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22 Panels Episode #230 - C2E2 Recap · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  ROYGBIV: 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…
• 0:14
  ROYGBIV: from me is Tad.
• 0:17
  ROYGBIV: just had.
• 0:19
  ROYGBIV: Phil is sleeping, I think. I think Phil was, like.
• 0:24
  Tad Eggleston: Bill is not feeling well this morning.
• 0:26
  ROYGBIV: He's not…
• 0:27
  Tad Eggleston: Took the morning off.
• 0:29
  Tad Eggleston: I question his dedication.
• 0:32
  ROYGBIV: I… every day, that guy, I mean, come on.
• 0:37
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you… you took, like, months off, dude, and you're questioning his dedication?
• 0:45
  ROYGBIV: Oh, I thought we were just talking about him. I didn't realize we were gonna, like, turn this around.
• 0:53
  Tad Eggleston: I'm the one who never skips an episode, though I did take way too long to get last week's episode up.
• 1:00
  Tad Eggleston: It didn't go up until, like, Thursday.
• 1:02
  ROYGBIV: Really?
• 1:03
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:03
  ROYGBIV: I didn't even notice.
• 1:05
  Tad Eggleston: I'm sorry.
• 1:07
  Tad Eggleston: I failed. I failed my listeners.
• 1:09
  ROYGBIV: I've given myself a new name this morning on your screen.
• 1:13
  Tad Eggleston: Oh yeah, Roy Gbiv.
• 1:14
  ROYGBIV: Yep. I was gonna separate it and just be, like, Roy, G, and then Bib, but…
• 1:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:19
  ROYGBIV: I'm just in a weird mood this morning.
• 1:22
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it, because, like…
• 1:26
  Tad Eggleston: April Fool's Day was this week.
• 1:28
  Tad Eggleston: And we got mad about DC, and a trailer about mad about DC, and both.
• 1:35
  ROYGBIV: Good.
• 1:36
  Tad Eggleston: were really, really awesome. So, go watch the trailer, and then go read the comic book.
• 1:41
  Tad Eggleston: It does.
• 1:42
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, it was great. When it came out, I grabbed it, and it's been on the top of my pile, and then, as I look at it, I'm like, oh, I'll get to that later, and I grab from underneath it, and… and I have not got to it yet.
• 1:55
  Tad Eggleston: See, what I… what I really… this is… this is one of the cooler things about it,
• 2:02
  Tad Eggleston: So, when I… I… somehow, this had flown
• 2:05
  Tad Eggleston: under my radar. I, I, I don't…
• 2:08
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know, like… I don't know how this blew under my radar, but… but it did.
• 2:14
  Tad Eggleston: And… I,
• 2:22
  Tad Eggleston: I'm trying to figure out what I did with your face. I can… I'm gonna stop the share and reshare. Actually, I don't need to share, because you've got your own thing pulled up.
• 2:31
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 2:32
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so anyway, it had flown under my radar, so I forgot to, like, add it to any polos.
• 2:39
  Tad Eggleston: But I still have…
• 2:41
  Tad Eggleston: Daredevil on my pull list at Dreamland and Libertyville, because I didn't want to sever my…
• 2:48
  Tad Eggleston: My… my connections to them.
• 2:51
  Tad Eggleston: So when I went to grab my Daredevil, I asked Charlie if he… if he had any, and… and officially he didn't, because the other guy in the store was going to be buying the last two copies, but… but the guy in the store is like, oh, no, he can have one.
• 3:07
  Tad Eggleston: I don't wanna, I don't wanna, like, you know…
• 3:10
  Tad Eggleston: But I got the Simon Bisley cover, which, I mean, first of all, the Simon Bisley cover's pretty cool, and I have a Bisley story coming up in, Great Responsibilities, so don't let me forget that.
• 3:23
  Tad Eggleston: But, and I've never seen this before, but I loved it. The variant cover is like…
• 3:36
  Tad Eggleston: it's like a second cover. Like, when you open the Bisley cover, you get the original Mad Magazine
• 3:44
  Tad Eggleston: I forget who did that one.
• 3:53
  Tad Eggleston: The, the, oh… Did the cover of the…
• 4:03
  Tad Eggleston: You're not even helping me out here, man.
• 4:06
  ROYGBIV: Sorry, I'm half distracted with, something that just came up on my phone, I'm sorry.
• 4:11
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I see, I see.
• 4:13
  ROYGBIV: I'm sorry.
• 4:13
  Tad Eggleston: The Dan Pinozian cover. So, so… Yes. So, it's got the Bisley cover, but underneath is the Pinozian cover. Okay. Which… and I'm just seeing now, I'm gonna have to go track down or order if they have it.
• 4:30
  Tad Eggleston: The Zdarsky cover is amazing.
• 4:33
  ROYGBIV: Yo.
• 4:38
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 4:40
  ROYGBIV: That's cool.
• 4:41
  Tad Eggleston: Actually, do you have your order stuff? Can you see if it's sold out?
• 4:46
  ROYGBIV: Okay. No, I don't have that up right now.
• 4:49
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 4:52
  ROYGBIV: Sorry, nope.
• 4:54
  Tad Eggleston: That's okay.
• 4:55
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 4:57
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wow, not even a drawing of Jim Lee saying, what, me, hurry? That's our mad guarantee.
• 5:05
  Tad Eggleston: Featuring zero jokes about Hush 2 being late.
• 5:11
  Tad Eggleston: Got it.
• 5:12
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wow.
• 5:14
  ROYGBIV: Funny.
• 5:16
  ROYGBIV: That's funny.
• 5:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't know how this ran under my radar.
• 5:24
  Tad Eggleston: Because it's so good.
• 5:28
  ROYGBIV: It's… it's, something I'm definitely looking forward to this afternoon when I'm bored of my, holiday lunch people, guests, and I will just, like, walk away and pick up a mad magazine and just put it right over my face.
• 5:43
  ROYGBIV: I do have actual Mad Magazines right here from the last…
• 5:48
  Tad Eggleston: I love…
• 5:49
  ROYGBIV: See, here's…
• 5:50
  Tad Eggleston: I love MAD, and it sounds like they're about to start,
• 5:55
  Tad Eggleston: Doing stuff with more… more new material.
• 6:00
  ROYGBIV: Well, that's awesome.
• 6:01
  Tad Eggleston: Which…
• 6:03
  ROYGBIV: I'm just gonna be like…
• 6:04
  Tad Eggleston: It's frustrating that we only had reprint issues going.
• 6:09
  Tad Eggleston: So, that makes me happy.
• 6:13
  ROYGBIV: This'll be me at Easter lunch.
• 6:17
  ROYGBIV: Just… magazine… mad magazine pulled up in front of my face, you know, like, just don't talk to me.
• 6:24
  Tad Eggleston: That, that, that seems reasonable.
• 6:26
  ROYGBIV: I… I agree.
• 6:28
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 6:32
  ROYGBIV: What's that?
• 6:32
  Tad Eggleston: But then, Ronald Wimberly, and…
• 6:39
  Tad Eggleston: And of course, I'm, like, writing an email when I need to be looking at Ronald Wimberly and Mike Rock.
• 6:44
  Tad Eggleston: Wimberly's a cartoonist that, that I love, and we've had on the show. Mike Rock is a, a,
• 6:52
  Tad Eggleston: animation guy. He did, Rock Brothers Animation is the name of his production company, but they're starting a venture called Wild Signal.
• 7:02
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 7:02
  Tad Eggleston: That will apparently re…
• 7:05
  Tad Eggleston: release radical storytelling in a variety of formats. Julian Glander, Tundy, Adabimpy, and Saul Williams are already on…
• 7:16
  Tad Eggleston: already being announced in the press release, at least. Oh, nice. And their first release is a vinyl limited edition soundtrack of Boys Go to Jupiter.
• 7:25
  Tad Eggleston: Which is Julie and Glandy's animated synth-pop musical film.
• 7:30
  ROYGBIV: Do you like Saul Williams' music in general?
• 7:33
  Tad Eggleston: I do, actually.
• 7:35
  ROYGBIV: I do, too. It's really good.
• 7:37
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like Saul Williams, but I love Ronald Wimberly, so, like, I'm… I'm… I'm, like, digging… digging that he's got a new project going.
• 7:46
  ROYGBIV: Yo.
• 7:46
  Tad Eggleston: So… I will be… We… watching that, and
• 7:53
  Tad Eggleston: Then, then, wow, this has been a week.
• 7:59
  ROYGBIV: Okay, so let's start this off early in the week. We of last week.
• 8:05
  ROYGBIV: it came out that Christine Noem's husband, Brian, was cross-dressing and distributing photos of himself to somebody
• 8:16
  ROYGBIV: Who leaked them.
• 8:18
  Tad Eggleston: Multiple people.
• 8:19
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, and in the cross-dressing, he was wearing…
• 8:23
  Tad Eggleston: I think he was doing video calls with, like, paid sex workers?
• 8:28
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 8:29
  ROYGBIV: So, in the…
• 8:31
  Tad Eggleston: I took screenshots.
• 8:33
  ROYGBIV: And in that, he was wearing a suit for large breasts. It was definitely a fetish sight, because this was, like, astronomically out of proportion, the suit he was wearing. And, he, christy, you know, of course.
• 8:49
  ROYGBIV: freaks out, and she's asking for privacy this week. Well, her family deals with this. There's no way that she didn't know this was going on, though.
• 8:59
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there's lots of ways. She was busy boning, Corey Lewandowski on government airplanes that had bedrooms.
• 9:07
  ROYGBIV: True.
• 9:09
  ROYGBIV: It's just…
• 9:10
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, I don't… I have a hard time believing she was caught off guard, because with these people, it's all about projection, projection, projection, right?
• 9:19
  ROYGBIV: So… It makes sense that she would have known about it, judging for how much she hates
• 9:27
  ROYGBIV: This kind of lifestyle, you know, that she publicly proclaims that.
• 9:31
  Tad Eggleston: No, I mean, he didn't have any surgery.
• 9:34
  ROYGBIV: No, no.
• 9:35
  Tad Eggleston: Just a fetish.
• 9:37
  ROYGBIV: Yep, yep. We'll get into…
• 9:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's not like he became a woman.
• 9:41
  ROYGBIV: They'll get him some complex.
• 9:42
  Tad Eggleston: So he's probably a… she's probably actually okay with it. What she's not okay with is that it left their bedroom. It might even be what attracted her to him in the first place.
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: You know… I mean, she's like, I always wanted to marry a man with bigger boobs than me.
• 10:02
  ROYGBIV: Maybe.
• 10:04
  ROYGBIV: All I know is that, I… my first reaction was like, oh, good for him. And then my second reaction was, oh my god, this is gonna be hilarious.
• 10:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I do, I do have to say that there is a certain level of… Difficulty, because, like.
• 10:25
  Tad Eggleston: I have zero problem with it. I think it's cool that he expresses himself however the fuck he feels like expressing himself. On the flip side, there is such a level of schadenfreude, because you know that…
• 10:43
  Tad Eggleston: She, and if not she, at least everybody who thinks she's cool…
• 10:48
  Tad Eggleston: DOES have a problem with it.
