in pronunciations over at Image. Yeah, we, again, like I mentioned, it's this type of double-dipping that I, I, I already know I'm doing, that I try not to repeat too much, but yeah, regret.
• 57:33
  Tad Eggleston: You mean two Deconic books already?
• 57:36
  Phil: No, I meant giving Bitch Planet two awards, because I gave it my, oh, wait, no, no, I took it away. I took away its, mentioning for Nonfiction Award. That's right.
• 57:48
  Tad Eggleston: That's right. Did you? Did you wind up taking away… I did.
• 57:51
  Phil: I'm pretty sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. It did, but it was still fantastic. This was, this year was the first time I'd reread the series.
• 57:57
  Tad Eggleston: Because I seem to remember giving you a hard time about their…
• 58:01
  Phil: Yes.
• 58:02
  Tad Eggleston: The fact that, like…
• 58:03
  Phil: Well, because it was the… it was the last second where I remembered that I read, suddenly, suddenly one summer camp from hell.
• 58:10
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay, okay, that's right, that's right. We took it away after the fact.
• 58:15
  Phil: Yeah.
• 58:16
  Tad Eggleston: It wasn't even a taking away off the air. No. You told…
• 58:21
  Phil: I did. Kelly Sue, and Valentine that they had won, and THEN took it away. It was, it was worse than a lot.
• 58:28
  Tad Eggleston: That kind of… you were, you were like, you were like the Kanye, steal the… the award because you decided.
• 58:36
  Phil: I prefer not to invoke… invoke Kanye at this time.
• 58:39
  Tad Eggleston: That was why I did it. Yes, it was.
• 58:43
  Phil: It was rude, and that's…
• 58:44
  Tyler Johnson: I'm with Kanye!
• 58:46
  Phil: We don't have time, Tyler, we don't have time.
• 58:48
  Tad Eggleston: Well, he did call him Kanye rather than Yee, so…
• 58:51
  Tyler Johnson: Indeed!
• 58:52
  Tad Eggleston: Clearly.
• 58:53
  Phil: Oh, no.
• 58:54
  Tyler Johnson: My son pointed out to me the other day, he said, had Kanye been serious about running for president years ago, 10 years ago, we could now be, having President Yi, you know, in office.
• 59:07
  Phil: Oh, let's not… let's, let's try to avoid that timeline at all costs. But yeah, but Bitch Planet was a… it's still a hell of a book. If you haven't read it yet, go and read it now, and hopefully it's coming back soon, you know? Or at least coming back eventually.
• 59:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, my, my, my number 2 is a book that, like.
• 59:25
  Tad Eggleston: I love so much that I…
• 59:29
  Tad Eggleston: I'm amazed that I… it had flown under my radar, and I'd never read any of it until this year.
• 59:38
  Tad Eggleston: I don't… I wish you…
• 59:40
  Tyler Johnson: You've heard of Jonah Hex, though, right?
• 59:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I've heard of Jonah Hex, but it… but… but…
• 59:46
  Tad Eggleston: And I think I've even read some Jonah Hex, but I'd never read any of this run of Jonah Hex. Okay. Even though… even though it's a reli… like, I sold issues of this run of Jonah Hex.
• 59:58
  Tad Eggleston: You know, it was leading into New 52.
• 1:00:01
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:00:01
  Phil: Then turn into western tales or something like that?
• 1:00:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  Tad Eggleston: All-star Western.
• 1:00:08
  Phil: egg.
• 1:00:10
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, Jimmy Palmiati and Justin Gray's take on Jonah Hex, where almost all of them are one-and-done issues, a couple of short story arcs, they've got a who's who of artists.
• 1:00:23
  Tad Eggleston: Like, a who's who.
• 1:00:24
  Tad Eggleston: There's an issue that Jeff Lemire does. Jeff Lemire did an issue. That's the one issue I picked up, yep. Darwin Cook did, I think, 3 issues. Fiona Staples did an issue.
• 1:00:35
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:35
  Tad Eggleston: Pre-Saga?
• 1:00:37
  Phil: Yep, yep, yep, that's for sure.
• 1:00:38
  Tad Eggleston: Jordy Bernay probably did the most issues.
• 1:00:44
  Tad Eggleston: And still only did, like, a dozen or so out of the, like, 70, like… Yeah. Eduardo Riso did an issue.
• 1:00:51
  Phil: Hell yeah.
• 1:00:52
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like…
• 1:00:55
  Tad Eggleston: again, a who's who, and, like, it was one of the things that we talked to Jimmy about when we had him on, because, like, we reached out to him be…
• 1:01:02
  Tad Eggleston: Because we've been reading this on the Pulp Blotter, so… so, like, this is… this is the year in review in many ways for me.
• 1:01:12
  Tad Eggleston: You know, essentially, like, the way they planned it out, because they were doing one-and-dones, like, anytime he was a con or whatnot, he'd pitch…
• 1:01:21
  Tad Eggleston: whoever, you know, hey, you wanna do Joanna Hex issue? And they'd be like, I don't know, what's the deadline? He's like, a year? And they'd go, oh, hell yes! And then they'd write the story specifically for the artist.
• 1:01:32
  Phil: That's awesome.
