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22 Panels Episode #250 - Amazing Short Reads from Image Comics · 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 I am back, and across the interwebs.
• 0:15
  Tyler Johnson: is Tad and Phil Tad?
• 0:18
  Tad Eggleston: Did I tell you that I had… I had back issues? You just hit me with a web! I just…
• 0:23
  Tyler Johnson: Hit you right in the face with my sticky web.
• 0:27
  Phil: Oh, boy.
• 0:28
  Phil: I've specifically asked that the face be avoided.
• 0:32
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 0:32
  Tad Eggleston: Not the face, not the face!
• 0:34
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, Lord, damn!
• 0:35
  Tad Eggleston: That's the ugliest part of me!
• 0:39
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, how's it going, guys?
• 0:43
  Tad Eggleston: It's going good, you know what this is?
• 0:46
  Tyler Johnson: What?
• 0:47
  Phil: I mean, it's.
• 0:48
  Tad Eggleston: 50th weekly episode.
• 0:50
  Tyler Johnson: $2.50 for the weekly ones?
• 0:52
  Phil: We're as old as America now, right? That's how we're…
• 0:54
  Tad Eggleston: 250 weekly episodes.
• 0:58
  Tyler Johnson: And is that… is that accurate to 250 weeks since we started?
• 1:02
  Tad Eggleston: It is.
• 1:04
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:04
  Tad Eggleston: We haven't missed a single week.
• 1:06
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. Wow.
• 1:08
  Phil: Thanks to somebody.
• 1:10
  Phil: That's crazy! Whoever that angel is might remain nameless, but everyone knows who he is.
• 1:15
  Tyler Johnson: Tad.
• 1:15
  Tad Eggleston: We have not missed a week. 250 weekly episodes.
• 1:20
  Tyler Johnson: Wow, that's amazing.
• 1:21
  Phil: And it's like…
• 1:23
  Phil: So in 10 weeks… 10 weeks is… is the, is the distance to the 5-year anniversary?
• 1:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Yup.
• 1:32
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 1:33
  Phil: That's coming up. Alright.
• 1:36
  Tyler Johnson: Crazy!
• 1:36
  Tad Eggleston: Wow.
• 1:37
  Tyler Johnson: Who thought, Chad, that you'd be still going with this after we started, you know?
• 1:42
  Tad Eggleston: I… I didn't…
• 1:43
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't really think that it would go this well. I still think the number that I am…
• 1:49
  Tad Eggleston: Really most blown away by?
• 1:53
  Tad Eggleston: Particularly because there are 2 more in the can, plus this one.
• 1:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. But so far, we have posted, including book clubs and interviews and roundtables, 917.
• 2:06
  Tad Eggleston: Episode.
• 2:07
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Do you feel that, it's like your whole life? Do you think about the podcast
• 2:15
  Tyler Johnson: In all of your free time?
• 2:17
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think about it in all of my free time, but in some ways, it's like…
• 2:23
  Tad Eggleston: Almost my main job.
• 2:25
  Phil: Have you had a dream that you were on an episode or doing an interview? Has that happened yet?
• 2:31
  Tad Eggleston: No.
• 2:31
  Phil: No? Okay.
• 2:32
  Tad Eggleston: But I don't really dream, because I don't have pictures in my head.
• 2:35
  Phil: Okay, alright. Not a wipely dreamer. Alright.
• 2:38
  Tad Eggleston: Ew.
• 2:39
  Phil: Seems less significant that way. It's always, like.
• 2:42
  Phil: I don't think I had any… any dreams that took place at my… my office job, you know?
• 2:48
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah?
• 2:48
  Phil: But I definitely had someone that worked retail, and at least one library dream. So, you know.
• 2:54
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah?
• 2:55
  Phil: weird that the office wasn't quite distinct enough for… for Dreamtime.
• 2:59
  Tyler Johnson: No, I don't… I don't have any dreams about my work, either.
• 3:04
  Phil: Yet. I was gonna say, just, you know, bury yourself in comics, like, like, like at the beach, you know, under sand, and then we'll see what happens.
• 3:13
  Tyler Johnson: I'm getting there. I am really starting to…
• 3:17
  Tyler Johnson: get behind, because as the business picks up, I'm also still just as, busy with, other work that I'm doing. So…
• 3:29
  Tyler Johnson: I'm gonna have to readjust soon, pull back on theater stuff somehow, I think.
• 3:36
  Phil: Yeah. Once you get the plates to spin each other, then it really takes off, you know?
• 3:40
  Tyler Johnson: Right, you know, but, like.
• 3:43
  Tyler Johnson: for every… every day that I spend putting stuff online, the next day, you know, we've got 20 to 30 orders worth of cards and comics to send out.
• 3:54
  Phil: Yeah, wow.
• 3:55
  Tyler Johnson: So, like, we deserve it, you know?
• 3:58
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:58
  Tyler Johnson: Not because we did the work, but… oh, wow, it's… It's just a lot.
• 4:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 4:04
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not complaining. Anyway, let's get into what's going on in comics this week.
• 4:09
  Tyler Johnson: News of note.
• 4:11
  Phil: The first big, big piece of news that I was excited by is that, Spencer Ackerman of, you know, real-world journalist fame, is…
• 4:20
  Phil: After, you know, last year making his break into comics as a medium.
• 4:25
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's been a couple years now, because he did, he did… I mean, he's been on 22 panels twice already. Oh, I remember that. Once for Waller vs. Wildstorm, once for Iron Man.
• 4:36
  Phil: I was just thinking, and he was… he was an original, consideration for the Lazarus Book Club, but okay, so it has…
• 4:43
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 4:44
  Phil: I was just disconnected from when World vs. Wild Story came out, but, he now has his first creator-owned comic, titled No One Escapes the Dialectic, with artist Antonio Fuso, colorist Brad Simpson, and letter Jordy Troutman coming out from Boom.
• 5:00
  Tad Eggleston: This… this deals very directly with,
• 5:09
  Tad Eggleston: ICE and… and the… the,
• 5:16
  Tad Eggleston: Lawlessness of it, and the ejection of… of…
• 5:23
  Tad Eggleston: What the lawless people want to call
• 5:27
  Tad Eggleston: Deep state, but what most of us call… career public servants.
• 5:33
  Tad Eggleston: I've read the first issue. It's…
• 5:38
  Phil: That's awesome.
• 5:39
  Tad Eggleston: Really, really fucking good.
• 5:41
  Phil: I was gonna say…
• 5:42
  Tad Eggleston: No.
• 5:43
  Phil: Like, yeah.
• 5:43
  Tad Eggleston: Spencer and I are working on scheduling.
• 5:46
  Phil: Very cool.
• 5:47
  Tad Eggleston: I will be talking about this soon. He's got…
• 5:51
  Tad Eggleston: a busy month in front of him, so, like, I don't…
• 5:54
  Tyler Johnson: Did he write Amazing Spider-Man at all, or am I thinking of someone else?
• 5:57
  Tad Eggleston: No, his only books have been…
• 5:59
  Tyler Johnson: I'm thinking of Nick Spencer, thank you.
• 6:01
  Tad Eggleston: No, he, he, he, he does write the, the Forever Wars…
• 6:06
  Tad Eggleston: newsletter, he, he wrote the Rain on Terror.
• 6:10
  Tad Eggleston: His upcoming book.
• 6:16
  Phil: He did Iron Man, like, 12 issues of Iron Man.
• 6:19
  Tad Eggleston: But, but…
• 6:20
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, blank.
• 6:20
  Tad Eggleston: He's a Pulitzer Prize winner for his work at The Guardian on… the Snowden Papers.
• 6:26
  Phil: Wow. Okay.
• 6:28
  Tad Eggleston: And… and… he,
• 6:40
  Phil: I… just to cut in real quick, I love how Tad's the guy who's like, I want to read… like, you got to read the first issue, maximum, sneak peeks, and I'm like, I just saw a title and, like, one promo image, and I'm gonna pre-order it. I don't need to know anything else, I don't need
• 6:55
  Phil: description, you know.
• 6:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, see, see, I…
• 6:58
  Phil: her create her own, and I'm boom, I'm in.
• 7:00
  Tad Eggleston: I saw a title…
• 7:07
  Tad Eggleston: And I didn't even get to the image before I emailed Spencer and said, this looks amazing, I can't wait, we need to talk.
• 7:15
  Tad Eggleston: And he shot back, absolutely, and slipped me a preview copy.
• 7:21
  Phil: Thank you.
• 7:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's one of those moments that I get to feel cool, because I go from not knowing something existed to reading it in the span of minutes on my lunch break.
• 7:35
  Phil: That is a pretty great feeling, I gotta say.
• 7:38
  Tad Eggleston: Don't take my coolness away from me!
• 7:41
  Phil: I'm not… I'm not trying to take it away, I'm just… it's just… I guess, if anything, that's just… that's how… how excitedly uncool I am, to… to be like, don't even spoil me, don't even tease and surprise me. I just…
• 7:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I just…
• 7:53
  Phil: D&L.
