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22 Panels Episode #238 - Hello Sunshine · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and across the interwebs.
• 0:14
  Tyler Johnson: from me is Phil and Tad.
• 0:17
  Phil: Oh, he's out of wet fluid! Get him! Get him!
• 0:19
  Tyler Johnson: Get him!
• 0:20
  Phil: Jump his ass!
• 0:22
  Tyler Johnson: Hello, Sunshine! That's a call to later on. How's it going, guys?
• 0:27
  Tad Eggleston: It is going well. Yeah.
• 0:33
  Tyler Johnson: That's good. That's good. Everybody having a good weekend?
• 0:35
  Tad Eggleston: Fur- First week… first week away from, first week away from… School.
• 0:44
  Tad Eggleston: So, so kind of… catching my rhythm again?
• 0:49
  Tad Eggleston: Some days have felt very productive, and some days I have been… Mostly asleep.
• 0:56
  Phil: I… I'm.
• 0:57
  Tad Eggleston: Catching up.
• 0:57
  Phil: Of being mostly asleep.
• 1:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:01
  Tyler Johnson: Does Kelly also have the summer off?
• 1:05
  Tad Eggleston: She does, but her school year's not over yet.
• 1:08
  Tyler Johnson: Oh…
• 1:10
  Phil: It's a long one.
• 1:10
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 1:11
  Tad Eggleston: Well, she started later than me, too. I start at, like, the beginning of August, and she starts mid-late August.
• 1:18
  Phil: Yeah. Mid-late August.
• 1:20
  Tad Eggleston: I get off at Memorial Day, and she gets off early June.
• 1:27
  Tad Eggleston: So… Yeah.
• 1:29
  Tyler Johnson: That's cool.
• 1:29
  Tad Eggleston: But, some awesome news yesterday, and another one that, like, I get to pinch myself because I get to, like…
• 1:38
  Tad Eggleston: send the text message and trade Simpsons GIFs with…
• 1:46
  Tad Eggleston: With one of the executive producers.
• 1:50
  Tad Eggleston: And creators of That Texas Blood, now in development at FX.
• 1:57
  Phil: That's really exciting.
• 1:58
  Tad Eggleston: was named as one of the three executive producers. The other two guys have lots of TV experience. It looks like it's finally happening. I know Chris is really excited. So yeah, that was a very cool piece of news, as was, Dark Horse Comics unionizing was a big.
• 2:17
  Tyler Johnson: Deal.
• 2:18
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 2:19
  Phil: Feels like a long time coming. Feels like one of those things… It does.
• 2:21
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like… it's always… Interesting to make unions to begin with.
• 2:31
  Tad Eggleston: It's… it's that much more interesting.
• 2:38
  Tad Eggleston: When… You're a small… staff, and I don't think Dark Horse has a huge Yeah. Staff?
• 2:53
  Phil: it's… it was very funny hearing them phrased as the third largest comic publisher in the US, and it's like, oh, that's… that's…
• 3:00
  Phil: That's a… that's a big drop-off, though. It's a big drop-off from… from 2 to 3.
• 3:05
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 3:06
  Tad Eggleston: So, do you guys.
• 3:10
  Tyler Johnson: Do you think Dark Horse is bigger than Image.
• 3:12
  Phil: Well, that was… that was kind of my question. I guess it might be how you.
• 3:15
  Tad Eggleston: Figure me.
• 3:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I think it… it depends a lot… On… Whether or not… You're talking… catalog
• 3:37
  Tad Eggleston: And… exactly how much some of their licensed stuff sells.
• 3:42
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yup.
• 3:44
  Phil: That's… that was kind of what I was thinking, as well as… I mean, I imagine Dark Horse has more,
• 3:49
  Phil: like, studio connections than Image does, because Image is like the… I can see how you… even if they might put out more books, they might be quote-unquote smaller, because it's like a ragtag collection of, you know, creators working for themselves, rather than a company structure.
• 4:07
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and I would be willing to bet that most Wednesdays, Image beats out Dark Horse, but I don't know if Image beats out Dark Horse at the bookstores.
• 4:19
  Phil: That's a really good point.
• 4:20
  Tad Eggleston: in the library.
• 4:21
  Phil: Yeah, they probably… I think… Sure. I think, yeah.
• 4:23
  Tyler Johnson: Check this out, guys. I just got these with my, stuff for this week for comics.
• 4:30
  Tyler Johnson: That's 40 years.
• 4:31
  Tad Eggleston: Here's a dark horse.
• 4:31
  Phil: Nice!
• 4:32
  Tyler Johnson: Well, look how many they're in here.
• 4:34
  Phil: That's a whole lot, yeah, that's a fat stack, fat stack of coasters.
• 4:37
  Tad Eggleston: Stickers, or…
• 4:38
  Tyler Johnson: Stickers, yep.
• 4:39
  Phil: Nice. Yeah, I'd slap that on the back of my car.
• 4:42
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 4:42
  Tad Eggleston: I would totally slap it on something.
• 4:45
  Phil: Or a laptop.
• 4:46
  Tad Eggleston: My car, but… but, yeah.
• 4:48
  Tad Eggleston: I'm running out of room on my laptop, but I put lots of stickers on, like, comic boxes.
• 4:53
  Phil: Oh, yeah, yeah, that'd be a good one.
• 4:54
  Tad Eggleston: So… so… So I'm certain that I could find a place for it.
• 5:02
  Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been? You know, I've actually…
• 5:07
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, this is the week that Ken Paxton officially became the nominee in Texas, but I kind of expected that.
• 5:16
  Phil: See, pretend like I have Ted Cruz?
• 5:19
  Tad Eggleston: No, he primed John Cornyn.
• 5:21
  Phil: Oh, okay, okay.
• 5:23
  Tad Eggleston: But he's also… He's also, like…
• 5:29
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, to get… two things. First.
• 5:33
  Tad Eggleston: To give you an idea of, like.
• 5:36
  Tad Eggleston: John Cornyn, even though he's made it clear that he's voting Republican and whatnot, rather than giving an actual, like.
• 5:48
  Tad Eggleston: endorsement of… Paxton.
• 5:52
  Tad Eggleston: And nobody's quite sure, I think, whether he…
• 6:00
  Tad Eggleston: He was talking specifically of Paxton or Trump, but he did read on social media the parable of the…
• 6:06
  Tad Eggleston: the… What, the fox and the scorpion?
• 6:12
  Phil: The frog and the scorpion?
• 6:14
  Tad Eggleston: Frog and the Scorpion, yeah. Riding a… Yeah.
• 6:16
  Tyler Johnson: Riding across the river? Yeah.
• 6:18
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 6:20
  Tad Eggleston: you know, apropos of… I mean, because they were in a runoff. John Cornyn was the, like.
• 6:29
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, don't get me wrong, John Cornyn?
• 6:31
  Tad Eggleston: Horrible human being.
• 6:36
  Tad Eggleston: And still somehow better than Ken Paxton.
• 6:41
  Tad Eggleston: Ken Paxton was impeached by, you know, he's the Attorney General of Texas. He was impeached by the Republican legislature of Texas, and the only reason he wasn't convicted is it was after the impeachment that Trump weighed in supporting him.
• 6:56
  Phil: Wow, that's some bullshit right there.
• 6:59
  Tad Eggleston: Ken Paxton was turned into the FBI by his own staff.
• 7:07
  Tyler Johnson: Wow.
• 7:07
  Phil: It's a ringing endorsement right there, you know? .
• 7:11
  Tad Eggleston: Like, like, like…
• 7:15
  Tad Eggleston: So it's gonna… I mean, I mean, in terms of turning Texas blue, it might be the best thing that could happen, because…
• 7:22
  Tyler Johnson: You know…
• 7:23
  Tad Eggleston: More prominent.
• 7:24
  Phil: assholes to hate.
• 7:25
  Tad Eggleston: Well, f-first, you know, it, it, it meant that, like… They wound up spending…
• 7:38
  Tad Eggleston: Between the two of them, like…
• 7:41
  Tad Eggleston: Almost fi… almost half a billion dollars on the runoff campaign.
• 7:46
  Phil: Holy shit, wow.
• 7:48
  Tad Eggleston: Second, well, while the RNC is scrubbing it right now, and whatnot, the ads that got run against Paxton, I guarantee that the Democrats held onto them all, and will probably just rerun some of them.
• 8:06
  Phil: Nice. Well, let's hope.
• 8:08
  Phil: I mean…
• 8:10
  Phil: It'd be great if Texas could start going blue.
• 8:13
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, it's always been more purple than… because it's gerrymandered pretty seriously.
• 8:19
  Phil: Exactly, yeah, yeah.
• 8:20
  Phil: It's… it's… we… this… talking about flipping Texas has been going on for a while.
• 8:25
  Tad Eggleston: It's both gerrymandered pretty seriously, and… has… Legal, big air quotes.
• 8:36
  Phil: Yeah.
• 8:37
  Tad Eggleston: What's the word I'm looking for? Legal…
• 8:47
  Tad Eggleston: voter suppression at a very high.
• 8:50
  Phil: Hmm, I see.
• 8:54
  Phil: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me too much.
• 8:59
  Tad Eggleston: But, you know, Tyler…
• 9:04
  Tad Eggleston: Rico's a, You know, I think 8th generation Texan.
• 9:11
  Tad Eggleston: And Christian actually knows his Bible.
• 9:14
  Tad Eggleston: Speaks well, etc. And they're already having to pull out…
• 9:19
  Tyler Johnson: being…
• 9:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, they're already having to pull out, like, lies about him being a vegan.
