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22 Panels Episode #252 - Godzilla & Image in the ‘20s · 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, and across the interwebs.
• 0:15
  Tyler Johnson: From me is.
• 0:16
  Tad Eggleston: That didn't come through at all.
• 0:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it still didn't. Let me do it for you.
• 0:23
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, there we go.
• 0:25
  Tyler Johnson: That was better. I have, for our listeners, I have earbuds in right now, and my.
• 0:31
  Tad Eggleston: They probably have their own noise canceling, too, so…
• 0:35
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah.
• 0:36
  Tad Eggleston: And there's a certain amount of noise cancelling in…
• 0:40
  Tad Eggleston: in Zoom, and now Tyler's gone, so I'm just filling space while Tyler's gone. He just dropped out on me. This is episode 252 of…
• 0:52
  Tad Eggleston: of, 22 panels, which will hopefully continue to,
• 0:58
  Tad Eggleston: To be… oh, Tyler's back, fantastic.
• 1:01
  Tad Eggleston: So we don't even have to pause anything, much less edit anything.
• 1:06
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:06
  Tad Eggleston: Continue into news of note now, with Tyler back.
• 1:10
  Tyler Johnson: Just one second. I'm back. Here's what happened. Normally, because you said noise canceling, so I was like, oh, I should see if that's on or off. So I hit…
• 1:20
  Tad Eggleston: But that's for the… that's for the… the… like, you can't turn off the noise canceling for the microphone, you can only turn it off for the…
• 1:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, and what happened is, since I'm connected to a Zoom call right now, the controls of my earbuds have changed. This one, this disconnected me from you.
• 1:40
  Tyler Johnson: When I went tap, 10…
• 1:42
  Tad Eggleston: with your headphone. Yep.
• 1:44
  Tyler Johnson: When I tapped it, that's when it hung up on you. I was like, oh, that was the wrong move.
• 1:50
  Tad Eggleston: So, so,
• 1:52
  Tad Eggleston: a couple of pieces of comics news, one of which I didn't know was comics news until earlier today.
• 2:00
  Tad Eggleston: 2000AD's printer went out of business, which meant that this week's 2000AD didn't actually go out.
• 2:09
  Tad Eggleston: They're hoping to be back on schedule next week, but that's gotta be interesting when, like.
• 2:14
  Tad Eggleston: The printer that makes your books just suddenly shutters, and you don't get…
• 2:21
  Tyler Johnson: No warning, just like… See, that's really crappy, because, like, guys, like, 2000AD, you know, they're counting on their books every month, and without at least a month's notice…
• 2:32
  Tad Eggleston: weekly.
• 2:33
  Tyler Johnson: You got a truth.
• 2:34
  Tad Eggleston: is weekly.
• 2:35
  Tyler Johnson: Weekly, so…
• 2:36
  Tad Eggleston: So I don't know how far in advance they're able to print those.
• 2:40
  Tad Eggleston: So, so yeah, it's gotta be interesting when they suddenly go out of business and they gotta scramble.
• 2:46
  Tad Eggleston: Next piece of news, and the one that I didn't know was comics-related until I was today years old.
• 2:54
  Tad Eggleston: Feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, passed away this week.
• 3:01
  Tad Eggleston: I'd kinda known that she was a vocal admirer of Wonder Woman.
• 3:06
  Tad Eggleston: I did see an article today that, that, like, she may have been involved in
• 3:14
  Tad Eggleston: there was a brief period, in part because of the feminist movement, where Wonder Woman didn't have her superpowers?
• 3:22
  Tad Eggleston: They'd made her into, like, liberated woman of the era.
• 3:27
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, okay.
• 3:28
  Tad Eggleston: Apparently, it was, at least in part, Gloria Steinem saying that, like.
• 3:34
  Tad Eggleston: the original Howard's Wonder Woman is, is like…
• 3:39
  Tad Eggleston: A powerful figure that… that… that brought the powers back.
• 3:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 3:45
  Tad Eggleston: Also, the very first issue of Ms. Magazine had Wonder Woman featured on the cover.
• 3:53
  Tad Eggleston: But what I discovered TODAY, it was today years old.
• 3:58
  Tad Eggleston: When I discovered that she was the first
• 4:02
  Tad Eggleston: assistant to Harvey Kurtzman on Help Magazine.
• 4:08
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 4:08
  Tad Eggleston: And when she left, Terry Gilliam took over.
• 4:13
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 4:16
  Tyler Johnson: And then…
• 4:17
  Tad Eggleston: Talk about insane… insane…
• 4:21
  Tyler Johnson: Pedigree.
• 4:22
  Tad Eggleston: Well, just, like, those are your assistants?
• 4:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 4:26
  Tad Eggleston: Gloria Steinem, and then Terry Gilliam?
• 4:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 4:29
  Tad Eggleston: And he hired Robert Crum. Unfortunately, by the time Crum got there, The magazine had been canceled.
• 4:37
  Tyler Johnson: Yay.
• 4:38
  Tyler Johnson: So, I gotta tell you a funny Robert Crum story. Sure. I… I ordered one of his books in for my store.
• 4:47
  Tyler Johnson: And I think it was called, like, The Beauty and Art of Our Crumb, okay? And I put it on the shelf, and all was.
• 4:55
  Tad Eggleston: I hope on a high shelf?
• 4:58
  Tyler Johnson: Well… We're getting there. I, I,
• 5:06
  Tyler Johnson: It came… well, it came in plastic, I unplasticed it, put it on the shelf, okay? No, not a high shelf.
• 5:15
  Tyler Johnson: And then a fan of, Robert's work found the book and said, hey.
• 5:22
  Tyler Johnson: are you sure you want this out here? And I said, yeah, I mean, I know his work's kind of racy, but it's not that.
• 5:30
  Tyler Johnson: that bad.
• 5:32
  Tyler Johnson: And he said, okay, and then he handed me the book. He said, you should look. And that book was more racy than other R-Crum stuff.
• 5:43
  Tyler Johnson: And I… I now have it in my glass case, and if you ask, I will get it out for you.
• 5:51
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we were talking about Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler's Got Is Disappointed in You off-air. Yeah, yeah. Did you know that Robert Crum.
• 6:02
  Tad Eggleston: did an incredibly faithful adaptation of the book of Genesis.
• 6:07
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 6:08
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 6:09
  Tyler Johnson: That's cool.
• 6:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 6:12
  Tyler Johnson: That's really…
• 6:13
  Tad Eggleston: They're Bible in comics form. Genesis is all crumb. Crumb did Genesis one.
• 6:18
  Tyler Johnson: Check that out.
• 6:19
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 6:19
  Tyler Johnson: But yeah, so I, the beauty and art, or art and beauty of, our crumb is now in my case.
• 6:26
  Tyler Johnson: I… I am completely on board with still selling it, knowing how… Right.
• 6:31
  Tad Eggleston: Right. I wouldn't expect you not to want to sell it, but…
• 6:35
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 6:36
  Tad Eggleston: Having it in reach of the 5-year-olds is a different thing.
• 6:39
  Tyler Johnson: But here's the thing, that book is pretty pornographic, so…
• 6:42
  Tad Eggleston: I believe it.
• 6:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 6:46
  Tad Eggleston: I believe it. Like, loving rockets, particularly Beto stuff, shouldn't necessarily be on a…
• 6:53
  Tad Eggleston: on a low shelf, and if you ever get birdland in.