• 10:51
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 10:54
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, I want to make that distinction. I don't have any problem with what Brian Noem was doing.
• 11:00
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but it's like, you know, I mean, on one side, like, I'm all for this being private. On the other side, I'm also all for not…
• 11:12
  Tad Eggleston: Deporting 5-year-olds.
• 11:14
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 11:16
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 11:18
  Tad Eggleston: And apparently, it leaked as retaliation. One of the… one of the sex workers that he was doing this with was an immigrant, and she found out who he was.
• 11:31
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, this totally got out there BECAUSE of Christie's actions.
• 11:36
  ROYGBIV: Oh, funny.
• 11:41
  ROYGBIV: And then, the second piece of news that brightened my week,
• 11:46
  ROYGBIV: horrible cunt witch, Pam Bondi, has been… Let go.
• 11:54
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, here's… I have two… two… I mean, again, like with Christy, couldn't have happened to a finer woman. Right, right.
• 12:04
  ROYGBIV: I mean, ugh.
• 12:05
  Tad Eggleston: But there are 3 things that I want to point out that are…
• 12:10
  Tad Eggleston: mildly, like, concerning about, like, her being let go. The first is the timing, which is, oh, I totally bombed my Iran speech, how do we change the news cycle?
• 12:24
  Tad Eggleston: Because it was, it was right after that, like, debacle of a speech where, like…
• 12:31
  Tad Eggleston: He was supposed to be, like, laying out objections and, and, and…
• 12:36
  Tad Eggleston: soothing the nation, and that sort of thing, and… and just failed. Miserly.
• 12:42
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 12:45
  Tad Eggleston: We've destroyed them. We've totally destroyed them, and they, but we're gonna be there for a while.
• 12:53
  Tad Eggleston: They're totally on board with peace, we're almost there, and we're having fruitful negotiations, and that's good, because otherwise we're gonna bomb them back into the Stone Age.
• 13:05
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 13:06
  ROYGBIV: It was just all over the place. And then,
• 13:11
  ROYGBIV: I don't know. I'm not sure if it's a political maneuver to get… like, did he think that she wouldn't have to testify against him if he let her go?
• 13:21
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he might, but… because he's the…
• 13:23
  ROYGBIV: She still does. She still does.
• 13:25
  Tad Eggleston: But then the second thing is,
• 13:29
  Tad Eggleston: Like, he's essentially firing her for being incompetent at doing illegal things.
• 13:35
  ROYGBIV: Correct.
• 13:37
  Tad Eggleston: So… what are the chances that she will be replaced with anybody that, like, is even one iota better?
• 13:45
  ROYGBIV: Correct.
• 13:46
  Tad Eggleston: And better, in his eyes, would be being successful at doing illegal things.
• 13:54
  ROYGBIV: I agree, yeah. She's just not corrupt enough for his taste.
• 13:58
  Tad Eggleston: So, I mean, it's like, hey, why are you bothering with the courts? Why aren't you just using… and I shouldn't say this out loud, because, you know, the NSA is listening, and somebody will decide they want a promotion. They'll say, hey, this podcaster's got a great idea for you, Donald!
• 14:13
  Tad Eggleston: You know, why aren't you just using the FBI to disappear people? Why are we bothering with trying to take them to court?
• 14:20
  ROYGBIV: I agree. I mean, it'll come to that, but…
• 14:24
  Tad Eggleston: But third, like, and in some ways this feels small, but, like…
• 14:34
  Tad Eggleston: Who are his first two fires of this new administration?
• 14:38
  ROYGBIV: The ladies.
• 14:39
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 14:41
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, I know, I mean, they're… but here's the thing, though, they were justifiably horrible people, so…
• 14:46
  Tad Eggleston: They were, but they're no more horrible than Pete Hegseth.
• 14:50
  ROYGBIV: Correct. I agree, yeah.
• 14:51
  Tad Eggleston: Howard Luttner?
• 14:55
  Tad Eggleston: You know, oh, I went to lunch at the Epstein's once, and they told me about a sexual massage, and I said, you're gross, and we never spoke again. Oh, well, we just happened to be the Caribbean, and we needed lunch, so it was my family, and our nannies, and we just had lunch.
• 15:15
  ROYGBIV: Yes, I… yes, I agree. It is ridiculous.
• 15:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, so, like… Yeah.
• 15:26
  ROYGBIV: It's funny.
• 15:27
  Tad Eggleston: If people weren't dying, it would be funny.
• 15:34
  ROYGBIV: Correct, yep.
• 15:35
  Tad Eggleston: You know what I mean?
• 15:37
  ROYGBIV: Yep, it is a weird situation we're in right now. So…
• 15:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 15:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 15:45
  ROYGBIV: Alright, well, that's…
• 15:47
  Tad Eggleston: So there we go.
• 15:48
  ROYGBIV: I think there was, like, one more thing that I cannot remember that happened that was pretty… Interesting.
• 15:54
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he did go to the Supreme Court. He sat for oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
• 16:00
  Tad Eggleston: First president ever to do that. And for the birthright citizen case…
• 16:05
  ROYGBIV: God.
• 16:07
  Tad Eggleston: And then…
• 16:09
  Tad Eggleston: And, you know, people who are experiencing this say this is, like, this is something that's absolutely not done.
• 16:18
  Tad Eggleston: He left early.
• 16:22
  ROYGBIV: He just got up and left.
• 16:25
  Tad Eggleston: I think he left between the… the…
• 16:29
  Tad Eggleston: I think he left after… after the US had made their case, and before the ACLU did, so it wasn't quite like he just stormed out, and, like, he was smart enough to…
• 16:41
  Tad Eggleston: To sit in the back and not make too big a deal of himself, but, like…
• 16:46
  Tad Eggleston: A, it doesn't actually look like even this court is gonna strike down birthright citizenship. You know, one of my favorite parts was when the government's lawyer was… was talking about how there were 8 billion people that were a plane ride away from
• 17:04
  Tad Eggleston: having a child that was a U.S. citizen is a whole new world, and John Roberts is like, it is a whole new world, but it's the same Constitution.
• 17:18
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, exactly.
• 17:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there was pushback from fucking Brett Kavanaugh.
• 17:23
  Tad Eggleston: When you got Brett Kavanaugh slapping you around, on your MAGA stuff.
• 17:32
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 17:33
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he's really not capable of slapping around on most things, so, like, when you've got Brett Kavanaugh slapping you around rather than sounding like an idiot.
• 17:43
  ROYGBIV: He's stepping it up.
• 17:45
  Tad Eggleston: Neil Gorsuch asked about Native Americans, and the government lawyer didn't have an answer.
• 17:54
  ROYGBIV: What?
• 17:55
  Tad Eggleston: As to whether Native Americans would be citizens?
• 17:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah… yeah, yeah. It did not go well. It did not go well, thank God.
• 18:07
  ROYGBIV: Well, let's…
• 18:08
  Tad Eggleston: I can't imagine… I can't imagine Donald, like, went down there and then watched it not go well and was happy.
• 18:16
  ROYGBIV: Correct. So, what are they trying to do with getting rid of this birthright citizenship? Does that mean that you or I could be deported because we angered the great Donald Trump?
• 18:29
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, at this moment, no. What they're trying to do is say that if your parents aren't citizens, just because you're born here doesn't mean you're a citizen.
• 18:38
  ROYGBIV: Okay, I didn't know if that was as far as they wanted to take it.
• 18:41
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that's as far as it's… I mean, once you start chipping at it.
• 18:46
  ROYGBIV: I know, that's… pretty soon, it's like, well, that's pretty much everybody.
• 18:50
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I mean, remember, remember when they, they, they, they, like, started chipping away at the, the Voting Rights Act, and it's like, oh, we're only doing this, this is, you know… and now it might as well not exist.
• 19:06
  ROYGBIV: I… yes, yeah.
• 19:08
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah. No. It's dumb.
• 19:12
  Tad Eggleston: It's dumb. So let's talk some cool-looking, new-to-order comics. Initial orders are due at your comic shop on April 23rd. Tyler, you're leading off today.
• 19:26
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, we're gonna do some Dungeons & Dragons. This new book, as soon as I find it, is called Dungeons & Dragons Total Party Killers, number 1, and the Wiz…
• 19:40
  ROYGBIV: The wizard Kustos has died, and his lair lies ripe with for the taking. As adventurers raid the lair of treasure, the monsters enthralled by Kustos in the life
• 19:52
  ROYGBIV: Must protect his domain even after his death.
• 19:56
  ROYGBIV: That is, unless the creatures can trick someone into releasing them, thus a lycanthrope, gelatinous cube, Mind Flayer, Death Knight, and Baby Beholder form their own adventuring party to win their freedom in a hostile world.
• 20:13
  ROYGBIV: This is from Dark Horse, from Christopher Hastings, and illustrated by Dennis Medri. Looks like we're, final order cut off on June 8th, and we'll be in shops July.
• 20:29
  ROYGBIV: 22nd.
• 20:32
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 20:33
  Tad Eggleston: the… the first Flux House book
• 20:37
  Tad Eggleston: Due to come out from Oni Press.
• 20:40
  ROYGBIV: Huh?
• 20:41
  Tad Eggleston: Mind Management New and Improved Number 1.
• 20:48
  Tad Eggleston: From Matt Kent.
• 20:50
  Tad Eggleston: Ten years ago, the extra governmental agency known as Mind Management exploded in a barrage of bullets and brain matter.
• 20:58
  Tad Eggleston: Those that survived have gone underground, forging new lives with unremarkable identities and falsified pasts to obfuscate the strange abilities that once made them highly priced assets in the global war for psychic control.
• 21:12
  Tad Eggleston: Now, two investigators, Detective Delphi and Detective Swan, have
• 21:17
  Tad Eggleston: Found themselves at the center of an unexpected puzzle.
• 21:20
  Tad Eggleston: Here, a man poisoned in a coffee shop with a sophisticated neurotoxin. There, a supposed suicide victim, run over by a train, with his arms found in a trash can 5 miles from the tracks.
• 21:33
  Tad Eggleston: Their connection?
• 21:35
  Tad Eggleston: Someone is killing former mine management agents in improbable and arcane ways. Seemingly impossible crimes committed by a faceless killer capable of evading even the most pervasive digital surveillance. What secret are they killing?
• 21:51
  Tad Eggleston: To protect? Who will be next? Has mind management returned? Did it ever go away? You are paranoid, but are you paranoid enough?
• 22:01
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff is May 20… er, April 27th in stores on June 24th. I am psyched as hell. I love mind management.
• 22:12
  ROYGBIV: It's good.
• 22:13
  Tad Eggleston: Have we done mind management on the show yet?
• 22:15
  ROYGBIV: No, not as a whole, like, look at the…
• 22:19
  Tad Eggleston: You said that you were interested in possibly doing a book club. That might be the one.
• 22:23
  ROYGBIV: I am, yes.