• 7:55
  Tad Eggleston: But, but yeah.
• 7:56
  Tad Eggleston: Spencer… Spencer is… is one of the best reporters out there. And I… I highly, highly… I plug the hell out of, and I'll plug the hell out of here. If you're not subscribed to Forever Wars, subscribe.
• 8:12
  Tad Eggleston: If you possibly can, pay for your subscription, because that allows him to keep doing the work.
• 8:21
  Phil: Well, now he's got comic book money rolling in.
• 8:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, yep, rolling in. Yup.
• 8:32
  Phil: as coins.
• 8:34
  Phil: Quarter at a time.
• 8:38
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, the corner rolls in. Hey, look, we sold an issue!
• 8:41
  Phil: You got money rolling in, right?
• 8:43
  Tad Eggleston: So anyway, next piece of news…
• 8:47
  Tad Eggleston: this week is, Rest in Peace, Roger McKenzie passed away this week at, I think, the age of 75, is that what it said? I closed that tab.
• 8:57
  Tad Eggleston: I think.
• 8:58
  Tad Eggleston: No, I didn't. I didn't. There we go. Yes, 75.
• 9:06
  Tad Eggleston: He was a writer on…
• 9:08
  Tad Eggleston: Daredevil, from issues 155 to 66.
• 9:12
  Tad Eggleston: with Frank Miller as his artist starting on 158. He also wrote, captain America, 226-37, 243-45.
• 9:24
  Tad Eggleston: Ghost Rider from… issues.
• 9:28
  Tad Eggleston: 28-34, and Battlestar Galactica, 1-7, and 11-16, all at… Marvel.
• 9:38
  Tad Eggleston: So, a, a, a… storied writer of the late 70s, early 80s Marvel universe.
• 9:53
  Tad Eggleston: Passed away.
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: from kidney disease, so, our best goes out to his family, his friends, etc, and
• 10:02
  Tad Eggleston: he's definitely one of the first… first writers that I kinda paid attention to. I will… I will admit in hindsight that at least a part of that was because
• 10:12
  Tad Eggleston: He crossed over with Miller.
• 10:16
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 10:17
  Phil: I imagine, yeah.
• 10:18
  Tad Eggleston: But, talented guy.
• 10:22
  Tad Eggleston: And, yeah.
• 10:23
  Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been? I'm gonna let Phil lead this off, but I think mine's just actually, like, the handful of listeners out there, if you'd like to email us with,
• 10:36
  Tad Eggleston: with your vote for which the best piece of news is between Phil's piece and my piece, you can reach us at 22pinelspodcast at gmail.com. We want to know your opinion, because these are both fucking hilarious.
• 10:50
  Phil: I mean, I personally was very excited to see Spider-Man punch Nazis up in Minneapolis, you know? I'm always a fan of what Spider-Man punches, but when he's punching Nazis, I just, you know, it's a great day. It's a great day for me.
• 11:03
  Tad Eggleston: And that was fantastic, but at a San Diego City Council meeting, Darth Vader made an appearance.
• 11:13
  Tyler Johnson: I saw that for fun!
• 11:14
  Tad Eggleston: To express… to express Emperor Palpatine's support for flock cameras.
• 11:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 11:21
  Tad Eggleston: They wanted to make it… he wanted to make it clear that the Empire is in… in favor of…
• 11:29
  Tad Eggleston: Invasive surveillance.
• 11:30
  Phil: That reminds me, it wasn't this week, but at a… I don't even think it was in San Diego, but I saw a guy at a city council opposing flock cameras, saying, here's how much, you know, gold and nickel and precious minerals are in those things. Do with that what you will.
• 11:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, yeah, he was like, listen, this is what's in those cameras, so I…
• 11:52
  Phil: Scrappers? You hear that?
• 11:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, but yeah, Darth Vader supports them. Just keep that in mind.
• 12:02
  Tyler Johnson: throwing that out there. I think that was great. I… I honestly, like, I know I'm not a listener, and I'm just a participant here, but I think Phil's was… I think Phil's was funnier.
• 12:15
  Tyler Johnson: Because… whereas Spider-Man has actually made an appearance… some guy, is going.
• 12:23
  Tad Eggleston: Did you see Spider-Man swing?
• 12:25
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 12:26
  Phil: I saw him.
• 12:27
  Tad Eggleston: We don't know that it was the real Swint. We don't know that it was a real Spider-Man.
• 12:31
  Phil: I mean…
• 12:31
  Tad Eggleston: Whereas it's much harder to disprove that this is the real Vader.
• 12:35
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, here it is.
• 12:37
  Phil: No, you got me there.
• 12:40
  Tyler Johnson: Boom. Nailed it.
• 12:44
  Phil: Did he… did he force-choke the next person in line? That would… that would clench it, really.
• 12:48
  Tad Eggleston: That would definitely clinch it.
• 12:51
  Tyler Johnson: I always love that meeting going around, like, how much is a baller is Vader when he's willing to choke one of the board of directors at a meeting, right?
• 13:03
  Phil: That's… you gotta be careful when you're on a Zoom with Vader.
• 13:06
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 13:09
  Tad Eggleston: I, well, my, my favorite is the, the…
• 13:13
  Tad Eggleston: the robot chicken, where they're teaching the new guy, and he's like, he thinks he can choke you with his mind. He can't, but we don't want him to know that.
• 13:27
  Phil: Pretty good one.
• 13:28
  Tyler Johnson: That's funny.
• 13:29
  Tad Eggleston: show the guy with, like, the glasses and the beard, and the… he's been killed 4 times now! Yep, yep.
• 13:36
  Phil: Just add another accessory.
• 13:39
  Phil: Like a… like a kid with, with a, with a Halloween costume, doing extra rounds.
• 13:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right. And have you noticed that, like, one throwaway comment from John Ossoff about Trump liking to travel with Natalie?
• 13:57
  Tad Eggleston: Which…
• 13:57
  Phil: Natalie Hart?
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 14:00
  Phil: I only recently became aware of her, and that's some… that's some crazy shit right there.
• 14:08
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I mean, she, she got described in, in Maggie Haberman's book as essentially, Trump's Binky.
• 14:16
  Phil: Yeah.
• 14:17
  Tad Eggleston: Like, his security blanket. They call
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: printer girl in the West Wing, because she carries a portable printer, so she can print out favorable media for him and show it to him.
• 14:31
  Phil: That's ridiculous.
• 14:32
  Tad Eggleston: There is actually an argument that she's among the most powerful people in the world.
• 14:37
  Phil: Right.
• 14:38
  Tad Eggleston: Of the way in which she… She, like, influences his worldview.
• 14:47
  Tad Eggleston: But… but the right immediately went to assuming that… that Ossoff was making sexual innuendos, which… you gotta try. You gotta try hard to find the sexual innuendos in that speech.
• 15:04
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I'm not saying it's impossible, but you do need to try.
• 15:09
  Phil: The… that's… that's one of those that…
• 15:12
  Phil: By raising that objection, they're being… it's the.
• 15:16
  Tad Eggleston: It's very Streisand effect. Very Streisand effect.
• 15:20
  Phil: Like, I wouldn'.
• 15:20
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 15:20
  Phil: I wouldn't inherently think that, but now that you're saying it, I can't not think it, and the nightmares are back, you know?
• 15:27
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right. Well, but, like, also, like.
• 15:32
  Tad Eggleston: This is on the heels of, like, he…
• 15:37
  Tad Eggleston: he left the Shiny Air Force One… well, no, he chose not to use the Shiny Air Force One because it didn't have any security measures, but also didn't use Air Force One because it was a target.
• 15:51
  Tad Eggleston: he left in a catering container to use a different plane for a flight recently, and Marco Rubio and… and…
• 16:01
  Tad Eggleston: And Steve.
• 16:01
  Tyler Johnson: Carol, I love it.
• 16:02
  Tad Eggleston: They weren't… weren't cool enough to be in the catering container with them.
• 16:07
  Phil: I mean, to be fair, they're not cool enough for anything.
• 16:09
  Tad Eggleston: But Natalie was.
• 16:14
  Phil: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Tyler Johnson: So, I'm just gonna…
• 16:17
  Tyler Johnson: write this up, boobs. She has boobs, and he…
• 16:21
  Tad Eggleston: Well, then, then how did Pete Hegseth get in the container?
• 16:25
  Tyler Johnson: Well…
• 16:26
  Phil: A pretty big container for 3 people, holy crap.
• 16:31
  Phil: This is also, this is sounding like, like the worst clown car in history.
• 16:36
  Tad Eggleston: I doubt. I know.
• 16:38
  Tyler Johnson: pop out as the fat Donald Trump.
• 16:41
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, let's do some last…
• 16:44
  Tad Eggleston: new-to-order highlights. The new catalog's actually out, but I haven't managed to write it up, and we've got a few more days for new-to-order on.
• 16:51
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 16:51
  Tad Eggleston: on this stuff, so, so Phil and Tyler, take it away.