• 6:57
  Tad Eggleston: definitely shouldn't be on a low shelf. Yup.
• 7:03
  Tyler Johnson: So, what kind of week has it been, Tad?
• 7:07
  Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been? It seems like the new strategy from the White House is, hey, look over there!
• 7:17
  Tyler Johnson: Yell…
• 7:18
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, new to order this month!
• 7:20
  Tyler Johnson: You're just gonna go. Anyway… You just did a hey look over there to me.
• 7:25
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, doesn't that feel like how it is lately?
• 7:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, it is, yeah.
• 7:31
  Tad Eggleston: Initial orders are due on September 24th.
• 7:36
  Tad Eggleston: Ec Artists from the Abyss, number 1. This looks super cool.
• 7:44
  Tad Eggleston: And the first one will feature Chris Condon and Charlie Adlard. From the depths of the endless abyss.
• 7:52
  Tad Eggleston: EC Comics and Oni Press proudly present the first in a new series of one-shot celebrations, spotlighting the boldest and bloodiest talents from EC's new class of caustic cartoonists. Take it from us, they really put the ill in Illustrator.
• 8:08
  Tad Eggleston: Our first victim? Comics legend and Eiser Award-winning artist Charlie Adlard.
• 8:13
  Tad Eggleston: For the first time between two covers, Survey Adler's punishing portfolio of uninvited resurrections, souls sold cheap, and spectacular sadistic horrors as illustrated in the immortal EC Comics Manor.
• 8:28
  Tad Eggleston: With lots of
• 8:29
  Tad Eggleston: Lots and lots of red, naturally. Plus, a brand new, never-before-told tale, reuniting Adlard with acclaimed writer and fellow survivor of the Tormentor's Rack.
• 8:42
  Tad Eggleston: Chris Condon. This is sure to be the most murderous mag you'll read all winter. Shovel and lime not included.
• 8:51
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I…
• 8:53
  Tyler Johnson: I'm gonna buy these anyway, but this one specifically, I'm very excited about.
• 8:57
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, what it sounds like is that most of it's reprinting stories from other recent EC comics, but collected by the artist, so that's kind of cool.
• 9:10
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, and Charlie.
• 9:10
  Tad Eggleston: And I love that they're also giving you a new story.
• 9:14
  Tad Eggleston: So, I'm looking forward to this. There are definitely a number of artists that have done a bunch of their EC stuff, so I hope that we, like, get to see a David Lapham one, or a Cano one, that sort of thing.
• 9:28
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I want to talk about Exquisite Corpses, Lone Gunman. I've been loving this series anyway.
• 9:36
  Tad Eggleston: I need to get ca- I need to get caught up.
• 9:38
  Tyler Johnson: So, yeah, I mean, imagine the world's most powerful people have a game, where assassins kill each other in an unsuspecting town, okay? So, and it's just crazy, like, the bets that are going on.
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's like… it's like every year, they have to decide who's gonna be in charge. Elon Musk…
• 10:00
  Tyler Johnson: But, yeah.
• 10:01
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, yeah, but Elon Musk, Sam Altman, mohammed bin Salman… Yeah.
• 10:11
  Tyler Johnson: It is…
• 10:12
  Tad Eggleston: Vladimir Putin, we're talking just the richest people in the world. We're not talking the people that are necessarily automatically assumed to be the most powerful people in the world. And the way they decide…
• 10:24
  Tad Eggleston: Is… they put serial killers in a town.
• 10:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 10:29
  Tad Eggleston: And have them fight it out.
• 10:31
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 10:32
  Tad Eggleston: This is just such the weirdest and most twisted and wonderful.
• 10:36
  Tyler Johnson: So, here's me up.
• 10:38
  Tyler Johnson: This is Lone Gunman by Porn Sag piece she showed Alberto Ponsicelli, Giordi Belair, from Image. In this can't-miss follow-up to the first Exquisite Corpses series, Laura and her fellow survivors, Xavi and Jason, have attempted to carve out an existence with her winnings.
• 10:59
  Tyler Johnson: Far away from the evil machinations of the 13 families. But, two years after the unfathomable events unleashed in their hometown, and Laura's game-winning performance as the last gunman, all that they did to survive still haunts them. Now the agency of the Golden Mask refuses to stay silent, and their lives are in danger once again. Final order cut off for
• 11:24
  Tyler Johnson: for Exquisite Corpses is October 12th.
• 11:27
  Tyler Johnson: And this will be in shops November 4th.
• 11:30
  Tyler Johnson: My next one.
• 11:32
  Tad Eggleston: You get to go twice in a row.
• 11:34
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Next one I'm going to talk about is Hellboy in Hell, Parade of Horrors, from Mike Mignola and Mark Laszlo.
• 11:44
  Tyler Johnson: Hellboys search for a drink in hell, lead through a cemetery to a macabre procession in honor of Satan's, death. But the demons are not all so happy after their lord was murdered. Final order cutoff is November 9th, and this will be in shots December 16.
• 12:04
  Tad Eggleston: No one escapes the dialectic, number one, from Spencer Ackerman and Antonio Fusso. The world's most dangerous comic book magazine.
• 12:16
  Tad Eggleston: From Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine award-winning reporter Spencer Ackerman comes the next generation of political radicalism in vigilante comics, unafraid to strike back at the deportation machine that threatens the foundations of American freedom, when agents of the fearsome special naturalization operations
• 12:35
  Tad Eggleston: Snow become themselves hunted by a masked vigilante. A power struggle breaks out inside snow between the Deep State Old Guard and its death squad vanguard. Gladio Unit. Who is the masked vigilante calling themselves the dialectic? Postured as a Marxist force of history?
• 12:56
  Tad Eggleston: What is their relationship to the community's liberation?
• 13:00
  Tad Eggleston: And it's violent suppression by Snow, with powerful art by Italian superstar Antonio Fusso, No One Escapes the Dialectic is an unapologetic, provocative, and boundary-shattering new ongoing comic series for the age of permanent crisis.
• 13:19
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff is September 28th, in stores November 4th. Get your orders in now, Forever Wars…
• 13:29
  Tad Eggleston: Spencer Ackerman's newsletter will give you a year's subscription for proof that you've subscribed to the comic.
• 13:38
  Tad Eggleston: And Spencer Ackerman is… is on the calendar to return to 22 panels, after Final Order Cutoff, but before the first issue comes out. I've read the first issue. It is fantastic.
• 13:50
  Tyler Johnson: Jumping down to graphic novels coming up… Graphic novels
• 13:55
  Tyler Johnson: Detective Duck, this is from Henry Winkler. I didn't know he was into writing at all.
• 14:02
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't either, until I saw this.
• 14:04
  Tyler Johnson: Lynn Oliver and Dan Santat from Abrams Amulet. Willow Feathers McBeaver.
• 14:12
  Tyler Johnson: AKA Detective Duck is a crime-solving
• 14:16
  Tyler Johnson: and very precocious little duck. She and her animal pals live on beautiful Dogwood Pond, which is adjacent to Lazy Days, a human campground in New England, a pristine spot with clear water, abundant life, wildlife, and shady willows. Dogwood Pond is encountering puzzling problems, mysteries that arise from the human-caused disruptions
• 14:41
  Tyler Johnson: in nature, such as water pollution, garbage, warming climate, and human encroachment. Fortunately, Detective Duck is on the job, solving these puzzles.