• 22:24
  Tad Eggleston: And it might be another one worth going slow.
• 22:30
  Tad Eggleston: Like, an issue at a time, rather than… Cause there's so much.
• 22:37
  ROYGBIV: I would not mind that at all. Matt Kids is so good.
• 22:41
  Tad Eggleston: We'll… we'll have to… we'll have to consider that.
• 22:44
  ROYGBIV: I'm good.
• 22:45
  ROYGBIV: All right.
• 22:46
  Tad Eggleston: consider that.
• 22:48
  ROYGBIV: Up to graphic novels?
• 22:50
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and I get to go first this time.
• 22:52
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 22:53
  Tad Eggleston: Graphic novels, Love and Desire?
• 22:58
  Tad Eggleston: In the Promised Land, the private lives of Israelis and Palestinians, from Salomeh parent Rashidi.
• 23:06
  Tad Eggleston: and Dalupi. Love and Desire in the Provinced Land gives voice to a dozen real-life citizens of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, who navigate messy boundaries in their homes and bedrooms against a background of geopolitical violence.
• 23:21
  Tad Eggleston: Collecting interviews conducted before the October 7th attack unleashed a new wave of bloody conflict. The book introduces
• 23:29
  Tad Eggleston: Fascinating individuals and couples who speak frankly about the transgressions that define their experiences with intimacy. The portrayals represent a diverse population, including an interfaith celebrity power couple, an Orthodox gynecologist, a young gay Muslim, a
• 23:46
  Tad Eggleston: Palestinian-American feminist, a Ukrainian-Israeli artist, and a Palestinian lesbian in a relationship with an Israeli soldier.
• 23:56
  ROYGBIV: Okay, can I… I'm sorry. Now, when we talk about Orthodox gynecologists, are we talking about, like, they're just, like, a strict gynecologist, or are they a Jewish gynecologist?
• 24:08
  Tad Eggleston: I think it's an Orthodox Jew kind… gynecologist.
• 24:12
  ROYGBIV: Okay. I thought it was a… I thought it was a descriptor for the kind of gynecologist they were.
• 24:18
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't know that there was an Orthodox gynecologist, but I know that.
• 24:22
  ROYGBIV: I don't.
• 24:23
  Tad Eggleston: are Orthodox Jews. So I'm gonna assume that it's an Orthodox Jew.
• 24:28
  ROYGBIV: But it's funny, though, if you read it.
• 24:30
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, I get where you're coming from.
• 24:33
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, anyway, okay, you go on. I will shut up.
• 24:38
  Tad Eggleston: Through these candid conversations recorded by Parent Rashidi and illustrated with a warm touch by Dalupi, the authors illuminate a culture and a people whose humanity has been shrouded by the fever pitch of politics and the tragedy of genocide. In a strict society where norms are enforced by tradition, religion, and the threat of violence, these ordinary citizens follow their heart and risk it all.
• 25:01
  Tad Eggleston: In the name of love and desire.
• 25:06
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Fanagraphics Books. It looks great. Final order cutoff is April 27th, in stores on June 10th.
• 25:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yours looks pretty good too, Tyler.
• 25:19
  ROYGBIV: The next one I have up is, X-Men. This one is not coming out from Marvel, though. This is an Abrams book. It's called, All New, All Different X-Men Elsewhere from John Byrne.
• 25:33
  Tad Eggleston: then.
• 25:34
  ROYGBIV: Else when, excuse me, ElseWhen, yep.
• 25:36
  ROYGBIV: Legendary comic creator John Burns returns to the title he first drew 50 years ago, Unkinny X-Men. With this one-of-a-kind new graphic novel series, X- Elsewen, this three-volume graphic novel series picks up the story from Burns' original run.
• 25:54
  ROYGBIV: Taking the characters in new and unexpected directions. Volume 1 of X- Elsewin, the Dark Phoenix saga is over, and Phoenix is…
• 26:05
  ROYGBIV: alive.
• 26:06
  ROYGBIV: Diverging from the epic finale of the original storyline from 1984, X- Elsewen presents a universe where Jean Grey's powers and intellect have been greatly reduced, and from there, everything you thought you knew about the X-Men is forever changed.
• 26:22
  ROYGBIV: So, John Byrne's monumental return to the X-Men heads in entirely new and surprising directions.
• 26:29
  ROYGBIV: Alright, this is gonna be, final order cutoff of May 11th, and will be in shops June 24th.
• 26:38
  ROYGBIV: Very cool. Again, from Abrams.
• 26:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm certain it's in conjunction with Marvel. They can't do it without… Yeah. Some sign off.
• 26:49
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 26:51
  Tad Eggleston: You… You have the first collection.
• 26:53
  ROYGBIV: Yes, moving on to our collected editions, I, picked Batman Static Beyond.
• 27:00
  ROYGBIV: From, Evan Narcisse, and Narcis… how do you pronounce that? Evan…
• 27:06
  Tad Eggleston: Evan Narcisse.
• 27:07
  ROYGBIV: Narcisse, Nicholas Draper Ivey, an art by Nicholas Draper Ivey, Miguel Men…
• 27:13
  ROYGBIV: Mendka? Mendonca? Okay. A return to the Beyond Universe that will send a shock to your system.
• 27:20
  ROYGBIV: In the not-so-distant future, young hero Terry McGinnis patrols the neon-lit streets of Neo-Gotham as Batman Beyond. Meanwhile, Virgil Hawkins, better known as Static, forges a new technological revolution in Dakota City with his groundbreaking invention, the Q-Wave energy grid.
• 27:39
  ROYGBIV: Promising clean power for all. Together, and alongside the Justice League beyond, the heroes are united in anticipation of Earth's long-awaited induction into the interplanetary alliance known as the Cooperative.
• 27:53
  ROYGBIV: Everything seems to be going smoothly, until the menacing new villain, Shutdown arrives on the scene, creating chaos and putting the planet's future at risk.
• 28:03
  ROYGBIV: At the center of all this mayhem is the unlikely but dynamic duo of Static and Batman Beyond, who must set aside their differences and work together to save the world before it is too late. Final order cough is May 25th, and will be in shops on
• 28:20
  ROYGBIV: August 4th from DC and, Elseworlds.
• 28:27
  Tad Eggleston: Alrighty.
• 28:29
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 28:31
  ROYGBIV: DC milestone, excuse me.
• 28:34
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. I am also doing a DC milestone.
• 28:37
  Tad Eggleston: Because…
• 28:38
  ROYGBIV: Oh, yes, you are.
• 28:40
  Tad Eggleston: Compendium 5!
• 28:43
  Tad Eggleston: Features a never-before-seen milestone story for the first time in publication. The original Milestone universe ends in this final compendium that collects the remaining series runs of Static Hardware, Icon, and Blood Syndicate. This volume also features
• 29:00
  Tad Eggleston: the Heroes and Wise Son White Wolf miniseries.
• 29:04
  Tad Eggleston: Plus, other appearances of Static throughout the early 2000s, during the height of the Static Shock animated series. Collects Blood Syndicate, numbers 33-35, Hardware 39-50, Heroes 1-6, Icon 38-42, Milestone Forever 1 and 2, Static, 32-45, Static Shock.
• 29:25
  Tad Eggleston: Rebirth of the Cool, 1-4, Static Shock Special, number 1, and Wise Sun, the White Wolf, number…
• 29:31
  Tad Eggleston: 1 to 4, plus bonus content from the 9-11
• 29:35
  Tad Eggleston: World's Finest Comic Book Writers and artists tell stories to remember, number 2, Superman and Batman Magazine, number 7, and for the first time ever, an exclusive look at the never-before-published Zombie Hanukkah Special by John Rosam and Guy Davis.
• 29:53
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff on this is May 11th, and it will be in stores
• 29:58
  Tad Eggleston: on July 21st. We're about to roll into Milestone Compendium 4 on our.
• 30:08
  ROYGBIV: On your milestone journey.
• 30:10
  Tad Eggleston: Journey on, on, on our,
• 30:14
  Tad Eggleston: on the Milestone Book Club, so, we'll probably get to this one sometime early next year.
• 30:22
  ROYGBIV: Alright. Ted, I'll do the final order cutoff if you want, Ted.
• 30:26
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 30:27
  Tad Eggleston: Go for it.
• 30:28
  ROYGBIV: Final order cutoff for the week of, ending on Monday, April 13th. Cal Exit, Say Goodbye to Hollywood from Matteo Pizzolo, and C. Granda from Black Mask on May 13th.
• 30:43
  ROYGBIV: doc Tegg from Mark Russell and P.J. Holden from Mad Cave comes out May 6th.
• 30:51
  ROYGBIV: If Destruction Be Our Lot from Matt Rosenberg, Mark Elijah… Mark Elijah Rosenberg, and Andy McDonald from Image on May 6th, and Olympus Saga Megalith. This looks great, by the way, I just, put my order in for this. Matt Kint… Oh, yeah.
• 31:08
  ROYGBIV: Matt…
• 31:09
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, this'll come up more later, but the Bad Idea panel was right after my last panel, so I just stayed in the room and enjoyed it, and yes, it looks very good.
• 31:21
  ROYGBIV: Yes, so that's Matt Kent and Luis LaRosa from Bad Idea out on May 13th.
• 31:28
  ROYGBIV: So I was very excited. I was doing this particular, order for next Monday.
• 31:35
  ROYGBIV: Yesterday, and I came across
• 31:39
  ROYGBIV: Olympus Saga Megalith, and that's the first time I had seen it. I'm like, oh, what's Matt Kinton? I'm like, oh, this looks awesome.
• 31:46
  ROYGBIV: So… Anywho, what's going on for crowdfunding?
• 31:52
  Tad Eggleston: We still have a nice slate of crowdfunding stuff. Action Philosophers, Modernity Bites from Fred Van Lenti, Ryan Dunlivy at Rocket Ship Entertainment on Kickstarter through April 9th, Junji Ito's In Old Records, a horror drama on vinyl.
• 32:10
  ROYGBIV: That'd be awesome.
• 32:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I ordered one. Adapted by Ryan Katie, with, audio work from Poppy, from 00 Enterprises on Kickstarter through April 11th.
• 32:24
  Tad Eggleston: The Monster of Blackenstein, not to be confused with Blackenstein, by David F. Walker and Marcelo Di Chiara on Kickstarter through April 13th. I've read this, it's fantastic.
• 32:39
  ROYGBIV: Okay, so that's actually the title, The Monster of Blackenstein with a Y, and then it says, not to be confused with Blackenstein with an EI. Right. Okay, just checking if that's actually.
• 32:49
  Tad Eggleston: And I actually asked him if, like, it was supposed to be a Blackenstein, Blackenstein thing, and nope, it's Blackenstein, Blackenstein. He let me guess. He was curious as to how I was reading, and he's like, it's fine, but it's actually because there was a horrible movie called Blackenstein.
• 33:08
  Tad Eggleston: In, like, the 70s.
• 33:09
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 33:10
  Tad Eggleston: It's not that Blackenstein.
• 33:13
  Tad Eggleston: That's why the…
• 33:16
  ROYGBIV: Funny.
