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Saga Book Club #5: Volume 5 · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:00
  belle price: I'll dance.
• 0:02
  Tad Eggleston: Good evening, everybody! Welcome back to the Saga Book Club on 22 Panels. I am…
• 0:08
  Tad Eggleston: joined by writer Josh Iserreich and… father-daughter combo, Matt and Bell. Belle's doing a little dance, because we talked her into taking an hour off of studying for finals to… to… to do some Saga, and…
• 0:25
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, I love it, because 10 minutes ago, she's like, no, I gotta study, and now she's dancing on screen, because it's Saga.
• 0:34
  Josh Eiserike: Ted, I want to quickly, plug the.
• 0:37
  Tad Eggleston: Plug, plug!
• 0:38
  Josh Eiserike: Patreon?
• 0:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh!
• 0:40
  Josh Eiserike: Asked of me last time, so for those who have been enjoying, please, please, feel free to, show some respect on the
• 0:48
  Josh Eiserike: Daniel's Patreon?
• 0:50
  Tad Eggleston: Phil recently told me that we need to have a… Tad needs a PS5 level.
• 0:55
  Josh Eiserike: So… And then I'll plug my stuff.
• 1:00
  Tad Eggleston: Please do.
• 1:00
  Josh Eiserike: This is Josh. I am a writer. My original graphic novel, I have it right here. The very final Last Girls is… we are getting to the end of our print run from Darby Pop, you can find it on my website, joshiserac.com.
• 1:14
  Josh Eiserike: And I just started writing the sequel. Which…
• 1:18
  Josh Eiserike: out at some point, and then we'll do more prints of the first one, and then I would be remiss if I didn't mention, and this will likely get me canceled, I just collected my early aughts comic, assholes into the complete assholes. If you are a fan of Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Men Behaving Badly comedy that is highly offensive.
• 1:38
  Josh Eiserike: This is only available through my website, or at.
• 1:41
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:42
  Josh Eiserike: So this is the Complete Assholes, with the never-before-released Assholes Hanukkah Special.
• 1:46
  Tad Eggleston: We're gonna have to arrange to do that. I need to read assholes. I am a fan of Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow, and I think… I think that they don't actually get canceled because they're kind of aware that the asshole behavior is asshole behavior.
• 2:03
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 2:04
  Josh Eiserike: Right. That's, like…
• 2:06
  Tad Eggleston: the line.
• 2:07
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so I don't know. It's like, no, this is how men behave!
• 2:11
  Josh Eiserike: I'm happy to send it to you, read it, and hopefully you'll have me on Saga next… next month.
• 2:17
  Tad Eggleston: Or just come to C2E2 and I'll buy it from you.
• 2:20
  Josh Eiserike: That would be great.
• 2:22
  Tad Eggleston: I put in for panels.
• 2:24
  Tad Eggleston: I have 5 panel…
• 2:28
  Matt: So, bye.
• 2:28
  Tad Eggleston: 5 panel submissions. I'll find out by the end of the week.
• 2:33
  Tad Eggleston: I have my fingers crossed.
• 2:36
  Tad Eggleston: So sorry.
• 2:37
  Josh Eiserike: Those are… those are my plugs. Let's.
• 2:39
  Tad Eggleston: Those are good plugs. Saga Volume 5. Issues…
• 2:44
  Tad Eggleston: 25 to 30, and as I was just pointing out off-air, and don't get me wrong, the cover of Saga Vol. 5 is great, and it's the cover of, I think.
• 2:57
  Tad Eggleston: Chapter 26? Issue 26? But normally, the cover goes to whatever the first issue, or first cover of…
• 3:07
  Tad Eggleston: The volume is, and as I'm looking at the cover to issue 25, fuck, that's a good cover.
• 3:13
  Matt: It's a wraparound cover.
• 3:15
  Tad Eggleston: Is that one wraparound?
• 3:16
  Matt: Yeah, maybe that's why they didn't do it.
• 3:18
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe that is it.
• 3:21
  Tad Eggleston: Is that the one that… because I remember that they showed a wraparound cover at the back of the volume.
• 3:27
  Matt: Yes, they do, here.
• 3:30
  Tad Eggleston: Ehhh…
• 3:32
  Matt: And it's the cover.
• 3:34
  Matt: Plus the back cover, so…
• 3:36
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 3:37
  Tad Eggleston: Which, yeah, you're right, that was… The, the wraparound was… Crazy, crazy good.
• 3:48
  Tad Eggleston: Get that.
• 3:50
  Matt: Did they have multiple covers? I'm thinking it did.
• 3:53
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think so. They very, very rarely did multiple covers.
• 4:01
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, that's a crazy good cover.
• 4:03
  Matt: Oh, no, I think you're right.
• 4:08
  Tad Eggleston: So… yeah, this is, like, where we left off last…
• 4:13
  Tad Eggleston: month, Marco had been left behind as… as…
• 4:20
  Tad Eggleston: His mother, wife, and child were kidnapped by a janitor robot.
• 4:26
  Tad Eggleston: Who had already killed the princess and stolen the Princeling, the will was… What, half dead?