• 14:51
  Tyler Johnson: puzzling mysteries before they get out of hand and destroying their habitat. Armed with her ever-present satchel for collecting clues, her logical mind, and endless curiosity, she boldly goes where no pond creature has before. Determined to unravel the mysteries and solve any environmental
• 15:12
  Tyler Johnson: problem that besets her beloved Dogwood Pound. Final order of cutoff is September 28th, and this will be in shops November 4th.
• 15:21
  Tyler Johnson: So, good for you and your week, Clark.
• 15:24
  Tad Eggleston: After your wordy description, Did you see mine?
• 15:28
  Tad Eggleston: Heroes from Inio Asano at this signature. When the quest ends, how many heroes really remain?
• 15:36
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff, October 12th, in stores, November 18th.
• 15:39
  Tyler Johnson: I like that one.
• 15:40
  Tad Eggleston: I love Inio Asano, so I have no idea what this is gonna be, and I don't care.
• 15:45
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I know, it's gonna be good.
• 15:46
  Tad Eggleston: never read anything from Asano that I didn't like.
• 15:49
  Tad Eggleston: Collections, you wanna talk some collections, Tyler?
• 15:53
  Tyler Johnson: cure Daredevil Volume 1, Tomorrow's Devil. If you've been reading the new Daredevil series.
• 15:59
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yes.
• 16:00
  Tyler Johnson: Stephanie Phillips and, Lee, Garbit from Marvel.
• 16:05
  Tyler Johnson: As a fearsome new supervillain named Omen targets Matt Murdock, it will be his alter ego Daredevil who takes the hits.
• 16:13
  Tyler Johnson: But this mysterious new player isn't all they appear. A secret Daredevil will have to uncover quickly as he unscrambles to settle into a life and status quo we've never seen him in before.
• 16:27
  Tyler Johnson: This is a final order put off of October 12th.
• 16:31
  Tyler Johnson: We'll be in shops December 22nd.
• 16:35
  Tad Eggleston: Millstone from Michael W. Conrad and Ilias.
• 16:39
  Tad Eggleston: Criesis at Heavy Metal. Millstone is a gripping dark fantasy epic blending myth, horror, and revenge. Accused of dark magic, a defiant warrior survives a
• 16:51
  Tad Eggleston: Sacrificial ritual meant to appease ancient gods, only to become bound to a cursed millstone that grants immense power.
• 16:59
  Tad Eggleston: As he battles uncanny horrors and confronts the sinister forces behind them, he embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance, while becoming entangled in a mysterious child's prophecy to save a dying world.
• 17:14
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of October 19th in stores on November 25th. Tyler, do you want to tell us about final order cutoff for Monday, September 14th?
• 17:25
  Tyler Johnson: I do. Sorry, I was, talking… looking out there. My daughter is crying out in the other room.
• 17:30
  Tad Eggleston: No!
• 17:30
  Tyler Johnson: peeking at what's going on. Final motor cutoff, Archie vs. Terminator, this, this, ash can came in the other day, and I'm very excited to read it. from Rory McGonville and Steve Butler, and do we read all of the, all of the, people on this?
• 17:49
  Tad Eggleston: I generally do. I try to read them fast, but yeah.
• 17:52
  Tyler Johnson: Rivals from Nick Spencer, Mike Huddleston, Christian Ward, James Stoko, 3W3M, Dark Horse puts this one out on October 21st. Book of Nosferatu from Michael Maurici from Entodar Herstav from Ablaze, October 21st.
• 18:10
  Tyler Johnson: Circuit, Seduction, Revenge, Josh Blalock, Mark Powers, Jesper Morales, out from Devil's Dew, October 21st, Dark Spaces Casebook, Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Shea Grayson, Kelsey Ramsey, Jeremy Lambert, Claire Rowe from IDW, October 20th.
• 18:30
  Tyler Johnson: Did you?
• 18:31
  Tad Eggleston: Did you read any of those miniseries when they came out?
• 18:33
  Tyler Johnson: I did not, no.
• 18:34
  Tad Eggleston: They were… they were pretty cool.
• 18:37
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 18:38
  Tad Eggleston: I recommend it.
• 18:39
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, I'll have to…
• 18:40
  Tad Eggleston: As I do with the next one.
• 18:42
  Tyler Johnson: Tad Teenagers has, is good. June Ellison, S. Doyle, Caitlin Yarsky is on this one, Becca Carey from Oney on October 6th.
• 18:53
  Tyler Johnson: Demon from James Heron from DC, October 7th. Front desk, Kelly… from Kelly Yang, Fumio Abada. This is Graphic Scholastic, October 21st.
• 19:05
  Tyler Johnson: It demands Sacrifice from Philip Gallot, David Yarewveski, and Adam Polina from Bad Idea, October 7th. Jonah Hex in the Shadow of Death, Michael Walsh from DC, October 7th. Moon Eaters from Victor Santos, that's on a Titan on October 7th.
• 19:24
  Tyler Johnson: 7th.
• 19:26
  Tyler Johnson: Pop Kill Big Candy. This is fun, they're moving away from soda and into candy. Jimmy Palmiati and Dave Johnson and Juan Santa Cruz from Mad Cave, October 7th.
• 19:39
  Tyler Johnson: This one I'm really looking forward to, The Complete Rachel Rising from Terry Moran, Dark House, December 15th, right in time to get it for me for Christmas, Peggy, while you're listening, hint, hint. She doesn't…
• 19:53
  Tad Eggleston: She can get it at cost through the Nexus Vault in La Verne, Minnesota.
• 19:59
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 20:00
  Tad Eggleston: That's only for the wife of the owner. Other people will have to pay full price or thereabouts.
• 20:07
  Tyler Johnson: I wonder what it is, full price. Things we lost in the fire from Mariana, Enriquez, Megan McDowell, and Lucas9, from Hogarth slash PRH on October 13th.
• 20:21
  Tyler Johnson: The vanishing of Lake, hey, Noor? From…
• 20:26
  Tad Eggleston: That was right.
• 20:27
  Tyler Johnson: Jose Pimienta from Candlewick in October, 13th. Venom No. 1 from Charles Sewell, Tommaso Bianchi, David Perator from Marvel, October 14th.
• 20:41
  Tyler Johnson: And Wandering Cat's Cage, from Akane Torikai, Takumui Graphics, and Fanta Graphics on October 28th. Tad, what about crowdfunding?
• 20:55
  Tad Eggleston: We've got Liam Sharp's Conan portfolio and Calendar on Kickstarter.
• 20:59
  Tad Eggleston: through September 10th. Fairy Tales War number 1, Ever Afterverse Mature Sapphic Crossover from Cat Kalamia and Lifelong Comics on Kickstarter through September 10th. Pandora's Box, an Echo Story from Terry Moore at Abstract Studio on Kickstarter through September 16th.
• 21:17
  Tad Eggleston: And still in the pre-launch stage are three that we have interviewed creators for. Tezuka, God of Manga, from Jason Cohn.
• 21:26
  Tad Eggleston: Death of Comics Bookcase, Reign of Comics Book Cases from Zach Quaintance, and My Neighbor Necromancer No. 4 from Dylan Gilbertson, all launching soon. Go sign up to be notified upon launch. Tyler, I'm giving you all the long ones. You get the humble bundles now!