• 9:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, they were like, he's a secret vegan, and I.
• 9:30
  Phil: Ugh.
• 9:31
  Tyler Johnson: I,
• 9:31
  Tad Eggleston: No, they don't say he's a secret vegan, they just say he's a vegan, and he's sitting there going, I love barbecue.
• 9:37
  Tyler Johnson: And then… Was it…
• 9:37
  Phil: Wasn't that over a picture of him eating a piece of meat? Like, that's ridiculous.
• 9:41
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I don't even know.
• 9:44
  Tyler Johnson: I just don't understand why that would be a, an insult. Like, who the fuck cares?
• 9:50
  Phil: enough vegans, but I'm shit.
• 9:51
  Tad Eggleston: In totally Trump fashion.
• 9:57
  Tad Eggleston: You know, and we figured out things about Trump, like, like, it's because people seek asylum in the United States that he thinks that…
• 10:06
  Tad Eggleston: All of the prisons and mental institutions are being emptied in foreign nations.
• 10:13
  Phil: Shit!
• 10:14
  Tyler Johnson: He thinks that that's why he says that we're getting all the mental…
• 10:18
  Phil: Oof.
• 10:19
  Tyler Johnson: Because he heard the word asylum, And he misunderstood.
• 10:23
  Tad Eggleston: So, so.
• 10:26
  Phil: I feel like… I feel like the cognitive testing really should have been more robust before he was led into office.
• 10:31
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, so,
• 10:35
  Tad Eggleston: Let's see if you guys can draw the lines here. Trump is the one that first said that, that, that Tallarico believed he had 6 genders.
• 10:48
  Phil: Okay.
• 10:52
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. Heh.
• 10:54
  Tyler Johnson: That's weird.
• 10:54
  Tad Eggleston: gender.
• 10:55
  Phil: I mean, I can… oh… oh, cis… cisgender to 6 gender?
• 11:01
  Phil: Life… wow.
• 11:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I was serious.
• 11:03
  Phil: even… I was thinking, I was like.
• 11:05
  Tad Eggleston: But of course, it's all about 6 genders now.
• 11:08
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, God.
• 11:09
  Phil: We need… we need to bring back… there was a… one of my favorite articles from the feminist philosophy class I took in college was… was one called, Should There Be Three Genders? And it was a satirical article, basically saying that, like, well, of course there should, and honestly, you shouldn't stop at three.
• 11:25
  Phil: You know? Right.
• 11:27
  Tad Eggleston: But, yeah, so, I mean, like, the best they have…
• 11:32
  Tad Eggleston: going against Tallarico at this point is, like, ridiculous bullshit, and I don't want to say that that won't…
• 11:39
  Tad Eggleston: work in Trump country, but when, like, you're coming out of the gate with that.
• 11:45
  Phil: Yeah.
• 11:47
  Phil: Yeah, I mean, I think… I think they're scared.
• 11:49
  Tad Eggleston: It's generally not a good sign.
• 11:52
  Phil: Yeah, I mean, they're… they're terrified of losing power, you know, so, of course, they're starting with the most desperate tactics first.
• 12:01
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, like, they've said that,
• 12:08
  Tad Eggleston: Quiet part out loud a few times.
• 12:12
  Tad Eggleston: Steve Bannon told a group of donors once, like, they get into power, a lot of us are going to jail.
• 12:20
  Tad Eggleston: Like, they try… they try to… they try to, like, play this off as… as Democrats and lawfare, but… but it's really not. It's, like, we.
• 12:31
  Phil: committee.
• 12:31
  Tad Eggleston: crimes.
• 12:32
  Phil: Right!
• 12:33
  Tad Eggleston: If there's anybody that will hold us accountable, we have problems. Which is where I will point out that…
• 12:40
  Tad Eggleston: that between… Between John Cornyn, And…
• 12:52
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, what was the other senator that he primaried recently? There are about 6 senators at this point that either because of retirement, or…
• 13:02
  Tad Eggleston: or… .
• 13:09
  Phil: political pressure, or.
• 13:12
  Tad Eggleston: aren't really in his camp.
• 13:17
  Tad Eggleston: They have…
• 13:17
  Tyler Johnson: I have to… I have to go in an hour, I'm just giving you.
• 13:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, no, we'll get moving. I got that message.
• 13:24
  Tyler Johnson: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, guys. 6 in the morning, I'm like, I have stuff to go.
• 13:30
  Phil: Texas is big, it's taken precedence.
• 13:33
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, but where I'm going is…
• 13:38
  Tad Eggleston: Particularly as oil prices go up, as Iran goes…
• 13:42
  Tad Eggleston: bad, whatnot. Like, he's reaching a dangerous, dangerous point where there might be enough disruption in his own party.
• 13:55
  Phil: Huh.
• 13:56
  Tad Eggleston: For impeachment and conviction.
• 14:00
  Phil: Don't threaten me with a good time.
• 14:04
  Phil: I would…
• 14:05
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna say that, that, like, party leadership
• 14:08
  Tad Eggleston: Could, you know, probably has enough control to prevent it.
• 14:13
  Tad Eggleston: But… if they get plowed in the midterms?
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: I, you know…
• 14:22
  Tad Eggleston: I… I could honestly see it winding up being something that was like, okay, I just lost my job for you, my vote has changed, we really know where the dirt is.
• 14:36
  Phil: I, you know, again, I…
• 14:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yo.
• 14:38
  Phil: I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful, you know.
• 14:41
  Phil: Cautiously optimistic?
• 14:43
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, honestly, I don't know if I'm cautiously optimistic about that or not, because that had just put J.D. Vance in, and it had suddenly give crit…
• 14:54
  Tad Eggleston: credibility to the rest of the Republican Party with everybody but MAGA. So…
• 14:59
  Phil: Well, the thing, everybody but MAGA, like, that's gotta be a significant chunk of their base, like, that's the thing, is that if, like, the only way I can imagine
• 15:10
  Phil: people still supporting Trump as if they're, like, fairly rabid for him, and I'm now realizing that we need to start talking about comics, you know? Yes. That is for sure.
• 15:20
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, so, Initial orders are due June 25th. Take it away, Tyler!
• 15:27
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, so our first
• 15:30
  Tyler Johnson: If I can get my screen to work here. First comic up is Angel from Kelly Thompson, and Julia Giacomino from Dynamite. Once the terrifying vampire Angel was cursed for his crimes with the return of his soul.
• 15:47
  Tyler Johnson: That soul eventually led to Sunnydale and a tragic star-crossed affair with Buffy, his vampire-slaying true love. Once the tragedy had run its course, Angel built himself a new life in Los Angeles as a supernatural detective, helping the helpless.
• 16:04
  Tyler Johnson: But these things don't go according to plan.
• 16:07
  Tyler Johnson: Don't always go according to plan, and sometimes you do have to go home again. This is that story.
• 16:18
  Tad Eggleston: Did you… did you announce it and give FOCs and whatnot?
• 16:21
  Tyler Johnson: Oh my goodness. FOC, final order cutoff, July 27th, will be in shops August 19th.
• 16:28
  Tad Eggleston: from Dynamite.
• 16:30
  Tyler Johnson: I did… Yeah, but I did.
• 16:31
  Tad Eggleston: She accounted.
• 16:33
  Tyler Johnson: And I did at the time. Okay.
• 16:34
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 16:35
  Tyler Johnson: harder cutoff.
• 16:36
  Tad Eggleston: Mark Waite and Chris Samney return with…
• 16:40
  Tad Eggleston: Batman and Robin Year 1, Dynamic Duos!
• 16:44
  Tad Eggleston: From DC Comics, Batman and Robin are back in action, the Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder have been hard at work cleaning up the streets of Gotham City, and their partnership has only gotten tighter. But when a gang of street kids starts causing mischief, Batman and Robin will need to get to the bottom of where these kids came from, and who is in charge.
• 17:03
  Tad Eggleston: Batman and Robin Year 1 Dynamic Duos is final order cut off July 20th, and in stores on August 12th.
• 17:15
  Tyler Johnson: Is it me again?
• 17:18
  Tad Eggleston: You're blue.
• 17:18
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, I am blue. I was just on the wrong screen. Okay. Bug Wars, the coming of The War Doom, from Jason Aaron, Muhammad Asrar, and Matthew Wilson from Image.
• 17:31
  Tyler Johnson: The backyard battlefield heats up, and it's even more brutal and bloodier than before. Returning to the savage suburban epic that feeds honey, I Shrunk the kids through a war grinder. Oh, that feeds honey, I shrunk the Kids. There you go, it's a movie. Feeds Shrunk the Kids.
• 17:47
  Phil: That feeds.
• 17:48
  Tyler Johnson: funny, I… I forgot, I didn't realize that was a movie title.
• 17:51
  Phil: Oh.
• 17:52
  Tyler Johnson: Returning to the savage epic that feeds Honey, I Shrunk the Kids through a war grinder.
• 17:57
  Tad Eggleston: better.
• 17:58
  Tyler Johnson: Yep. And marinated in Conan-flavored myth and mayhem. Six months later, the yard ran red with insect blood. Uneasy peace is shattered as ancient enemies rise from the woods.
• 18:12
  Tyler Johnson: Corporate extermination forces close in.
• 18:15
  Tyler Johnson: And Slade Slaymaker is dragged back into a brutal world where roach knights ride, squirrel armies gather, and survival means choosing your side in a war no human was meant to fight. This has a final order cut off of July 27th, and will be in shops August 19th.