• 4:38
  Matt: On his deathbed, yep.
• 4:41
  Tad Eggleston: So… this one… this one starts out…
• 4:45
  Tad Eggleston: Actually, the other thing I noticed,
• 4:49
  Tad Eggleston: This one started out with a really nice… like… Let's get caught up.
• 4:58
  Tad Eggleston: You know, we're, we're… It's been 20… 25 issues, in case you forgot where we all were.
• 5:05
  Matt: And this is one of those things that…
• 5:08
  Matt: Brian and Fiona did masterfully, whereas Marvel Comics hammered it into the ground every issue.
• 5:15
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 5:15
  Matt: Which kind of drove me crazy, so yeah, no… I love the…
• 5:18
  Tad Eggleston: The drive-in theater. Your planet needs you.
• 5:23
  Tad Eggleston: Alana getting groped in the backseat.
• 5:25
  Matt: That's Alana? No, no, isn't Alana?
• 5:29
  Tad Eggleston: I think it is.
• 5:30
  Josh Eiserike: I think it is, too.
• 5:31
  Matt: I did not pick up on that.
• 5:35
  Tad Eggleston: Some were trying to escape a bad situation.
• 5:39
  Tad Eggleston: Almost all of them were poor as shit.
• 5:43
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like this is the… the Secret Service guy, too.
• 5:48
  Josh Eiserike: I think so.
• 5:49
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 5:50
  Josh Eiserike: Because you also get, very subtly, through this sequence and then through
• 5:55
  Josh Eiserike: Marcos' drug trip, you get their past in a way that we haven't seen before.
• 6:03
  Matt: This… this volume really sets up a lot of future story.
• 6:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 6:08
  Josh Eiserike: Oops, I didn't remember this one at all.
• 6:10
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I loved it that it was, it was little Sophie that's like, you know, they got really big brains, let's see if they can talk.
• 6:20
  belle price: You know why this volume feels so crazy? I think I've… I think I've cracked the code, kind of. I think that sometimes, what Saga's done, because I remember this kind of feeling this way throughout reading it when I read it my first time, every four issues, there's, like, some resolution to some really long conflict.
• 6:37
  belle price: And there's still short conflict that ties it together, but I feel like we're kind of on, like, a new exposition now, so I think, like, like you guys are saying, if there's so much stuff happening, I think that's… that might be the reason. Like, he's just…
• 6:49
  Tad Eggleston: Hell yeah.
• 6:50
  belle price: He's just throwing all the new stuff at us, because then 4.
• 6:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:53
  belle price: From now, it's all… all of that's gonna be, like, resolved, and it'll be all new.
• 6:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, because… B-because, because, like…
• 7:01
  belle price: the splitting of the family was just massive. Yeah. That was the first…
• 7:06
  Matt: Major.
• 7:07
  Tad Eggleston: Major.
• 7:08
  Matt: happens on multiple levels.
• 7:10
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 7:10
  belle price: And then the team-up, though, with Robot, with Marco, at the end, which is so interesting.
• 7:16
  Matt: perspective.
• 7:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yup, man.
• 7:18
  belle price: But it rocks, actually.
• 7:20
  Tad Eggleston: And they continue to just have great character designs. I love the character designs of the Revolution.
• 7:27
  Josh Eiserike: I like the snake man.
• 7:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 7:30
  Tad Eggleston: I like the gaseous whatever.
• 7:33
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 7:33
  Tad Eggleston: It actually kind of seems like it's, like, two people, maybe?
• 7:37
  Matt: Yeah.
• 7:37
  Tad Eggleston: gin.
• 7:38
  Matt: It's no plural.
• 7:39
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 7:40
  belle price: They're just all characters, they're all made characters in their own right, in their own stories.
• 7:45
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 7:47
  Tad Eggleston: There are no throw… I mean…
• 7:49
  Tad Eggleston: one of the things that comes up when we talk Love and Rockets is there are, like, no characters that you see anywhere in Love and Rockets that you can't imagine a backstory for, that you… that you don't… that couldn't sometime actually be a front story. And I feel like that in… in…
• 8:10
  Tad Eggleston: in soccer.
• 8:11
  belle price: That's it. Oh!
• 8:12
  Tad Eggleston: they're.
• 8:12
  belle price: And I'm like…
• 8:13
  Tad Eggleston: No characters that they couldn't…
• 8:15
  belle price: What do you… Yeah.
• 8:17
  Tad Eggleston: What's going on, Bill? What'd you see?
• 8:18
  belle price: remembering Petrichor, too.
• 8:20
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah, well, that's… that's still in the future.
• 8:24
  belle price: Yeah.
• 8:24
  Tad Eggleston: We don't get to Petracor yet.
• 8:26
  belle price: So much.
• 8:27
  Tad Eggleston: How far ahead did I flip?
• 8:28
  belle price: Pause.
• 8:30
  Josh Eiserike: To me, that's just a mark of a great artist. An artist that I'm working with right now, she said to me.
• 8:36
  Josh Eiserike: when she was just doing a tryout page to see if we… and we're working together, and she's been great, but she's like, yeah, I love crowd scenes because I like to imagine stories for everybody in the crowd.