• 21:44
  Tyler Johnson: That's okay, that's okay. Disney Masters Collection has been really awesome. The, an original's from Fanta Graphics. This is $25 for 48 items. Obviously I haven't read everything in it, but the, it's going towards, first book?
• 22:02
  Tyler Johnson: And that's been extended to September 9th.
• 22:05
  Tyler Johnson: Kaiju, or excuse me, Godzilla Kaiju Rampage is $18 for 30 items going to Make-A-Wish, and that's been extended to September 9th.
• 22:17
  Tad Eggleston: And we'll talk about that a little bit in a few minutes.
• 22:20
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, the Humanoids Mega Bundle Universe is Unbound Part 2. I… I've been deciding whether to pull the trigger on this one. $20 for 40 items, which actually is 132 different volumes, is going towards reading is essential, and that's extended to September 10th.
• 22:39
  Tyler Johnson: Image, again, we're gonna talk about this one. Image in the 20s, Mega Bundle, $25 for 70 items. Lots of, number 1s and stuff like that in there. This goes through the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and will be running through September 14th.
• 22:56
  Tyler Johnson: miniseries, quick hits and Speedy Reads from Dynamite. This one looks great. For $88, or excuse me, $18, you get 88 single issues, including things like Garth Ennis' A Train Called Love and Andy Diggle's Control.
• 23:13
  Tyler Johnson: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is where this is going, by… it'll be running until September 15th.
• 23:21
  Tyler Johnson: The EC Comics Artist Library from Phantographics is $25 for 40 items. This is Freedom to Read Foundation, and has just been extended to September 17th.
• 23:35
  Tyler Johnson: And, last, the Valiant Mega Bundle. 105 items for $20. This goes to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and it's now running through September 18th. Whew, Tad!
• 23:52
  Tyler Johnson: What are 3 amazing new books that you've read?
• 23:55
  Tad Eggleston: It was… it was a good week. I'm gonna give a quick shout-out.
• 24:00
  Tad Eggleston: to three number ones from DC, Legion of Superheroes, Doom Patrol, and, Teen Titans were all really fantastic.
• 24:09
  Tyler Johnson: Red Dude Patrol, I will agree.
• 24:12
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and I, and I believe our all-planned is ongoing series, so, so, like…
• 24:18
  Tad Eggleston: A good trio of debuts there.
• 24:21
  Tad Eggleston: But my big… well, and also, like, the Weird Al book was… Solid.
• 24:27
  Tyler Johnson: I sold out of that almost instantly.
• 24:30
  Tad Eggleston: I would imagine.
• 24:31
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I ordered the, original cover and then the variant, kind of a lime green background with Clark and Bruce in Hawaiian shirts. That… both covers sold out.
• 24:44
  Tad Eggleston: Boom.
• 24:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 24:45
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 24:46
  Tad Eggleston: But the books I love the most this week, A Ghost Are Made of Angry Ghosts from Oliver Mertz and Alex Diotto. Did you read this?
• 24:55
  Tyler Johnson: No, but I know what it is.
• 24:57
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 24:58
  Tad Eggleston: This is… this is up your alley.
• 25:01
  Tad Eggleston: This is one that I've been…
• 25:02
  Tyler Johnson: It's my.
• 25:02
  Tad Eggleston: Read a few more times. It's got some very punk rock sensibilities, and…
• 25:08
  Tad Eggleston: it's just, like, weird in cool ways. Yeah.
• 25:14
  Tad Eggleston: I think the first time ever that I get to say I can see the influence, artistic influence, of four kids walking to a bank, and it's like… it's…
• 25:24
  Tad Eggleston: It's both amazing to me.
• 25:29
  Tad Eggleston: that it's the first time that I've really seen somebody who I felt like took a,
• 25:37
  Tad Eggleston: took… took influence from that, because it's such an amazing book, and I'm just so happy to see some of that vibe again, even though it's a completely different story from that.
• 25:48
  Tad Eggleston: And it actually uses a lot of art styles, depending on what it needs to do. I just… I like this book a lot.
• 25:55
  Tad Eggleston: I'm certain that I'll find an excuse to book club it, or reach out to Oliver, or… yeah. This… this will not be the only time that a ghost… our mate of angry ghosts gets talked about on…
• 26:05
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I mean, once I… once I read it, it's on my list, it just handles.
• 26:09
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Tyler Johnson: had, very little time. Right. But, your third one I have read, and it's amazing. Yeah.
• 26:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. My second… my second one was really good, too. Superman the Stranger, number one from Wes Craig. Yep.
• 26:24
  Tad Eggleston: It both takes you back to, like, 20s, 30s era Superman, where his powers came on slower and weren't completely there.
• 26:36
  Tad Eggleston: And kind of tells a different story. In this version, he's, An orphan.
• 26:43
  Tad Eggleston: So he doesn't have the whole Ma Paw Kent thing. He grew up in an orphanage, and therefore has…
• 26:52
  Tad Eggleston: has… has some different sensibilities. I'm really interested to see what Wes winds up doing with it. I thought it was a really, really solid
• 27:01
  Tad Eggleston: debut, and as you said, Crowbound from Jeff… Jeff Lemire and Dustin Wen.
• 27:06
  Tad Eggleston: When they get together, it's always awesome.
• 27:10
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. The cover was super cool with this book. The white was very stark, and the image in the middle
• 27:18
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, it just is so eye-catching that even if you aren't a fan of Jeff Lemire, or,
• 27:26
  Tad Eggleston: How can you not be a fan of Jeff Lemire? How can you not be a fan of Dustin Wen? And really, how can you not be a fan of when they work together? I know, but if you're.
• 27:36
  Tyler Johnson: Just walking by it, I mean, it catches your eye.
• 27:39
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 27:40
  Tyler Johnson: Which I love. So, the one-piece raise, Tad, are you moving forward in this?
• 27:46
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't manage to move forward this week. I moved forward last week.
• 27:50
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. They didn't move forward this week.
• 27:52
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. Have you read any more One Piece? Are you gonna suddenly jump in and say, yeah, I got to Chapter 800 this week?
• 28:00
  Tyler Johnson: No, but I will be reporting in soon about the One Piece trading card game.
• 28:06
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, that's right, they've got a trading card game coming up.
• 28:08
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, and we happened to snag some for our store, and we'll see how well it sells, so…
• 28:14
  Tad Eggleston: Well, also, like, you should try to play it, and tell us if it's actually a…
• 28:21
  Tad Eggleston: A game that plays well, or if it's really just a collectible.
• 28:25
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, speaking of games, have you heard of the game Hero Clicks?
• 28:30
  Tad Eggleston: I know of Hero Clicks, I've never played.
• 28:33
  Tyler Johnson: So, we yesterday hosted the Midwest Regional Hero Clips Tournament at our shop.
• 28:39
  Tad Eggleston: Nice!
• 28:41
  Tyler Johnson: Which was a lot of fun. And then Lucas, my partner in the shop, he will be judging worlds this week, down in… or this week, this month, down in Tennessee.
• 28:52
  Tad Eggleston: Cool.
• 28:53
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, so, anyway, HeroClicks is a little off the beat path, but, yeah, great responsibility this week.
• 29:00
  Tad Eggleston: We're gonna talk some Godzilla, and we're gonna talk some Image in the 20s, and you didn't bother to fill in your part, so I don't know what you're gonna be talking about.