• 18:35
  Tad Eggleston: Fort Psycho number 1 from Matt Kint and Brian Hurt at Oney Press. Ten years ago, the nation of Singapore sank into the Pacific Ocean. The underground terrorist network known as the Seven Seals took credit for the largest act of terror in human history. In the aftermath, the United Nations created a strike team of highly trained covert opposites…
• 18:54
  Tad Eggleston: operatives with one mission, locate, identify, and eliminate the Seven Seal's secretive leader. The team's clandestine affairs were to always remain in shadows until their final explosive confrontation resulted in a large-scale tragedy too bloody to cover up and too tragic to ignore.
• 19:13
  Tad Eggleston: Disgraced and disavowed by the governments that trained them, the world's most dangerous secret agents have been convicted for their crimes and sentenced to serve time side by side in the one place capable of holding them, their Old Highland headquarters, Fort Cyclone.
• 19:30
  Tad Eggleston: Now known in the media by its derogatory name, Fort Psycho.
• 19:36
  Tad Eggleston: And that's where the official story is about to go terribly, terribly wrong.
• 19:44
  Tyler Johnson: Dun dun dun.
• 19:45
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cut off, June 29th, in stores August 5th.
• 19:49
  Phil: Next up, there's Gastrominique from Marjorie Bennett and Helena Masellis over at Boom.
• 19:58
  Phil: Terrar, the cannibal may be compelled to eat, but Lady Charlotte, codenamed the Python, is a cold-blooded spy compelled to hunt. A visceral game of cat and mouse begins at Lady Charlotte hunts down the elusive cannibal stalking the streets of France during the Revolution, and she'll stop at nothing to pursue her prey. Lady Charlotte's quest for revenge is aided by her former lover, Zelie, and together they explore the seedy underbelly of
• 20:23
  Phil: Paris and each other in a hypnotic fever dream. Gonna have a final order cutoff of June 29th in stores August 12th from Boom.
• 20:34
  Phil: Tyler, you had highlighted Hank Howard Pizza Detective for a third title. I don't remember, did we do that one last week?
• 20:42
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, we did… we did… we did something else with Hank.
• 20:44
  Tyler Johnson: Do you know?
• 20:45
  Tad Eggleston: last week.
• 20:46
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, okay, let's skip that then.
• 20:48
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 20:48
  Tad Eggleston: Go for it.
• 20:49
  Phil: Nope.
• 20:49
  Tyler Johnson: Alright!
• 20:50
  Tad Eggleston: for it.
• 20:51
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know why I did 3, because I'm a little bit selfish.
• 20:54
  Tad Eggleston: We got lots of books this week.
• 20:56
  Phil: So many good books.
• 20:56
  Tad Eggleston: month.
• 20:57
  Tyler Johnson: Hank Howard Pizza Detective. We did talk about last week, but it was a different book. The Fair Play, number one, from Robert Venditti and David Laffem, from Bad Idea.
• 21:09
  Tyler Johnson: When it comes to taking down Hollywood's worst criminals, Detective Hank Howard works alone, but when two crazed criminals decide to go full Grand Theft Auto and hijack the model for Big Caligula's shining new fleet of food trucks, all bets are off.
• 21:25
  Tyler Johnson: For the first time, Hank must team up with Big Caligula's Southeast Regional Manager, Barb Knox, to recover the stolen whip.
• 21:33
  Tyler Johnson: Together, they'll go full throttle in a high-speed pursuit of justice, facing down a barrage of bullets, high-octane explosions, and two pizza perps who are willing to do whatever it takes to get away clean.
• 21:46
  Tyler Johnson: This will be in shops July 6th, and… or, excuse me, final order cutoff of July 6th, and in shops August 5th.
• 21:54
  Phil: Alright, now we've got a book I'm really excited for. It is Prima Operada by Olivia Dufault, Rebecca Isaacs, and Maria Louise over at Ignition Press. Welcome to the conservatory. After Earth was shattered into surviving pockets across the galaxy, humanity's most talented young women train at this prestigious celestial boarding school to become the next generation of mech pilots.
• 22:17
  Phil: But these students aren't soldiers. They're ballerinas, and the mechs aren't built for battle, but performance, all engineered in body and mind to entertain a ruling class of cosmic patrons in an annual life-or-death recital of mankind's only unifying story, the saga of Apollita the Huntress, a goddess whose pursuit of one last elusive prey ends in heartbreak.
• 22:40
  Phil: This year's top recruits, the quietly ambitious Mar and rebellious Rhea, endure a cutthroat curriculum to compete for the crowning title of prima operata. As their bond deepens and Mar's obsessive quest puts her under the wing of Hippalda herself, the line between art and indoctrination blurs, and the great personal costs of perfection transform their lives. Black Swan and Never Let Me Go meet Pacific Rim in this groundbreaking
• 23:05
  Phil: space opera. Gonna have a final order cutoff of July 27th, in store, September 2nd, once again, from Ignition Comics. How about some graphic novels?
• 23:15
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, alright. First graphic novel is Aperture from Kirsten Thompson in, Quinito?
• 23:24
  Tyler Johnson: From Mad Cave. When Sage, a first-year university student, discovers a forgotten camera in the library archives, she's thrust into a world beyond her own time. I'm switching glasses here.
• 23:37
  Tyler Johnson: the… The camera links her to August, a student who walks the same halls more than a century earlier.
• 23:45
  Tyler Johnson: What begins as a miraculous connection soon just deepens into something neither of them expected. But history has a way of pulling people apart, and as World War I looms for August.
• 23:58
  Tyler Johnson: the closer they grow… is that… did I say that wrong? The closer they grow, the more impossible it seems to hold on.
• 24:06
  Tyler Johnson: A, final word cutoff of August 3rd will be in shops August 22nd.
• 24:14
  Tad Eggleston: Bimbo Adjit Prop from Raquel Jack at Fanagraphics. Bimbo Agitprop captures the reality of growing up in West Texas in the early 21st century through satanic panics, Y2K, a recession, abusive parents, shitty men, identity-centric politics, and woke, anti-woke pendulum swings, reflective of the author's era, born in the late 90s, of hyper-individualist oversharing
• 24:38
  Tad Eggleston: of late 2020…
• 24:41
  Tad Eggleston: 2010's internet, while being firmly grounded in the unfiltered, handmade, radically anti-establishment art of the 1960s underground comics. Raquel Jack keeps her wounds fresh and open.
• 24:54
  Tad Eggleston: To both remember the past and protect yourself in the future. At Turns explicit, hilarious, profane, and defiant, Bimbo Edurop is both an act of self-preservation and a call to arms.
• 25:07
  Tad Eggleston: Boldly embraces frivolity, bimboism, comedy, memory, and storytelling to interrogate the reality
• 25:15
  Tad Eggleston: Interrogate reality in 2020s. Ping-ponging among relationships, psychedelic trips, good sex, bad sex, romance, and trauma.
• 25:24
  Tad Eggleston: Her dense, obsessive pages read like a manifesto announcing the arrival of a remarkable new voice in comics. This is from Fanagraphics, final order cutoff is July 6th, in stores on August 5th.
• 25:38
  Phil: Alright, also coming from Fanographics, there is Grifters, Floaters, and Punks, a reimagined Field Guide for the 50 State Birds by Keith Bendis. In the mid-1800s, self-made naturalist and outdoorsman John James
• 25:53
  Phil: Audubon, began work on his collection of 435 watercolor plates that would become the standard-setting birds of America.
• 26:02
  Phil: Now, some nigh, on 200 years later, it is indisputable and entirely authentic successor has finally emerged. Master cartoonist Keith Bendis has traveled to all four corners of this nation, or wishes he had, returning with accounts of the beach stoners of North Carolina, the impossible screamers of Alaska that lay eggs five times the size of their body, the Tuckoo for school, red-capped
• 26:26
  Phil: Delaware Slackers, and the alluring pink-breasted frog catcher of the Louisiana Bayou. These most whimsical and biologically unsound members of the avian species are brought to life in a style reminiscent of Gary Larson's Farside, handsomely coupled with a rarefield New Yorker panache. Simply put, Drifters, Floaters, and punks is essential reading for both seasoned birdwatchers and budding ornithologists, as well as lovers of
• 26:50
  Phil: ball cartooning. With a final order cut off of July 20th, it's gonna be in stores August 22nd.
• 26:59
  Phil: Once again, from Phantographics.
• 27:01
  Tyler Johnson: Once again, for Pentagon.
• 27:03
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome! Alright. Oh, it's Tad.
• 27:07
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it's…
• 27:09
  Tyler Johnson: No, it's you.
• 27:10
  Tad Eggleston: I'm sorry, that's right. I was looking… I was looking at the next one down already.
• 27:18
  Tad Eggleston: Hand in hand with Muchan. Lessons for my autistic end? When a couple of full of excitement learns their daughter might be autistic, some of their feelings start to change. Even if they know all this means is that she'll develop a little more slowly than other children, it's not easy to watch the future and family they'd envision crumble.
• 27:37
  Tad Eggleston: But in this story, based on the author's real-life experiences raising an autistic child, family love can overcome Anything.
• 27:45
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Yen Press. Final order cutoff of July 20th, in stores on August 26th.
• 27:54
  Tad Eggleston: Now!
• 27:54
  Tyler Johnson: How to Draw a Secret from Cindy Chang from HarperCollins. When Sage, a first-year university student, discovers a forgotten camera in the library archives.