• 33:18
  ROYGBIV: I wasn't sure if it was just like a… like a disclaimer, like, hey guys, it's not that blacken sign, but it is actually part of the title, huh?
• 33:25
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it is.
• 33:26
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 33:27
  Tad Eggleston: Star Wolf from John Coates is on Kickstarter through April 18th. Dan Dare, First Contact from Alex Campi and Mark Lamming from B7 Comics on Kickstarter through April 22nd. Business as usual.
• 33:41
  Tad Eggleston: from Mark Bouchard and Shelby Criswell,
• 33:45
  Tad Eggleston: on Kickstarter through April 22nd, and Hallow Ground from Michelle Obenator, Anthony Oliveira, Ian McEwen, Annas… Abdullah.
• 33:56
  Tad Eggleston: Heather Vaughn, Megan Camerina Vashtaylor, MK Tram, J.P. Jordan, Len Gogu, Abby Frisco, Chris Ho, Richard Fairgray, Chloe Stauski, Brent Fisher, Teslin Bergen, Mitchums, and…
• 34:15
  Tad Eggleston: Juna Holler, Chloe Brailsford?
• 34:20
  Tad Eggleston: Lydia Manette, Dom Manette, Michelle Aubinator, Jessica Fong, at Deathline.
• 34:27
  Tad Eggleston: on Kickstarter through… it says, launches March 30th. Let's… let's find out when it ends really quick.
• 34:34
  Tad Eggleston: I'm used to Phil reading that one.
• 34:38
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 34:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's, it's, it's a lot.
• 34:40
  ROYGBIV: I know, there's a lot from Hollow Ground. While Tad's looking up the end date, the last one on the list is Stefan Franck's Complete Palomino from Dark Planet Comics, and it says, launching soon.
• 34:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, and we're leaving that as launching soon, because it has not launched, but we have talked to him about it, and I have read it, and it is amazing, so we are going to continue plugging that forever.
• 35:04
  Tad Eggleston: At least until it's funded. The Hallow Grant is through April 23rd. Okay. So 18 more days to go. They're about halfway to their goal, and they're about to get a little bit closer as I back them.
• 35:22
  ROYGBIV: But, oh, right.
• 35:24
  Tad Eggleston: Damn.
• 35:25
  ROYGBIV: Humble Bundles this week! Love & Rockets and more, the collected Hernandez brothers from Fanagraphics. You get, 57 items for $18.
• 35:38
  ROYGBIV: That's an amazing deal, you guys, go for that one. And then, that is going to the ACLU, and that has been extended through April 9th.
• 35:48
  ROYGBIV: Ec Resurrection Bundle. If you like EC Oni stuff going on, go check out the EC Resurrection Bundle. That, you get 39 issues for $18, and I'd have to look it up, but I'm not sure what CBLFDF is.
• 36:04
  Tad Eggleston: I want to book Legal Defense Fund.
• 36:07
  ROYGBIV: Okay, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and that will be extended through April 7th, so you got a few more days to get on that.
• 36:15
  ROYGBIV: the best of Joe Hill at IDW. Joe Hill is the, writer of, the key, Lock and Key series.
• 36:24
  ROYGBIV: That you get 15 items for $18, and that is going to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, that ends at April 9th.
• 36:35
  ROYGBIV: This one, I have already, bought. For $25, you get 43 items from the collected peanuts.
• 36:45
  ROYGBIV: You, your money is going to the…
• 36:48
  Tad Eggleston: I've gotten that one, too.
• 36:49
  ROYGBIV: Yep. You're.
• 36:52
  Tad Eggleston: you…
• 36:52
  ROYGBIV: I'm essentially getting…
• 36:53
  Tad Eggleston: everything Phantographics has done peanuts-related.
• 36:58
  ROYGBIV: And that's going to the Canine Companions, it's very fitting. that ends April 19th. And then, lastly, it's The Boys, the Grand Finale. You're… for your $18, you will get 13 items, and again.
• 37:14
  Tad Eggleston: Which is all 12 volumes, original volumes of the boys, and the… the Boys Dear Becky
• 37:21
  Tad Eggleston: That came out a couple years ago, so it's, it's essentially all of the boys comics.
• 37:26
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 37:27
  Tad Eggleston: e-books.
• 37:27
  ROYGBIV: That's awesome. And that is also going to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and get that, go out and get that before April 23rd. That's when that will be ending. That is my sister's birthday.
• 37:40
  Tad Eggleston: Is it?
• 37:41
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 37:42
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 37:44
  ROYGBIV: So, I'm 44, so she'll be 38.
• 37:47
  ROYGBIV: In case anybody was wondering about my little sister.
• 37:50
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. So, amazing books this week.
• 37:56
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 37:57
  ROYGBIV: So many good books.
• 38:02
  Tad Eggleston: Mad About DC No. 1 takes my top spot. It was just so fucking hilarious.
• 38:08
  ROYGBIV: all of these books… I will tell a story about your number 3 when we get to it, but…
• 38:14
  Tad Eggleston: Right. It was… it was just fantastic. I… I can't, I can't… it just… it felt classic Mad. If you like DC, you know, it was… it was lovingly lampooning them.
• 38:26
  Tad Eggleston: Like, it's just… Yeah, it's… it hit the spot.
• 38:32
  Tad Eggleston: Briar Knights Tower No. 4. Chris and Alex, stuck the landing on the end of their Briar tail here.
• 38:41
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 38:41
  Tad Eggleston: I very much enjoyed it. I'm hoping that it gets, like, a hardcover, all 12-issue compendium-type thing.
• 38:47
  ROYGBIV: Definitely.
• 38:47
  Tad Eggleston: be a thing that I put on my shelf.
• 38:49
  Tad Eggleston: And, I know that, a friend of the podcast, Zach Quaintance, had mixed feelings about it at the beat, but I really enjoyed Bizarro You're None.
• 39:00
  Tad Eggleston: From Kevin Smith, Eric Carrasco, and Nick Patara at DC.
• 39:04
  ROYGBIV: Funny thing about Bizarro, year one is…
• 39:08
  Tad Eggleston: You're not…
• 39:08
  ROYGBIV: You're none, excuse me, number one. You're none, number one. Kevin Smith. I had,
• 39:17
  ROYGBIV: failed to order enough copies, and so I didn't get mine, but I do want to read it.
• 39:23
  ROYGBIV: But the rest of them in your honorable mentions are all amazing, and I sold out of.
• 39:27
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, they are.
• 39:27
  ROYGBIV: Like, right away.
• 39:29
  Tad Eggleston: Oh yeah, no, this was a great, great, great week.
• 39:32
  Tad Eggleston: Daredevil was great, Batman Static is great, Babs is amazing. I haven't actually read the Archie vs. Army of Darkness yet, but that's… isn't that…
• 39:43
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's not the Jimmy and Amanda one. No. But it still looks great. It is, yeah.
• 39:49
  Tad Eggleston: Batman number 8 was amazing.
• 39:52
  ROYGBIV: Yup.
• 39:53
  Tad Eggleston: And Kaya's next on my stack to read, so…
• 39:56
  ROYGBIV: Okay, so, I would like to… so, Toxic Avenger, have you been reading that, in… since the beginning, or…
• 40:04
  Tad Eggleston: I've been reading it since the beginning, but I've been reading it in bunches.
• 40:08
  ROYGBIV: Okay, okay.
• 40:09
  Tad Eggleston: So I haven't read number 8. Have you been digging it?
• 40:12
  ROYGBIV: Yes, I'm really getting into that, and then, the Toxic, Crusaders as well. Yeah. That series is pretty good. Now, Daredevil No. 1 also came out. I noticed, that wasn't on your top 3. What did you think of it?
• 40:27
  Tad Eggleston: I loved it.
• 40:28
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 40:29
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like, it was… it was the… the… it was… It's probably actually number 5.
• 40:36
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 40:37
  Tad Eggleston: Because Batman was that good.
• 40:44
  Tad Eggleston: And you know me, I'm 3 or 9, and I didn't read 9 comics this week, because I was busy.
• 40:51
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 40:51
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… I wouldn't be surprised at all if it could have, like…
• 40:59
  Tad Eggleston: Just looking at what's there, like, it would have been number 5… Babs…
• 41:06
  Tad Eggleston: Babs and Kaia likely give you 6 and 7.
• 41:10
  Tad Eggleston: 52 gives you 8.
• 41:12
  ROYGBIV: Yup.
• 41:13
  Tad Eggleston: And then I would have had to, like, catch up on a series to get denied.
• 41:18
  ROYGBIV: Okay, I'll tell you that wasn't a possibility. I get it.
• 41:21
  Tad Eggleston: Or read Army of Darkness.
• 41:24
  Tad Eggleston: Archie.
• 41:25
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 41:26
  ROYGBIV: Well, nor…
• 41:27
  Tad Eggleston: So it was… it wasn't a week where I was gonna get to 9.
• 41:30
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 41:32
  ROYGBIV: Phil is gone, so we can't really take a walk.
• 41:35
  Tad Eggleston: No, Phil can't take a walk, so we'll take a walk with Tyler.
• 41:38
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 41:39
  Tad Eggleston: You have 4 things to talk about?
• 41:42
  Tad Eggleston: Either 4 comics that you read this week that you liked, or… or…
• 41:46
  ROYGBIV: I'm gonna… I look at what Phil wrote here, and he said, what series should I read next? Phil, if you listen to this, go with Chainsaw Man. My Hero Academia is a little bit, mmm… young, and I would think that you may get a little bit…
• 42:02
  ROYGBIV: I don't know, distract… it's just not as engaging.
• 42:06
  ROYGBIV: For… for me, so go ahead and try that. I'm also going to, be starting…
• 42:18
  ROYGBIV: From the beginning is,
• 42:23
  ROYGBIV: well, because there's just some kind of one-shot that came out, but, you're familiar with hate?
• 42:28
  ROYGBIV: Ted?
• 42:29
  Tad Eggleston: The, the… Peter Bagg?
• 42:32
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 42:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 42:34
  ROYGBIV: So, I've got a great hate collection that just came in that I'm gonna, read that, and.
• 42:39
  Tad Eggleston: Isn't that… isn't that the collection of the Revisited?
• 42:43
  ROYGBIV: Not sure. It might be.
• 42:46
  Tad Eggleston: If it's Volume 3, I think it's Hate Revisited, which was a series he did…
• 42:51
  Tad Eggleston: During the time that we've had this podcast. Yeah. That I thought you read when it came out.
• 42:55
  ROYGBIV: I probably did, but I have a terrible memory.
• 42:59
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's.
• 42:59
  ROYGBIV: That's fair. I'm just helping.
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: I'm helping out our listeners. Hi, Mom.
• 43:04
  ROYGBIV: Hey, John.
• 43:05
  Tad Eggleston: Hi, Adam.
• 43:06
  Tad Eggleston: Hi, Britt.