• 1:01:33
  Tad Eggleston: You know, so, I mean, they were in this unique place to make it that much easier to get some really great talent.
• 1:01:43
  Tad Eggleston: Etc. And yeah, it just… if you like Western comics at all.
• 1:01:50
  Tad Eggleston: And frankly, in a lot of ways, if you just like good comics, Chonatics is something that you need to go…
• 1:01:57
  Phil: Good job.
• 1:01:58
  Tad Eggleston: Go explore some.
• 1:01:59
  Phil: To an issue?
• 1:02:02
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think so, I'm not certain he was even still around.
• 1:02:07
  Phil: No, no, no, he was alive when it was coming out, pretty sure, because I remember… let me look this up.
• 1:02:12
  Tyler Johnson: You know what's really funny, guys? On my screen, the three of us are stacked, and it looked like Phil was looking up at Tad as he was, like, Brady Bunch style. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, so…
• 1:02:26
  Tad Eggleston: John Severin died in 2012.
• 1:02:31
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:02:33
  Phil: And that's… that's after the New 52.
• 1:02:38
  Tad Eggleston: No…
• 1:02:39
  Tyler Johnson: Really?
• 1:02:40
  Phil: Yeah, New 52 was, like, 2011.
• 1:02:43
  Phil: 20… 2010, even.
• 1:02:47
  Tyler Johnson: Really?
• 1:02:48
  Tad Eggleston: It is 2011.
• 1:02:49
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, no, Severin might have been around.
• 1:02:52
  Phil: Yeah, so it's… it's… I… because I remember seeing something about, like, some Western stuff that he had drawn.
• 1:02:59
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I know Severin has done lots of Western stuff, and possibly even…
• 1:03:08
  Tad Eggleston: Jonah Hex. I just don't remember if he was part of that.
• 1:03:13
  Phil: Mine, though. Yeah.
• 1:03:18
  Phil: Sorry, don't mean to… to…
• 1:03:19
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no.
• 1:03:20
  Phil: sidetrack.
• 1:03:21
  Tad Eggleston: I completely, I completely understand.
• 1:03:24
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, it was, really, really outstanding.
• 1:03:28
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait a minute… There is a…
• 1:03:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's like there's a new Jonah Hex series coming?
• 1:03:43
  Phil: I think I'd seen… maybe…
• 1:03:46
  Phil: That's something like that? I didn't… I didn't remember too much about it, though, but
• 1:03:51
  Phil: Possibly. But, Tyler, what was your, second pick for older work this year?
• 1:03:58
  Tyler Johnson: Pretty much everything by Jason.
• 1:04:01
  Tyler Johnson: Have you read any Jason comics?
• 1:04:04
  Tad Eggleston: If not, no. I've heard of him, but I haven't read any.
• 1:04:08
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. They're just… they're deep, they're cool, he's got a way with, interjecting his anthropomorphic characters into very deadpan writing, and it's…
• 1:04:21
  Tyler Johnson: It's just… it's cool. I really like it.
• 1:04:24
  Phil: Alright.
• 1:04:26
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I loved his new book this year. One of my highlights of the year that people haven't seen yet, because it'll be in…
• 1:04:38
  Tad Eggleston: American Nature Presents No. 4, or at least it will start in American Nature Presents No. 4, is I actually did a…
• 1:04:47
  Tad Eggleston: an email interview with Jason.
• 1:04:50
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, I ain't heard that. That's awesome.
• 1:04:51
  Tad Eggleston: That was a lot of fun.
• 1:04:53
  Tad Eggleston: He's a cool guy, I love his work. Like, I went back and revisited it all while I was doing that, that…
• 1:05:01
  Tad Eggleston: You know, which isn't that hard, because it does a lot of silent work, so, like…
• 1:05:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, like, the tube…
• 1:05:07
  Tad Eggleston: As long as you can dive into it, you can also, like…
• 1:05:11
  Tad Eggleston: Breeze sometimes, if you… if you're really just trying to…
• 1:05:16
  Tyler Johnson: To get up.
• 1:05:17
  Tad Eggleston: field. Not only did…
• 1:05:18
  Tyler Johnson: Chad, did you and I do that kind of deep dive into Jason's work? But then, also, you gave me a couple Jason books for a gift.
• 1:05:26
  Tad Eggleston: Didn't I give you almost silent?
• 1:05:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:05:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yep. And I've absorbed, like, absorbed it is probably the best word that I could come up with. It's just, it's really good.
• 1:05:36
  Tyler Johnson: And so that's been really meaningful to me this year, is, like, something that, man, I should have been on to this guy.
• 1:05:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, Phil, there's a lot of Jason on Hoopla.
• 1:05:45
  Tad Eggleston: Alright. You should go check out Jason.
• 1:05:47
  Tyler Johnson: He's like Sheriff, he just goes by just Jason.
• 1:05:50
  Phil: Nice.
• 1:05:51
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:05:51
  Tyler Johnson: He does, he's Norwegian, I think, or Finnish, or something. Yeah, alright.
• 1:05:54
  Tad Eggleston: No, he's Norwegian, though he lives in… in Trieste.