• 8:47
  Josh Eiserike: Right. And I'm like, yes, please.
• 8:50
  Josh Eiserike: I love it.
• 8:54
  Tad Eggleston: We get to know Goose here, too.
• 8:56
  Tad Eggleston: Which is just great.
• 8:58
  Josh Eiserike: Who, again, still speaks like butters from South Park, in my mind.
• 9:03
  Tad Eggleston: This is the one that I love. Sophie just yelling, EVERYONE BE FRIENDLY!
• 9:09
  Josh Eiserike: Sophie's great.
• 9:10
  Tad Eggleston: Edit works.
• 9:15
  Tad Eggleston: And of course, they call it Hill Don't Go.
• 9:20
  Tad Eggleston: And that's not enough to tell them that they don't want to go.
• 9:26
  Tad Eggleston: The brother, the, the stock's brother, all about revenge, except, not if it's dangerous.
• 9:34
  Matt: Right.
• 9:34
  Tad Eggleston: I got kids. I didn't like my sister that much.
• 9:38
  Tad Eggleston: Here, you… you go!
• 9:42
  Matt: Yeah.
• 9:43
  Matt: I liked her enough to come here, but not deal with it any further.
• 9:45
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 9:46
  Josh Eiserike: I also… I like how, the… the revolution, like.
• 9:52
  Josh Eiserike: We see races of creatures we've seen before.
• 9:55
  Josh Eiserike: Right. Like, the world feels like… Full and lived in.
• 10:01
  Josh Eiserike: Like, she… she's… she's gotta be from the Reporter's Planet.
• 10:04
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 10:10
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and they even tell us later that, that, that, the one guy is from…
• 10:18
  Tad Eggleston: The planet that they were on to begin with.
• 10:22
  Tad Eggleston: Why can't I remember?
• 10:25
  Tad Eggleston: the name.
• 10:27
  Tad Eggleston: the one that Isabelle's from.
• 10:31
  Tad Eggleston: God, this trip is just…
• 10:34
  Matt: Freaky?
• 10:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 10:37
  Tad Eggleston: Though, also, I have this goose as a pop.
• 10:43
  Matt: Honestly?
• 10:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 10:46
  Tad Eggleston: The one in his pajamas with the chopper.
• 10:52
  Matt: Nice.
• 10:55
  Tad Eggleston: I set foot in a hot topic just to get it.
• 11:00
  Tad Eggleston: Because it was a Hot Topic exclusive.
• 11:04
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, man.
• 11:06
  Josh Eiserike: Gotta do what you gotta do.
• 11:07
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly.
• 11:09
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly.
• 11:14
  Tad Eggleston: This is also, I mean, in the flashback is when we find out that Marco is a… Badass.
• 11:23
  Matt: Yo.
• 11:25
  Tad Eggleston: you know, with the beginning of it being that, like, Goose saying, you know…
• 11:35
  Tad Eggleston: Because I'm not frightened of you to Prince Robot, but that one scares the life out of me.
• 11:42
  Matt: Yep.
• 11:48
  Tad Eggleston: And you can… you can understand how Marco has now adopted
• 11:54
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, if these are all actually memories, rather than… bad dreams.
• 12:00
  Tad Eggleston: Which, it seems to indicate that they are.
• 12:03
  Josh Eiserike: That was my favorite page in the whole… the whole trade, right there.
• 12:07
  Tad Eggleston: Right here.
• 12:08
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, not the splash, the other one.
• 12:11
  Tad Eggleston: the one next to it. But I think the two worked really well together.
• 12:15
  Josh Eiserike: Yes, 100%.
• 12:17
  Matt: Yep, agreed.
• 12:18
  Tad Eggleston: You know… Particularly because, like, he's a hero here.
• 12:24
  Josh Eiserike: Oh, here, let me take that out.
• 12:27
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait a minute, it wasn't…
• 12:30
  Tad Eggleston: It… it… it wasn't a… wasn't a military target.
• 12:35
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, but also, like, if we want to suss out, like.
• 12:39
  Josh Eiserike: any kind of theme from these chapters? Thinking about, like, the revolution and how… what's… what's the robot? Dango, the robot janitor? Is that his name?
• 12:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Dango.
• 12:48
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, like, how he's like, oh, I may have bit off more than I can chew. It's like, no, buddy, this is war. This is… this is the horror that you signed up for, and these people take it way too far.
• 13:02
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 13:07
  Tad Eggleston: I love the can… I love that they're making… they're roasting marshmallows.
• 13:13
  Tad Eggleston: Like… I mean, this is one of the rare first pages that isn't a splash.
• 13:23
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 13:25
  Tad Eggleston: But, it's just as shocking as so many of their splashes. Because it's, like, sleeping lion cats, sleeping…
• 13:35
  Tad Eggleston: Sweet Boy and Gwendolyn. So, yeah, that's what abortion is.
• 13:41
  Matt: Yo.
• 13:42
  Matt: That's almost as good as I shouldn't.