• 16:55
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 16:56
  Phil: First up, we got Batman Bad Seed, Streets of Gotham, number 1 from Matt Fraction, Mark… Mariko Tamaki…
• 17:03
  Tad Eggleston: look like.
• 17:04
  Phil: Yes, Brian Ching, Gretel Lusky, Steve Lieber over at DEC, as the bed…
• 17:11
  Phil: As the chaos of bad seeds erupts across Gotham City and the Bat Family races against daylight, the citizens of Gotham City must endure the threats of Poison Ivy's super bloom on their own. Join Eisner Award-winning writers Matt Fraction and Mariko Tamaki as they tell six street-level tales of fear, courage, and perseverance, starring everyday people who must learn what it means to be a hero, with or without a cape.
• 17:32
  Phil: It's gonna have a final order cutoff of September 14th in stores October 7th.
• 17:37
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome. DC All-In Saga, Dark Side vs. the World, from Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson. Sanford Green is Yasmine Putri.
• 17:48
  Tyler Johnson: Putri? From DC, the ultimate anti-life in the universe has been at the heart of all of DC All In Saga since its beginning. And while the King Omega battle has been won by the forces of good, the war against Darkseid has only just begun.
• 18:05
  Tyler Johnson: Comic superstars Scott Snyder and Sanford Green present the hidden past of the being called, Yuxis.
• 18:13
  Tyler Johnson: Oops. His descent into Darkseid, and his plans for the fate of all creations. It's…
• 18:20
  Tyler Johnson: DC's premier villain, as you've never seen him before, by the biggest names in comics in DC's all-in saga, Darkseid vs. the World, has a final order cutoff of October 5th, and will be in shops October 28th.
• 18:35
  Phil: Alright, Mercy Sparks, Heaven's Devil number one, from Josh Bailock, Brian Rogers over at Massive. Mercy Sparks is known in divine circles as Heaven's Devil, aka Heaven's Fixer, sent to do the dirty work angels won't touch. For years, this devil secretly living among us has left a trail of broken bodies, broken bottles, broken noses, and broken hearts in her wake. But now, chaos has come calling again, as a mysterious nobody.
• 19:00
  Phil: who has lurked in the shadows since Mercy's first days on Earth rises to become her most dangerous nemesis yet. Final order cut off of September 7th in stores October 21st.
• 19:12
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, let me roll down on my script here. Alright, you'll never leave this place alive, Tad Jackson Lansing, Colin Kelly, Heather, and Heather Vaughn from IDW.
• 19:23
  Tyler Johnson: Five friends, 4 houses, one perfect life. Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built, a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions, no dangers, no secrets, until the night of their graduation.
• 19:42
  Tyler Johnson: When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phi starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life, and finds something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
• 19:53
  Tyler Johnson: Because this isn't… this place isn't a sanctuary, it's a cage. And no one discovers the truth. No one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
• 20:04
  Tyler Johnson: Final order cut off September 7th in shops, October 14th.
• 20:09
  Phil: Next up, some graphic novels. First up, there's Another Realm from Christina…
• 20:17
  Phil: Baczynski, over Avery Hill, a vibrant, career-spanning celebration of the work of British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist Kristina Bakinsky, bringing together her acclaimed graphic novel Retrograde Orbit with a rich selection of her soap…
• 20:32
  Phil: published comics and illustrated zines. This collection showcases Bacinski's unmistakable visual voice, pages alive with color, emotion, and intricate characterization, drawing on inspirations that range from nature and folklore to 1990s pop nostalgia and gentle sci-fi atmospheres. Her work creates worlds that are warm, strange, imaginative, and deeply human.
• 20:54
  Phil: Final order cutoff of October 5th, in stores, October 28th.
• 20:59
  Tyler Johnson: Right.
• 21:00
  Tyler Johnson: Next up, we have Human Clock, from Takunami Sakiro, living, from Living the Line Uncivilized.
• 21:10
  Tyler Johnson: Papa, Mama, please don't be surprised. A year ago, my organs were replaced with gears and springs. Tadashi is the lone son of a watchmaker. Clocks are his only friends. Ever since a nightmarish bicycle accident, he fears going to school.
• 21:25
  Tyler Johnson: So his parents hire him a special tutor, not a man, but a mustachioed pocket watch.
• 21:32
  Tyler Johnson: He, too, fails to improve Tadashi's grades, though he gifts him a magical wristwatch capable of transporting its wearer to a frighteningly surreal land of clock people.
• 21:43
  Tyler Johnson: As the automatons begin to turn on their makers, Tadashi decides that it's best to abandon his uneasy humanity and bestow his soul to the TikToks. Final order cut off of September 7th. This will be in shops October 7th.
• 22:01
  Tyler Johnson: Next up, I've got Monster Quest from Encoro, from Ablaze. The evil wizard Velus, Velius has kidnapped Princess Chalendra, plunging the kingdom of Mysteria into darkness.
• 22:16
  Tyler Johnson: Four brave heroes, each of different backgrounds and skills, team up to rescue her and change fate for the better. This is the premise of MonsterQuest, a video game from Andre's early 90s childhood that captures his imagination.
• 22:32
  Tyler Johnson: Now in his 40s, he belongs to the… he longs to share the experience of the game with his daughter, Susanna.
• 22:39
  Tyler Johnson: However, as they dive back into the game, Andreas decides, discovers that it's not as he remembers it. The settings and the characters seem to have mysteriously changed. Final order cutoff for MonsterQuest is September 21st, will be in shops October 28th.
• 22:59
  Phil: Alright, Moon Eaters from Victor Santos over at Titan. Tommy Blackfoot thought prison was the worst place he'd ever been, until the night he walked free. Reunited with June, the woman he's been…
• 23:10
  Phil: he's been writing to for years. Tommy hopes for a fresh start, but the past has been waiting for him. The children of Haiti, a violent cult-like gang he once escaped, descend on the remote motel where the pair meet, determined to drag Tommy back into their brutal fold, or bury him for good. What begins as a reunion becomes a restless battle for survival.
• 23:32
  Phil: One filled with savage fights, occult conspiracies, and the consequences of a life lived on the run.
• 23:37
  Phil: It's gonna have a final or a cutoff of September 14th in stores October 7th.
• 23:42
  Phil: And next up, some collections. First up, we've got the Dark Spaces Casebook from Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Shay Grayson, Kelsey Ramsey, Jeremy Lambert, and Claire Rowe over at IDW. The Dark Spaces Casebook collects Wildfire and Dungeons by Scott Snyder and Hayden Sherman, Good Deeds by Shay Grayson, Kelsey Ramsey, and The Hollywood Special by Jeremy
• 24:07
  Phil: Lambert and Claire Rowe. That is four graphic novels all together in a 616-page volume.
• 24:14
  Phil: that's the… that's all the time we've got for that one. It looks like a great deal, $30 for 4 graphic novels and 1 bound, like, yeah, holy crap.
• 24:23
  Phil: Oh, sorry, that's a final word cut off September 14th in stores, October 20th.
• 24:30
  Tyler Johnson: If Destruction Be Our Lot, from Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Andy McDonald, and Francesco Sadala?
• 24:39
  Tyler Johnson: From the image, one robot dares to go beyond the walls of society to find the last remaining humans in this sci-fi adventure of the year, where Wall-E meets Fallout. Humanity is extinct, and all that remains are the robots who once helped us. The robots that once helped us are happier now, doing their work without human interference. But not Abraham Lincoln.
• 25:01
  Tyler Johnson: Abe is haunted by the thought that there must be something more out there. That somewhere, human beings might still exist. After nearly being killed, he's determined to wander the Earth until he finds them.
• 25:13
  Tyler Johnson: or gets recycled trying. Join him on an epic quest to learn who lives beyond the walls, and why no one ever comes back, and what it means to be truly alive. Final order cut off October 30th, or excuse me, August 31st, and shops October 7th.
• 25:31
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 25:32
  Phil: Alright, nice.
• 25:33
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off for Monday, August 31st. We have Angel number one from Kelly Thompson, and Julia Giacamino at Dynamite, out on September 23rd. Cassie number 1 from Sam Humphreys, and Eleonora Carlina
• 25:47
  Tad Eggleston: Carlini at Boom, out on October 14th. Coffin Girls No. 1 from Megan Hutchinson and Joseph Schmo.
• 25:54
  Tad Eggleston: me from Midnight Factory Massive, out on October 14th.
• 25:58
  Tad Eggleston: Crimes Against Nature, number one. Check out my interview with Elliot Rahal, just up, out, or Rahal, sorry.
• 26:06
  Tad Eggleston: Rahal… Elliot Rahal, Matteo Monaco, out from Image on September 23rd. The first issue is outstanding, I… I loved it. The Crow, Flesh and Blood, number 1, from James O'Barr, James Vance, and Alexander Maliv, out from Massive on October 7th.
• 26:23
  Tad Eggleston: DC's Quoth the Raven, whatever, number one, from various artists out on December… or September 30th. Diana from Nate Powell, out from Abrams on October 7th. Don Quixote from Miguel de Cervantes.