• 1:05:59
  Tad Eggleston: Now…
• 1:06:00
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:06:01
  Tad Eggleston: Or, no, I'm sorry, Montpellier.
• 1:06:04
  Tad Eggleston: When he moved there is when he wrote Werewolves of Montpellier.
• 1:06:10
  Tyler Johnson: Huh.
• 1:06:11
  Tad Eggleston: he's spent time in America, he's… he's moved around a little bit, but he's been in Montpellier for a while.
• 1:06:16
  Phil: Sure.
• 1:06:18
  Tad Eggleston: does anthropomorphic comics, but, like, in a very non-Disney style.
• 1:06:23
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 1:06:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, very, like, almost depressing. I mean…
• 1:06:29
  Phil: House-like, even?
• 1:06:30
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, really, it's almost like they're humans wearing masks, but they're not masks.
• 1:06:38
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:06:38
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 1:06:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's a great way to put it. Like, you would think the main character is a man just wearing this rabbit mask with these ears that flop down, and he's just going about his day, you know?
• 1:06:48
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right. Yeah, no, apparently, and I've fallen in love with these movies since then, he's a big Jim Jarmouche fan.
• 1:06:59
  Phil: So if you've watched many Jim Jarman's… I'm a Christian.
• 1:07:02
  Tad Eggleston: movies… he's… he's got… Jarmouche movies, I think, the thing that holds them together is no matter what the…
• 1:07:14
  Tad Eggleston: The overreaching plot, or…
• 1:07:17
  Tad Eggleston: or, you know, whatever is, and he does some weird stuff, you know, he's got a vampire movie, he's got a western, he's got a Hitman movie…
• 1:07:26
  Tad Eggleston: you know… But, like…
• 1:07:32
  Tad Eggleston: They're very… much about the space in between. They're… they're… They're… they're slice-of-life movies.
• 1:07:45
  Tad Eggleston: That have breathing room, and… You know, a lot of scenes that…
• 1:07:53
  Tad Eggleston: Are just there because they would be there, not because they're designed to advance the character or the plot.
• 1:08:02
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, they don't necessarily not advance the character or the plot, but really, it's like…
• 1:08:08
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I don't want to say that he puts them going to the bathroom, because I don't remember if he actually does, but… but it's that sort of thing, where it's like… it's… you're not necessarily seeing the obvious…
• 1:08:21
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, this is… this is the… the beat that we would show in this storytelling.
• 1:08:27
  Tad Eggleston: you're seeing… We're talking over breakfast.
• 1:08:32
  Tad Eggleston: Or we're going to the movie together. Or… Yup, yup.
• 1:08:38
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, Jason sometimes has that feel, too, where he gets a lot of the in-between beats.
• 1:08:47
  Tad Eggleston: Almost more than the action beats.
• 1:08:50
  Tad Eggleston: In a really cool… way.
• 1:08:57
  Tad Eggleston: Sorry, I didn't mean to, like, talk more about Jason than you did, Tyler. This was supposed to be your pick.
• 1:09:02
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, no, it's fine, I'm glad. I know you're a fan of Jason, so…
• 1:09:08
  Tad Eggleston: Oh…
• 1:09:09
  Tyler Johnson: Such a…
• 1:09:09
  Tad Eggleston: Such a fantastic… Fantastic.
• 1:09:14
  Tad Eggleston: Creator.
• 1:09:14
  Tyler Johnson: Bill… Let's keep… keep it rolling.
• 1:09:18
  Phil: Fantastic.
• 1:09:19
  Tad Eggleston: That's a cream.
• 1:09:19
  Phil: My top pick for older work that I, discovered, rediscovered, it had been on my radar for a long time, but it was actually, you know, for my very first pick for this podcast, joining, joining as, you know, a regular, is, Haven by, Natasha Alterici, along with Wood Steering, Martinez, over at Vault.
• 1:09:42
  Phil: Absolutely incredible.
• 1:09:43
  Phil: Incredible book, all-timer. I… I need to buy it. It's… it's… it needs to be on my shelf. I need to, you know.
• 1:09:50
  Tad Eggleston: Nam.
• 1:09:51
  Phil: It's magnificent.
• 1:09:53
  Tyler Johnson: Check it out.
• 1:09:54
  Tad Eggleston: my… my top…
• 1:09:56
  Tad Eggleston: this is… this is, like… this falls into the category of… I have to say that I discovered it, because I… I hadn't read… I'd read…
• 1:10:07
  Tad Eggleston: teeny tiny tidbits.
• 1:10:09
  Tad Eggleston: before this year, just because it had never been collected. So managing to put your hands on, you know… Paul had sent me some stuff that he happened to have digitally, and, you know, I'd come across some on the web, but again, not collected in any way until this year is Paul Pope's original…
• 1:10:28
  Tad Eggleston: self-published series THB.
• 1:10:31
  Tad Eggleston: Which is, like, a coming-of-age tale on Mars with a… weird…
• 1:10:41
  Tad Eggleston: Super Bowl that gets wet and becomes a bodyguard.
• 1:10:46
  Phil: Huh.
• 1:10:47
  Tad Eggleston: Sidekick type… Thing to the… to the female… lead,
• 1:10:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't even know how to fully describe it, except that, like.