• 43:07
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, and then I am very much looking forward to, Free Comic Book Day. I just got in all my bundles for, for my giveaways. I have to, I have to unpack them, but there was very strict, information in there about these are not to be…
• 43:25
  ROYGBIV: distributed prior to May 2nd. Oh, yeah, oh yeah. Superman Day is coming up, too, so I got Superman Day promo stuff.
• 43:33
  Tad Eggleston: So did you, did you manage to book anybody to come out?
• 43:38
  Tad Eggleston: For Free Comic Book Day?
• 43:40
  ROYGBIV: We are having some cosplayers from Sioux Falls that will be, doubling for Free Comic Book Day and Star Wars Day, because I'm not going to open up on Monday. I'm generally not open on Mondays, so I'm not gonna turn around and open up on Monday, because Star Wars Day in La Verne is not a big…
• 43:59
  ROYGBIV: Hoopla. And so, I'm gonna have, a guy coming on New Comic Book Day, two days earlier, in Boba Fett, costume, and then,
• 44:13
  ROYGBIV: possibly, some stormtroopers as well. He's seeing who he's lighting up from his, cosplay troupe, so…
• 44:21
  Tad Eggleston: Gotcha.
• 44:21
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 44:22
  Tad Eggleston: So far, what we have at Modern Age is, Tim Seeley, who also has two free comics.
• 44:30
  Tad Eggleston: Coming out, Free Comic Book Day.
• 44:33
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 44:34
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 44:35
  ROYGBIV: I'm… I…
• 44:37
  ROYGBIV: I haven't… I mean, it's kind of late in the game now, but I've… I didn't really think about, for my first comic book day, about having, like, a guest, because I also… I don't want that, like, added layer of, like, having to, like.
• 44:50
  ROYGBIV: facilitate that, and run New Comic Book Day, you know?
• 44:55
  ROYGBIV: But it'll work out. It's gonna be cool. The only thing I need to really flush out right now is shelving for the free comic books. I'm not sure where to display them for people to come in and get them.
• 45:08
  Tad Eggleston: Gotcha.
• 45:09
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, but I'll figure it out. I got a month to go.
• 45:15
  ROYGBIV: So, that was our walk with Phil slash Tyler. One piece race, week 83. Is it really week 83?
• 45:23
  Tad Eggleston: I think it's week 84, because I don't think I updated that, and there are also poss… at some point, I need to go back and, like…
• 45:33
  Tad Eggleston: Check, check.
• 45:35
  Tad Eggleston: Because… because I feel like I may have neglected updating it multiple times, which is why I have a question mark there.
• 45:43
  ROYGBIV: Sure.
• 45:44
  ROYGBIV: So, have you moved forward?
• 45:47
  Tad Eggleston: I was not becalmed.
• 45:50
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 45:51
  Tad Eggleston: I read 10 chapters, I finished off a volume.
• 45:56
  ROYGBIV: yeah, I'm like, you move forward.
• 45:57
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, I finished off a volume. They, they, they, they, they have, mostly successfully, defended Fishtown.
• 46:08
  Tad Eggleston: And… and discovered that the… the…
• 46:13
  Tad Eggleston: the… the fish… the fish man queen, fishwoman queen, had not been killed by a human. She'd been killed by a, you know, 10 years ago, she was killed by a fish man that didn't want her… her…
• 46:29
  Tad Eggleston: initiative to… to…
• 46:32
  Tad Eggleston: Normalize relationship… relations with the humans to go through, so he… he staged a thing to make it look like she was killed by a human.
• 46:42
  Tad Eggleston: As we see, like, echoes of global politics continue in one piece, both in terms of racism and whatnot, and in terms of, you know, people
• 46:56
  Tad Eggleston: People wanting grudges to continue.
• 47:01
  Tad Eggleston: for… for their own reasons, that sort of thing. So yeah, I enjoyed it. I'm hoping that I enjoyed it enough to keep me…
• 47:10
  Tad Eggleston: Propelled forward.
• 47:12
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah.
• 47:15
  Tad Eggleston: Did you read any One Piece this week, Tyler?
• 47:18
  ROYGBIV: No, I did watch a little bit, though, of the live action.
• 47:22
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. How is the live action?
• 47:24
  ROYGBIV: Well, I enjoy it. I mean, some of the characters, you think they could do a little better on trying to, like,
• 47:33
  ROYGBIV: I don't know, keep true to the… to the story. Like, Usopp, I'm not very… I'm not a big fan of how they did him in the Netflix series. I think they did Usopp dirty.
• 47:43
  ROYGBIV: As far as, like, getting somebody that really encompasses that, like, crazy nose he has, and that kind of stuff.
• 47:52
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 47:53
  ROYGBIV: It's the story.
• 47:54
  Tad Eggleston: Compare it to the… to the anime.
• 47:56
  ROYGBIV: I, I think it's better, you think it's better?
• 47:59
  Tad Eggleston: Better than the anime.
• 48:00
  ROYGBIV: It's easier to follow, yeah.
• 48:02
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 48:02
  ROYGBIV: Because what… what I've noticed is that with the anime, you're so…
• 48:08
  ROYGBIV: focus on all the hyper details that he puts into his stories, and with the Netflix, it's gotta be a little more concise than that, you know? It's gotta be hitting the major points, so I… I like it that way, kind of filters out all the extra.
• 48:25
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 48:26
  ROYGBIV: But… Yeah, I thought it was really cool.
• 48:32
  ROYGBIV: I gotta get back to reading, though. I really do want to get into it, because, it's one of those.
• 48:39
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it really is great.
• 48:41
  ROYGBIV: It is, yeah.
• 48:42
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, I'm blown away that, like, I went 600-some-odd chapters before I even fell off for a while.
• 48:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yes. You know what I mean?
• 48:53
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, exactly. I was in the 500s before I was like, yeah, I can't.
• 48:57
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, how many comics can you think… I mean, because think about it, the chapters are what?
• 49:03
  Tad Eggleston: 20 pages apiece?
• 49:05
  ROYGBIV: Correct.
• 49:06
  Tad Eggleston: So… 12?
• 49:12
  Tad Eggleston: Thousand pages?
• 49:14
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, about 12,000 pages worth of reading, yeah.
• 49:17
  Tad Eggleston: Before I slowed down.
• 49:21
  Tad Eggleston: Can you think of anything that you've read 12,000 pages in a row?
• 49:25
  ROYGBIV: I know, it's crazy, isn't it? I…
• 49:28
  ROYGBIV: I cannot. I mean, maybe there's a book, Infinite Jest, that is very large. I don't know if it's 12.
• 49:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, but it's… no, it's, like, a thousand or so.
• 49:39
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 49:40
  ROYGBIV: Yep, you're right.
• 49:41
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I was just thinking that, like, I have listened to… the Wheel of Time.
• 49:52
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't… I mean, I've read The Wheel of Time a couple of times, but… but I… I have…
• 49:58
  Tad Eggleston: the only times I've ever, like, gone non-stop without having, like, significant periods of going away was I've listened to it through a couple of times, right? Like, where it was I listened every time I was in the car,
• 50:18
  Tad Eggleston: And… It… Is about 10,000 pages.
• 50:25
  ROYGBIV: Wow.
• 50:27
  Tad Eggleston: Like, the 14 books.
• 50:29
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, you're right, so that's pretty huge.
• 50:32
  Tad Eggleston: You know, 1079 is what Infinite Jest is.
• 50:37
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 50:41
  Tad Eggleston: you know, the first really long book that I… that I read, that I thought of how many pages, was… was…
• 50:54
  Tad Eggleston: Lonesome Dove is, like, 980-something. Oh, is it?
• 50:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 51:00
  Tad Eggleston: But, like, again… I mean, you think a long…
• 51:09
  ROYGBIV: long-form stories like that. And…
• 51:14
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I just want to make certain I'm not adding a zero. 20… times 600… Yep, 12,000.
• 51:23
  ROYGBIV: Correct, yep.
• 51:29
  Tad Eggleston: I'm trying to think of, like, is there anything where I've read 600 issues of? I mean, I guess if you take… I read pretty much all of the Ultimate Universe once.
• 51:41
  Tad Eggleston: together.
• 51:43
  ROYGBIV: The original Ultimate Universe?
• 51:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 51:45
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, okay.
• 51:46
  Tad Eggleston: That probably comes up on 12,000 pages.
• 51:50
  ROYGBIV: Probably.
• 51:52
  Tad Eggleston: But it was, like, 7 different series.
• 51:54
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 51:55
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 51:56
  Tad Eggleston: Plus miniseries, plus… You know? But like…
• 52:05
  Tad Eggleston: Let's, let's assume, let's assume,
• 52:10
  Tad Eggleston: Let's even assume 25 pages, because a lot of the great series have…
• 52:17
  Tad Eggleston: enough double issues or longer issues to be close to that. So how many issues was Walking Dead?
• 52:25
  ROYGBIV: 100 and some, but I don't remember… it was, like, a weird number.
• 52:29
  Tad Eggleston: I think it wound up being 196?
• 52:31
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, I think that sounds really…
• 52:33
  Tad Eggleston: 197?
• 52:34
  ROYGBIV: It was not, like, a nice round number, I remember that.
• 52:36
  Tad Eggleston: Well, because they, they, they ended… They earned it unexpectedly.
• 52:41
  ROYGBIV: Correct. They're just like, yep, we're done. I'm like, oh.
• 52:44
  Tad Eggleston: They even solicited, like, the next two, which is what I think is awesome.
• 52:48
  ROYGBIV: Oh, it's just to get everybody pumped up for it, and then you gotta.
• 52:51
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, I mean, so that nobody knew when they were coming to buy the comic that it was the last one.
• 52:57
  ROYGBIV: Yup, right, right, right.
• 52:59
  Tad Eggleston: Which I just think is… is crazy awesome.
• 53:07
  ROYGBIV: It's brilliant, for sure.
• 53:10
  Tad Eggleston: 193. It was 193.
• 53:13
  Tad Eggleston: So, like, going back to our calculator, 193… and again, we're gonna give them 25 pages, which…
• 53:23
  Tad Eggleston: Might be low, Probably is actually high.
• 53:28
  Tad Eggleston: 193 times 25 is only 4,825 pages.
• 53:34
  ROYGBIV: Okay, so that's the entire Walking Dead series. 4,000 pages.
• 53:38
  Tad Eggleston: is roughly a little bit more than a third of what I've already read of One Piece, and I'm, like, halfway through One Piece.
• 53:47
  Tad Eggleston: That's just crazy.
• 53:49
  ROYGBIV: That's insane. That is a lot. So,
• 53:53
  ROYGBIV: So that's our one-piece race, it's doing well.
• 53:56
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just gonna Google it, because I don't feel like doing the,
• 54:01
  Tad Eggleston: the… the… so this is, like, all caveats, I'm, I'm gonna…
• 54:05
  Tad Eggleston: I'm going to do… how many pages is one piece currently?
• 54:09
  ROYGBIV: Sure.
• 54:11
  Tad Eggleston: I don't feel like finding it and doing the math.
• 54:14
  Tad Eggleston: One piece is currently 21… 1,540 pages.