• 29:08
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I, I think,
• 29:10
  Tad Eggleston: You texted it to me, but I'd have to pull that up.
• 29:14
  Tad Eggleston: You didn't fill it into the rundown. It just says, fill nothing. Tyler, nothing.
• 29:20
  Tyler Johnson: Nothing.
• 29:21
  Tad Eggleston: Tad, Starship Godzilla, and Geiger.
• 29:25
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, well, here's the thing. For Godzilla, there was one that was more middle-aged graphic novel, and honestly, yeah, middle grade, sorry, middle-aged would be us.
• 29:42
  Tad Eggleston: They're pretty much all middle-aged, except for the one that's middle grade.
• 29:46
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, middle grade, okay, so…
• 29:49
  Tyler Johnson: This one I liked because I'm kind of sick of seeing Godzilla in all of the contemporary stuff that I read, so I went towards Monster Island Summer Camp. It's an IDW, publication, sorry.
• 30:04
  Tyler Johnson: I think it's fun. Peaceful Art Camp gets just, you know, taken over.
• 30:10
  Tyler Johnson: but this corporate management kind of thing.
• 30:17
  Tyler Johnson: What did you… have you read it before?
• 30:20
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't. I haven't. That's why I was… I was waiting to hear from you, you to tell me about it, because… Okay, yeah. …cos it sounded cool.
• 30:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yep. So, like I said, it's an art camp that, you know, it's been kind of taken over this suspicious corporation kind of thing, and it's turned into an extreme sports, quote-unquote, like, nightmare. I mean, it's horrible.
• 30:45
  Tyler Johnson: But anyway,
• 30:51
  Tad Eggleston: Who are our… who's our art team on that?
• 30:54
  Tyler Johnson: Boy.
• 30:56
  Tad Eggleston: I'm trying to look it up.
• 30:59
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe I'll let you look it up while I… I did Starship Godzilla from…
• 31:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:03
  Tad Eggleston: and… and Oliver Ono.
• 31:06
  Tad Eggleston: And… and it definitely had…
• 31:10
  Tad Eggleston: Had that cool space smuggler, cowboy… You know, it's just like…
• 31:20
  Tad Eggleston: It's like, Godzilla was in it, and he was a space monster, and… and part of the… the… the…
• 31:30
  Tad Eggleston: Storyline was built around…
• 31:39
  Tad Eggleston: what's the word I'm looking… looking for? It was built around, both stealing and… and… and selling kaiju eggs.
• 31:48
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 31:48
  Tad Eggleston: But… but again, it was essentially… that was… that was, like, the backdrop
• 31:55
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and their ship is built like a Mechagodzilla. That was kind of cool.
• 32:00
  Tad Eggleston: But overall, that was the… You know what?
• 32:05
  Tad Eggleston: That's crazy!
• 32:08
  Tad Eggleston: We had the same artist for our two books.
• 32:11
  Tyler Johnson: Really? Ono? Yeah. Or whatever his name is?
• 32:14
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, Oliver Ono was…
• 32:16
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 32:16
  Tad Eggleston: as well. Yep. Rosy night.
• 32:20
  Tyler Johnson: I had Rosie Naish, who'd you know?
• 32:22
  Tad Eggleston: I had Chris Gooch, who you know, because he did In Utero.
• 32:27
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, the, the, yeah.
• 32:31
  Tyler Johnson: It's gone.
• 32:32
  Tad Eggleston: So I enjoyed just the, you know, it's probably…
• 32:37
  Tad Eggleston: My story was probably… not quite officially YA, but could be YA, particularly because the protagonist was…
• 32:45
  Tad Eggleston: The youngest character in the book, and part of it was… like…
• 32:50
  Tad Eggleston: Her disappointment in reminding her elders that, like, morals are allowed to trump money, but also, like, learning that sometimes people disappoint you for…
• 33:04
  Tad Eggleston: exactly good reasons, but not bad re… you know, I mean… Yes.
• 33:08
  Tyler Johnson: I do know, yeah.
• 33:09
  Tad Eggleston: When you're a parent, when you have to take care of people, when you have responsibilities, you sometimes have different lines for…
• 33:19
  Tad Eggleston: What's okay and what's not.
• 33:22
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Wow.
• 33:23
  Tyler Johnson: Everything is fluid. I mean, it's all…
• 33:26
  Tad Eggleston: Which actually isn't… is… that was another theme in the… the Superman…
• 33:32
  Tad Eggleston: stranger… Yeah. …is, like, he's sitting there going, I want to make a difference, but am I really making that? Like…
• 33:41
  Tad Eggleston: Fighting criminals who are only trying to feed their families?
• 33:47
  Tyler Johnson: Right.
• 33:47
  Tyler Johnson: What was cool about the book that I read, Monster Island Summer Camp, was the…
• 33:53
  Tyler Johnson: idea that Godzilla, like, is like a baby kaiju, called Manila in this story, and…
• 34:01
  Tad Eggleston: Very cute on the cover.
• 34:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, I just really love…
• 34:06
  Tyler Johnson: the idea of bringing these kind of, universal monsters to younger people… Yeah. …that may not…
• 34:19
  Tyler Johnson: may not seek them out, because, well, these… these Godzilla movies have been around for 100 years.
• 34:27
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 34:28
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that's another one that I've liked, but haven't… I read it when it came out, was there was the Godzilla Skater Die by Louis Joyce. Yeah.
• 34:37
  Tad Eggleston: That one was fun.
• 34:40
  Tad Eggleston: Have you… Godzilla Heist was fun.
• 34:43
  Tyler Johnson: You know, the last couple of years when they've been putting him out?
• 34:46
  Tad Eggleston: I've been reading… I have been sucked into way more of them than I thought I was gonna be.
• 34:52
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 34:53
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I've been… I've been reading all of the Godzilla vs. America books, and I've been reading all of the Godzilla Monster Piece Theater books.
• 35:03
  Tad Eggleston: But, like…
• 35:06
  Tyler Johnson: Why is this…
• 35:07
  Tad Eggleston: Ethan, Ethan Parker and… I mean, I think it started because…
• 35:12
  Tad Eggleston: I think last year was Godzilla's 75th anniversary?
• 35:15
  Tyler Johnson: 75. Oh, I was off. I said.
• 35:18
  Tad Eggleston: I think.
• 35:19
  Tad Eggleston: No, because Godzilla is a distinctly posed… Hiroshima thing.
• 35:24
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 35:26
  Tad Eggleston: I think, actually, literally post- Hiroshima, because… I mean, post-World War II, obviously, but I think…
• 35:32
  Tad Eggleston: I think as the only country ever to have a nuclear bomb dropped on them.
• 35:40
  Tad Eggleston: Godzilla and, and, like, kind of the Kaijus…
• 35:45
  Tad Eggleston: We're an outshoot of that. And if somebody knows more, wants to correct me, or fill me in more.
• 35:51
  Tad Eggleston: you know, 22panelspodcast at gmail.com.
• 35:55
  Tyler Johnson: probably true.
• 35:57
  Tad Eggleston: But, but that, but that's, that's my… that's… that's always…
• 36:01
  Tad Eggleston: kind of read it, is that, that, like, Ew.