• 26:42
  Tad Eggleston: Paul Brizzi and Guyton Brizzi, out from Abrams on October 14th. Drawing the vote from Tommy Jenkins and Katie Lacker, out from Abrams on October 7th. Escape from New York, Escape from Chicago, number one from Kyle Higgins and Val Rodriguez, out from Mad Cave on September 23rd. Hellboy in Hell, Nothing But Blood from Mike Mignola, Cyril Palms, and Dave Stewart, out from Dark Horse on October 7th.
• 27:06
  Tad Eggleston: Hideout from Masasumi Kakizaki.
• 27:10
  Tad Eggleston: At Abrams, out on October 14th. Kill All Immortals 3, number 1, from Zac Kaplan Francesco Mortarino at Dark Horse, out on October 7th. Lancer, number 1, from Mike Costa and Jake Baker, out from Bad Idea, on September 30th. Money Shot, the Fuck Offs, number 1, from Tim Seeley, Patton Oswalt, Garth Graham, out at Vault on September 30th.
• 27:35
  Tad Eggleston: And that Texas Blood, Hell Comes to Allison Ranch No. 1 from Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips at Image Comics, out on September 23rd.
• 27:47
  Tad Eggleston: Who wants to talk… take the crowdfunding?
• 27:50
  Phil: I got it. First up, there's I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits from Doug Wagner and Daniel Hill.
• 27:56
  Tyler Johnson: I love dogs.
• 27:57
  Phil: Whoa.
• 27:58
  Phil: Clover Press on Kickstarter through September 4th, Joe Unknown, number 1, from Christopher Irving on Kickstarter through September 6th, Liam Sharp's Conan Portfolio and Calendar on Kickstarter through September 10th, Fairytale Wars, number 1, Ever After Verse Mature Sapphic Crossover from Cat Kalamia at Lifeline Comics on Kickstarter through September 10th. And then coming soon, there's the Tezuka God of Manga documentary from
• 28:23
  Phil: Jason Cohn, and The Death… which will be on Kickstarter, as well as The Death of Comics Bookcase, Reign of the Comics Bookcases, another anthology from Zach Quaintance, which will be launching soon on Kickstarter, I think.
• 28:36
  Phil: In the fall. I forget which burr month it was, but it's one of those. One of the burrs. Yep, one of the burrs.
• 28:44
  Tyler Johnson: Before I go on to the Humble Bundles, Doug Wegner's name made me think, this past week, I read an article about a trapeze artist that got diarrhea while doing their act, and it sprayed the crowd, and it sprayed the crowd.
• 28:58
  Phil: -Oh.
• 28:59
  Tyler Johnson: And I sent you the link to Doug. I said, this sounds like something for one of your stories. You know, some people.
• 29:05
  Phil: We'll pay extra for that.
• 29:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Anyways…
• 29:08
  Phil: I'm sorry.
• 29:08
  Tyler Johnson: It does. That's my… that was my contact with Doug this week. I'm like, Doug, read this article. You might… might get some ideas here. It's next year.
• 29:16
  Phil: is gonna be,
• 29:17
  Tad Eggleston: Doug will be joining us.
• 29:18
  Phil: Diuretic… Acrobatics.
• 29:21
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, guys, Humble Bundles this, week, Disney Masters Collection and Originals from Fanographics. This is, this is great. You guys gotta check this out if you're a fan of old Disney comics at all. For $25, you get 48 items, and that goes to first book.
• 29:40
  Tyler Johnson: Do you guys know what first book is?
• 29:42
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not sure what it is, but…
• 29:43
  Tad Eggleston: It's a, it's a reading charity.
• 29:46
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, extended through September 9th. This one I just bought myself, Dark Horse 40th Anniversary Bundle, $20 gets you 40 items, and that's going to the Hero Initiative.
• 29:59
  Tyler Johnson: In that, you… it's almost worth it just for the milk and cheese stuff, because that's awesome. It's long out of print, I think, that book.
• 30:08
  Tyler Johnson: And just tons of cool stuff from them.
• 30:12
  Tyler Johnson: That's been extended to August 27th.
• 30:16
  Tyler Johnson: One shots and fast reads from Image has been…
• 30:20
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, through this this week. $25, you guys, is gonna get you 59 items. That is a ton of stuff for 25 bucks. Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and that will be going through August 25th.
• 30:35
  Tyler Johnson: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to New York City by IDW,
• 30:40
  Tyler Johnson: Again, $25 is gonna get you 48 items going to Make-A-Wish, and that's been extended to August 27th.
• 30:48
  Tyler Johnson: Godzilla Kaiju Rampage, only $18, gets you 30 items. That is also for Make-A-Wish. Looks like that one's running through September 1st.
• 31:00
  Tyler Johnson: This one I'm actually gonna buy today. Humanoids Mega Bundle Universes Unbound Part 2. For 20 bucks, you get 40 items, which comes to 132 volumes. That's going to… reading… Reading is essential for… that's going through September 3rd.
• 31:19
  Tyler Johnson: And then, the last one I want to highlight is the EC Comics Artist Library from Fanographics. 25 bucks gets you 40 items, and that's going to the Freedom to Read Foundation, on September 4th, is when that ends.
• 31:33
  Tyler Johnson: Amazing.
• 31:35
  Tad Eggleston: The last two are the ones that we'll highlight next week.
• 31:38
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that'll be awesome. I can't wait for either one of those. Tad, what'd you read this week?
• 31:43
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, so, we're only gonna give a top two right now, because of my back issues, I haven't read enough of the books this week to solidify my top 3.
• 31:59
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I'm gonna give you my top two, and give you many of the options for what could be my top three, without actually telling you which ones I've managed to read or not read yet.
• 32:09
  Tyler Johnson: I have… I have to tell you a story about number 2 when… once you talk.
• 32:14
  Phil: Another number 2 story?
• 32:16
  Phil: You already had one today, Tyler?
• 32:18
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, no, this is a good one.
• 32:20
  Tad Eggleston: Powers 25, number 12, from Brian, Michael Bendis, and Michael Avon Oming at Dark Horse. Such a great wrap-up to the first
• 32:28
  Tad Eggleston: First arc back!
• 32:31
  Tad Eggleston: For, for this beloved…
• 32:34
  Tad Eggleston: beloved series. Last Driver Number 1 from Sean Murphy at Image, this might be…
• 32:45
  Tad Eggleston: This might be my favorite Sean Murphy solo work I've ever read, and my favorite…
• 32:53
  Tad Eggleston: Sean Murphy work, period, since, like, what was it, Tokyo Ghost that he did with Rick Remender?
• 33:00
  Tyler Johnson: Listen to this.
• 33:01
  Tad Eggleston: And I say this despite the fact that I love Sean Murphy. This is not, like,
• 33:07
  Tad Eggleston: Bash on anything else that he's done in that time.
• 33:11
  Tyler Johnson: I, as you know, the cover is vertical, but it's stapled along the top side of the cover. It is to be red, however, turned on its side horizontally.
• 33:22
  Tyler Johnson: And I have had a customer come back in very upset because it was not a standard stapled comic book.
• 33:30
  Phil: Wow.
• 33:31
  Tyler Johnson: And he goes, I'm like, what do you… I didn't… I didn't put this together. I… that's how they made it. I'm like…
• 33:37
  Phil: Tyler, why'd you staple the comic wrong?
• 33:40
  Tyler Johnson: No, I think he just wanted… I don't know what he wanted, but I get the impression he thought I should have given him a heads up.
• 33:47
  Tyler Johnson: Because I have my comics in… they're in bags already, they're not tape or anything, but they're… they're bagged and boarded, while they're on my shelf.
• 33:56
  Tyler Johnson: And,
• 33:59
  Tyler Johnson: So he took it, bought it, and left, because he liked Sean Murphy, but had no idea about the format of the book, and didn't return it, but did have some words to say when he came back in.
• 34:12
  Tyler Johnson: I was like.
• 34:12
  Tad Eggleston: Well…
• 34:13
  Tyler Johnson: Everybody's new.
• 34:15
  Tad Eggleston: Everybody's a critic. So, so definite possibilities for that 3 spot.
• 34:20
  Tad Eggleston: As I have time to read more, Wonder Woman, number 36, Witness Point number 2, Vampirates, number 2, Ultimate Impact Reborn, number 4, Skate Ali, number 3, Kevin Smith's Spider-Man Hulk, Fire and Brimstone, number 1, Zach Kaplan's Only the Savage Are Left, number 3, Lucky Devils, number 9, Kaeya, number 36,
• 34:45
  Tad Eggleston: Junk Punch number 3, If Destruction Be Our Lot number 4, Everyone Loves a Jewel Thief number 4, End of Life, number 7, Daredevil number 5,
• 34:54
  Tad Eggleston: Batwoman number 6, American Caper, number 10, Absolute Green Arrow, number 4. There were a lot of really good books that came out last week, and I didn't get to enough of them to feel comfortable putting in
• 35:07
  Tad Eggleston: a 3-spot. Thank you, L5S1.