• 1:11:02
  Tad Eggleston: everything that… I mean, and don't get me wrong, he's done great, great work since then, like, so 100% and Heavy Liquid and things like that have only… but, like, Paul Pope has been getting huge accolades
• 1:11:17
  Tad Eggleston: forever, and this is, like, a huge part of the reason why. You know, people who got their hands on this book were able to see that this…
• 1:11:28
  Tad Eggleston: This was a guy that… that looked at comics.
• 1:11:34
  Tad Eggleston: I don't quite want to say differently, because…
• 1:11:37
  Tad Eggleston: Because you can see the influence of, like, all of comics, you know? He's influenced… I mean, he was working…
• 1:11:46
  Tad Eggleston: for Kadansha during the day, while he was drawing THB at night. So, you know, there's manga influence. He's a connoisseur of comic strips, and went to Ohio State, and, you know, therefore spent plenty of time at the Billie Ireland, just, like.
• 1:12:06
  Tad Eggleston: And it all makes it in, and it's just… fucking beautiful.
• 1:12:12
  Tad Eggleston: And thought-provoking, and funny, and…
• 1:12:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, THB by Paul Pope. The first collected volume came out this year. There will be 3 or 4. The next one's coming out this, this spring, and I cannot wait.
• 1:12:28
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:12:31
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, I…
• 1:12:32
  Tad Eggleston: silent.
• 1:12:33
  Tyler Johnson: I'm going with the entire invincible universe, right? Because it's a rediscovery, it's not… I'm not discovering it. My.
• 1:12:42
  Tad Eggleston: Discovery is on the list.
• 1:12:43
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, my young customers that are enjoying the Netflix show, or whatever it's on, no.
• 1:12:50
  Tad Eggleston: Amazon.
• 1:12:51
  Tyler Johnson: Amazon, yeah, the Invincible show. Coming in asking for capes.
• 1:12:56
  Tyler Johnson: Capes is the… is a new series based on that.
• 1:13:00
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 1:13:02
  Tyler Johnson: cartoon. And, so it made me dig out some of my old Invincible trades and issues, and it's like, holy cow. And then I… there's old Battle Beast stuff that I have, there's old, you know, there was a few different spin-offs at the time.
• 1:13:18
  Tyler Johnson: And they're bringing them all back now into continuity, it's awesome.
• 1:13:23
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 1:13:24
  Tyler Johnson: Bill.
• 1:13:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, bro.
• 1:13:25
  Tyler Johnson: Robert Kirkman's attempt at superheroes, and I loved it.
• 1:13:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, essentially he came up with Invincible when they didn't give him Spider-Man.
• 1:13:35
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 1:13:36
  Tad Eggleston: He wanted to write Spider-Man, he didn't get the job, so he made Invincible instead.
• 1:13:42
  Tyler Johnson: Was he working for Marvel at the time?
• 1:13:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, because he did, like, Marvel Zombies, and…
• 1:13:48
  Tad Eggleston: Couple of other things.
• 1:13:49
  Phil: Ultimate X-Men for a little while, he created Eric O'Grady Ant-Man.
• 1:13:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:57
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah.
• 1:14:01
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, so top single issues.
• 1:14:05
  Phil: Ian?
• 1:14:05
  Tad Eggleston: We should probably try to go… and I hate, hate it, because these have been so much fun.
• 1:14:11
  Phil: Nope.
• 1:14:11
  Tad Eggleston: Tyler's coming close to turning into a pumpkin, so she…
• 1:14:14
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, look at my… look at.
• 1:14:16
  Phil: These origins!
• 1:14:17
  Tyler Johnson: Look at these bags, look at those…
• 1:14:19
  Tad Eggleston: There she goes.
• 1:14:20
  Tyler Johnson: What an old man.
• 1:14:21
  Tad Eggleston: We should try to get through our single issues a little bit faster than the rest, so we can blast through the books we hope will be spectacular.
• 1:14:29
  Tad Eggleston: Sure. So, Phil, you're number 3.
• 1:14:33
  Phil: My number 3 is The Power Fantasy, number 10 by Gillen Wingard,
• 1:14:40
  Phil: Cole's Hughes over image. That was,
• 1:14:45
  Phil: absolutely incredible series. That's where I… I got back to being current on that issue. It came out on my birthday. I… I had some bite boxing as I was reading it that was absolutely… yeah, it was stunning. It was great. It'll stick with me. The experience of reading that issue. Felt like I was discovering…
• 1:15:02
  Phil: Secret messages in the book, it was wonderful.
• 1:15:04
  Tyler Johnson: That's awesome.
• 1:15:07
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, I just got to talk about this one with the publisher of this one.
• 1:15:12
  Tad Eggleston: Eric Reynolds, Tales of Paranoia by Robert Crum.
• 1:15:17
  Tad Eggleston: So, Robert Crum's always been an interesting figure. Do either of you get a chance to read this?
• 1:15:25
  Phil: I have not.
• 1:15:26
  Tyler Johnson: No, nope.
• 1:15:27
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so… What's hard to tell… from this.
• 1:15:34
  Tad Eggleston: is whether Robert Crum is seriously an anti-vaxxer, or being… .