• 13:44
  Tad Eggleston: As… as they're roasting marshmallows.
• 13:48
  Tad Eggleston: Cool! I always wondered that.
• 13:50
  Matt: There you go.
• 13:55
  Tad Eggleston: Ugh.
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: Of course, you know, I mean, we talked last issue about Sophie, and I'm not a child, I'm 8.
• 14:06
  Matt: Yup.
• 14:14
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, it's like, I don't think we ever spend…
• 14:17
  Tad Eggleston: Like, this 4 pages we spend…
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: at the campsite is one of the longer sequences I think, we spend.
• 14:25
  Tad Eggleston: in one place.
• 14:29
  Matt: We'll get that in a ship.
• 14:31
  Tad Eggleston: 3 to 4, and then shift…
• 14:34
  Matt: Yup.
• 14:34
  Tad Eggleston: 3 to 4, and then shift.
• 14:46
  Tad Eggleston: Bonking goose.
• 14:49
  Josh Eiserike: So this next page was the only moment I remembered.
• 14:52
  Tad Eggleston: The high as fuck.
• 14:54
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah… And I remember not…
• 14:57
  Tad Eggleston: Make a t-shirt out of it.
• 14:59
  Josh Eiserike: I did. You know, this is the one moment that kind of took me out of the book for a minute.
• 15:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 15:04
  Josh Eiserike: I thought… I thought it was a little too, what's the word I'm looking for?
• 15:12
  Josh Eiserike: I don't know the word, but it…
• 15:14
  Matt: You took the seriousness out of the situation.
• 15:16
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah!
• 15:18
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, it's like, oh, all of a sudden, it's like… and they did make a shirt, but it's like, this is something I would say.
• 15:23
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I almost… I almost wonder if they got to this point right here.
• 15:28
  Tad Eggleston: The… so there's another victim of this goddamn war.
• 15:33
  Tad Eggleston: A woman who at least… Managed to die exactly as she lived.
• 15:38
  Tad Eggleston: Like…
• 15:45
  Tad Eggleston: And it just wasn't worth having a page of her fixing things.
• 15:49
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 15:50
  Matt: Yeah, for sure.
• 15:51
  Tad Eggleston: you know, I almost wonder if it's, like, one of those rare times where…
• 15:55
  Matt: Listen.
• 15:56
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, either they had this, and they were just looking for a way to get it in.
• 16:01
  Tad Eggleston: Or, they just realized at the end of this page that, like, no, that's where we leave it, but we've got a page.
• 16:08
  Tad Eggleston: So let's do something cool.
• 16:10
  Josh Eiserike: Here's… here's also what it is.
• 16:13
  Josh Eiserike: And maybe I'm being too much of a writer thinking about this too much, because certainly this is a very jarring image, and for a lot of people it worked.
• 16:21
  Josh Eiserike: For me, it doesn't, because I don't really care about this character, and I would rather go off, and by that I mean, like.
• 16:31
  Josh Eiserike: have a cliffhanger on somebody I care about, specifically Marco or Alana, but could be any other, you know, of the…
• 16:39
  Josh Eiserike: Well, but it's not a cliffbanger. She's dead. Exactly.
• 16:43
  Matt: late.
• 16:43
  Matt: But they could have left it on a cliffhanger.
• 16:46
  Josh Eiserike: No, but, but, no, sorry, sorry.
• 16:48
  Josh Eiserike: But it… but it still functions as a cliffhanger, because it's the end of the issue.
• 16:52
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 16:54
  Josh Eiserike: like…
• 16:55
  Matt: And you don't know…
• 16:55
  Josh Eiserike: The story doesn't end there, like, there's more next issue.
• 17:00
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 17:03
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, so that should.
• 17:04
  Tad Eggleston: Well, are you studying?
• 17:06
  Matt: And for the little redemption she gets from that… I might be a little bit why?
• 17:12
  belle price: I'm sorry, guys, I gotta be locked in, I got stuff going on.
• 17:16
  Matt: It's fine, dude.
• 17:17
  belle price: It's just so sorry!
• 17:18
  Tad Eggleston: at the fact that the camera was off and you were muted, and I knew what was happening.
• 17:23
  belle price: Oh, Tad, I'm so sorry.
• 17:25
  Tad Eggleston: I don't have to apologize.
• 17:26
  belle price: Oh…
• 17:27
  Tad Eggleston: Just chime in from time to time.
• 17:29
  belle price: That's what I'm planning on doing, hang on, I'm so sorry.
• 17:36
  Tad Eggleston: Matt, you raised a good one. She prioritizes her grades.
• 17:42
  Tad Eggleston: And if she gets the… if she gets into the University of Chicago, trust me.
• 17:46
  Tad Eggleston: I'll teach her all about making time for comic books.
• 17:49
  Matt: Yes, I believe that.
• 17:56
  Matt: So yeah, so what little redemption she got from going in and sacrificing herself still doesn't make me like that character.
• 18:03
  Josh Eiserike: break.
• 18:04
  Josh Eiserike: And I don't want to end the chapter on her, I want to end…
• 18:09
  Josh Eiserike: an emotional beat on somebody I care about. Now, speaking of emotional beat, which is worse.