• 54:21
  ROYGBIV: Okay, that's not bad, that's, that's alright, that's alright. Kidding, that's insane. Wow.
• 54:30
  ROYGBIV: I don't even know, I don't even have anything to add to that.
• 54:33
  ROYGBIV: So, Phil has read probably no One Piece, but he is thinking about going on to other manga.
• 54:44
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait a minute. Hold on a second, really quickly. This is actually,
• 54:53
  Tad Eggleston: This is only through Volume 102.
• 54:56
  ROYGBIV: Whoa!
• 54:57
  Tad Eggleston: we're beyond that. There's a French artist named Ilan… Monarch.
• 55:05
  ROYGBIV: Okay?
• 55:06
  Tad Eggleston: Who unofficially compiled the thickest single volume books ever to be published.
• 55:12
  Tad Eggleston: Volumes… volume… a single volume of One Piece for 102 chapters, bound by Elise DeMaio.
• 55:25
  Tad Eggleston: It's 12 by 18.5 by 80 centimeters, and wears roughly 17 kilograms.
• 55:34
  ROYGBIV: Wow, that is a beast!
• 55:39
  ROYGBIV: That'd be cool, though.
• 55:41
  Tad Eggleston: That would be worth seeing, I don't think I'd want to have one.
• 55:43
  ROYGBIV: No, it would be, we're seeing, like, 12 by 18, so we're talking a foot wide, okay, by a foot and a half tall.
• 55:52
  ROYGBIV: And 18 centimeters?
• 55:55
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 55:56
  ROYGBIV: I don't know how deep that is, but it's… it's big.
• 55:59
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, no.
• 55:59
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, according to Reddit.
• 56:03
  Tad Eggleston: The East Blue Saga was 2184 pages. The Alabasta Saga was 2467 pages. The Skypea Saga was 1794. The Ennis Lobby Saga was 2966. The thriller Bark Saga was 1021.
• 56:22
  Tad Eggleston: The Summit War Saga is 2255. The Fishman Island Saga, which is the one that I'm in the middle of…
• 56:30
  Tad Eggleston: is 1032. Oh, and by the way, this is 3 years…
• 56:36
  Tad Eggleston: This post is 3 years old, so, like…
• 56:39
  ROYGBIV: Oh, wow.
• 56:42
  Tad Eggleston: Derosa Saga will be next at 3041, Whole Cake Island Saga 2113, Wano Country Saga, 2972. The final saga was, at that time, 604 pages and counting. Again, this post is 3 years old.
• 56:57
  Tad Eggleston: So, as of 3 years ago, it was at 22,449 plus pages.
• 57:04
  ROYGBIV: Not bad.
• 57:06
  ROYGBIV: That is awesome.
• 57:08
  ROYGBIV: That is… That's… I can't wait till one of us finishes it. It's gonna be awesome.
• 57:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 57:16
  ROYGBIV: Alright, let's get to C2E2. What happened last week, Ted?
• 57:20
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, well, first of all, all the panels went well, which made me really, really happy. I met some cool people. I actually had one panel, and he's already emailed me, I need to reach out to him. A similar podcast to ours, where it was just a couple of buddies that like to talk comics, so they started a podcast.
• 57:37
  Tad Eggleston: And they're on hiatus because one of them is busy, but I will probably invite the other one to join us for a while.
• 57:46
  Tad Eggleston: I had a guy… actually, let me find the email, so we can plug his podcast really quick.
• 57:52
  Tad Eggleston: But,
• 57:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, after a panel, he actually came up to me, he's like, you know, I came for all these people, but I should have come for you. You've done… you've put out 23 podcasts in the last month?
• 58:12
  Tad Eggleston: Yes. So this was Dan, who had a podcast called Faces of the Moon Knight from 2021 and 22, and is now doing a Comics Over Time podcast.
• 58:25
  Tad Eggleston: And has contributed to the comic book Yeti, which we've had Jimmy Gasper on.
• 58:33
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 58:33
  Tad Eggleston: comic book yeti. But he's also a baseball guy, loves comics,
• 58:43
  Tad Eggleston: yeah, smart guy, etc. So we had a good talk, and we'll definitely be, hitting him up to come join us.
• 58:55
  Tad Eggleston: Because, you know, he was a cool guy. Yeah. I told you to remind me about Simon Bisley. So, so Shelly Bond had told me that I needed to say hi to Simon Bisley for her.
• 59:10
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 59:11
  Tad Eggleston: I went, and, like, that's what I started with, and she's like, he's like, Simon, er, Shelly, or…
• 59:17
  Tad Eggleston: Getting all tongue-tied here, too many S-words. Simon's like, Shelly who?
• 59:22
  ROYGBIV: Chili B.
• 59:23
  Tad Eggleston: Shelly Bond. I don't know if I know a Shelly Bond. I'm like.
• 59:27
  Tad Eggleston: Philippon's wife, where does she live?
• 59:32
  ROYGBIV: Was he messing with you?
• 59:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, he was totally messing with me.
• 59:35
  ROYGBIV: Okay, okay, okay.
• 59:36
  Tad Eggleston: Eventually, it got to the point where I just said, the one that signs your checks.
• 59:44
  ROYGBIV: That's funny.
• 59:46
  Tad Eggleston: But at that point, he'd already become fascinated because, Edgar was with me. Dr. Ramos was with me, and he was wearing a vintage Harley-Davidson jacket.
• 59:55
  Tad Eggleston: And… and Simon was… was fascinated by the jacket.
• 59:59
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 59:59
  Tad Eggleston: So Simon wound up trying on the jacket. I've got a picture of him and Edgar with Simon wearing Edgar's jacket.
• 1:00:07
  ROYGBIV: Ramos' jacket, I love it.
• 1:00:08
  Tad Eggleston: Right, and it seriously seems like, like, there could be, like, a signing at…
• 1:00:15
  Tad Eggleston: at, modern age, the next time Bisley's in the States, in exchange for a jacket or a motorcycle, though I am.
• 1:00:24
  ROYGBIV: Or a motor… a jacket, or a motorcycle.
• 1:00:27
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, remember that Edgar's got 28 Harleys.
• 1:00:31
  ROYGBIV: That's true.
• 1:00:33
  ROYGBIV: He, he fixed.
• 1:00:34
  Tad Eggleston: is Harleys. It's not like…
• 1:00:39
  Tad Eggleston: Possibly a jacket and a motorcycle? I mean, the motorcycle would also have to be got in a home, so, like…
• 1:00:46
  Tad Eggleston: It's easier to take a jacket back to the UK than a motorcycle back to the UK.
• 1:00:51
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but…
• 1:00:54
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, like, my fear and, and, and,
• 1:00:59
  Tad Eggleston: is that we'd book it, and Simon would get there, and he and Edgar would just vanish on Harleys, and, like…
• 1:01:08
  Tad Eggleston: The whole time we go, well, this is Simon's stuff, we think he'll be back later today.
• 1:01:17
  ROYGBIV: We think he'll be coming back, but… That's funny.
• 1:01:22
  Tad Eggleston: The owner brought a cool Harley, and they went riding.
• 1:01:28
  Tad Eggleston: The last time we, we, we, pinged Edgar's phone, thankfully his wife put a Find My iPhone on him.
• 1:01:39
  Tad Eggleston: They were 600 miles away!
• 1:01:43
  Tad Eggleston: This is how I envision it. Yeah, this is how it's gonna go. I'm sitting there with a room full of rabid Simon Bisley fans.
• 1:01:55
  Tad Eggleston: Trying to explain why the boss and Simon went on a motorcycle ride.
• 1:02:03
  Tad Eggleston: I'm like, I prayed for rain, I wanted rain. It was a nice day, they went riding.
• 1:02:09
  ROYGBIV: Prayed for rain so they would stay put.
• 1:02:12
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:02:13
  Tad Eggleston: But I, I got to know Olivia Cuart Briggs, who did Kill Train, and,
• 1:02:23
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, Jill and the Killers, and college Try?
• 1:02:30
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:02:31
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:02:32
  Tad Eggleston: So, that was fun. If you haven't read Kill Train, Kill Train's way up your alley.
• 1:02:39
  Tad Eggleston: I finally read it after meeting her, and I liked it. It's really, really good, but it's also very much horror, and… and…
• 1:02:47
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't know how soon I'll re-read it.
• 1:02:49
  ROYGBIV: Oh, sure, sure, sure.
• 1:02:51
  Tad Eggleston: you know, essentially its premise is New York needs to cut down its population, so they institute the kill train, where, like, random subway trains, they just kill all of the…
• 1:03:05
  Tad Eggleston: All of the people on the train.
• 1:03:07
  ROYGBIV: Yeah. How… are they just, like, some kind of accident, or…
• 1:03:11
  Tad Eggleston: Well, initially they had something set up, but too many people quit, so they just started putting serial killers on the train.
• 1:03:23
  ROYGBIV: That's actually a pretty good idea. Just, like, let them have, like, a field day.
• 1:03:28
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:03:29
  ROYGBIV: Hmm.
• 1:03:30
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I don't know if good idea is the way that I'd phrase it.
• 1:03:35
  ROYGBIV: It is.
• 1:03:36
  Tad Eggleston: I understand what you mean.
• 1:03:38
  ROYGBIV: It is a good idea, okay? It is. It just… go with it. It is a good idea.
• 1:03:44
  Tad Eggleston: Do you want to come.
• 1:03:45
  ROYGBIV: Efficiently kill a bunch of people, put a serial killer on a subway train, and send them out the way!
• 1:03:51
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, it was a good time. I continue to feel like a pro.
• 1:03:58
  Tad Eggleston: Which was a nice feeling.
• 1:04:00
  ROYGBIV: My wife and I were talking about that yesterday. We were looking at pictures of… that you've posted from the experience. I said, I'm so proud of Tad. Look at what he's done as far as taking 22 panels.
• 1:04:12
  ROYGBIV: From two guys sitting in their houses on an early morning, to actually showing up at a major convention with panels, I mean, to… and you've got them approved, and you're gonna present them.
• 1:04:24
  ROYGBIV: you've just done so much, and I love it.
• 1:04:29
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, actually, I thought it was crazy awesome. The Cool People Talking Comics panel went off pretty well, and that's what a lot of the pictures you've seen came from. Yep.
• 1:04:42
  Tad Eggleston: But, not only did it go off well, but, like…
• 1:04:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, we weren't in… well, I mean, honestly, we were in about the best time slot for that that I can think of, except for TSA being an issue. Because I think we would have had a much better turnout among creators…
• 1:05:01
  Tad Eggleston: Who were going, God, it's 2.30 on…
• 1:05:05
  Tad Eggleston: Sunday afternoon, things are slowing down, I'm so ready to pack up.
• 1:05:10
  Tad Eggleston: if they… if they were able to go, I've got a panel that I can go beyond a 245, right? Yep, yep.
• 1:05:20
  Tad Eggleston: But, instead, because of TSA, pretty much anybody flying before 8 was leaving around noon.
• 1:05:29
  Tad Eggleston: Because they had no idea what to expect at the airport.