• 1:15:43
  Tyler Johnson: facetious, kind of…
• 1:15:45
  Tad Eggleston: Satirical of anti-vaxing.
• 1:15:48
  Tad Eggleston: And even if he's serious, you can tell that he's self-reflective enough that, like…
• 1:15:55
  Tad Eggleston: it's not clear how seriously you want… he wants you to… you know… how to put… I mean…
• 1:16:03
  Tad Eggleston: if it was anybody but Robert Crum, or even if it was Robert Crum, anywhere except maybe Vanna Graphics or Drawn and Quarterly, you'd read this book, and it'd be like Frank Milley's Holy Terror, and it'd be like, dude, what the fuck happened to you?
• 1:16:20
  Tad Eggleston: But between the fact that, like, it was reputably produced, and the fact that it's…
• 1:16:29
  Tad Eggleston: It's among his strongest works from a visual and storytelling standpoint, and it has just enough
• 1:16:38
  Tad Eggleston: Real self-reflection and or… I don't want to say quite tongue-in-cheek, but… but, like…
• 1:16:50
  Tad Eggleston: Understanding of how crazy parts of it sound?
• 1:16:55
  Tad Eggleston: That you don't know…
• 1:17:01
  Tad Eggleston: I guess what I'm saying is it doesn't feel like he's trying to convince you.
• 1:17:07
  Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?
• 1:17:09
  Tad Eggleston: But you don't know if he's convinced.
• 1:17:12
  Tad Eggleston: But either way, it makes you see, like, some… some of the, like, crazy conspiracy theory-type people that are easy to just write off as idiots or inhumane or whatnot, it forces you to look at them in a much more human light.
• 1:17:30
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm.
• 1:17:33
  Phil: That does certainly sound interesting.
• 1:17:34
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like, this… this… I haven't actually… I haven't re-read it yet, because I'm not ready to re-read it, but it's been in the back of my head since I read it.
• 1:17:46
  Tad Eggleston: Because it, it does, it, like, if nothing else, what it, what it succeeds at is…
• 1:17:54
  Tad Eggleston: Is really humanizing a group of people that people like me have trouble sometimes… Treating as individuals rather than…
• 1:18:07
  Tad Eggleston: monolithic… red-pilled… whatevers. Does that make sense?
• 1:18:13
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I get that.
• 1:18:14
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, that's… that's… that's my number 3!
• 1:18:21
  Tad Eggleston: Best single issue! Even though it's been, like, sunk in my head ever since. Which just says something about my number 2 and my number 1.
• 1:18:32
  Tad Eggleston: So… Tyler?
• 1:18:33
  Tyler Johnson: Alright. Well, I was…
• 1:18:35
  Tad Eggleston: He's an awfully good one, too.
• 1:18:36
  Tyler Johnson: Orla No. 1, from, John Leeson, Santi… Santi Stalli Cantorino.
• 1:18:45
  Tyler Johnson: From Mad Cave. When this… I mean, I've read John's stuff for a long time, but this, attempt at, like, a monster…
• 1:18:55
  Tyler Johnson: Book from him is… is really cool.
• 1:18:58
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 1:18:59
  Tyler Johnson: You know what I mean? Like, I haven't enjoyed.
• 1:19:01
  Tad Eggleston: This is among my favorite John Lee's work, and I am also a huge John Lee's fan.
• 1:19:07
  Tad Eggleston: And this was… this was, like, next-level stuff for him.
• 1:19:11
  Tyler Johnson: I thought so, too, like, it just was super creative, and, you know, it… it… I don't know.
• 1:19:19
  Tyler Johnson: I just loved it, and it was creepy, so it was right up my alley, you know?
• 1:19:22
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:19:23
  Tyler Johnson: bomb.
• 1:19:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, Phil, what's your number 2?
• 1:19:28
  Phil: My number 2, for single issues was Lazarus Fallen number 6 from Luckerark.
• 1:19:34
  Phil: Rucka Lark Arcus Mayer over at Image. Thanks for filling in my next one for me. And have you stayed up… have you stayed current with Lazarus there, Tyler?
• 1:19:45
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:19:46
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, so you read it? Yes. Yeah, that was a hell.
• 1:19:49
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 1:19:49
  Phil: Thank you. That was, like.
• 1:19:50
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 1:19:51
  Phil: Whoa, what the damn hell. It was really hard to pick between that and…
• 1:19:55
  Phil: the issue where… where Infiniti's new power emerged. Yeah, it was, it was great.
• 1:20:00
  Tyler Johnson: I agree. Yeah, it was cool.
• 1:20:03
  Phil: 7, heck.
• 1:20:06
  Tad Eggleston: That actually I mean, I don't know if 6-7's a Daria thing or not, I'll have to ask, or…
• 1:20:14
  Tad Eggleston: But, it, it does lead me nicely into this, because Daria Faruhar is one of the younger cartoonists that I've gotten really into.
• 1:20:27
  Tad Eggleston: And, and her, her book, I Need to Kill My…
• 1:20:31
  Tad Eggleston: Boyfriend's College Roommate, put out by Ryan Carey at 4 Color Apocalypse.