• 18:14
  Tad Eggleston: This one, or… or FARG?
• 18:17
  Matt: This one's worse.
• 18:21
  Tad Eggleston: Are you sure? Yeah.
• 18:22
  Matt: Yeah, because sucking your own dick doesn't feel…
• 18:25
  Tad Eggleston: No, but at least there's not, like, the ugly, massive testicles.
• 18:29
  Matt: They're…
• 18:30
  Josh Eiserike: You got, you got a pretty veiny…
• 18:32
  Matt: right there!
• 18:37
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know. I do love that they were like, this is a double-page spread.
• 18:43
  Matt: Yup!
• 18:43
  Tad Eggleston: And I just noticed…
• 18:46
  Matt: I just noticed, we've got.
• 18:48
  Tad Eggleston: veins here, but we also have
• 18:50
  Tad Eggleston: The tongue wrapped all the way around.
• 18:53
  Matt: Yep.
• 18:54
  Tad Eggleston: You can see it down here.
• 18:55
  Josh Eiserike: Oh, shit, you're right.
• 18:59
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, I didn't say… Ted, I think this is the longest I've spent studying this page.
• 19:03
  Tad Eggleston: I was like…
• 19:05
  Matt: There is a reason, Legacy.
• 19:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, I have too.
• 19:08
  Josh Eiserike: Shock value, got it, moving on.
• 19:12
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but that's the other thing, he's so peaceful.
• 19:16
  Tad Eggleston: That it's not as shock value as it could be.
• 19:21
  Matt: They want to see the script, I want to see what Brian Kavon put on the page, and how she interpreted it.
• 19:26
  Tad Eggleston: Because I literally remember the first time I saw this.
• 19:32
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't fully grasp what he was doing until the next page.
• 19:37
  Tad Eggleston: when they start talking about it. And then I had to turn back to it, I'm like, ugh!
• 19:43
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 19:47
  Josh Eiserike: One of the things I really like about Brian K. Vaughan is he doesn't shy away from
• 19:51
  Josh Eiserike: Not only the violence, but also the sex. I mean.
• 19:54
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, no, we're.
• 19:55
  Josh Eiserike: core.
• 19:55
  Tad Eggleston: we're a couple vol… like, the… I think it was Volume 9, aside from just ripping our hearts out, like…
• 20:06
  Tad Eggleston: The opening splash page of every fucking issue was completely not safe for work.
• 20:15
  Matt: Right.
• 20:16
  Tad Eggleston: He was daring you to open it in public.
• 20:24
  Josh Eiserike: But it's… but it's also… It's not titillating.
• 20:29
  Tad Eggleston: No. Like… Wow.
• 20:30
  Josh Eiserike: It's just like.
• 20:31
  Tad Eggleston: Sometimes.
• 20:32
  Josh Eiserike: Sometimes. But mostly it's, this is part of the human experience, and if there are, you know, a planet full of these dragons in space, this is what they'd be doing.
• 20:41
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Josh Eiserike: I do… I do love their monitors here on the lower left.
• 20:49
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 20:51
  Matt: very 90s CRT, yep.
• 20:53
  Josh Eiserike: Yup.
• 20:54
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, 80 CRT, because they're… they're just.
• 20:57
  Matt: This is great.
• 20:58
  Tad Eggleston: Green and black, and the other green.
• 21:02
  Matt: That's true, because the janitors are black and white, so that makes sense.
• 21:06
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 21:07
  Tad Eggleston: So these are, like, a step up from the janitor, but they're still, like… I mean, this is the type of computers Best Buy had for, like, their inventory system and everything when I started there.
• 21:19
  Tad Eggleston: I remember when we finally updated into the…
• 21:24
  Tad Eggleston: 90s, sometime in the early 2000s.
• 21:30
  Tad Eggleston: I always thought it was hilarious that we sold computers, and our computer system.
• 21:34
  Matt: We're shit.
• 21:41
  Matt: Well, the airlines are using Windows 3.1.
• 21:45
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, God.
• 21:46
  Matt: I mean, come out of the.
• 21:47
  Tad Eggleston: Let's not even get… let's not even talk about… and it's not just the airlines.
• 21:52
  Matt: Just traffic.
• 21:53
  Tad Eggleston: The control is sometimes working off of fucking floppy disks.
• 21:56
  Matt: Yup, they got their TRS-80 out.
• 21:59
  Matt: Anyway…
• 22:01
  Tad Eggleston: I, I do love this head explosion here.
• 22:04
  Matt: Yeah, but I hate this fucking janitor. He's so dumb. It makes me wonder if all of the robots are dumb?
• 22:11
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean…
• 22:14
  Tad Eggleston: I hate to say this, because… because, like, I work special ed, and I don't… I don't like the R-word, but, like, there is that moment later on where… where he gets called an R-word, and immediately says, hey, my son was…
• 22:31
  Matt: Someone with special needs, yes!
• 22:35
  Tad Eggleston: Oh… We didn't…
• 22:37
  Josh Eiserike: Shocking. I didn't remember that at all.