• 1:05:32
  ROYGBIV: Oh, man.
• 1:05:34
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I had a number of people who had told me that they somewhat intended to come.
• 1:05:39
  Tad Eggleston: who then, when they saw me on Sunday, were like, I think I'm gonna have to leave to… to go to the airport.
• 1:05:45
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I don't… I don't think I can stay long enough
• 1:05:49
  Tad Eggleston: to come do this. So, I mean, for that matter, even one of our booked people,
• 1:05:56
  Tad Eggleston: the,
• 1:05:59
  Tad Eggleston: Eric Osevi, the artist that we're… he… he… I mean, we kind of had to talk him into it, but, like…
• 1:06:09
  Tad Eggleston: At 2.30, he's like.
• 1:06:12
  Tad Eggleston: like, do you think I can stick around? You know, should I leave early? And we asked him what time his flight was, and, like, 3 of us were immediately like, no, you can't stay for this panel.
• 1:06:22
  Tad Eggleston: You need to go to the airport.
• 1:06:24
  ROYGBIV: We're like, you gotta go.
• 1:06:26
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's time for you to leave now.
• 1:06:31
  Tad Eggleston: That's funny.
• 1:06:32
  ROYGBIV: Poor guy.
• 1:06:33
  Tad Eggleston: But also, I mean, we were… that panel was given…
• 1:06:38
  Tad Eggleston: One of the room… like, the biggest room…
• 1:06:42
  Tad Eggleston: That didn't go to, like, pop culture… Marvel DC-type panels.
• 1:06:50
  ROYGBIV: Oh, that's awesome!
• 1:06:51
  Tad Eggleston: You know, one that actually had risers.
• 1:06:56
  Tad Eggleston: you know, etc, like… so… That felt pretty cool, that my batshit crazy idea was given… space.
• 1:07:07
  ROYGBIV: given the green light to do what it needs to do. Yeah.
• 1:07:11
  Tad Eggleston: And for that matter, like, we were right before Bad Idea.
• 1:07:16
  Tad Eggleston: That's great. Bad idea, came into the room right after us.
• 1:07:20
  ROYGBIV: And so they were… those fans were probably already kind of geared.
• 1:07:24
  Tad Eggleston: Some of them…
• 1:07:25
  ROYGBIV: See, bad idea. Yep.
• 1:07:26
  Tad Eggleston: Right, some of them were, you know, there was definitely some crossover, that sort of thing. It was, it was really…
• 1:07:32
  Tad Eggleston: It was a cool experience.
• 1:07:36
  Tad Eggleston: You know, so I enjoyed myself immensely. I'm really proud of the fact that I managed to manage my senses well.
• 1:07:44
  Tad Eggleston: Both by having the right toolkit.
• 1:07:47
  Tad Eggleston: At the con, and by just limiting
• 1:07:50
  Tad Eggleston: myself and going, okay, no, I'm not going back to the floor today, or, I'm going in late, because, like, like.
• 1:08:00
  Tad Eggleston: Saturday.
• 1:08:02
  Tad Eggleston: You know, after we recorded,
• 1:08:06
  Tad Eggleston: I waited to go in. I almost waited too long, because I completely forgot the… how long it takes to park.
• 1:08:14
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:08:14
  Tad Eggleston: It was too cold and rainy to walk from my hotel, because it was a little bit more than a mile from my hotel, you know, mile and a half, something like that, and, like, if it had been nice, I would have just walked the mile and a half, right? I had hoped to be able to do that at least once during the con, but the weather was just…
• 1:08:32
  Tad Eggleston: terrible. Yeah. But, like, I wound up having to text Lucy Knisley from…
• 1:08:42
  Tad Eggleston: from the line at the parking lot to say, hey, Lucy. I gave myself an hour and a half to get a mile and a half, but I neglected how long it takes to park.
• 1:08:58
  ROYGBIV: funny.
• 1:08:59
  Tad Eggleston: You know, cause it was, like, 15 minutes before my panel, and I wasn't out of my car yet, so I'm like…
• 1:09:03
  Tad Eggleston: hopefully I'll be parked in the next couple of minutes, and then it's how long does it take me to get through security? So I wound up walking into the Lucy and Jeffrey panel, like, right on time.
• 1:09:16
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, fun.
• 1:09:17
  ROYGBIV: Crazy.
• 1:09:19
  Tad Eggleston: But they were great.
• 1:09:22
  Tad Eggleston: The, the, the, the small press panel was great.
• 1:09:26
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I had a cool moment where I was there when Spike Trotman met Terry Moore.
• 1:09:34
  Tad Eggleston: And apparently, Terry Moore is what brought her back into comics, because she'd been a big X-Men person until Age of Apocalypse, which just got too big for her allowance.
• 1:09:44
  Tad Eggleston: There's too much going on for her allowance, so she fell away from comics entirely, and it was a couple years later that a friend of hers gave… gave her Strangers in Paradise, and, well, the rest is history. You've got Iron Circus now. But, like, I was there when she met and told Terry more that story. And that was just kind of…
• 1:10:04
  Tad Eggleston: But that was cool.
• 1:10:06
  Tad Eggleston: So, like…
• 1:10:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, it's, like, like, I mean, I've talked about it a lot, particularly since we hit Season 5, that, like, I feel like I live in the Twilight Zone now, and…
• 1:10:21
  Tad Eggleston: And that con was definitely… Definitely.
• 1:10:25
  ROYGBIV: Why, though?
• 1:10:25
  Tad Eggleston: experience of that.
• 1:10:27
  ROYGBIV: Because you didn't wait around for things to happen for you.
• 1:10:31
  ROYGBIV: you have gone out and made them happen. You've made it a reality for you to be in this
• 1:10:37
  ROYGBIV: comic world. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:10:40
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, a little bit, I get where you're coming from, but also, it turns out that the road was… at least the road of Podcaster was, like, much easier than I expected it to be.
• 1:10:54
  Tad Eggleston: Because yes, I managed to make myself send emails and whatnot, but they all fucking respond!
• 1:11:02
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, and that's the thing. If you didn't have a platform like a podcast, you would have had no way in. I mean, what would you have said? That's possible. You would have been like, hey, I'm a fan. They would have been like, great, can't wait for you to read the next book! But instead, you're like, hey, I want to talk to you, and let's flush this out, and then that's…
• 1:11:22
  Tad Eggleston: But I'm also completely honest about the fact that we have, like, 4 listeners.
• 1:11:26
  ROYGBIV: And it's funny, though, because it sounds self-deprecating, like you're just, like, you know, stretching that truth, but it's not that far off, you know?
• 1:11:37
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I… I still don't know how… how…
• 1:11:40
  ROYGBIV: Accurate.
• 1:11:40
  Tad Eggleston: Dreaming parts get… get counted.
• 1:11:45
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I've messed around a little bit with Podbean, and Podbean seems to do
• 1:11:49
  Tad Eggleston: Give us streaming numbers a little bit better than… than…
• 1:11:55
  Tad Eggleston: I don't even remember the other one we were on.
• 1:11:59
  Tad Eggleston: What were we on before Podbean?
• 1:12:04
  ROYGBIV: I don't know.
• 1:12:07
  ROYGBIV: But I can't… it's the tip of my tongue. But we've used a few different, hosting sites. Couples, yeah.
• 1:12:12
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. But it still seems very…
• 1:12:17
  Tad Eggleston: I'm not clear on whether or not we know every time somebody streams on Spotify, or every time somebody…
• 1:12:25
  Tad Eggleston: stream…
• 1:12:27
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I think I can go to YouTube to get the count from YouTube, but we've only recently gotten to YouTube, and because we're only audio on YouTube, we're really only getting…
• 1:12:42
  Tad Eggleston: the people who like their podcasts on YouTube?
• 1:12:46
  ROYGBIV: Yes.
• 1:12:47
  Tad Eggleston: Which I think is more people. Like, I have just a YouTube audio player. I've reached a point where I… my premium audio subscription is YouTube.
• 1:12:56
  ROYGBIV: Oh, okay.
• 1:12:58
  Tad Eggleston: They have the best audio player. I mean, really, it's… it's… I switched because of… the… the…
• 1:13:10
  Tad Eggleston: The audio player on… Amazon's audio player is just crap now.
• 1:13:18
  ROYGBIV: Is it…
• 1:13:19
  Tad Eggleston: It skips too much, it can't handle playlists, it can't, you know…
• 1:13:27
  Tad Eggleston: So, so yeah, no, it looks like we have 15 subscribers, and 745 of our 800-some-odd episodes are now on…
• 1:13:37
  Tad Eggleston: YouTube.
• 1:13:39
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 1:13:47
  Tad Eggleston: Do we have a listener count?
• 1:13:51
  Tad Eggleston: That's what I want to figure out. I want to figure out if I… oh, no, it looks like all 827 of them might be on…
• 1:13:59
  Tad Eggleston: the podcast portion, but I want to.
• 1:14:02
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:14:02
  Tad Eggleston: Can I pull up…
• 1:14:05
  ROYGBIV: YouTube numbers.
• 1:14:07
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I want… cause you know how, how, like…
• 1:14:14
  Tad Eggleston: You know how YouTube generally has a thing that says.
• 1:14:19
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I mean, we have no votes on our last issue.
• 1:14:23
  Tad Eggleston: episode, but I don't see a play… oh, zero comments, I don't see a play count.
• 1:14:28
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:14:29
  Tad Eggleston: And I wonder if that means it just hasn't been played.
• 1:14:33
  ROYGBIV: Maybe.
• 1:14:35
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait a minute, there's an analytics button. What does the analytics say?
• 1:14:40
  Tad Eggleston: Here we are, doing YouTube analytics in real time.
• 1:14:44
  Tad Eggleston: so, our last episode hasn't gotten any views since it was published.
• 1:14:50
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:14:50
  Tad Eggleston: on, like, Thursday.
• 1:14:52
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, yeah.
• 1:14:58
  Tad Eggleston: There doesn't seem to be a way to… yeah, I'll have to play with that at some point.
• 1:15:05
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah, this is where I remind everybody, like, follow us on… follow us on as many pod services as you use. Followers matter for the damn algorithm. Rate, review, all that stuff. Even if you say we're terrible, more reviews are good. More ratings are good, though 5-star ratings are WAY better.
• 1:15:26
  Tad Eggleston: Like, give me a 5-star rating and then tell me I'm shit. That's cool. I don't read the reviews.
• 1:15:35
  ROYGBIV: Just go ahead and do the radio, that's all I care about.
• 1:15:39
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, from an algorithmic standpoint, I think that's how it works.
• 1:15:42
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:15:43
  ROYGBIV: just… Yeah, just give us the number.
• 1:15:46
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, and like, just because I happen to be on this subject, we do have a Patreon. It is allowed for people who aren't family members to give us money.
• 1:15:58
  Tad Eggleston: Right now, it still goes to Tyler.
• 1:16:00
  ROYGBIV: I, it's… it's accumulating into… it doesn't go to me, it goes to, the Patreon, and we can log in and transfer it to an account.