• 35:12
  Tad Eggleston: back issues.
• 35:15
  Tyler Johnson: I think… Everybody Loves a Jewel Thief would have been a good contender.
• 35:19
  Tad Eggleston: No, that one I have read, and it is absolutely a contender.
• 35:24
  Tyler Johnson: And End of Life Number 7. Those would be the ones I would have picked.
• 35:26
  Tad Eggleston: End of life number 7, I haven't read yet, and that's why I have trouble making… The decision…
• 35:32
  Phil: This is… I also…
• 35:33
  Tyler Johnson: P.
• 35:34
  Phil: This is the most rule-breaking you've been with your top three in… I don't know how long.
• 35:40
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, is your… is your, touch of the tism going away? Are you… are you… are you able to just break your rules?
• 35:48
  Tad Eggleston: Well, first of all, I don't have a touch of the tism. I am autistic.
• 35:52
  Phil: It's full on.
• 35:52
  Tyler Johnson: I'm just teasing. Hey, speaking.
• 35:55
  Tad Eggleston: Second.
• 35:56
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 35:56
  Tad Eggleston: Second, no, the problem is, like, I couldn't break my rules, so I couldn't just go two, but I…
• 36:04
  Phil: Interesting.
• 36:04
  Tad Eggleston: 3 if I didn't feel like I had a solid 3.
• 36:10
  Phil: Interesting. So it's good, it's good to know that the rules.
• 36:14
  Tad Eggleston: Nothing, nothing that I have read so far this week
• 36:19
  Tad Eggleston: like, other than the two that I listed, was so over-the-top good that I was nearly certain that it wasn't gonna get beaten out
• 36:30
  Tad Eggleston: by one of the ones that I haven't gotten to yet.
• 36:34
  Phil: That's where I just want to emphasize that overall, your commitment to quality and earnestness of ranking outweighs the need for a third pick. And I respect.
• 36:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yes. Yes. Yes.
• 36:46
  Phil: Yeah, it's… you're not just…
• 36:47
  Tad Eggleston: And I hadn't read 9 books yet.
• 36:50
  Phil: That's, you know, that's… yeah, that's fair.
• 36:51
  Tad Eggleston: If I'd read 9, I might have just gone 9.
• 36:55
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:55
  Tad Eggleston: I've read 9 books this week.
• 36:57
  Phil: Okay.
• 36:58
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, do you guys happen to know…
• 37:01
  Tyler Johnson: So, Lucky Devils number 9 came out, and at least to me, it had a white paper cover over it. Do you guys know why?
• 37:10
  Tad Eggleston: They don't.
• 37:12
  Tyler Johnson: Is it black, or, I mean, is it glow-in-the-dark or something? It had a… it's… the ones that I got for number 9 had a white cover that stapled over the original.
• 37:23
  Tyler Johnson: But it's not a sketch cover, it's thinner than that.
• 37:26
  Tyler Johnson: So my thought was that it was…
• 37:28
  Tad Eggleston: See, I haven't actually gotten my physical. Okay.
• 37:33
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, but, image sends me advances, so let me, let me pull up the cover and see if it has anything naughty on it.
• 37:46
  Tyler Johnson: It doesn't. I've looked at it extensively.
• 37:50
  Tyler Johnson: Cause I'm turning.
• 37:51
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, but…
• 37:52
  Phil: I would have noticed that immediately.
• 37:53
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, but, Tyler, when I, when I say naughty, we, we have to, we have to think like, like,
• 38:00
  Tad Eggleston: a right-wing nutjob in terms of what they think is naughty. It's entirely possible that somebody who's complained just about the devils themselves
• 38:10
  Tad Eggleston: Any depiction?
• 38:11
  Phil: of a devil is endorsement of said devil.
• 38:15
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 38:19
  Tyler Johnson: Well, anyway, my first thought was the colors on the cover couldn't be in sunlight too long or something.
• 38:25
  Phil: Hmm…
• 38:26
  Tad Eggleston: That's possible, I guess.
• 38:29
  Phil: Very interesting.
• 38:30
  Tyler Johnson: Anywho, while Tad, looking at that, though. Phil, do you want to take a look?
• 38:35
  Phil: Yeah, this is… this is… I'm going in a whole new direction now that you're telling me to take a walk than when Tad normally tells me to take a walk, so this is new for me.
• 38:43
  Tyler Johnson: No, get out of here, too.
• 38:44
  Phil: This, this weekend, or not this weekend, this week, I decided to keep it medieval and, caught up on the first four issues of the miniseries Corpse Night, from Image Skybound, and it's, it's pretty good.
• 38:59
  Phil: I say pretty good, because it's, it's, you know, it hasn't completely blown me away yet, but depending on how the last two issues go with, you know, kind of the cliffhanger that they left off with Issue 4, it could, it could get great, you know?
• 39:14
  Phil: Fantastic art so far, and a very interesting premise that is,
• 39:20
  Phil: Definitely living up to expectations. I also, this week.
• 39:24
  Phil: finally got around to seeing, Spider- Brand New Day. I don't know if either of you guys have seen the new Spider-Man movie, but it's pretty good. I have not.
• 39:31
  Tad Eggleston: I've heard good things.
• 39:32
  Phil: Yeah, I also endorse it.
• 39:34
  Phil: Having not seen the previous one.
• 39:38
  Phil: Didn't, didn't, you know… it actually felt more appropriate to have not seen it because of the, you know, everyone got, everyone gets their, their.
• 39:45
  Tyler Johnson: We have a ring.
• 39:46
  Phil: So it's like…
• 39:47
  Phil: So it's like, I also forgot the events of that movie, along with Spider-Man's friends, you know? So yeah, so it was, it was, it was pretty cool.
• 39:55
  Tyler Johnson: It's supposed to be a palate cleanser to get people back into Marvel movies.
• 39:59
  Phil: It is.
• 39:59
  Tyler Johnson: slip, yeah.
• 40:00
  Phil: I… I haven't seen… I haven't watched a Marvel movie since Doctor Strange 2, so…
• 40:06
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 40:07
  Phil: it's been a couple years for me.
• 40:09
  Tyler Johnson: Playverse of Madness didn't do it for you?
• 40:11
  Phil: there were some really cool scenes, but, like, I think after that was the next Spider-Man, and by then, I mean…
• 40:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, because after the multiverse of Madness, that opened up the whole multiverse thing.
• 40:27
  Tyler Johnson: Spider-Man movie that came out included Andrew Garfield and.
• 40:30
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All multiversy and stuff like that.
• 40:32
  Tyler Johnson: I was gonna say Tofer Grace, but that's not who I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of,
• 40:36
  Phil: Tobey Maguire.
• 40:37
  Tyler Johnson: Tobey and Guyar, yeah?
• 40:38
  Phil: Topher Grace was… was Venom in… in that one, though.
• 40:42
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah.
• 40:43
  Phil: There we go, but but yeah, and then, also last night, or not last night, the night before last, we watched the new horror movie, Backrooms. I don't know if you guys have seen that one, came out earlier this year.
• 40:54
  Tyler Johnson: alleged.
• 40:55
  Phil: It's pretty creepy, freaked me out a little bit.
• 40:59
  Tyler Johnson: What did you watch it on? Is it on a platform yet?
• 41:01
  Phil: Just… just at home.
• 41:05
  Tyler Johnson: I didn't know if it was streaming.
• 41:06
  Phil: Screaming.
• 41:07
  Tyler Johnson: Or is it streaming from your personal collection?
• 41:10
  Phil: I mean, there's… it's not my personal collection, but it's…
• 41:14
  Tyler Johnson: It's somebody's collection that you…
• 41:16
  Phil: Certainly, let me see… let me see if it's, it's,
• 41:20
  Phil: for stream, because we do want to, it's… it's on… apparently it's on Prime Video now, supposedly, I cannot.
• 41:31
  Tyler Johnson: Confirm it.
• 41:32
  Phil: deny that?
• 41:33
  Tyler Johnson: We canceled our Google, or not Google, Amazon account, because.
• 41:37
  Phil: Oh, wow.
• 41:38
  Tyler Johnson: We're… we're making a stand, again.
• 41:40
  Phil: Nice, good… well, good for you. I've been doing that.
• 41:42
  Tyler Johnson: I've been told.
• 41:43
  Phil: You've been…
• 41:44
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't managed to do that yet.
• 41:47
  Phil: Yeah, it's… it's tough. It's… it's… it's just… it's too convenient sometimes.
• 41:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 41:52
  Tyler Johnson: sometimes I just go… because Peggy is much more the social warrior than I am, and so when she says.
• 42:00
  Tad Eggleston: Your mic's out of place again.
• 42:04
  Tyler Johnson: Is that better?
• 42:04
  Phil: Yep.
• 42:06
  Tyler Johnson: So, Peggy's definitely much more, like, our social warrior, so if she says we're not doing something, I'm like, okay.
• 42:13
  Tad Eggleston: That works.
• 42:15
  Phil: Fair. Yeah.