• 28:07
  Tyler Johnson: She's thrust into a world beyond her own time. The camera links her to August, a student who walks the same halls more than a century earlier.
• 28:17
  Tyler Johnson: What begins as a miraculous connection soon deepens into something neither of them expected. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I think I…
• 28:26
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, that's the same one again.
• 28:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yep. Yep, I got the wrong thing here. Let me…
• 28:31
  Phil: Kind of paste the.
• 28:32
  Tad Eggleston: Wrong thing.
• 28:33
  Phil: I pay for it.
• 28:35
  Tyler Johnson: Holy buckets, you guys, go on to the next one, I'll fix it.
• 28:38
  Phil: Okay, alright, alright. Next up we have Just Another Summer from Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges, and
• 28:46
  Phil: Eula, Ronaldo, my apologies on that pronunciation, and.
• 28:50
  Tad Eggleston: Probably Julia.
• 28:52
  Phil: Julia, thank you. I don't… the G threw me off. Julia Ronaldo and, Eogg.
• 28:56
  Phil: From Mad Cave, when scandal sidelines two LA teen celebrities, a summer on a Montana farm forces them to trade red carpets for rubber boots, and to choose between the futures they were raised for and the loves they never saw coming. Just Another Summer is a sharp, big-hearted YA about two teen TV stars exiled to a Montana dairy farm after a tabloid blowup, and the summer that remakes them.
• 29:20
  Phil: Between 4AM milkings, fence mending, and a no-nonsense great uncle, Haley and Becky discover who they are without cameras. One sister falls for the girl who runs the town diner, the other for a trans farmhand whose quiet resilience shatters her Hollywood preconceptions. It's funny, queer, tender, and unflinchingly real, about work that matters, love that surprises you, and the cost of chasing a dream.
• 29:45
  Phil: might be leaving new life behind. It's gonna have the final order cutoff of July 13th in stores August 5th from NetCave.
• 29:54
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, guys, I can't find this book right now.
• 29:58
  Phil: Nooooo! Yes!
• 30:01
  Tyler Johnson: I know, yeah, I can't find it,
• 30:05
  Tyler Johnson: HarperCollins, I'll go to their website. Do we have any more to go here? Collections, I guess.
• 30:11
  Tyler Johnson: HarperCollins…
• 30:15
  Tad Eggleston: How to draw a secret! 12-year-old Cindy relishes drawing flawless images, but she's stumped by an art contest prompt, What Family Means to Me.
• 30:25
  Tad Eggleston: No one at school can know that Cindy's dad moved back to Taiwan four years ago, so Cindy sketches out the perfect plan to draw the perfect picture while keeping her parents' separation secret.
• 30:37
  Tad Eggleston: Then, an unexpected trip to Taipei reveals devastating new secrets. Suddenly, everything from Cindy's art to her family is falling apart. With her dream of perfection in tatters, Cindy must figure out how to draw from her heart and share her secrets. But can she really reveal the truth? Messy lines and all?
• 30:55
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Cindy Chang.
• 30:57
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff is July 6th.
• 31:00
  Tad Eggleston: In stores on August 5th, from HarperCollins.
• 31:04
  Phil: Now, for some.
• 31:05
  Tad Eggleston: When in doubt, go to the Lunar website.
• 31:08
  Phil: I was, I was… I was…
• 31:09
  Tyler Johnson: I was on it and couldn't it.
• 31:10
  Phil: ya.
• 31:11
  Tyler Johnson: I didn't catch…
• 31:12
  Tad Eggleston: Search just how to draw a secret?
• 31:14
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, I did, and it wouldn't pop up. I don't know.
• 31:18
  Phil: The secret was kept from him.
• 31:20
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe he spelled it wrong.
• 31:22
  Tyler Johnson: I could show you where I'm searching…
• 31:26
  Tyler Johnson: It's popping up Thundercats for some reason.
• 31:29
  Phil: Some cats also pop up for me, but.
• 31:31
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Phil: You know.
• 31:32
  Tad Eggleston: That was next to it.
• 31:34
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's only popping up Thundercats on my screen. Weird. Death Slinger, man.
• 31:38
  Tad Eggleston: So anyway, Collections! The Complete Assassin's Apprentice from Robin Hobb. Hobb, Jodie Hauser, and Ryan Kelly. I've been actually meaning to read this for a while, so coming out in a collection, makes me happy. Nice.
• 31:52
  Tad Eggleston: Critically acclaimed comic adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Robin Hobb's fantasy epic, The Bastard son of Prince Fitz Chivalry, Farseer, is raised in the shadow of Buckkeep Castle, cared for by his father's stableman.
• 32:09
  Tad Eggleston: Fitz finds companionship and solace in the stables through the wit, a forbidden magic that connects him to animals.
• 32:17
  Tad Eggleston: When Fitz is still a young boy, at the behest of his grandfather, King Shrewd, he is brought to the castle and educated as a member of the court. But at night, Fitz is secretly tutored by the royal assassin, who teaches him patience, precision, and poison.
• 32:31
  Tad Eggleston: As Fitz grows into manhood, barbarous raiders ravage the coast, and Fitz is trained in another art, the powerful telepathic magic known as the Skill.
• 32:41
  Tad Eggleston: Plunged into a maze of schemes and intrigue as enemies abound and duty and honor are at ends, Fitz finds that the fate of the kingdom may lie in his hands.
• 32:54
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of July 27th, in stores, October 27th.
• 33:02
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome! Let me carry up my right screen here. End of Life from Kyle Starks.
• 33:07
  Tyler Johnson: And Steve Pugh…
• 33:09
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, God.
• 33:10
  Tyler Johnson: From, DC, Vertigo.
• 33:13
  Tad Eggleston: You see vertigo, yeah.
• 33:15
  Tyler Johnson: Professional hitman Eddie Stallion messed up. He just accidentally robbed his International Assassins Guild, the Menagerie, and now there's a huge price on his head, and everyone is looking to cash in.
• 33:29
  Tyler Johnson: So, needless to say, he's in huge trouble. So Eddie hides in the place they'd least expect, the small town of Pluto, home of his estranged father, ex-Menagerie member, and badass George Stellan.
• 33:43
  Tyler Johnson: Expecting safety, Eddie instead finds his resentful father dying of cancer, surprise menagerie assassins, and a local crime lord who is also a canceled comic strip creator. All this is happening in a delightful town full of weirdos that Eddie can't stand.
• 33:59
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, and his childhood first love is there, too. Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh, the team behind Peacemaker Tries Hard, present the story of a man-child assassin with very grown-up problems.
• 34:11
  Tyler Johnson: Final order cutoff, August 3rd, will be in shops October 13th. I just read the third issue, I'm a little behind, I think one behind. It's really good. So good. Very exciting.
• 34:24
  Phil: Alright, The Thing on the Doorstep by Simon Burks, Willie Roberts, and Rob Jones from Image.
• 34:31
  Phil: It is true that I have sent 6 bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer. The year is 1933, and Edward Derby's best friend, Daniel Upton, visits him in Arkham Sanatorium and shoots him dead to the horror of the guards. It's an open and shut case.
• 34:50
  Phil: Or is it? What happened to this lifelong friendship for it to end this way? Who exactly was Edward Derby at the end of his life? And most importantly, will his murder…
• 35:00
  Phil: be enough to stop him. It's coming from Image Comics with a final order cutoff of August 31st.
• 35:06
  Phil: That doesn't make sense. Final order cutoff can't be before when it's in store, so that's a final order cutoff of July 6th, in stores, August 19th.
• 35:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that's weird.
• 35:20
  Phil: time… time don't work that way. Finally we're cut off this week is,
• 35:25
  Phil: Do you… do you want to take a tad, or should I?
• 35:27
  Tad Eggleston: I can take it.
• 35:28
  Phil: Alright.
• 35:28
  Tad Eggleston: We've got 100 Bullets, The U.S. Vanger No. 1 from Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Riso at DC Vertigo on July 1st. Lights, Planets, People, from Molly Naylor and Lizzie Stewart at Avery Hill Publishing on July 22nd.
• 35:43
  Tad Eggleston: Minotaur No. 1 from Simon Spurrier and Michael Dowling at Ignition Press.
• 35:50
  Tad Eggleston: out on July 15th.
• 35:53
  Tad Eggleston: Santos Sisters Fun Special No. 1, from Bob Burden, Greg, and Fake at Floating World on August 26th. I have already read this next book, it is so good. Starhenge, Book 2, A Kiss for Atticus, number 1, from Liam Sharp at Image Comics.
• 36:12
  Tad Eggleston: In stores July 1st. And finally, Valja Law, number one from Ben Fisher, Pedro…
• 36:22
  Tad Eggleston: RMAndreo at Ablaze in stores July 5th.
• 36:27
  Tad Eggleston: Who's taking crowdfunding?
• 36:30
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, okay.
• 36:31
  Tyler Johnson: Phil, go ahead, I'll take humble bundles.
• 36:33
  Phil: Alright.
• 36:34
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 36:34
  Phil: First up, there is Lab Zero Remix, a comics magazine hacking pop culture from Ronald Wimberly on Kickstarter,
• 36:43
  Phil: starting June 9th, or through June 9th?
• 36:47
  Tad Eggleston: Through June 9th.
• 36:51
  Phil: Through June 9th, alright. That one Matt Boers comment from Matt Boers and Glenn Fleischman on Kickstarter through June 11th.