• 36:06
  Tad Eggleston: happens. I mean, cause… cause you look at… I mean, I guess…
• 36:11
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if they're called kaiju or not, but, like, they've had weird creatures going back…
• 36:17
  Tad Eggleston: Forever, like, like, there's the… The various creatures that pop up in in…
• 36:25
  Tad Eggleston: like Usagi Yojimbo, that are various…
• 36:28
  Tad Eggleston: Spirits or demons or whatever, that aren't just those…
• 36:33
  Tad Eggleston: creatures because it's Usagi, but they would be if they're in similar stuff.
• 36:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, Dan Sakai's really good about including that kind of lore into his…
• 36:44
  Tad Eggleston: But that was all, like, small size. I think it became big as kind of the… nuclear age.
• 36:52
  Tad Eggleston: What if he took that Kaiju and dropped a bomb on it? It would get bigger! Yep.
• 36:59
  Tyler Johnson: Probably will. I've just never been a fan of Godzilla in general.
• 37:04
  Tyler Johnson: But this was a good book, the summer camp one. It was this girl going to art camp, this corporation took over, she kind of becomes friends with this baby kaiju, and I won't spoil it, but that's the main hits right there, you know?
• 37:19
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I, until recently, was similar, and I still haven't, like, gone back and watched…
• 37:27
  Tad Eggleston: Like, the movies and stuff yet?
• 37:30
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, enough creators that I love you know, Tim Seeley, God, but
• 37:41
  Tad Eggleston: Ethan Sheridan, or, I'm sorry, Ethan Griffin and
• 37:47
  Tad Eggleston: Can it be? Yeah, Ethan Parker and Griffin Sheridan.
• 37:50
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 37:53
  Tad Eggleston: Frank Thierry, Chris Gooch, Tom Scioli, you know, the most recent Monsterpiece Theater was by Kyle Baker.
• 38:03
  Tad Eggleston: you know…
• 38:05
  Tad Eggleston: So, again, enough… enough people whose work I really appreciate have been doing Godzilla stuff lately that it's like, okay, I need to at least explore what they're doing and see…
• 38:17
  Tad Eggleston: See what this is all about.
• 38:19
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 38:21
  Tad Eggleston: It's kind of like I wound up reading G.I. Joe when Kelly Thompson wrote a book, you know?
• 38:27
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 38:27
  Tad Eggleston: Aquaman, because Ram V wrote a book, you know?
• 38:32
  Tad Eggleston: When, when, when…
• 38:33
  Tyler Johnson: Uncle Man, come on.
• 38:34
  Tad Eggleston: No, his Occamen series was pretty good. And this is where I also have to remind myself, was it… I think it was…
• 38:44
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, I didn't at the time, and I think I still may need to, because…
• 38:56
  Tad Eggleston: Kelly Sue DeConnick wrote a run on Aquaman, and I just can't imagine Kelly Sue ever not writing something amazing.
• 39:07
  Tyler Johnson: rates.
• 39:07
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 39:10
  Tyler Johnson: I agree, I just really don't like the character.
• 39:13
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I understand.
• 39:14
  Tyler Johnson: It has nothing to do with any of the writers, but…
• 39:16
  Tad Eggleston: But, you know, I mean, I've found that there's almost no character that I dislike so much that, like, the right writer can't make a story that I love.
• 39:27
  Tyler Johnson: Interesting. I…
• 39:28
  Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?
• 39:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, but it's… I don't think that's true for me. I think… Oh…
• 39:36
  Tyler Johnson: I think Aquaman is so boring to me.
• 39:40
  Tyler Johnson: that I just won't read it.
• 39:43
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, you know what? I take that back. Jeff Lemire got me to read Animal Man, so I will… I would.
• 39:51
  Tad Eggleston: You didn't like Morrison's Animal Man?
• 39:54
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 39:55
  Tad Eggleston: Wow!
• 39:56
  Tyler Johnson: So, I will, I will… if… if Jeff Lemire rates Aquaman, I will read it.
• 40:03
  Tad Eggleston: You know, the first Flash I read was because Jeff Lemire… well, not quite. I think I've read a little bit other Flash, but Jeff Lemire got me to read some Flash.
• 40:13
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, really?
• 40:15
  Tad Eggleston: He's doing the absolute flash. So what was your image from the 20s pic?
• 40:21
  Tyler Johnson: Golden Rage.
• 40:23
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, you did Golden Rage!
• 40:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 40:26
  Tyler Johnson: Did you…
• 40:27
  Tad Eggleston: I think Phil was doing Golden Rage.
• 40:30
  Tyler Johnson: Did he? Well, he's not even here.
• 40:32
  Tad Eggleston: Well, he's not here, so it doesn't matter, but…
• 40:35
  Tyler Johnson: If he chose it, if he chose it, sorry, Phil.
• 40:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 40:38
  Tyler Johnson: you lose. Golden Rage, I read, right?
• 40:43
  Tyler Johnson: It's kind of in a near-future society, I don't know, what'd you say?
• 40:48
  Tad Eggleston: in range.
• 40:49
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, and we're women who are deemed, like, useless, mostly because they're older.
• 40:55
  Tad Eggleston: Old.
• 40:56
  Tyler Johnson: infertile, you know, or, you know, barren. They're… they're shoved off to some remote island, you know.
• 41:05
  Tad Eggleston: Generally.
• 41:06
  Tyler Johnson: You remember the, the, the Christmas movie where the, the Island of Misfit Toys? Yeah.
• 41:14
  Tad Eggleston: And I can't even remember… I'm going to check to see if the tagline
• 41:20
  Tad Eggleston: Is… is what I think it is.
• 41:24
  Tad Eggleston: And if it's not, I'll just… I'll tell you what I think of with Golden… keep going. I'm just…
• 41:30
  Tyler Johnson: Oh my god.
• 41:31
  Tad Eggleston: a short rattle.
• 41:32
  Tyler Johnson: You know, so it's this island, right, where the women are dropped off and they're left completely to themselves, and you end up with this community where they must both make friends, bake desserts, but also fight to the death sometimes.
• 41:48
  Tyler Johnson: You know, just for survival. It's, it's really fun.
• 41:54
  Tad Eggleston: Not the tagline, the blurb from Kelly Sue Deconnock.
• 41:58
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. Battle Royale meets the Golden Girls with dashes of Agatha Christie and Logan's Run.
• 42:05
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty close. I would say yes.
• 42:08
  Tyler Johnson: Artist was, Lauren Knight. She did the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comics.
• 42:14
  Tyler Johnson: It was really good.
• 42:18
  Tad Eggleston: This is also one where you can go back, Christy Williams and Lauren Knight have been on twice to talk about Golden Rage, and they brought, Sophie Dodson, the colorerer, the second time, so…
• 42:30
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, they did? Yeah. I think she was an ank girl, Sophie Dobson.
• 42:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 42:36
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, so we, we, we have definitely had some golden, golden rage talk here on 22 Panels. Such a good book.
• 42:44
  Tyler Johnson: It's…
• 42:45
  Tad Eggleston: Such a good book.
• 42:46
  Tyler Johnson: It's just like, what the… You know, just the premise of it alone. Okay, you know, in today's society, the way that the MAGA movement is going, and what they would like to see for women, I can imagine that, sure.
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: Oh yeah, no.
• 43:03
  Tyler Johnson: But…
• 43:03
  Tad Eggleston: Too… too real, both in terms of the… I mean, it's kind of like Bitch Planet. It's too real, both in terms of the idea that somebody could try it, and in terms of the idea that it might not work out the way they think it will.