• 22:39
  Tad Eggleston: We didn't get to know the brand for very long.
• 22:43
  Matt: And we didn't get to know the stock for very long.
• 22:46
  Tad Eggleston: No.
• 22:46
  Matt: And it's like, he introduces these really cool fucking characters, and then kills them all!
• 22:53
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, don't get me wrong, Fiona.
• 22:57
  Tad Eggleston: Killed the hell out of this…
• 23:01
  Josh Eiserike: Oh, yeah!
• 23:02
  belle price: But I'm glad she saved Lion Cat. I mean, can we all be so grateful, though, that her one save was Lion Cat? Because I am so grateful, still. I'm always grateful for Lion Cat.
• 23:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 23:13
  Josh Eiserike: Wait, can you… can you go back for a second?
• 23:16
  Josh Eiserike: Is this where Gwendolyn's hair goes white?
• 23:24
  Tad Eggleston: Didn't? Oh, you're right. Yeah, I totally missed that.
• 23:29
  Tad Eggleston: Good catch.
• 23:33
  Josh Eiserike: I never understood that. I wonder… I wonder if it was the spell was too strong, or what?
• 23:39
  Tad Eggleston: Either the spell or the backlash.
• 23:41
  Matt: Yeah, or maybe a little bit of both.
• 23:44
  Tad Eggleston: The fear… I mean, because you got… you got a hell of a shock there.
• 23:49
  Josh Eiserike: Yup.
• 23:55
  Josh Eiserike: Also, I love when we find out the brand's real name.
• 23:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 24:01
  Matt: I just feel bad for the dog.
• 24:03
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, sweet boy.
• 24:12
  Tad Eggleston: Cleave.
• 24:13
  Tad Eggleston: Cleave is the, the, the…
• 24:15
  Josh Eiserike: That's right.
• 24:16
  Tad Eggleston: Braum.
• 24:18
  Tad Eggleston: I remembered before we actually got to the point where she was talking about it. I'm proud of myself.
• 24:28
  Josh Eiserike: I did love the action here, how everything goes down at the climax.
• 24:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah
• 24:35
  Tad Eggleston: Well, he finally figures it out, so he arms Alana.
• 24:39
  Tad Eggleston: Who somehow manages not to shoot him the second he arms her.
• 24:43
  Matt: Immediately, yes, which I would have.
• 24:46
  Tad Eggleston: I'm… I'm kinda shocked that she didn't.
• 24:49
  Josh Eiserike: Oh, no, you gotta save that for Prince Robot.
• 24:52
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I get why, from a story standpoint.
• 24:57
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Tad Eggleston: But it is one of the slightly less…
• 25:01
  Tad Eggleston: believable things Alana has done or not done.
• 25:05
  Matt: gone, yup, exactly.
• 25:08
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, I would agree with that.
• 25:10
  Josh Eiserike: I mean, I could argue she needs him to escape, but I think she… I agree, I think she would have killed him.
• 25:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't… I don't think she has…
• 25:18
  Tad Eggleston: I'm surprised that she had the.
• 25:23
  Matt: Well.
• 25:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, because here, we're not that far forward where it takes Marco to talk her out of it.
• 25:31
  Matt: probably was thinking, okay, if this guy can help me get out of here, cool, and then I'll take him out.
• 25:37
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, this is… this is just…
• 25:46
  Josh Eiserike: That's a great splash.
• 25:48
  Matt: Fascinating.
• 25:49
  Tad Eggleston: Well, the splash is great, but then the…
• 25:52
  Josh Eiserike: Yup.
• 25:52
  Tad Eggleston: I send Yochum. I lost unto a sickness that your kingdom could have easily… Fascinating.
• 25:59
  Matt: Boom!
• 26:01
  Josh Eiserike: Yup!
• 26:03
  Josh Eiserike: I also love that he bleeds, like, blue.
• 26:06
  Tad Eggleston: Well, they all do. They're the blue bloods.
• 26:08
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Tad Eggleston: But I do like… that the Blue Blood isn't just… Royalty.
• 26:16
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 26:17
  Josh Eiserike: It's their race.
• 26:18
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 26:22
  Tad Eggleston: And I also just… I've always loved how much that their screens show their emotions.
• 26:28
  Tad Eggleston: Yup. Like, the cracked screen with the baby rattle is just…
• 26:33
  Matt: It shows their emotions and their status. It's… it's a really.
• 26:36
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I just noticed this. Bill, this seems like the type of thing you would notice. Goose in the background, so happy because he found Friendo?
• 26:51
  Tad Eggleston: Look at that! That's just great!
• 26:53
  Matt: Yup.
• 26:55
  Tad Eggleston: And then just completely happy on… there's… I mean, I love how there's not even any goose dialogue, but if you're paying attention, like, his universe just got infinitely better.
• 27:08
  Josh Eiserike: Nope.
• 27:17
  Tad Eggleston: And this…
• 27:21
  Tad Eggleston: I hate it when they make me feel for the will. This made me…
• 27:25
  Josh Eiserike: I know what happens, I'm Team Will.