• 1:16:11
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay. Cool, cool.
• 1:16:12
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, it is not go… it does not go to me. Gotcha. Yeah, it… in the Patreon account, it's…
• 1:16:20
  Tad Eggleston: So you don't have it set up to auto, it's just there. Cool.
• 1:16:24
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, no, I am…
• 1:16:25
  Tad Eggleston: I'll look at eventually.
• 1:16:26
  ROYGBIV: I have not touched it, so it's whatever people have been paying for… since… I think…
• 1:16:32
  Tad Eggleston: $8 a month?
• 1:16:33
  ROYGBIV: Yep. Okay, so… You probably have…
• 1:16:37
  Tad Eggleston: That's our annual contributions from Andy?
• 1:16:40
  ROYGBIV: Yup, so you, you probably have a small, stockpile. Amount there, yeah.
• 1:16:47
  Tad Eggleston: Good to know, good to know.
• 1:16:48
  ROYGBIV: Yep.
• 1:16:50
  ROYGBIV: Art.
• 1:16:51
  ROYGBIV: So, let's move on to…
• 1:16:53
  Tad Eggleston: That's what I was about to say. Books, we hope, will be spectacular.
• 1:16:57
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, so I'm gonna piggyback on yours, because I also think your first two are gonna be great. I'm not into number three at all.
• 1:17:05
  Tad Eggleston: Not at all.
• 1:17:06
  ROYGBIV: I do not follow… okay, let's start with your number 3.
• 1:17:09
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. Bleeding Hearts and Dork, number 3.
• 1:17:13
  Tad Eggleston: Third issues are where Matt Fractions say things get going, and, like…
• 1:17:19
  Tad Eggleston: The first two issues of both of these have been great, so if the third issue's where the story really starts.
• 1:17:25
  Tad Eggleston: I am on board! So that's Bleeding Hearts, Dennis Camp and Stippy and Morian, and, Dork from Brett Bean.
• 1:17:33
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:17:33
  Tad Eggleston: Godzilla Monster Piece Theater Presents Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla isn't on your list?
• 1:17:41
  ROYGBIV: I am not interested in any Godzilla stuff, so…
• 1:17:45
  Tad Eggleston: There has been some fucking great Godzilla stuff.
• 1:17:48
  ROYGBIV: I will have to read it. I have… it's in my store, I just…
• 1:17:51
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you should, at the very least, read the Godzilla vs. America books.
• 1:17:56
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:17:57
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, I saw whatever city was the recent one.
• 1:18:01
  Tad Eggleston: Portland. It was great.
• 1:18:02
  ROYGBIV: Yep, okay.
• 1:18:04
  Tad Eggleston: It's fucking amazing.
• 1:18:06
  ROYGBIV: I just have never been a Godzilla fan, so I've never…
• 1:18:09
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't either.
• 1:18:10
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:18:12
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't either.
• 1:18:13
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:18:14
  Tad Eggleston: like… The Tom Scholi backup story, and this is Godzilla and Robin Hood.
• 1:18:23
  ROYGBIV: Okay, okay.
• 1:18:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we already had the Godzilla Monster Peace Theater, where it was Godzilla and Sherlock Holmes and Gatsby, and I forget who else.
• 1:18:33
  ROYGBIV: Yeah, you're right.
• 1:18:35
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like, this is a different thing.
• 1:18:39
  Tad Eggleston: This is not… this is not our grandfather's Godzilla.
• 1:18:42
  ROYGBIV: Okay, okay, I will give it a whirl, I mean…
• 1:18:45
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I would say, like, at the very least, I would hit…
• 1:18:52
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I hate saying this, Godzilla Kansas City is, like, the weakest of the bunch, but it's really good.
• 1:18:59
  ROYGBIV: Alright.
• 1:19:00
  Tad Eggleston: Godzilla Chicago, Godzilla LA, Godzilla Boston, and Godzilla Portland are outstanding.
• 1:19:07
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:19:08
  Tad Eggleston: And I'm actually looking forward to Godzilla Texas, which is right around the corner.
• 1:19:15
  Tad Eggleston: So… but anyway, books I KNOW are spectacular… Yeah. The Quarter Maltese, Fable of Venice, and Other Adventures from Hugo Pratt is coming out from Phanographics.
• 1:19:26
  Tad Eggleston: Everyone Loves a Jewel Thief, number 1 from Tim Seeley, who will be appearing at Modern Age Comics on Free Comic Book Day, and Aaron Campbell from Ignition, and then, Neighborhood Watch number 1 from Sarah Gailey and Haining at Boom. So good.
• 1:19:44
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 1:19:47
  ROYGBIV: I.
• 1:19:48
  Tad Eggleston: That's what I got.
• 1:19:49
  ROYGBIV: to all of that. And, that, collect…
• 1:19:55
  Tad Eggleston: Phil's not here for a Trade Raider graphic novel pick. Do you want to pick one?
• 1:19:59
  ROYGBIV: No. But I do want to go back. Everything Dead and Dying, I have my collection right here.
• 1:20:06
  Tad Eggleston: Well, there's your pick, everything dead and dying.
• 1:20:09
  ROYGBIV: Yes, Everything Dead and Dying, I have not been reading the series, so being able to read it in a collected edition has been something I'm looking forward to. I love the cover. It's very, like, a surreal, kind of Impressionist kind of artwork.
• 1:20:25
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and Jacob Phillips is just… Outstanding.
• 1:20:29
  ROYGBIV: I agree, he is outstanding at what he does, but what he does is usually not something that's, like, my cup of tea.
• 1:20:39
  ROYGBIV: So, but… Now, it's… sometimes it's just a little too, like… painterly?
• 1:20:48
  Tad Eggleston: Right?
• 1:20:49
  ROYGBIV: For, like, a comic book vibe for me.
• 1:20:51
  ROYGBIV: So, in no way am I saying I don't like Jacob Phillips' artwork.
• 1:20:55
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he definitely does painted cover covers, but I think he does emotions and acting better than most people who
• 1:21:05
  Tad Eggleston: Paint there, because he draws first and then paints.
• 1:21:09
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:21:10
  Tad Eggleston: So, so it's like…
• 1:21:11
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I guess everybody draws first and then paints, but he's not going for photorealism most of the time.
• 1:21:18
  ROYGBIV: No, no, no, definitely not.
• 1:21:19
  ROYGBIV: He's good… it's definitely more of a, like… especially on the cover of this, it's very… impressionistic, almost. Yeah.
• 1:21:27
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 1:21:28
  ROYGBIV: I gotta look at where it's at, but… Yeah, so that would be my… my trade waiter, because I definitely have trade.
• 1:21:34
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah, no, it… I… I… I actually need to finish it still. I think I've read the first 3 issues?
• 1:21:41
  ROYGBIV: Okay.
• 1:21:41
  Tad Eggleston: But it was so good.
• 1:21:43
  ROYGBIV: And then, out of your honorable mentions, Pretty Hate Machine is a high amount.
• 1:21:51
  Tad Eggleston: daily.
• 1:21:52
  ROYGBIV: Yep. And then Star Trek Lower Decks, I have… I love that.
• 1:21:55
  Tad Eggleston: book.
• 1:21:56
  ROYGBIV: I have been reading it because it's, you know, just, like, more humor than more Star Trek, you know what I mean? So, it's not that hard to get into, because it's silly, and…
• 1:22:07
  Tad Eggleston: that book.
• 1:22:08
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:22:09
  ROYGBIV: The cartoon is also good, I heard.
• 1:22:12
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't, I didn't manage to actually,
• 1:22:16
  Tad Eggleston: talked to Tim Sheridan, because he was never at his table when I was over visiting, Chris Condon and Zach
• 1:22:23
  Tad Eggleston: Zach Kaplan had tables right next to each other, so I was over there, relatively often, but Tim was never… either never at his table or never at his table and free, but I wanted to give him, like, a major…
• 1:22:35
  Tad Eggleston: Hat tip for… for… Star Trek Lower Decks, because not only is it fantastic, but, like.
• 1:22:46
  Tad Eggleston: He took over for Ryan North, who had killed it.
• 1:22:49
  Tad Eggleston: And that's not… That's not an easy assignment, to take over from Ryan North on a humor book.
• 1:22:58
  ROYGBIV: No, and Ryan North was perfect for that job.
• 1:23:02
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 1:23:03
  ROYGBIV: But, but…
• 1:23:05
  Tad Eggleston: Ryan North and Erica Henderson have a fantastic story in Mad About DC.
• 1:23:12
  ROYGBIV: They do? Okay, I'll have to check it out. Yeah, yeah. They have a long history of writing and drawing together, and it always turns out really.
• 1:23:21
  Tad Eggleston: I got… I got to… I got to hang with… er, well, not hang with, I talked to Erica Henderson at her booth for a while, too.
• 1:23:27
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:23:29
  Tad Eggleston: She was another person that I got to see Spike Trotman geek with, because it was the first time they were meeting.
• 1:23:35
  Tad Eggleston: But they have enough of an online relationship that they both recognized each other. Well… Spike was…
• 1:23:41
  Tad Eggleston: knew who she was going to see, but Erica immediately recognized Spike. Apparently, Erica has encouraged Spike into various things like knitting and whatnot, because Erica's always showing off her…
• 1:23:55
  Tad Eggleston: knitting and embroidery projects. Remember, right before we had her on, she'd done the, 22 Panels Cookies?
• 1:24:03
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:24:05
  Tad Eggleston: This is one of the things that I love, is, like, the creative people who, like.
• 1:24:11
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, I'm done with my day job of drawing, so I'm gonna go embroider.
• 1:24:15
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:24:16
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna go make… I'm gonna go make cookies that… that… that are… are…
• 1:24:21
  Tad Eggleston: are of the 22 panels, or…
• 1:24:25
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:24:26
  Tad Eggleston: You know, the people who just have so much creativity in their bones that, like, Even their downtime?
• 1:24:34
  Tad Eggleston: Is more creative stuff.
• 1:24:38
  Tad Eggleston: That's just… that's… that's cool.
• 1:24:41
  ROYGBIV: Yeah.
• 1:24:43
  ROYGBIV: Alright, well, I would like to mosey on to.
• 1:24:47
  Tad Eggleston: It's that time.
• 1:24:47
  ROYGBIV: You're the one that closes?
• 1:24:48
  Tad Eggleston: The episode, dude.
• 1:24:50
  ROYGBIV: I'm just waiting.
• 1:24:50
  Tad Eggleston: for you.
• 1:24:51
  ROYGBIV: So, I am going to close it out. It has been fun, Ted. This is like a step back to what we were doing a few years ago. But I do miss Phil. He adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the conversation. So, we will hopefully be back as a trio next week.
• 1:25:10
  ROYGBIV: But…
• 1:25:12
  Tad Eggleston: or Copra.
• 1:25:13
  ROYGBIV: Yeah. Until then… oh, that's right, we gotta go back to Copra. Remember to read it. Until then, guys, we'll catch you after the next page.
• 1:25:22
  ROYGBIV: Video!