• 37:00
  Phil: John of the Night, from Daryl Cunningham and Avery Hill on Kickstarter through June 19th. Nighthawks by Jimmy Lee from Goats Flying Press on Kickstarter through June 25th.
• 37:13
  Phil: the 2026 Insert Name Comics and Zine Fest from Emily Mayer, Ryan Carey on Kickstarter through June 29th, Sunday, August 30th, from noon to 6pm, that is a convention at Aud Mart, 2520 Lindale Avenue, South Minneapolis. Next there's Stellar Remnant No. 2 from Damon George,
• 37:37
  Phil: Hampton on Kickstarter through July 15th, The Forgotten Divine by Mark Russell and Russ Braun, and Ahoy on Kickstarter, launching soon. Tezuka, God of Manga, a documentary from Jason Cohn on Kickstarter, also launching soon, as well as Scar Tissue Bargains from Stephen Fox on Kickstarter launches soon as well, so there's a few previews, I believe those are
• 38:00
  Phil: pre-hyped, because Tad was able to interview and talk to those creators.
• 38:05
  Tad Eggleston: What, what?
• 38:05
  Phil: I think…
• 38:06
  Tad Eggleston: Please type them on.
• 38:07
  Tad Eggleston: them ahead of time.
• 38:10
  Phil: Yes!
• 38:11
  Tad Eggleston: I have not talked to Emily Mayer and Ryan Carey about this year's. Okay.
• 38:17
  Tad Eggleston: And I have talked to Daryl Cunningham or Jimmy Lee.
• 38:22
  Phil: Okay.
• 38:23
  Phil: So 3, 3 more, 3 more on the books we need.
• 38:26
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 38:26
  Phil: Next up, we got Humble Bundles, Tyler?
• 38:30
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, Infinite Dread. I'm really, excited about this one. Horror Comics from Oni Press. We talked about this last week a little bit. For $18, you get 23 items, which includes Cemetery Kids Don't Die.
• 38:44
  Tyler Johnson: dwellings, and meat eaters. Funds from this go to Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and that is going for about another 7 days. June 6th is the cutoff, so get on that.
• 38:57
  Tyler Johnson: Hot Mass Express is a big bundle of misfit heroes and hilarious hijinks from Image Comics. $18 gets you 49 items. That is a huge deal, you guys. 8 billion genies.
• 39:10
  Tyler Johnson: God Hates Astronauts, I Hate Fairyland, Monkey Meat, Shirtless Bear Fighter, and Snot Girl, all included. Book Industry Charitable Foundation is who that is going to, and that is June 9th, so… got about 10 days for that one.
• 39:25
  Tyler Johnson: And then, Kodansha Presents BL, Yuri and more Ikijinsha? Is that how you pronounce it? Ichiginsa?
• 39:34
  Tad Eggleston: from Ichi Jinsha.
• 39:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Which is wonderful.
• 39:36
  Tyler Johnson: Is that how you pronounce her name? Yeah.
• 39:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's one of their, imprints.
• 39:44
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, got it, got it, got it. Okay, $30 gets you 61 items, which is more than 100 volumes, so…
• 39:51
  Phil: Wow.
• 39:51
  Tyler Johnson: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is, who's getting the proceeds from that, and you have until June 19th, so about 20 days left.
• 40:02
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 40:03
  Tad Eggleston: This was a really tough week for Amazing Books.
• 40:06
  Tyler Johnson: It was so good. Holy book.
• 40:08
  Tad Eggleston: I almost went 9, but then I saw that we were on a tight schedule today, and I knew we were gonna wind up babbling before now. So I'll just say exploit number 3 totally lived up to exploita… exploit…
• 40:20
  Tad Eggleston: Expectations, exploitations, all of the above. I loved it. Laura Hudson, Tim Leong, Amelia Pina at Mad Cave. Is Ted okay? Number 4, Dave Chisholm from Mad Cave.
• 40:34
  Tad Eggleston: Was this a… twist? Kind of.
• 40:40
  Phil: So Ted is.
• 40:40
  Tad Eggleston: I loved it.
• 40:41
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know. I don't know. Which is how Five Gears in Reverse, a criminal book, somehow came in all the way down at 3, and Sean Phillips at Image.
• 40:56
  Tad Eggleston: all of that knocking out 51 Absolute Woman or Woman, feral, Halloween Boy, The Hab.
• 41:05
  Tad Eggleston: In Your Skin, Kill All Immortals 2, Voyage of Sinbad… Last Voyage is Sinbad, Peril of the Brutal Dark, Ezra Kane Mystery No. 4 was great, Pretty Hate Machine 2 was really good.
• 41:18
  Tad Eggleston: You know, another…
• 41:19
  Tyler Johnson: Everything in your, honorable mentions is amazing. I have read many of those books already, and very excited about, specifically, I didn't write them down yet, but…
• 41:36
  Tyler Johnson: Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre is amazing. It is so funny.
• 41:41
  Phil: It lives up to the title, then.
• 41:43
  Tyler Johnson: It does. It does. Fiddle.
• 41:46
  Tyler Johnson: Is there a walk you want to go on?
• 41:47
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, take a walk, Phil.
• 41:48
  Phil: Sure, yeah, I'm walking here. Yeah, sure. You know, it… I was…
• 41:52
  Tad Eggleston: Walk the plank.
• 41:53
  Phil: To the plank, I do…
• 41:55
  Tyler Johnson: He's walking to first.
• 41:57
  Phil: Okay, yeah, you know, that was the only way I could.
• 42:00
  Tad Eggleston: Show some hustling!
• 42:01
  Phil: Come on!
• 42:02
  Tyler Johnson: Fun!
• 42:02
  Phil: Was, by getting walked or hit by the ball, you know? That was how I took my waist.
• 42:07
  Tyler Johnson: You and me both, man. I was, I loved sports. Wait a minute, no I didn't. No.
• 42:11
  Phil: Yeah, no, that was not a great time, but yeah, you know, for a short week, it feels like a long week. It's a weird one. And good news is I did finally get to the comic book store to pick up a sweet pile, for the first time in a couple months, so, that's gonna be fun to dig into over the next couple weeks, because, you know.
• 42:30
  Phil: That's how I spread it all out. And I finally… I started buying to transition to our, our manga race, for the first one in a while. I've started buying Tower Dungeon instead of getting it from the library, that's how much I've been enjoying it. So, I was able to sneak in a chapter reading it while, while, while the… during the preamble before we were on air, so I've read 16 chapters…
• 42:50
  Phil: Of Tower Dungeon, they're long chapters, I swear.
• 42:51
  Tad Eggleston: Whereas when we get to our one-pace race.
• 42:55
  Tad Eggleston: Week 101!
• 42:58
  Tyler Johnson: Thanks!
• 42:59
  Tad Eggleston: I'm still at 691 chapters, because,
• 43:04
  Tad Eggleston: our great responsibility, Hello Sunshine, was longer than I thought it was. Not in a, like, bad way, but in.
• 43:12
  Tyler Johnson: No. No.
• 43:13
  Tad Eggleston: time-planning way.
• 43:16
  Phil: Yes. Not.
• 43:16
  Tad Eggleston: Not so good for managing to also squeeze in some One Piece, particularly because I didn't get to any of it until last night.
• 43:24
  Tyler Johnson: When you… when you asked me the other day about the drawing, I think it was yesterday, maybe, you, interrupted my reading time, because I also didn't know that.
• 43:35
  Tad Eggleston: And we sold the real.
• 43:36
  Tyler Johnson: was so long, I was like, oh!
• 43:40
  Tad Eggleston: It's funny.
• 43:40
  Phil: It doesn't feel like that big a book.
• 43:43
  Tyler Johnson: It does visual, but it.
• 43:44
  Phil: It's a big book. It's a thick one.
• 43:46
  Tad Eggleston: I think if I'd had a physical copy, I would have been more aware that I needed to start it earlier. Yeah.
• 43:54
  Tad Eggleston: I was reading digitally, and I didn't look at my page counts until the end of Chapter 1.
• 44:01
  Phil: 90P.
• 44:01
  Tad Eggleston: ages in.
• 44:02
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:03
  Tyler Johnson: Do you guys like the Scooby-Doo kind of formula for this?
• 44:07
  Phil: Yeah, I thought it was…
• 44:08
  Tyler Johnson: Is it funny?
• 44:09
  Phil: It was really good. It was. It was absolutely fun. I loved how much the book just felt like a group of friends hanging out.
• 44:16
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe it's because I didn't watch enough Scooby-Doo, but I thought more afternoon special.
• 44:22
  Tyler Johnson: Did you?
• 44:23
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 44:23
  Phil: Afternoon special. Is that a…
• 44:25
  Tyler Johnson: It's…
• 44:26
  Phil: Do you just mean, like, general afternoon specials?
• 44:28
  Tyler Johnson: No, it was an 80s thing that they did.
• 44:31
  Phil: Okay, let me look this up.
• 44:33
  Tad Eggleston: I'm too young for a show. It was almost always, it was almost always, like, PSA movies.
• 44:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, yeah, they were, like, wholesome stuff.
• 44:42
  Phil: Yeah, that's…
• 44:42
  Tyler Johnson: That's all it.
• 44:43
  Phil: Okay.
• 44:43
  Tad Eggleston: Let's learn about drug use.
• 44:45
  Tyler Johnson: That's fine.
• 44:46
  Tad Eggleston: about depression. Let's learn about kids with cancer.