• 1:20:38
  Tad Eggleston: Was just outstanding for… Like… that… that Gen Z… Look at misogyny and…
• 1:20:54
  Tad Eggleston: the world in general, and, you know, I mean, it's a… it's… it's kind of autobio fiction.
• 1:21:02
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I had her on the show, and it's autobio fiction, she obviously didn't… Kill her boyfriend's…
• 1:21:07
  Tad Eggleston: College roommate, or… Or do half the stuff, but, you know, it does…
• 1:21:16
  Tad Eggleston: Do just a really good job of, like…
• 1:21:19
  Tad Eggleston: Not just putting yourself in the shoes of… a minority female… Navigating the world, but, like…
• 1:21:34
  Tad Eggleston: Really kinda rings out… some of the more uniquely Gen Z… things. I mean…
• 1:21:44
  Tad Eggleston: more and more, and 6-7 is actually… I mean, I love that you did that, because it's one of the things that made me start really thinking about…
• 1:21:54
  Tad Eggleston: The different life experiences that… older millennials have, even versus younger millennials, and certainly,
• 1:22:06
  Tad Eggleston: older millennials and Gen Xers versus Gen Zers.
• 1:22:11
  Tad Eggleston: In terms of, like… If you're 22 right now.
• 1:22:17
  Tad Eggleston: Donald Trump has been your president for more than half of the time that you've been paying attention.
• 1:22:22
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:22:23
  Phil: It's pretty… Pretty, terrifying.
• 1:22:27
  Tad Eggleston: And he's been in the political scene the whole time.
• 1:22:32
  Tyler Johnson: The whole time, since 15.
• 1:22:34
  Tad Eggleston: Right. If you're 22 right now, you know, you got to see a little bit happen because of Uvalde, but in general, you have had to do mass shooter drills every year of your life.
• 1:22:50
  Tad Eggleston: and had to listen to people go, yeah, there's nothing we can do, even as you, like, if you're even remotely worldly, go, really? Because they seem to do just fine in all of these other places.
• 1:23:05
  Tad Eggleston: Why can't we do it here?
• 1:23:09
  Tad Eggleston: Never, never mind, you know, how much less a college degree is worth, and how much more a college degree costs, and.
• 1:23:19
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so this was definitely another one of the books that just really stayed with me this year.
• 1:23:27
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:23:27
  Tyler Johnson: This is Tyler.
• 1:23:29
  Tad Eggleston: Why number 12? That's gonna be my big question here, because I can…
• 1:23:34
  Tad Eggleston: I love this book, and I'm trying to remember what number 12 was, and why it became the special one for you.
• 1:23:41
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I love the series in general.
• 1:23:45
  Tad Eggleston: We should introduce it, I was letting you introduce it, I didn't actually name it.
• 1:23:48
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, mine are Arcana, from Jeff Famir, from Boom. Okay, the number 12 is arbitrary. Any of the issues would have been cool. I… that… that was just the latest one that I read, and…
• 1:24:04
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not kidding.
• 1:24:06
  Tad Eggleston: I believe you!
• 1:24:08
  Tyler Johnson: You said a single issue, and I'm like, you know, I really enjoy Minor Arcana.
• 1:24:13
  Tad Eggleston: No, I, I, I love it. I just, I just love that I, I, I, I went…
• 1:24:19
  Tad Eggleston: I went with the, I went with the, the, oh, like,
• 1:24:28
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna ask him why number 12, and you're like, cuz it was the last one I…
• 1:24:34
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah, no.
• 1:24:37
  Phil: What's your recency bias?
• 1:24:38
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It… I could have put number one for, you know what I mean? But no, it's just a super cool series, having to… and I'm really interested in that weird occult stuff of,
• 1:24:51
  Tyler Johnson: doing tarot readings and things like that. Not because I think it's true, but because, I just think it's fascinating that people.
• 1:24:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:25:00
  Tyler Johnson: Believe this.
• 1:25:01
  Tyler Johnson: And then,
• 1:25:04
  Tyler Johnson: Number 12 is just the most recent one I read, so there you go. No, that's fair.
• 1:25:10
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 1:25:12
  Tad Eggleston: Same question for Phil, and not be the most recent one you read. No. Because… because they're.
• 1:25:18
  Phil: Way, though.
• 1:25:19
  Tad Eggleston: They're a pinwalk.
• 1:25:20
  Phil: No.
• 1:25:22
  Phil: It would have meant I reread the issue most recently. This is Assorted Crisis Events No. 3 from Dennis Camp, Eric Zawattsky, or,
• 1:25:31
  Phil: Jordan Belair, Hosan Atzminel Howe, over at Image. That's the hearth one, Hearth 2, issue. It, it made me cry multiple times.
• 1:25:44
  Phil: Yeah, no.
• 1:25:45
  Tad Eggleston: That's a… Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:25:46
  Phil: that, when I read it, I was like, this is… this… this is, if not my book of the year, absolutely the number one single issue of the year. Hell yeah. I… I want… that's an issue that…
• 1:25:58
  Phil: if… if I… I mean, I'm gonna end up buying Volume 1 of the trade several times over for friends as a gift, but, for that issue specifically, yeah. Right. So damn good.