• 27:29
  Tad Eggleston: I know you are.
• 27:31
  Tad Eggleston: I was never Team Will.
• 27:34
  Tad Eggleston: even… I mean, even before what happens, I was never Team Will.
• 27:39
  Tad Eggleston: I do also love this, this teaser at the end here.
• 27:44
  Matt: Yeah, the start of the prison.
• 27:46
  Tad Eggleston: Sure is one of my favorite characters.
• 27:48
  Matt: Yup.
• 27:49
  Tad Eggleston: And…
• 27:50
  Matt: That was such a…
• 27:50
  Tad Eggleston: Hazel starts having her own… personality, it's just… Yeah.
• 27:56
  Josh Eiserike: It's a great… it's a great time job.
• 28:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 28:01
  Josh Eiserike: So, yeah, I didn't… I didn't remember, like, I remember, like, oh yeah, Marco and Alana, Alana get separated, but I didn't remember… I was like, oh, they're all gonna get back together. It's like, wait, what? She's saying she won't see her dad for years? Like, I don't remember this at all.
• 28:15
  Tad Eggleston: Right?
• 28:17
  Tad Eggleston: Because, as… as… Marco is catching up to them.
• 28:29
  Tad Eggleston: Grandma and Hazel are being taken away.
• 28:33
  Josh Eiserike: Yup. So you have the…
• 28:35
  Tad Eggleston: The Marco Alana come back together.
• 28:38
  Matt: Hmm.
• 28:39
  Tad Eggleston: out the… Full family reunion.
• 28:44
  Josh Eiserike: Yup. Right.
• 28:45
  Tad Eggleston: like…
• 28:51
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there was kind of a run in here, We're… we're… even-numbered books, Broke your heart.
• 28:59
  Tad Eggleston: like 4. And odd-numbered books would break your heart during it, but end kind of happy. Like, this is a wonderfully happy image.
• 29:09
  Josh Eiserike: Yes.
• 29:09
  Tad Eggleston: But also sad, because she's not with her parents.
• 29:12
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, no, you know it's sad.
• 29:15
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah, she doesn't.
• 29:17
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 29:18
  Josh Eiserike: ugh.
• 29:18
  Tad Eggleston: If you just flip to the end, you're like, oh, happy ending book, woohoo!
• 29:24
  Josh Eiserike: So, I don't remember this at all, and I've… and I've now since… I still buy, but I'm no longer reading the floppies, I'm waiting to catch up. Do we ever meet Alana's parents?
• 29:35
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we met them already, briefly.
• 29:39
  Josh Eiserike: I don't remember.
• 29:39
  Tad Eggleston: Or rather, we met her stepmom, and saw.
• 29:43
  Josh Eiserike: That's right.
• 29:43
  Tad Eggleston: of her dad.
• 29:45
  Josh Eiserike: That's right.
• 29:49
  Josh Eiserike: But, like, they never become, like, characters like Marco's parents do.
• 29:52
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think so.
• 29:54
  Tad Eggleston: But, I mean, we've still got, like, 30 issues to go.
• 29:58
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 30:00
  Tad Eggleston: So, I mean, it could happen. There's… there seems to be some implication that her dad is important.
• 30:10
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I feel like I've gotten a little bit of that vibe already.
• 30:14
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 30:21
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah… I also love that it's a pineapple. She's wearing a pineapple shirt.
• 30:28
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 30:29
  Josh Eiserike: And they're learning the English.
• 30:30
  Tad Eggleston: There are pineapples in space.
• 30:32
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 30:40
  Josh Eiserike: No, like, this was… I mean, it's…
• 30:42
  Tad Eggleston: It's so funny, the things they decide to not make different in a galaxy far, far away.
• 30:47
  Josh Eiserike: Or, like, when Marco is in a convenience store, and it's just like, yeah, it's a convenience store. Right.
• 30:53
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Why would it be any different?
• 30:56
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and the payphone, and the RCA, I mean, I still… Laughs so hard at, like…
• 31:04
  Tad Eggleston: the camcorder and RCA cables.
• 31:07
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 31:11
  Tad Eggleston: You know… But yeah, no, this is… this is definitely one of the most action-packed… Volume. This…
• 31:21
  Josh Eiserike: This was the first volume where I really… I know we're doing this monthly, where I really had to restrain myself from going out to read the next one immediately after.
• 31:30
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:31
  Tad Eggleston: I'm actually glad that, that I had…
• 31:34
  Tad Eggleston: two more book clubs between today and tomorrow, and an interview, because I couldn't keep reading. I… I like…
• 31:42
  Tad Eggleston: I had to shift gears to get the other reading done.
• 31:46
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 31:47
  Tad Eggleston: Because.
• 31:48
  Josh Eiserike: No.
• 31:48
  Tad Eggleston: I, I… this is definitely…
• 31:51
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I think this is the first time that I've read this volume and not read up to date afterwards.
• 31:59
  Josh Eiserike: So, this is the… also the volume where I… I gave you a little pushback before.
• 32:04
  Josh Eiserike: When you made the statement that this is Brian K. Vaughan's masterpiece.