• 44:51
  Phil: I didn't realize that was, like, a name of a show. I thought that it was just, like, a concept of, like, oh yeah, it's an afternoon special, like, something you wa… like…
• 44:59
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and it wasn't, like, the name of a show, so specifically because…
• 45:05
  Tyler Johnson: time. It was the.
• 45:06
  Phil: Market.
• 45:07
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because they weren't every week. That's why they were specials.
• 45:14
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right, yup.
• 45:16
  Tad Eggleston: It was the after, you know, it was… it was… they would take over the block of time for… for… for a very…
• 45:27
  Tad Eggleston: a special.
• 45:30
  Tad Eggleston: A movie about a teenager with cancer, or a very special movie about a friend who committed suicide, or a very special movie about a girl who took too many diet pills.
• 45:44
  Phil: I see where you're going.
• 45:46
  Tyler Johnson: Do you guys remember that Saved by the Bell, where Jesse took too many caffeine pills? That's right.
• 45:52
  Phil: I never watched the… I never watched Tape by the Bell.
• 45:54
  Tyler Johnson: Anyway… That was.
• 45:56
  Tad Eggleston: Not even after you finished watching,
• 45:59
  Tad Eggleston: Showgirls. You didn't want to go back and see her previous…
• 46:03
  Tyler Johnson: She…
• 46:04
  Phil: No.
• 46:05
  Tyler Johnson: That really messed me up, because she was so, like, wholesome in Saved by the Bell, and then you watch that, Showgirls, and you're like, holy crap!
• 46:13
  Phil: I think I've owned.
• 46:13
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, she's not exactly unwholesome in Showgirl, she's just in a tough situation.
• 46:20
  Tad Eggleston: Gotta do… a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
• 46:24
  Phil: So I think I've only seen a made-for-TV edit of Showgirls, because I remember a scene where, like, she's dancing in front of a guy, and she takes off her bra and is wearing a second bra underneath. Yeah. So, yeah, that's my experience with that train wreck, you know? .
• 46:40
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 46:41
  Phil: Well…
• 46:41
  Tyler Johnson: I really… you guys, Scooby-Doo, this is like Scooby-Doo meets psychological horror.
• 46:46
  Phil: Yes!
• 46:47
  Tyler Johnson: This is great. So, instead of…
• 46:49
  Tad Eggleston: Real mental health stuff.
• 46:51
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 46:51
  Phil: Yes, because, Kizu was drawn from her own experiences with this one, where in the after, afterward, she talks about having, psychotic bipolar, I think it's bipolar 1, and, you know, wanting to emphasize the… instead of, you know.
• 47:09
  Phil: Have a story that has scary supernatural elements and mental illness in it together, not just saying that, oh, mental illness is a scary supernatural event that's occurring.
• 47:18
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 47:19
  Phil: I think she did really great with this one. Yeah. Like, it… it was… it… I… I agree with you in hindsight that, okay, maybe there was a touch of the after-school special, but, like, it never felt like it was explaining.
• 47:32
  Tad Eggleston: actually mean that as a…
• 47:34
  Phil: Okay.
• 47:35
  Tad Eggleston: Completely negative thing?
• 47:37
  Phil: I didn't think so, because, like, it doesn't ever feel like it's explaining to you, but yeah, it's absolutely, like, here's what kids are going through.
• 47:44
  Tad Eggleston: What I actually… what I actually meant it as is, like, in many of the afternoon specials, there were, like, very few adults.
• 47:52
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 47:53
  Tyler Johnson: Correct, yeah.
• 47:54
  Phil: That makes sense.
• 47:55
  Tad Eggleston: You know, it was just… I mean, I think part of it was, let's get the cheapest actors we can find.
• 48:03
  Phil: Correct. Oh, that's funny.
• 48:05
  Tyler Johnson: Sometimes it was Fred Savage, and other times it was Candace Cameron.
• 48:11
  Tad Eggleston: Well, no, no, no, not after they had their shows.
• 48:15
  Phil: Yeah, no worries.
• 48:16
  Tyler Johnson: I know, but… I remember one with friends and… Because they were too expensive!
• 48:20
  Tad Eggleston: once… I mean, it was a good launch pad for people that wanted to be child actors with shows.
• 48:28
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, yep.
• 48:30
  Tyler Johnson: It was.
• 48:32
  Tyler Johnson: Do the…
• 48:34
  Tad Eggleston: Do the, the, the afternoon special get noticed?
• 48:38
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, now I'm gonna fall down the afternoon special rabbit hole.
• 48:41
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I'll talk about… I'll talk about this. This story focuses on, like, Alex, right? And he has this, like, psychotic…
• 48:50
  Tyler Johnson: episode over the summer, and he goes missing. And his boyfriend, I'm doing air quotes for those that are listening, because it's secret, his boyfriend returns from, like, a summer Bible camp, right?
• 49:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 49:04
  Tyler Johnson: And, you know, they begin the search for their friend Alex.
• 49:09
  Phil: Oh, yeah, yeah, it's… it was… I really liked, the slow build of having things come together, because, it really does… you spend a good chunk of the book, wondering, like, not even knowing
• 49:24
  Phil: not really having any leads, knowing what happened to him, and just kind of fleshing out the cast and the world, which, again, was… was really… was really lovely. I… I liked how…
• 49:34
  Phil: different each of the characters felt from each other. They felt like really well-established characters with, you know… I feel like sometimes with groups of teenagers, they can all kind of blend together a little bit.
• 49:47
  Phil: But with this one, they definitely all stood out and had their own unique personalities and backgrounds and whatnot.
• 49:55
  Phil: And I liked… I liked how there were… there was the… the shifting chapter focuses, you know, with the changing narration throughout, because I think that… that really helped, you know, keep any one kid from stealing the show, and ultimately the… the focus really does fall back on Alex.
• 50:13
  Tyler Johnson: It… it really feels like you get an all-encompassing story.
• 50:18
  Phil: Yeah.
• 50:18
  Tyler Johnson: because when you shift, like you said, shift focus, it does… I like that in stories. I don't get… it helps me stay engaged and not too bored.
• 50:28
  Phil: Yes.
• 50:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yo.
• 50:31
  Tyler Johnson: What I like about this is, like, comic books have a kind of a not-great track record when, you know, mental illness. Yeah. You know, usually it's, like, the crazy villains, you know? Oh, absolutely. And this really flips this entirely, you know? Absolutely, yeah. Keezy did a great job, right? Speaking about her own experiences with, bipolar, and then using the supernatural, I think, is a great
• 50:56
  Tyler Johnson: Metaphor, right, for…
• 51:00
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 51:00
  Tyler Johnson: psychosis and mania that people go through without taking away the character by saying that they're just a mental illness. That's not their personality, you know.
• 51:10
  Phil: Yeah, so the… one of the only other,
• 51:14
  Phil: pieces of media I could think to compare to this is the TV show Legion.
• 51:19
  Phil: Because that's another example where… I mean, admittedly, it's a bit different, because they kind of go back and forth, and it… it's not… it doesn't handle the mental illness aspect quite as well as Hello Sunshine does. I mean, but that's also because I feel like this is… this is one of the best, representations and depictions of…
• 51:38
  Phil: like, psychosis, someone in… going through a psychotic break that I've ever seen. But in Legion, they do… they do at, you know, he's a guy who starts out
• 51:48
  Phil: he has a mental illness, and then it turns out, oh no, you have superpowers, and then they realize, no, no, no, you have a mental illness and superpowers. But it's definitely still more fantastical than, than… than Hello Sunshine. And I think that was a really important distinction, because, like.
• 52:07
  Phil: I don't know about you guys, but, like, there… this… this is probably the first, graphic novel that some of the spooky scenes actually were getting me a little bit scared. Like, some of the page turns, her drawings of the… the demons…
• 52:21
  Tyler Johnson: that, but, like, if you think about, like, the lettering was getting more claustrophobic as it went along to represent, like, the hallucinations that Alex was experiencing, the auditory stuff. They're getting more and more, I don't know what the word is, packed together.
• 52:39
  Phil: Yeah.
• 52:40
  Tyler Johnson: It was really…
• 52:41
  Phil: historically.
• 52:41
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 52:42
  Phil: It was, yeah. It's… it's… I think her lettering was really good, and, worked super well for that part.
• 52:50
  Phil: Because, like, it was funny, it was one of those things where, like, early on in the chapters, I was, like, there were a couple lettering choices, I was like, okay, you know, alright, like, balloon placement things,
• 53:03
  Phil: But then for that… by that segment, I was fully engrossed, I feel like… because this is a book, I don't know, I don't know about you guys, I follow Keezy on Blue Sky, and so, I'd been seeing her post-process about this book for a couple years, seeing it come together, so I was really happy and excited to… to finally get to read it all the way through, you know, and… and it felt like…
• 53:25
  Phil: felt like getting to know the characters beforehand was really great, like… I know I keep coming back to that, but but yeah, it was just… it was really… I felt like it was really strong, and
• 53:35
  Phil: I think she's talked about… I don't know what the status of it is yet, but she's talked about a possible sequel to this one.
• 53:41
  Phil: I really hope sees the light of day, eventually.
• 53:46
  Tyler Johnson: I ought.
• 53:47
  Tyler Johnson: I… I just really love… I don't know if you've ever seen… did either of you read the physical format of it? I haven't. I have not. But… but is there painted edges on the… on the books that get darker as the…
• 54:00
  Phil: Yes.
• 54:00
  Tyler Johnson: story goes along. Okay.