• 42:16
  Tyler Johnson: Anyway, so we don't have Amazon anymore, which I… the only thing I miss it for is, the new Masters of the Universe, I think, is on that.
• 42:27
  Tyler Johnson: I did want to see that. Invincible, I do want to watch. Can't watch that.
• 42:32
  Phil: Yeah, but you could always… you could always get, like, a… make a… make a new, email address and do a free trial for, like, you know, a week and catch up on stuff.
• 42:41
  Tyler Johnson: True.
• 42:41
  Tad Eggleston: That's how the kids do it.
• 42:42
  Phil: Yeah.
• 42:44
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm, that's true.
• 42:46
  Tyler Johnson: All right, so, what was after back ribs?
• 42:49
  Phil: after that, we take the… oh, just, like, thinking a lot about liminal spaces, because I am also, this weekend, between jobs! I have… Yeah, right? My last day…
• 43:00
  Tyler Johnson: Start on Monday?
• 43:01
  Phil: Tuesday! So I even get a nice little… a little tiny gap day, and then, yeah, it's my… my first fully remote jobs, but… so they've… they've done a great… a great, email campaign to convince me that I am… I am gainfully employed, and, let's… let's… let's hope it keeps… keeps on rolling, you know?
• 43:18
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, where it becomes clear is when that first paycheck arrives.
• 43:23
  Phil: Yes, and as I have made my previous place of employment known, if I have indeed fallen for an elaborate scam, I will come crawling back. So, there's no pride about that. I'm like, look, if…
• 43:35
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, Phil, question, have they sent you equipment that you need yet? Phone equipment or anything?
• 43:40
  Phil: Oh, yeah. Yeah, the laptop arrived, that all… that made it.
• 43:43
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, see, if the laptop has arrived and it works, you're probably in good shape.
• 43:47
  Tyler Johnson: I think you're good, then. If they're willing to send you hardware.
• 43:50
  Phil: Exactly. This is, like I said, an elaborate scam.
• 43:54
  Phil: You know.
• 43:56
  Tyler Johnson: Aww.
• 43:56
  Phil: You know… Yeah.
• 43:58
  Tyler Johnson: And I assume the pay is decent for you to take it.
• 44:01
  Phil: Yeah.
• 44:02
  Tyler Johnson: I, I think.
• 44:03
  Tad Eggleston: And it'll make your, your, your move, your, your move to, ohio.
• 44:10
  Phil: I know, it's, it's…
• 44:11
  Tad Eggleston: It's a sweet!
• 44:12
  Phil: We gotta make an impact, you know?
• 44:14
  Tyler Johnson: Wait, when are you?
• 44:15
  Tad Eggleston: Is it a swing state, though?
• 44:17
  Phil: I hope so? November. So… Okay.
• 44:21
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 44:21
  Phil: Too late for the midterms, but…
• 44:23
  Tyler Johnson: I will say this, Tad. Sean, living in Ohio, he has said it's a red state that wants to be blue.
• 44:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I know, it's, it's, it's… That's his description.
• 44:32
  Tyler Johnson: of it.
• 44:33
  Tad Eggleston: Though he's also in Columbus.
• 44:35
  Tyler Johnson: Correct.
• 44:36
  Phil: probably a way different feel from… that's the other thing, is it… it seems like…
• 44:41
  Tad Eggleston: But it is one of the higher gerrymandered states out there, too, so that has a lot to do…
• 44:48
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, yep.
• 44:48
  Phil: Coming… coming from, an unprecedentedly gerrymandered state.
• 44:55
  Tad Eggleston: with a Democratic… Or no, you're in Tennessee, not…
• 44:58
  Phil: Yeah.
• 44:59
  Tad Eggleston: hockey, I was about to say.
• 45:00
  Phil: Not… yeah, so it's the… the… you mean the ones that… that literally, kicked a guy out of the state senate by redrawing the map after the.
• 45:09
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 45:09
  Phil: head coming.
• 45:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:11
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely nothing to be proud about in Tennessee, that's for sure.
• 45:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 45:17
  Tyler Johnson: Now, before October, I want to take advantage of your location and come out so that I can, see Tennessee a little bit.
• 45:24
  Phil: Okay, yeah.
• 45:25
  Tyler Johnson: I'm just… I'm… I'm totally.
• 45:26
  Phil: I mean, I was gonna say…
• 45:27
  Tyler Johnson: 90%… you know what, I'm 75, no, you know, 60% kidding. Okay. Okay.
• 45:34
  Phil: I mean, to that I say, we have a couch.
• 45:38
  Tyler Johnson: You have a coach! That's awesome.
• 45:40
  Phil: So…
• 45:41
  Tyler Johnson: No, no, more so… no, I wouldn't stay with you, but more so as a person to say, hey, let's go check this out.
• 45:47
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:48
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he is in Nashville.
• 45:49
  Phil: I am in.
• 45:50
  Tyler Johnson: I know, I know. That's why I need a tool like that.
• 45:52
  Tad Eggleston: to see he could be is… is Memphis.
• 45:55
  Tyler Johnson: I know, I know.
• 45:56
  Phil: I mean, there's good… there's good food here, but that's one of the reasons why we're.
• 46:00
  Tyler Johnson: I would argue… I would argue that, that, you're in a more hip place than Memphis.
• 46:08
  Tyler Johnson: I think.
• 46:09
  Phil: It's definitely trendier right now. I mean.
• 46:12
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 46:13
  Phil: Memphis has a long history of being cool.
• 46:15
  Tad Eggleston: Memphis has the blues.
• 46:17
  Phil: Exactly. The blues are way cooler than country music.
• 46:21
  Tyler Johnson: I know, but it's not all… I mean, it's not all country. You can find a bar or two that's playing good stuff as you're walking along.
• 46:28
  Tad Eggleston: Well, there is good country.
• 46:30
  Phil: It's all country. There's not the country, and it's all country.
• 46:33
  Tad Eggleston: They're e…
• 46:33
  Tyler Johnson: These would come.
• 46:34
  Tad Eggleston: country. Like, Sturgill Simpson qualifies as good country. Johnny Cash qualifies as good country.
• 46:41
  Phil: Yes, I do agree.
• 46:43
  Phil: It's my bar.
• 46:43
  Tyler Johnson: I'll agree with Johnny, but I'm not a fan of…
• 46:45
  Phil: You gotta be at least.
• 46:46
  Tad Eggleston: You're not a fan of Sergil Simpson, even though he also makes comic books?
• 46:50
  Tyler Johnson: As a person, yes, but if it's music, I don't… I don't like it.
• 46:54
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, see, I like his music.
• 46:55
  Phil: I've never heard…
• 46:56
  Tyler Johnson: bet.
• 46:57
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, as a first… yes, he seems like a great guy, you know, but, anyway…
• 47:04
  Phil: Yeah.
• 47:05
  Tyler Johnson: Anywho…
• 47:06
  Phil: We were… it looks like we were both becalmed in this…
• 47:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, we were a little calm.
• 47:11
  Phil: Yeah.
• 47:11
  Tad Eggleston: And week 112 of the One Piece Trace.
• 47:15
  Tad Eggleston: I blame my back, what's your excuse?
• 47:18
  Tyler Johnson: I blame you.
• 47:19
  Phil: Senioritis.
• 47:22
  Phil: Workplace-induced senioritis. I should have read more, to be honest, but it's… yeah.
• 47:31
  Phil: Nothing like my back.
• 47:33
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 47:35
  Tyler Johnson: Yo.
• 47:36
  Phil: So I'm ready to get into the, great responsibility for this week. We took a look at that, Image Humble Bundle,
• 47:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 47:43
  Phil: I do have to say, their definition of quick reads themed loose, because I definitely saw some non-quick reads.
• 47:50
  Tyler Johnson: I agree.
• 47:52
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I think they're definitely… If quick, quick reads meant non-ongoing series.
• 47:57
  Phil: That's fair, that's fair. One volume or less, you know.
• 48:00
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 48:01
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:02
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 48:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:05
  Tad Eggleston: I think it meant, like, you can sit down and… and…
• 48:09
  Tad Eggleston: And read it without having to pick up another book.
• 48:12
  Phil: That's… that's an interesting definition, but yeah, I'll take it, you know?
• 48:18
  Phil: The one I was thinking of was Jonathan Hickman's Decorum, where I was like, okay, that's not a quick read, that's a…
• 48:24
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, that's just… that's just because of Hickman. That could be one issue, and not… I mean, that's… that's like…
• 48:30
  Phil: If you can't…
• 48:31
  Tad Eggleston: possibly have an Alan Moore book other than Jack B. Quick.
• 48:36
  Phil: Yeah, right?
• 48:37
  Tad Eggleston: As a quick read.
• 48:39
  Phil: Yeah. Here's a quick-read, 8-page Alan Moore story that'll still take you an hour.
• 48:43
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 48:44
  Phil: Aww.
• 48:46
  Tad Eggleston: so…
• 48:47
  Phil: Yeah.
• 48:50
  Tyler Johnson: So, Phil, you read Lake of Fire, right?