• 1:26:11
  Tad Eggleston: So my top single issue…
• 1:26:16
  Tad Eggleston: Partially just because it was so good, but partially because of ALL of…
• 1:26:21
  Tad Eggleston: the hardcore Easter eggs that they built into it, like, the website that was crossed off, but then if you went to it, it was a real website, and then the things you could do at the website
• 1:26:36
  Tad Eggleston: to find Easter eggs on the website that were related to the book.
• 1:26:41
  Tad Eggleston: And the phone number that was on the menu in the book, that was a real phone number that you could call, and you would get a message related to the book.
• 1:26:51
  Tad Eggleston: Wow. Chris Condon, Jeffrey Allen Love, and I should have put down the guy that did all the media stuff, he was on our show, and I'm drawing a blank on his name right now.
• 1:27:01
  Tad Eggleston: Just pulled out all the stops on the multimedia experience around news from the fallout.
• 1:27:09
  Tad Eggleston: The series in general, but they kicked it off with number one, and most of the multimedia stuff they had in place at that point to, like, dig deep into, and it's just a really…
• 1:27:24
  Tad Eggleston: Beautifully done comic.
• 1:27:26
  Tad Eggleston: With a kinda slightly different
• 1:27:28
  Tad Eggleston: take on a nuclear apocalypse-type thing to begin with, so when you put all that together, I just, like…
• 1:27:36
  Tad Eggleston: it was the single-issue event of the year for me, and, you know, once again, Chris Condon all over the fucking place.
• 1:27:46
  Phil: Yeah, that sounds… that sounds awesome.
• 1:27:49
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:50
  Tad Eggleston: NewsFromTheFallout.com. I'll tell people to just go, whether you've read it or not, and I'll toss.
• 1:27:57
  Tyler Johnson: experience it, yeah.
• 1:27:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, like, click all…
• 1:28:00
  Phil: All over the place.
• 1:28:02
  Tad Eggleston: You might want to highlight entire pages, things might happen when you do that, like, when in doubt, just select all, and see what's.
• 1:28:12
  Tyler Johnson: See what happens, yeah.
• 1:28:13
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, they… they… yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:18
  Tad Eggleston: So, Tyler…
• 1:28:20
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:28:20
  Tad Eggleston: top single-issue comic. Is this also the most recent one, or does this have a reason?
• 1:28:26
  Tyler Johnson: Ironically.
• 1:28:28
  Tad Eggleston: It is…
• 1:28:29
  Tyler Johnson: It does have a room.
• 1:28:30
  Tad Eggleston: But it has a reason?
• 1:28:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 1:28:34
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 1:28:35
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:28:36
  Tyler Johnson: Absolute Batman is, killing it this year, and in the… Issue 15. I know,
• 1:28:45
  Tyler Johnson: Many people know what it is already, but Scott Snyder and Jacques teamed up again, and they are, bringing back the Joker, and it reveals this… this,
• 1:28:57
  Tyler Johnson: Backstory of how…
• 1:29:02
  Tyler Johnson: Alfred's been telling Bruce this story of… that… that the Joker is the man he's been chasing.
• 1:29:08
  Tyler Johnson: And it's just…
• 1:29:09
  Tad Eggleston: I gotta get caught up on Absolute Batman. I'm caught up on Absolute Wonder Woman, I am caught up on Absolute Martian Manhunter, I've read…
• 1:29:19
  Tad Eggleston: the first issue of Absolute Superman, and I think the first two issues of Absolute Flash, and, like, the first three issues of Absolute Batman. Okay. I need to…
• 1:29:29
  Tyler Johnson: So…
• 1:29:30
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:29:31
  Tyler Johnson: So… It's just a really unique take on introducing the Joker into this universe.
• 1:29:39
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and Batman just crossed over into Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman will be in Batman next month, so it's time for me to catch up.
• 1:29:46
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, cool.
• 1:29:47
  Tad Eggleston: Joker's not normally the reason that would get me to catch up. You convinced me, Tyler! You won! With your… with your…
• 1:29:54
  Tad Eggleston: tattooed… fingers.
• 1:29:57
  Tyler Johnson: With my tattooed fingers.
• 1:29:59
  Tyler Johnson: Well, my… the back of my hand was supposed to also get tattooed, but I ran out of time, and then… then Raina was born, and then…
• 1:30:06
  Tyler Johnson: Look at that, 7 years went by.
• 1:30:09
  Phil: Wow.
• 1:30:09
  Tad Eggleston: So it's not a word on your fingers?
• 1:30:11
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, it is the… for the year 2013. Oh, okay.
• 1:30:15
  Tyler Johnson: So it's the number 13. 13. In Roman numerals, and I got married in…
• 1:30:21
  Tyler Johnson: July 13th of 2013, so I, at the time, thought it was clever.
• 1:30:29
  Phil: What do you do with, the, Friday the 13th anniversaries?
• 1:30:33
  Tyler Johnson: Those are fun, because I have always attempted to go get a 13 tattoo on me.
• 1:30:40
  Phil: And.
• 1:30:42
  Tyler Johnson: always, I don't think about it till the day of, and I can never get in anywhere.