• 54:01
  Phil: you can see, you can see, I mean, how there's a stripe about…
• 54:05
  Phil: two-thirds, three-quarters of the way through, and I showed my wife while I was reading, and I was like, oh, I bet that's a scary part. And that… that was when, Alex was going… it's actually interesting that, you know, the… the…
• 54:16
  Phil: Gutters for the book, through most of it, are white.
• 54:20
  Phil: And then as you get to, the details of Alex going into psychosis, the edges start slowly darkening into, like, a dirty gray, and then they… they…
• 54:33
  Phil: eventually gets, like, a heavy black. So, yeah, that was… and that was probably the most, you know, distorted and warped, part of the book, for sure.
• 54:43
  Tyler Johnson: I love stuff like that, where they're using different aspects of just the physical making of the book to add to that. Yeah. And so even the color palette, right? These very vibrant retro colors to, you know, set the mood, joyful kind of moments are, you know.
• 55:01
  Tyler Johnson: Warm colors, bright light. And then, during the paranormal stuff.
• 55:08
  Tyler Johnson: Really, really heavy blacks and shadows.
• 55:10
  Phil: Oh, yeah, her style is really great like that, in that it can switch from, like, a tender, emotional, you know, happy, happy-go-lucky moment to then, like, dark and spooky at the turn of a page. It's really… it's really wonderful.
• 55:27
  Phil: Yeah, and I also love… there's so… like, it's also one of those where I want to specifically say that, like, Kesey's a really great comic artist, because there were so many moments of, like, panel progressions that I thought were super smooth.
• 55:41
  Tad Eggleston: God. Yeah. So good.
• 55:42
  Phil: super good. Page compositions were always wonderful. Like, that's the thing, is that even if I had a couple super minor nitpicks about the lettering early on, I was fully engrossed super quickly. I felt like there's nothing she can't draw. There was a great combination of
• 56:01
  Phil: like, physical movement, and not just people being placed in a scene and talking, you know, so there was a physicality, the spatial awareness was great, it felt like everyone was in rooms. Sometimes that can feel, like, kind of blown out. So yeah, everything about this, this was, you know, top to notch.
• 56:20
  Phil: incredible graphic novel. I really… it's one of those where I hope there's, like, a slightly larger trimmed hardcover out there, because the version I got is, like, paperback.
• 56:30
  Phil: It's a little bit bigger than manga, but it's closer to manga size, comparing it to the volume of Tower Dungeon I have, it's, like, just a little bit taller, but it is closer to that manga size than,
• 56:45
  Phil: than the standard comic book trim, but her… her art's so wonderful, I would love to see this, just a little bit larger, too, you know? It's one of those books, if you can find a… like, if there is… I don't know if the hardcover is bigger, but if it is, definitely go for the hardcover of this.
• 57:01
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome. Alright, anything else, guys, on.
• 57:06
  Tad Eggleston: We're gonna have to go through…
• 57:07
  Tyler Johnson: That's right.
• 57:07
  Tad Eggleston: We're gonna have to go through some of the… the…
• 57:11
  Tad Eggleston: the results of my… and I haven't finished my, my.
• 57:15
  Phil: Afternoon specialty dive.
• 57:16
  Tad Eggleston: rabbit hole.
• 57:18
  Phil: Yeah.
• 57:18
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 57:18
  Tyler Johnson: Is that what you were doing while we were talking?
• 57:21
  Tad Eggleston: But we're just gonna, we're just gonna, like, talk about some people involved and give quick descriptions of the, the, the episodes that we're following today.
• 57:32
  Tyler Johnson: So into it, yeah.
• 57:33
  Tad Eggleston: Bo Bridges, directed an episode called Don't Tough.
• 57:43
  Phil: Don't talk?
• 57:44
  Tad Eggleston: A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she's stood by a family friend when the harrowing memories of her own past molestation by her uncle come to the surface.
• 57:55
  Phil: Jeez.
• 57:56
  Phil: Yeah, this does not sound like a fun time.
• 57:58
  Tad Eggleston: Steven Gyllenhaal.
• 58:00
  Tad Eggleston: Jake and Maggie's father.
• 58:03
  Tad Eggleston: directed, what are friends for? Two 12-year-old girls going through a divorce. Make a pact never to divorce their friendship.
• 58:11
  Phil: Oh, I thought 12 was a little early for divorce.
• 58:15
  Tad Eggleston: Jodie Foster was actually in 3 of them.
• 58:19
  Phil: M.
• 58:20
  Tad Eggleston: Alexander, the story of a retired clown and his undying love for children.
• 58:27
  Phil: Oh, God!
• 58:28
  Tad Eggleston: Rookie of the Year! An 11-year-old girl encounters opposition as she join… when she joins her brother's Little League baseball team, which happens to be all male.
• 58:40
  Phil: It's a fun one. So, yeah.
• 58:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 58:43
  Phil: Relevant to today's world?
• 58:46
  Tad Eggleston: The Secret Life of TK Deering, a 12-year-old girl, invites her grandfather to join her secret club.
• 58:55
  Tad Eggleston: So it sounds like she got some of the more wholesome ones. Rob Lowe was in a couple of them. Schoolboy father, high school senior, discovers his summer girlfriend has given birth to his child and decides to fight for custody.
• 59:08
  Phil: Wow.
• 59:10
  Phil: That's a…
• 59:10
  Tad Eggleston: Matter of time.
• 59:16
  Tad Eggleston: Teen Liesl Gilbert finds inner strength when she learns her mother is dying of cancer.
• 59:25
  Tad Eggleston: let's see, who's in this one? Oh, we got Cloris Leachman…
• 59:32
  Phil: Cool.
• 59:32
  Tad Eggleston: Who did I… oh, Kirk Cameron was in one called The Woman Who Willed a Miracle. A blind, mentally challenged infant with cerebral palsy is left in the care of an elderly English woman who refuses to let him die. I think… I think Cameron plays the…
• 59:51
  Tad Eggleston: The… the…
• 59:57
  Tad Eggleston: the,
• 1:00:02
  Tad Eggleston: blind cerebral palsy.
• 1:00:05
  Tad Eggleston: And Cloris Leachman plays the, elderly English one.
• 1:00:10
  Tad Eggleston: Huh. Who's our fun one for… oh, this is another Kirk Cameron one.
• 1:00:17
  Tad Eggleston: Andrea's story, a hitchhiking tragedy. A teenage girl is traumatized after being assaulted by a stranger from whom she hitched a ride.
• 1:00:27
  Phil: Oof.
• 1:00:28
  Tyler Johnson: Ew.
• 1:00:29
  Tad Eggleston: sarah Jessica Parker?
• 1:00:33
  Tad Eggleston: was in the almost royal family. Family inherits a house on a tiny island between Canada and the U.S, and is not the jurisdiction of either country.
• 1:00:46
  Phil: Well…
• 1:00:48
  Phil: That seems, like, way off-topic compared to the rest. Like, something maybe kind of nice happens to you compared to.
• 1:00:55
  Tad Eggleston: I went for a freaking out.
• 1:00:56
  Phil: It's holy shit.
• 1:00:58
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, we got a double whammy in this one. Michelle Pfeiffer and Val Kilmer…
• 1:01:04
  Phil: Mmm.
• 1:01:04
  Tad Eggleston: star in One Too Many.
• 1:01:07
  Tad Eggleston: Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.
• 1:01:17
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 1:01:19
  Tyler Johnson: Driving drunk?
• 1:01:21
  Tad Eggleston: I know, I know.
• 1:01:22
  Phil: Just don't do it.
• 1:01:23
  Tad Eggleston: Tomei, Marissa Tomei, and Supermom's Daughter, career-driven mother, and her daughter don't see eye to eye when it comes to the daughter's future plans.
• 1:01:36
  Phil: Marissa Toomey was probably the daughter at that point?
• 1:01:39
  Tyler Johnson: Probably? Yeah.
• 1:01:41
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's just the ones that I've… Whoopi Goldberg hosted a number of them.
• 1:01:46
  Phil: Wow.
• 1:01:47
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it looks like Freddie Prinze Jr. was in one?
• 1:01:51
  Phil: So these, these were, these were… this was a star-studded event.
• 1:01:54
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, it's 70s and early 80s, so, like, nobody knew who they were. I mean, like I said, it was a weird launch pad for a lot of people.
• 1:02:03
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:02:04
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 1:02:06
  Phil: I really left a cultural impression.
• 1:02:08
  Tad Eggleston: like, a lot of the Cosby kids and Dana Plato from Different Strokes.
• 1:02:17
  Tad Eggleston: All in one's Jennifer Jason Lee was in one.
• 1:02:20
  Tad Eggleston: River Phoenix? Let's see what River Phoenix was in.
• 1:02:25
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like a River Phoenix one has gotta be great.
• 1:02:29
  Tad Eggleston: Of course! Backwards! The riddle of Dyslexia. 13-year-old boy has problems reading.
• 1:02:38
  Tad Eggleston: Which his teachers attribute to laziness, and is later discovered that he has dyslexia.
• 1:02:43
  Phil: Wow.
• 1:02:47
  Tad Eggleston: Val Kilmer, we already… we already found his… Kira Sedgwick was in one, Madeline.
• 1:02:53
  Tyler Johnson: Wow.
• 1:02:53
  Tad Eggleston: was in one… so sometimes they actually had, like…
• 1:02:58
  Tad Eggleston: Legit people as their… as their, like… Adults.
• 1:03:07
  Phil: Well, I mean, I'd have to imagine Cloris Leachman was known by then, you know?
• 1:03:11
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right, right.