• 43:18
  Tyler Johnson: Right?
• 43:21
  Tad Eggleston: Because it…
• 43:21
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, man.
• 43:22
  Tad Eggleston: It turns out that little old ladies can be badasses.
• 43:26
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah. Reminds me of this comic that's out now, Tigress Island.
• 43:31
  Tyler Johnson: Have you read that? Have you been.
• 43:32
  Tad Eggleston: I have. Patrick Kindland and EPHK?
• 43:35
  Tad Eggleston: Good stuff. Good stuff.
• 43:37
  Tyler Johnson: Similar per… not really similar permits, but women… women on an island that they need to be tough to get
• 43:46
  Tyler Johnson: out of there.
• 43:47
  Tad Eggleston: So the one I read, when Kyle Starks was on.
• 43:52
  Tad Eggleston: He talked about the stuff that Jeff Johns has been doing recently, his own little universe.
• 44:02
  Tad Eggleston: that I hadn't… I hadn't really given enough attention to.
• 44:06
  Tad Eggleston: Because Chef Johns isn't always my thing. But Kyle… when Kyle Starks speaks highly of something, and you need to pick an image book from…
• 44:15
  Tad Eggleston: the 20s, that's part of the Humble Bundle, it's… it's a good reason. So I read the first volume of Geiger from… from Geoff Johns and… and Gary Frank.
• 44:24
  Tyler Johnson: It's the original one from, like, probably almost 10 years ago now.
• 44:28
  Tad Eggleston: Not that long, because it's part of the 2020s.
• 44:32
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 44:35
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, true, but Geiger has been out a while.
• 44:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, I think they're up to 3 volumes of it now, so it's gotta have been a little while, but…
• 44:48
  Tyler Johnson: The current run of Geiger is its… is a Volume 2.
• 44:53
  Tad Eggleston: The first issue of Geiger came out… And…
• 45:06
  Tad Eggleston: You said it's… the current run is… is Volume 2?
• 45:10
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I know you see, like, there… there's three… I mean.
• 45:14
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, the 6 issues I read…
• 45:17
  Tad Eggleston: Cause it looks like there was… there was…
• 45:20
  Tad Eggleston: Those 6 issues, an 80-page giant, a 2-page ground zero, and then the ongoing that's going on now.
• 45:28
  Tad Eggleston: But the 6 issues that I read.
• 45:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, that's what I'm… that's what I was asking, is it that?
• 45:33
  Tad Eggleston: came out in 2021, and yeah, that's what I read.
• 45:37
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, cool.
• 45:37
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Damn.
• 45:39
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, like, it was a, it was a cool premise. It's like the, the…
• 45:45
  Tad Eggleston: post-nuclear Holocaust world, like, the one guy who'd been under radiation treatment, like, wound up with superpowers rather than…
• 45:54
  Tad Eggleston: Rather than not being able to go on outside, and there's… there's some family stuff going on, and… and some…
• 46:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 46:04
  Tyler Johnson: I think it's cool. I read that original, small volume, you know? And I thought, I thought it was awesome in its premise.
• 46:15
  Tyler Johnson: that this guy has been exposed to radiation. You know, usually it's guys coming out of their bunker, and they're like, oh, the world didn't get.
• 46:24
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 46:24
  Tyler Johnson: as I thought. You know, but in this case, this guy got… this guy got it hard, and so… but he survived.
• 46:31
  Tyler Johnson: And,
• 46:33
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, and those are just… I mean, what we mentioned are just two of an absolutely stacked image in the 20s.
• 46:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 46:44
  Tad Eggleston: Mega Bundle. I mean, it's got both volumes of Little Monsters. Speaking of… Jeff Lemire and Dustin Wen.
• 46:52
  Tad Eggleston: It's got Enzuelo, it's got four volumes of Sacrificers, it's got Haha, Sad Clown Stories from Maxwell Prince and Martin Mrazzo, it's got both volumes of Free Planet, it's got both volumes of Assorted Crisis events, it's got Dust to Dust, it's got, I think.
• 47:10
  Tad Eggleston: 4 volumes of Blood Squad 7?
• 47:13
  Tad Eggleston: Four volumes of Adventure Man.
• 47:16
  Tad Eggleston: Two volumes of something epic, Sunburn, Under York, first volume of Dork.
• 47:22
  Tad Eggleston: Tin Can Society Swan Songs, also from…
• 47:26
  Tad Eggleston: Maxwell Prince and Martin Mrazzo, Jonathan Hickman's Decorum, fish flies from Lemire.
• 47:33
  Tad Eggleston: You'll Do Bad Things that you talked about recently, from Tyler Boss.
• 47:39
  Tad Eggleston: you know, the Golden Rage that we just talked about, James Tyen's World Tree, just, I…
• 47:47
  Tad Eggleston: First two volumes of Exquisite Corpses.
• 47:50
  Tad Eggleston: First volume of Bug Wars, 8 Billion Genies, 3 volumes of That Texas Blood.
• 47:58
  Tad Eggleston: This is just… this is one of the more, 4… 3 volumes of Forged? 3 or 4 volumes of Forged. I think 3 volumes. First volume of Escape.
• 48:09
  Tad Eggleston: This is, like, just far and away one of the… Image has put out a number of great humble bundles, and this one, like, takes the cake in terms of how absolutely stacked it is. Yeah, I agree. With really good books.
• 48:27
  Tyler Johnson: Right? I agree. It had a ton of stuff in it.
• 48:32
  Tad Eggleston: Absolutely worth the $25.
• 48:34
  Tyler Johnson: I mean, he… And I… I didn't buy it, because honestly, I own most of that. I've been…
• 48:43
  Tad Eggleston: I own a lot of it, but I have a tendency to buy them anyway, A, because I max out what I give to charity.
• 48:50
  Tad Eggleston: and, and B…
• 48:52
  Tad Eggleston: like, it's nice to have digital copies, it's nice to have them legally, and I like to support the idea that these things should happen.
• 49:02
  Tad Eggleston: But they're also DRM-free digital copies, so I can then turn around and share them with Tyler and…
• 49:08
  Tad Eggleston: Bill, and I mean, they're really useful to have when we're doing book clubs, because I can go, hey, who wants to read this? Can't get your hands on it, let me send you a PDF.
• 49:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 49:19
  Tyler Johnson: You're… you're gonna build… I can see you someday, building that database of digital comic books, that you will be the global hub for this, for digital comic books, because you will have… you will be the Netflix of digital comics, because you will… right?
• 49:39
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 49:40
  Tyler Johnson: Nobody else is doing it better. I mean, honestly, who else is doing digital comics better? I mean, I do like, I do, I do like,
• 49:50
  Tad Eggleston: I like Global Comics, I like.
• 49:51
  Tyler Johnson: global.
• 49:52
  Tad Eggleston: The IHE Bomb. Yeah.
• 49:54
  Tyler Johnson: Do not really.
• 49:55
  Tad Eggleston: Sweet is okay.
• 49:59
  Tad Eggleston: Global Comics is definitely my preference right now.
• 50:01
  Tyler Johnson: I can see people using Tad.
• 50:07
  Tad Eggleston: I gotta get the license, don't get me in trouble, Tyler!
• 50:11
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, we haven't built the app yet.
• 50:14
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right, all right. So, books we hope will be spectacular,
• 50:19
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 50:21
  Tad Eggleston: It's, like, really good week next week.