• 48:52
  Phil: I did, I, I just…
• 48:53
  Tad Eggleston: Everything is, is, is… That's the word I'm looking for.
• 48:58
  Phil: Self-contained?
• 49:01
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, comparative.
• 49:04
  Phil: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I can see that. But yeah, I did read, Lake of Fire by, Nathan Fairbrain and Matt Smith, hence the Keeping It Medieval, because this is… this is a book that I picked up when it came out 10 years ago now, which, you know, the… the…
• 49:20
  Phil: general premise is Knights vs. Aliens, you know, which is kind of a quick sell, but also very much an undersell of this book, because it… it really… you know, I feel like the…
• 49:33
  Phil: your general mash-up style genre action, you know, thinking of, like, cowboys and aliens, dinosaurs versus aliens, you know, a fight book. A book where you're… you're not there for the plot, you're there for the action. This is not that kind of book, actually. This is, a much more,
• 49:52
  Phil: Elaborate character study, and, you know…
• 49:56
  Phil: while I do not profess myself to be a medieval scholar, feels historically researched, and mindful.
• 50:02
  Phil: Of, of the time period, and, you know, depicts the midst of a complicated, crusade. There is an alien ship that crashes, and these weird dog, bug-like, creatures start swarming out, and the crusaders have to…
• 50:19
  Phil: Have to meet up with them.
• 50:21
  Phil: And it's really great. It's the kind of thing where it's funny how I think the Humble Bundle said Volume 1, and I think that was a point where Image was putting Volume 1 on the sides of all of its books, regardless of whether they were just meant to be miniseries or not.
• 50:37
  Tad Eggleston: And I know… I know Skybound does that.
• 50:40
  Phil: Oh, okay. I don't remember if this one…
• 50:42
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if it was Skybound or not, but I know Skybound does that. Everything's Volume 1. Image might do it, because I'm looking at Altamont right now.
• 50:50
  Phil: Huh.
• 50:51
  Tad Eggleston: Because that was my book, and it says Volume 1, and I don't know how you could possibly make that a Volume 1.
• 50:57
  Phil: That's right.
• 50:58
  Tad Eggleston: graphic novel.
• 50:59
  Phil: Yeah. I mean, same… same here, where it's like, this is a complete story, you know? It's… it's not the kind of thing where I'm like, oh, what would have happened in Issue 6 if it had come out? No, this is… this is very much the end, so, I'm just checking to see if it's skybound as well here. But, no, it's… I guess one of the other thoughts I had is, like.
• 51:17
  Phil: You know, like, Tyler, if you wanted to, could you order this book?
• 51:24
  Phil: Like, a physical copy of it? Or…
• 51:28
  Tyler Johnson: I'll check in a second. This is gonna be really funny, guys. I have to pee really bad, so I'm gonna… I'm gonna go do that, and then I'll come back and answer your question.
• 51:36
  Phil: Okay, but, but…
• 51:37
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, remember to take your earpiece out.
• 51:40
  Phil: He's muted, so…
• 51:41
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's true.
• 51:42
  Phil: You know, yeah, yeah. He does… he's gonna do what he needs to do. But this is where, you know, I was thinking, this series came out 10 years ago, and now it's almost like, if you want to buy a copy, you have to get it digitally instead.
• 51:58
  Tad Eggleston: Well, no, the…
• 51:59
  Phil: Maybe, maybe not.
• 52:00
  Tad Eggleston: Answer is…
• 52:03
  Phil: it's still orderable or not, because it's like…
• 52:05
  Tad Eggleston: It might be, give me a second. Okay.
• 52:07
  Phil: Okay, well, we'll figure that out, but…
• 52:09
  Tad Eggleston: Because I also have Tyler's sign-in, remember?
• 52:11
  Phil: Oh, I did not remember that, okay. So there we go, we can, we can, backdoor his establishment if we need to. But, it's just one of those things where…
• 52:21
  Phil: this is… I feel like it was a really underrated book. It didn't get a lot of press or excitement at the time, you know, because.
• 52:29
  Tad Eggleston: And the answer is, it is available for order. It's not on backorder, it's not…
• 52:35
  Phil: Nice!
• 52:36
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 52:37
  Phil: Okay, so that is.
• 52:37
  Tad Eggleston: It would be… it would be $16.99 in-store.
• 52:40
  Phil: Yeah, yeah. Which, again, great deal for this series. So I guess, like, that's… that's kind of, like, one of the…
• 52:48
  Phil: One of the bike…
• 52:51
  Phil: over… overly optimistic futures that I dream of for the comic book industry, where, you know, a book that came out 10 years ago is still easily accessible compared to books coming out today, you know?
• 53:02
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, honestly, it happens more with this kind of book.
• 53:07
  Tad Eggleston: Than it does with superhero books.
• 53:10
  Phil: Okay.
• 53:13
  Phil: Yeah, because I know…
• 53:13
  Tad Eggleston: Self-contained story has a longer shelf life.
• 53:17
  Tad Eggleston: than a series.
• 53:19
  Phil: That's a good point, especially a series where there's a new version always coming out, so it's hard for them to want to sell you the previous version of it.
• 53:26
  Tad Eggleston: Which is super.
• 53:27
  Phil: superheroes are kind of in the midst of.
• 53:29
  Tad Eggleston: But, but even, even, I think, like.
• 53:36
  Tad Eggleston: I, I know…
• 53:37
  Tad Eggleston: and I don't think any of them are out of print right now, but I know that, like, I don't see…
• 53:46
  Tad Eggleston: The Walking Dead.
• 53:48
  Tad Eggleston: on shelves.
• 53:50
  Tad Eggleston: At the same… or even Saga, which blows my mind, because it's still going.
• 53:59
  Tad Eggleston: on shelves at the same rate that I once did.
• 54:05
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it looks like the box sets are available… It might be.
• 54:14
  Phil: those?
• 54:15
  Tad Eggleston: Well, no, because, like… or no, that's an issue. We don't want any issues.
• 54:19
  Phil: I mean, I do know Walking Dead used to have, like, a whole shelf to itself when it was still on.
• 54:24
  Tad Eggleston: At almost every store.
• 54:26
  Phil: Oh, yeah. It had, like, an end cap display at least, you know, of, hey, here's the Walking Dead section, you know.
• 54:34
  Tyler Johnson: Not sure how that happened. Peggy came over to tell me she wants to know if I'm almost done, guys.
• 54:40
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, well, we are, almost.
• 54:42
  Tyler Johnson: So, I'm gonna go on to my…
• 54:44
  Tad Eggleston: book.
• 54:45
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, is that where we're at? Yep.
• 54:46
  Phil: Sorry, sorry to hog time.
• 54:48
  Tyler Johnson: Nope, nope. You'll do bad things, guys. Have you both read this before?
• 54:52
  Phil: I have not.
• 54:53
  Tad Eggleston: I have, I read it in single issues as it came out.
• 54:55
  Tyler Johnson: So did I, and I owned the first one. It's really good in that it's, so, Phil, the plot is this writer who has made his career writing a story about a real-life serial killer.
• 55:11
  Tyler Johnson: And he wants to get away from that trope and write happy stories, and… It…
• 55:18
  Tyler Johnson: It is not possible for him to do that, and so he's got this writer's block, and it's… it's this really cool, you know, kind of meta-narrative, where he's working through his tortured writer's writer's block, and…
• 55:34
  Tyler Johnson: It's fun, you know, you get to analyze his, like, past success with this previous book that he wrote, and there's a new copy of it coming out that he's not happy with at the beginning, and…
• 55:45
  Phil: Okay.
• 55:45
  Tyler Johnson: It's very… there's a reality-warping twist to it, you know, and explores the…
• 55:52
  Tyler Johnson: The horror of having your creations come to life.
• 55:56
  Tyler Johnson: kind of thing. You know what? It's easier to talk about the books if you haven't read it, because I'm like, oh, I can just tell you about it, right? Yeah. But the biggest thing is, like, the psychological toll that it's taken on the main character, you know?
• 56:10
  Phil: That does sound interesting.
• 56:11
  Tyler Johnson: So, yeah, I mean, because he's… like I said, these things he writes are…
• 56:19
  Tyler Johnson: Taking on a life of their own.
• 56:23
  Tyler Johnson: Very much like a… it's kind of like the comic book version of a John Carpenter movie.
• 56:29
  Phil: Okay.
• 56:30
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, it's kind of slasherous.
• 56:32
  Tyler Johnson: Sk?
• 56:33
  Phil: Interest… okay, so…
• 56:34
  Tad Eggleston: A little bit.
• 56:35
  Phil: I mean, I have to imagine that murder becomes a plot element at a certain point.
• 56:43
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 56:45
  Phil: Really underselling the violence on this one.
• 56:47
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not… I'm not going into that, because I think that's a given with the title, but I'm more focused… the artwork is so cool. It's very… it's got a… a unique, kind of uncomfortable color palette. Okay. To me, it's not…
• 57:05
  Tyler Johnson: it fits the mood that it's trying to make for you, you know what I mean?