• 1:30:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, you actually, you got married the same year Kelly and I got married, a few months earlier.
• 1:30:52
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, really?
• 1:30:53
  Tad Eggleston: We were October 12th, 13th.
• 1:30:57
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:30:58
  Tad Eggleston: 10, 12.
• 1:30:59
  Tyler Johnson: Very cool. Very cool, very cool.
• 1:31:02
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah.
• 1:31:04
  Tad Eggleston: That is part two of the best of the Year.
• 1:31:08
  Tad Eggleston: Next week is when we get into our…
• 1:31:12
  Tad Eggleston: Our graphic novels, miniseries, and ongoing series, so The Big Guns.
• 1:31:17
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, some books that I hope be spectacular.
• 1:31:23
  Tad Eggleston: Fml number 7 from Kelly Sudakonik and David Lopez. I'm pretty certain it will be, but haven't actually read it yet. Devil on My Shoulder No. 2 from Kyle Starks and Peter Kowalski.
• 1:31:35
  Tyler Johnson: Oh my god, number one was so good.
• 1:31:37
  Tad Eggleston: Yep, yep. Batman number 5 for Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez, so, like, Casa Deconic, Fraction, get 2 books on my list this week.
• 1:31:48
  Tad Eggleston: I know that Hank Howard, Pizza Detective, the two Hollywoods, number one, is spectacular.
• 1:31:58
  Tad Eggleston: And, there are a handful of other interesting books that we'll, we'll see. Our boy Condon has, Ultimate Wolverine number 13.
• 1:32:06
  Tad Eggleston: Among other things, and Mr. Rucko will… will wrap up, Cheetah and Chesire Rob.
• 1:32:12
  Phil: The Justice League. Do we ever find out the identity of Cheshire Rob?
• 1:32:17
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I gotta, I gotta bug him about that,
• 1:32:22
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, Tyler, anything that you want to plug for, for this coming week?
• 1:32:29
  Tyler Johnson: No, I'm just glad. It seems to be a bigger week than last week.
• 1:32:33
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's not a holiday week.
• 1:32:35
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Right here at my feet is all my new stuff that I've gotten over the weekend, and I'm gonna put it all on the computer as soon as we're done talking.
• 1:32:46
  Tad Eggleston: Cool, cool.
• 1:32:47
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil, your giant-sized trade pa- trade waiter?
• 1:32:52
  Tad Eggleston: Graphic novel pick?
• 1:32:53
  Phil: Indeed, the Old Boy Deluxe Edition Volume 1 from Garen, Tsuchia, and… Nobuwaki… Minikushi?
• 1:33:03
  Tad Eggleston: Minikishi Starfork?
• 1:33:05
  Phil: Yeah, it says, January 6th, that on the Corian Dark Horse website, I'm pretty.
• 1:33:12
  Tad Eggleston: I believe you, I just… I didn't see it on the.
• 1:33:14
  Phil: Yup.
• 1:33:15
  Tad Eggleston: the list of stuff, and I thought that that would have caught my attention.
• 1:33:19
  Phil: It says, yeah, book one hardcover, that's, yeah, publication January 6th. We'll see, we'll see if it's there.
• 1:33:26
  Phil: You know?
• 1:33:26
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to,
• 1:33:30
  Tad Eggleston: To, to check, check the website right now.
• 1:33:34
  Tad Eggleston: The, the, the publisher website, rather than the…
• 1:33:40
  Tad Eggleston: Dark Horse isn't always good at updating when they change a date.
• 1:33:47
  Phil: That's for sure. Hopefully, that's not,
• 1:33:50
  Phil: You know, hopefully that does not bode ill on, on this trip, Graphic novel pick.
• 1:33:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm certain that it WILL come out.
• 1:34:00
  Tyler Johnson: At some point.
• 1:34:02
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it's… the PRH website still has January 6th, so I don't know how I wound up missing it. Maybe they separate manga from…
• 1:34:15
  Tad Eggleston: graphic novels, and I need to have another category that I look through this spreadsheet of.
• 1:34:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'll have to look into that.
• 1:34:25
  Tad Eggleston: Because that's a… that's a good one. Have you read Old Boy before?
• 1:34:29
  Phil: I have not, so I've only seen the movie, the Korean film.
• 1:34:32
  Tad Eggleston: And Tyler, you would be all over Old Boy. Old Boy's totally a Tyler book.
• 1:34:38
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:34:41
  Tyler Johnson: We'll have to get on that.
• 1:34:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:34:44
  Tyler Johnson: That's right.
• 1:34:45
  Tyler Johnson: You guys can totally see what I'm looking at my screen through my glasses.
• 1:34:50
  Tad Eggleston: So, Tyler, you want to take us out? You want me to take us out? How should we do this?
• 1:34:55
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I'm gonna talk for a second.
• 1:34:57
  Tad Eggleston: Can I talk first? Who should, who should…
• 1:34:59
  Tyler Johnson: Me? You? Her? Him? Okay.
• 1:35:02
  Tyler Johnson: Baby, don't hurt me.
• 1:35:06
  Tyler Johnson: Anyway, yeah, thanks for listening, you guys, and we'll catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:35:14
  Tyler Johnson: See ya!