• 50:25
  Tyler Johnson: I bet.
• 50:25
  Tad Eggleston: Really? Okay.
• 50:27
  Tyler Johnson: You have this as your, you know it's number one, but I'm about to read it, is ch-ch-ch-ch.
• 50:33
  Tad Eggleston: Got shoe number 2?
• 50:34
  Tyler Johnson: Chachu.
• 50:35
  Tad Eggleston: first one?
• 50:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yes.
• 50:37
  Tad Eggleston: So good.
• 50:37
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, I agree. But I haven't read number 2, so it's all… it's sitting in my pile at the store.
• 50:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 50:48
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, that… Defiant, the story of Robert Smalls, is finally coming out. Rob Edwards, Sean Damian Hill, Alex Patterson, it's kind of had a long and winding road, so I got to read a preview of that, I think, like, a year ago, for an interview that never quite came together.
• 51:05
  Tad Eggleston: But it was really good. Shout out to a friend of the podcast, Larry Stahl, his Midwest Man of Power is finally coming out in exciting comics number 62. Got delayed a little bit.
• 51:17
  Tyler Johnson: Marie and I have also become friends.
• 51:20
  Tad Eggleston: There you go.
• 51:21
  Tyler Johnson: Sorry, he's my friend first. No, I'm kidding, he's not.
• 51:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yay, hey!
• 51:25
  Tyler Johnson: No, no, Larry, if you're listening,
• 51:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, we'll talk soon. I gotta… we… he was at… we were chatting about getting him to our Comic-Con here in September.
• 51:36
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, nice!
• 51:37
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, but…
• 51:38
  Tad Eggleston: at SuperCon.
• 51:40
  Tyler Johnson: It's SuperCom, but we were too late to the game. No room left for poor Larry.
• 51:46
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, keep that.
• 51:47
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, Tad, sorry about that.
• 51:48
  Tad Eggleston: Forever, from Brian Box Brown, we gotta reach out to him, have him back. He was really fun to talk to. Yeah.
• 51:56
  Tad Eggleston: Of the Earth, number 5, from Chris Condon and Charlie Adler, and Andrew Eric. I mean, it's like, Chris Condon and Charlie Adlard are coming up over and over again. I haven't read all of this, but Fanagraphics sent me a physical copy, so I was able to flip through it, and even if the story
• 52:13
  Tad Eggleston: doesn't live up to my expectations. The art is so fucking good that it still qualifies as spectacular. The Queen of the Cosmos trilogy from Barbara Willie Mendez.
• 52:24
  Tad Eggleston: And of course, Starhench Book 2, Kiss for Atticus No. 3 from Leigh Ann Sharp. Those are all the ones I KNOW
• 52:32
  Tad Eggleston: are spectacular.
• 52:33
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:36
  Tyler Johnson: Now.
• 52:37
  Tad Eggleston: These next three, I'm only pretty sure will be spectacular. Six of us, number one, from Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez-Walta at Dark Horse, bringing back together the Vision Team. Forever Home from Sammy Cavella and Christian Ward at Oney.
• 52:52
  Tyler Johnson: That one…
• 52:53
  Tad Eggleston: Beautiful.
• 52:54
  Tyler Johnson: That one looked… the cover, like, I saw the cover and went, yep, that goes into my pile. Yep. And they say, don't judge a book by its cover, but that one, I'm like, that sounds great.
• 53:04
  Tad Eggleston: And then, issue number 5 of Sarah Gailey and Hainings' Neighborhood Watch. I have been adoring This story…
• 53:12
  Tad Eggleston: So… Can't remember if this is the final issue or the penultimate issue.
• 53:18
  Tad Eggleston: Certainly.
• 53:19
  Tyler Johnson: you know next week. Next week.
• 53:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I don't remember if I reordered, or ordered number 6 or not.
• 53:25
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 53:26
  Tad Eggleston: So, Phil's not here for an all-new Giant Trade Waiter pick,
• 53:31
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 53:31
  Tad Eggleston: You wanna pick one?
• 53:34
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I've got 5 in the collections and graphic novels, plus the Defiant and the Forever and the Queen of Cosmos trilogy are all graphic novels, rather than…
• 53:46
  Tad Eggleston: They're the ones that I'll speak to.
• 53:48
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm…
• 53:49
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, if you don't want to pick one… You pick one.
• 53:51
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna pick one for you, because I am, like…
• 53:56
  Tyler Johnson: I was put on the spot, it was so…
• 53:59
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna tell you that I feel like this is totally up your alley. I think you're gonna wanna read Queen of the Cosmos comics trilogy from Barbie, Barbara Willie.
• 54:07
  Tyler Johnson: I agree, that's all.
• 54:08
  Tad Eggleston: It's got, like, psychedelic, cool, alternative, underground-type art.
• 54:15
  Tad Eggleston: Here, let me go quickly pull up the… The… the write-up on it.
• 54:23
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, so that, like, I, I…
• 54:27
  Tad Eggleston: Give it… give it its proper props.
• 54:34
  Tad Eggleston: And here, I'll share my screen so you can see what we're… We're talking about, too.
• 54:44
  Tad Eggleston: So here it is. Barbara Willie Mendez Masterpiece of Hallucinogenic Storytelling.
• 54:51
  Tad Eggleston: Queen of the Cosmos comics trilogy, collected for the first time in a single volume.
• 54:57
  Tyler Johnson: It looks great, you know.
• 54:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 54:59
  Tyler Johnson: Psychedelic colors, the mushrooms.
• 55:01
  Tad Eggleston: Mendez chronicles women's creator's psychedelic journey through biblical tableau, modern life, and into a fantastical, interstellar future, weaving in her own intimate stories of being an artist, mother, and grandmother, especially in the never-before-published third volume.
• 55:18
  Tad Eggleston: Inspired by Jewish mysticism, Mendez presents a creation myth shaped by feminine cosmic consciousness with new, immersive worlds and a radical reimagining of this one.
• 55:31
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 55:33
  Tyler Johnson: That's pretty sweet.
• 55:34
  Tad Eggleston: This feels like it's a Tyler book. I think I'm gonna love it too, but it feels like it's.
• 55:38
  Tyler Johnson: The queen character in the middle has kind of a Christ pose going on. Right. You know.
• 55:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, the artwork looks amazing, so I might just read it just based on that, judging another book by its cover.
• 55:53
  Tad Eggleston: But there you go.
• 55:54
  Tyler Johnson: Well, that's pretty sweet. That's gonna… I'm gonna buy that, for sure.
• 55:57
  Tad Eggleston: So.
• 55:58
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, look at that.
• 55:58
  Tad Eggleston: without that Phil guy, we… we were out in a… in a… Reasonable amount of time.
• 56:04
  Tyler Johnson: Well, that, and we had our rundown ready to go.
• 56:09
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's always a bonus. Yeah, we were just ready and done.
• 56:13
  Tad Eggleston: That was a bonus. That was a bonus.
• 56:16
  Tad Eggleston: Also, we did the, hey, look over there.
• 56:19
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 56:21
  Tyler Johnson: I was about… you got, you got… you got me on that one, that was funny.
• 56:26
  Tad Eggleston: You wanna take us out?
• 56:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, I do. Alright guys, thanks for listening. This has been 22Panels. We will catch you guys after the next page. See ya!