• 57:08
  Phil: Nice.
• 57:10
  Tyler Johnson: So… Yeah, it's cool.
• 57:13
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, I read Altamont by Eric Hana and Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard. This was a really cool like…
• 57:25
  Tad Eggleston: Buddy story set at… like… The… the most infamous concert ever.
• 57:37
  Tad Eggleston: you know, Woodstock had been the year before, the Summer of Love, blah blah blah, Altamont was like a nightmare.
• 57:44
  Tyler Johnson: Was Altamont where the Hells Angels got out of control at the Rolling Stones?
• 57:49
  Tad Eggleston: Where the Hells Angels were, were, were the security paid for, or paid with beer.
• 57:56
  Tad Eggleston: Which, who would ever expect that to go poorly?
• 58:01
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 58:02
  Phil: Whenever I pay guys in beer, they always top-notch work.
• 58:05
  Tyler Johnson: I mean…
• 58:05
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, and, like, like, the group of characters, you've, you've got, you've got…
• 58:14
  Tad Eggleston: you've got a Vietnam vet, you've got… Completely fucked up.
• 58:20
  Tad Eggleston: Stoner guy, and kind of everything in between.
• 58:24
  Tad Eggleston: So it's got some rich characters that fit the era.
• 58:30
  Tad Eggleston: headed to Altamont for what they hope will just be a good weekend, but, like… Things happen.
• 58:40
  Tad Eggleston: And it was just, I mean, the storytelling… Ad Lard's art is… is amazing. It was… it was…
• 58:48
  Tad Eggleston: You know, it was a compelling read that made you think about…
• 58:55
  Tad Eggleston: Both an era and kind of the end of it, because, like… it, it, it…
• 59:02
  Tyler Johnson: Was that also in 69?
• 59:04
  Tad Eggleston: Altamont was 69. Woodstock, I thought, was 68.
• 59:10
  Tyler Johnson: Oh… I thought they were both 69. Okay.
• 59:13
  Tad Eggleston: or if they were both 69, Woodstock was way earlier in 69, that sort of thing. But, like, they're even… there's even, like, reckoning with the fact that, like, oh, they call themselves activists, but all they do is have sex and do drugs, and what are they actually doing to change the world, and…
• 59:33
  Phil: Sex and drugs.
• 59:36
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, it's hard to describe all of the different levels on which this book works, but I enjoyed it.
• 59:44
  Tad Eggleston: quite a bit. I've been meaning to read it forever, and I was really happy to finally…
• 59:50
  Tad Eggleston: have the excuse and take the time.
• 59:53
  Phil: Nice!
• 59:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 59:55
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 59:56
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 59:57
  Tad Eggleston: I'm pretty certain that those 3 books alone are worth the, what is it, 20 bucks for the package? Yes. 25. 25 for 59 readings. Those 3 books alone are easily worth the $25, and there are 56 more.
• 1:00:15
  Tad Eggleston: Most of which I, I would personally vouch for. Oh, yeah. I, I mean, well, let me, let me, let me pull it up so I can do a, a super quick.
• 1:00:26
  Tad Eggleston: Run-through of… of… some of the ones that I will… Absolutely, personally vouch for.
• 1:00:34
  Tad Eggleston: We have…
• 1:00:39
  Tad Eggleston: Ain't No Grave from Scotty Young and Jorge Corona is absolutely a book that I adore.
• 1:00:49
  Tad Eggleston: Bear Pirate Viking was great. Ramv and Anand RK's blue and green.
• 1:00:55
  Tad Eggleston: Our friend of the podcast, Matt, actually…
• 1:00:59
  Tad Eggleston: almost joined us, if we hadn't had so many scheduling issues, to talk about Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker.
• 1:01:06
  Phil: I almost picked that one.
• 1:01:06
  Tad Eggleston: Casey and Mike Hudleston.
• 1:01:10
  Tad Eggleston: Couple of great books from a writer that I won't talk about. Decorum… Decorum from… from, jonathan Hickson.
• 1:01:20
  Tad Eggleston: Do a Powerbomb was one of our, our, Joy, hope.
• 1:01:30
  Tad Eggleston: Joy, resistance, hope, and survival.
• 1:01:33
  Tad Eggleston: books.
• 1:01:34
  Tad Eggleston: 8 Billion Genies is fantastic, Patrick Kindland is always great, his Frontiersman is there. Nick Dergata's Ghost Cage, Haha from Maxwell Prince,
• 1:01:47
  Tad Eggleston: Hexagon Bridge is great, another great Charlie Adler book, with Robbie Morrison, Heretic.
• 1:01:54
  Tad Eggleston: We've talked to Julio Anta about Home, we've talked to Joe Kelly and Ken Namira about I Kill Giants and Immortal Sergeant. Jimmy Lives was a fun book.
• 1:02:05
  Tad Eggleston: Click, click, boom, we've talked to Doug Wagner about.
• 1:02:10
  Tad Eggleston: News from the Fallout, we've talked to Chris Condon about. David Lapham's Murder Me Dead is an underrated masterpiece.
• 1:02:17
  Phil: That one's really good.
• 1:02:19
  Phil: Nameless, from Morrison and Burnham.
• 1:02:22
  Tad Eggleston: Right, I loved Space Opera Xanadax from… from Tom Scholi. We talked about Step by Bloody Step recently.
• 1:02:30
  Tad Eggleston: The Me You Love in the Dark from Scotty Young and Jorge Corona is great. Andy Watson's Sunburn is great.
• 1:02:38
  Tad Eggleston: Gospel was a, was a, underground… gem from Will Morris.
• 1:02:46
  Tad Eggleston: Brian K. Vaughan's We Stand On Guard with Steve Scroche, Pornsack Picha Shote, and… and Aaron Campbell's Infidel was outstanding.
• 1:02:57
  Tad Eggleston: happy from… from Derek Robertson and… and…
• 1:03:02
  Tad Eggleston: Grant Morrison, new masters from Shobo and Shaw.
• 1:03:07
  Tad Eggleston: Rockstar and Soft Boy from Scenic Race, I mean.
• 1:03:12
  Tad Eggleston: That's just, like, half of the titles. Those are the half of the titles that I will happily
• 1:03:16
  Tad Eggleston: wholeheartedly endorse.
• 1:03:20
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:03:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, just a fantastic, fantastic,
• 1:03:26
  Tad Eggleston: Deal, available for a couple more days.
• 1:03:30
  Tad Eggleston: It's about a day and a half by the time this goes live.
• 1:03:33
  Tad Eggleston: Unless it gets extended, which is always possible, and
• 1:03:38
  Tad Eggleston: it supports the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, so I, I,
• 1:03:43
  Tad Eggleston: This gives me… this one's an A-plus recommendation for me. But Tyler needs to wrap up, so let's roll into what we hope will be spectacular next week. Ironically, all of my hope will be spectaculars are… are…
• 1:04:00
  Tad Eggleston: are, issue 3s.
• 1:04:07
  Tad Eggleston: So, mind management number 3, from Matt Kent, The Ring, The Man Who Beat the Man, number 3, from Gail Simone and Elisa Romboli, and
• 1:04:17
  Tad Eggleston: Concrete, Stars Over the Sand, number 3 from Paul Chadwick, are my picks. Things I know are spectacular. Earth to Chris Clevey from Christoph Bocock.
• 1:04:27
  Tad Eggleston: and Hannah Krieger at HarperCollins, Hammer Fist No. 1 from Rick Remender and Steve Epting at Image, and Santos Sisters Fun Special No. 1 from Greg and Fake, and Bob Burden at Floating World. Special, special thing on Friday!
• 1:04:44
  Tad Eggleston: evening, I think… I think…
• 1:04:50
  Tad Eggleston: 6 to 8, but it might be earlier. But Friday evening at Modern Age Comics, we will have Greg on hand signing our store-exclusive variant.
• 1:05:01
  Tad Eggleston: of Santos Sisters Fun Special, number one. So come out to Algonquin, Illinois, if you're anywhere near the area, or, you know, rich enough to buy plane tickets.
• 1:05:14
  Tad Eggleston: Also, graphic novel that I'm looking forward to this week is Instant Noodles and Beyond from Robin Ha, because Instant Noodles have definitely been one of my… my,
• 1:05:25
  Tad Eggleston: comfort foods lately. Phil, what's your all-new giant-sized trade waiter graphic novel pick?
• 1:05:30
  Phil: That's gonna be the formative, for me at least, Battle Royale Deluxe Edition Volume 2 from Koshun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi, with a translation from Keith Giffen. It's getting re-released from Yen Press. Don't know if either of you guys read this one, but, yeah,
• 1:05:50
  Phil: I read it when I was, like, 14, and it definitely, disturbed and imprinted itself upon me.
• 1:05:58
  Tad Eggleston: Okay. Well, Tyler, why don't you take us out?
• 1:06:02
  Tyler Johnson: Alright guys, thanks for listening, and we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:06:07
  Tyler Johnson: See ya!