• 1:03:15
  Tad Eggleston: Bonnie Raitt played herself in one.
• 1:03:19
  Tad Eggleston: Wait a minute, we gotta check this one out. Jessica Alba.
• 1:03:24
  Tad Eggleston: In 1996.
• 1:03:26
  Tyler Johnson: That's pretty recent.
• 1:03:27
  Tad Eggleston: Too soon for Jeff.
• 1:03:31
  Tad Eggleston: A high school senior finds his future plans turns upside down when his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant.
• 1:03:45
  Tyler Johnson: Crazy.
• 1:03:47
  Tad Eggleston: Also from 1996, Lauryn Hill.
• 1:03:52
  Tad Eggleston: In Daddy's Girl?
• 1:03:55
  Phil: Kind of like Sound app.
• 1:03:57
  Tad Eggleston: Nope. Her father abandoned 6-year-old Alicia 10 years ago. Now a family wedding presents a chance for her to forge a relationship with him, but it means crossing her mother, who still hasn't forgiven him for walking out on them.
• 1:04:14
  Phil: Not nearly as bad as I thought.
• 1:04:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah… I mean, given some of the ones so far, I mean…
• 1:04:21
  Phil: Yeah, I was ready for the worst, you know.
• 1:04:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:25
  Phil: feeling myself.
• 1:04:30
  Phil: So, so when are… when are you gonna spearhead the comic book relaunch of Afternoon Special, Tad?
• 1:04:35
  Tad Eggleston: I, I don't know, I don't know. I almost feel like we should, though.
• 1:04:40
  Tad Eggleston: Will Wheaton was in one in 1989. No way.
• 1:04:44
  Phil: So he was… he was still… he was still in diapers?
• 1:04:47
  Tyler Johnson: He was Wesley Crusher? No, he wasn't yet.
• 1:04:49
  Phil: Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:04:51
  Tad Eggleston: Post. I mean, this is probably post Stand By Me. Correct. My dad can't… this is on point. My dad can't be crazy, can he? A teenage boy is unable to deal with his schizophrenic father.
• 1:05:06
  Phil: Oh, yeah, there it is.
• 1:05:09
  Phil: Yeah, there's bits of that in this.
• 1:05:10
  Tad Eggleston: And that's… that's with Mash's Loretta Witt as his mother. Or Loretta Swit, rather, as his mother.
• 1:05:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:19
  Tyler Johnson: She just passed away, right?
• 1:05:21
  Tad Eggleston: You did.
• 1:05:22
  Tad Eggleston: She did.
• 1:05:23
  Tyler Johnson: It's too bad, I like MASH. I like MASH a lot.
• 1:05:26
  Tad Eggleston: I do too. Carole King!
• 1:05:29
  Tad Eggleston: Oh my god!
• 1:05:31
  Tyler Johnson: Carole King is in it.
• 1:05:33
  Tad Eggleston: Carole King was in 1991.
• 1:05:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's only rock and roll. Teenage girl finds her song lyrics being scrutinized when some people find them too suggestive.
• 1:05:50
  Tyler Johnson: Funny.
• 1:05:51
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, Davey Jones was in that one, too.
• 1:05:55
  Phil: Wasn't he.
• 1:05:56
  Tad Eggleston: them as themselves.
• 1:05:57
  Phil: Wasn't he a ghost pirate by then, though? That was kind of hard to catch on film.
• 1:06:01
  Tyler Johnson: Baum.
• 1:06:02
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, he's a monkey.
• 1:06:03
  Tyler Johnson: He's a monkey!
• 1:06:05
  Phil: So…
• 1:06:06
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, hey, we're.
• 1:06:07
  Phil: I was about, I was trying to figure out, so he was throwing banana peels on set?
• 1:06:11
  Tyler Johnson: Funny.
• 1:06:13
  Tyler Johnson: That's a good one.
• 1:06:16
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:06:17
  Tyler Johnson: Where are we at here?
• 1:06:18
  Tad Eggleston: We should probably… Felicity Huffman was in one as Flicka Huffman?
• 1:06:24
  Tad Eggleston: Which… which tells you exactly how young she… it was in 1978, a home run for love.
• 1:06:32
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 1:06:33
  Tyler Johnson: get in 1947.
• 1:06:35
  Tad Eggleston: a young white boy and an elderly black man enjoy a warm and wonderful friendship based on their mutual love of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson.
• 1:06:46
  Phil: I had a feeling it was good.
• 1:06:47
  Tad Eggleston: That doesn't sound problematic at all.
• 1:06:51
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, I'm giving you the bell. This is the,
• 1:06:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:55
  Tyler Johnson: they're a.
• 1:06:55
  Phil: Ding, ding, ding.
• 1:06:57
  Phil: I couldn't hear it. No, one more, just one more.
• 1:06:59
  Tyler Johnson: Hold on.
• 1:07:00
  Phil: One more day.
• 1:07:01
  Phil: Hold up to your mic, hold up to your mic.
• 1:07:04
  Tyler Johnson: Can you hear it?
• 1:07:04
  Phil: No.
• 1:07:05
  Tad Eggleston: No, it's getting, it's getting noise canceled.
• 1:07:09
  Tad Eggleston: Books I hope, will be spectacular. FML number 8 from Kelly Sudakonic, David.
• 1:07:13
  Phil: Nope.
• 1:07:13
  Tad Eggleston: at Dark Horse Comics. Junk punch number one. Just exactly what it… it's about a girl who punches people in their junk. I am so excited.
• 1:07:28
  Tad Eggleston: Paul Tobin, Carlos Javier Olivares, and Colleen Coover at Mad Cave, and only the Savage are left number one from Zach Kaplan, Stefano Raphael.
• 1:07:39
  Tad Eggleston: Dark Horse. Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 4, Sleep and Batman Vol. 1 all come out next week, as well as Billy Bat Volume 1 from Naoki Urasara and Takashi
• 1:07:52
  Tad Eggleston: Nagasaki?
• 1:07:54
  Tad Eggleston: And, We'll let the rest of it go. There's some cool stuff.
• 1:08:01
  Tad Eggleston: I guess we'll toss out a couple of number ones. The Deadman number one,
• 1:08:07
  Phil: That looks really good.
• 1:08:07
  Tad Eggleston: Brand new week number one, The Ring, the man who beat the man number one, which is the, the, the Gail Simone…
• 1:08:15
  Tad Eggleston: boxing book.
• 1:08:17
  Phil: Hmm.
• 1:08:20
  Tad Eggleston: Supergirl Survive number one, which is Friends of the podcast, Griffin Sheridan and Ethan Parker, Justice League Dreamgirls number one, including Friends of the Podcast Brandon Stein, are all next week as well. Let's hear your Trade Waiter graphic novel pick. I'll go see if I can find any, any more.
• 1:08:38
  Phil: Afternoon specials?
• 1:08:39
  Tad Eggleston: We're doing specials to take.
• 1:08:40
  Phil: Oh.
• 1:08:41
  Tad Eggleston: out with.
• 1:08:41
  Phil: My giant-sized trade waiter graphic novel pick is gonna be Sleep from Xander Cannon at Image Comics.
• 1:08:50
  Tad Eggleston: Good, good.
• 1:08:50
  Phil: So I've heard you guys say it's so good, I think Zach Kaplan also said it was great, so I'm like, yeah, I should read this. And so, you know, the trade's out, now's the time.
• 1:08:59
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 1:09:00
  Tad Eggleston: Oh.
• 1:09:00
  Tyler Johnson: dark.
• 1:09:02
  Tyler Johnson: What'd you find, Teddy.
• 1:09:03
  Tad Eggleston: East Phoenix.
• 1:09:05
  Tad Eggleston: was… was now known as Joaquin.
• 1:09:09
  Tyler Johnson: Joaquin, yeah.
• 1:09:10
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right. Was also, in backwards, the riddle of Dyslexia.
• 1:09:14
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:09:20
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like, the problem is they're just, oh, Joey Travolta was in one.
• 1:09:26
  Tyler Johnson: Go ahead.
• 1:09:26
  Tad Eggleston: I wonder if that means I'll find John further down the list.
• 1:09:30
  Tyler Johnson: You might.
• 1:09:32
  Tyler Johnson: I begly…
• 1:09:32
  Tad Eggleston: Junior?
• 1:09:34
  Tyler Johnson: Ed Bagley Jr.
• 1:09:34
  Phil: I need to see Ed Bagley Sr.
• 1:09:37
  Phil: Ed Begley, senior at Boston.
• 1:09:39
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, I'm gonna take us out, guys, cause I need to go to a meeting.
• 1:09:46
  Tad Eggleston: Schmeeting.
• 1:09:47
  Phil: business.
• 1:09:48
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, it's not a big business, it's a small business, but I still need to be there.
• 1:09:52
  Phil: It's a big little business.
• 1:09:53
  Tyler Johnson: As the face of our store, yeah.
• 1:09:57
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so, thanks for listening, everybody, and we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:10:03
  Tyler Johnson: Later!
• 1:10:05
  Tad Eggleston: Or we could watch Frank Whaley in Seasonal Differences. The separation of church and state is examined when a Christmas nativity scene.
• 1:10:16
  Phil: Why, why am I worried?
• 1:10:17
  Tad Eggleston: Played at a high school.
• 1:10:18
  Phil: Why am I worried about how Afternoon Special is going to rule on the separation of church and state?
• 1:10:23
  Tad Eggleston: Sparks debate and protest from the student body.
• 1:10:27
  Phil: He took…