• 32:09
  Josh Eiserike: After rereading this, I think I'm inclined to agree.
• 32:14
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't… I don't… this is, like, it's not to disparage any of Vaughn's other work.
• 32:20
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 32:21
  Tad Eggleston: anybody would kill to have Vaughn's bibliography.
• 32:25
  Josh Eiserike: Sure.
• 32:25
  Matt: fake.
• 32:27
  Tad Eggleston: You know… Like, when your mediocre stuff is the handful of Batman you did, It's still good, just like…
• 32:40
  Tad Eggleston: You didn't do enough of it to be, like, a Batman writer.
• 32:47
  Tad Eggleston: You know… When the title that you worked the most on, that people forgot you did, was Runaways?
• 33:00
  Josh Eiserike: I love runaways.
• 33:01
  Tad Eggleston: I do too. But, like, if there's a title that people forget about Vaughn, it's Runaways, and then it's Ex Machina. Can you imagine if those were your two throwaway titles?
• 33:11
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 33:14
  Tad Eggleston: It's like, oh, wait, you mean the guy that did Saga, and Why the Last Man and Paper Girls? He did Ex Machina, too, and Runaways?
• 33:25
  Josh Eiserike: Run.
• 33:26
  Matt: Oh, I had the last round?
• 33:27
  Josh Eiserike: I think… I think my… my… my older daughter, like, in a couple years, I think she's ready for that.
• 33:33
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, she might be able to do Rainbow Rowels already.
• 33:38
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 33:38
  Tad Eggleston: But it'd be kind of weird to do the new stuff, and then.
• 33:41
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 33:42
  Tad Eggleston: staff.
• 33:44
  Josh Eiserike: I agree.
• 33:45
  Tad Eggleston: Is she into superheroes?
• 33:50
  Josh Eiserike: She likes, Ghost Spider from the movie.
• 33:54
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 33:55
  Tad Eggleston: Stephanie Phillips just did a good run on Ghost Spider.
• 33:58
  Josh Eiserike: Okay.
• 34:05
  Tad Eggleston: Stephanie's taking over Daredevil.
• 34:08
  Tad Eggleston: I am so looking forward to that.
• 34:11
  Josh Eiserike: Cool.
• 34:12
  Josh Eiserike: I haven't… I don't know the last time I've read a Marvel book.
• 34:15
  Josh Eiserike: Well, Ultimate Spider-Man, that's the only one I'm reading.
• 34:18
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, see.
• 34:20
  Matt: It's a good one to read.
• 34:21
  Tad Eggleston: It is, it is, but, but, like…
• 34:26
  Tad Eggleston: It's been 30 years since I wasn't reading Daredevil.
• 34:29
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 34:31
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, I gotta give major, major plug to Ultimate Wolverine.
• 34:39
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I…
• 34:40
  Josh Eiserike: I just read the first trade, and as I contradict what I just said about not… I don't read a monthly Marvel book. I checked the first trade out of the library, I read it, and…
• 34:51
  Josh Eiserike: He didn't do it.
• 34:52
  Tad Eggleston: Blasphemy. Blasphemy.
• 34:54
  Josh Eiserike: Didn't do it.
• 34:55
  Tad Eggleston: Chris Kant is my… my boy!
• 35:04
  Tad Eggleston: No, most of that Ultimate stuff has been good. I need to read the Ultimates, because Dennis Camp has been killing everything I read of his, and the Ultimates is, like, the only thing I haven't read yet.
• 35:15
  Josh Eiserike: I don't know why, but I just… I just… other than Ultimate Spider-Man, like, I haven't connected with a Marvel book in a long time.
• 35:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 35:22
  Josh Eiserike: Like, I used to read, like.
• 35:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I get that, because really, the only book that I consistently read is Daredevil. I still get Miles Morales every month, I tend to read them, like.
• 35:35
  Tad Eggleston: 5 to 10 at a time.
• 35:37
  Tad Eggleston: Same with Star Wars.
• 35:41
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I'll binge 6 Months over the Star Wars every once in a while.
• 35:45
  Josh Eiserike: I used to be… if there was an X on the cover, I would buy it.
• 35:50
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I've never been that guy.
• 35:52
  Josh Eiserike: Oh, I was… I was that guy, and then I was like, wait, I don't care about any of these.
• 35:58
  Josh Eiserike: And, like, I'll dip in from time to time, but…
• 36:02
  Josh Eiserike: Just… other than Ultimate Spider-Man, I just haven't cared about a Marvel book in a really long time.
• 36:08
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 36:10
  Tad Eggleston: I get that, they've been…
• 36:18
  Tad Eggleston: I had to put it? Because they've… there's definitely been some good stuff.
• 36:22
  Josh Eiserike: There's always good stuff.
• 36:24
  Tad Eggleston: But the universe has been inconsistent.
• 36:28
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 36:31
  Tad Eggleston: The… the… the universe is… has been… very inconsistent. So…
• 36:39
  Josh Eiserike: I mean, look, I mean, to the… to the point of what we're supposed to be talking about, if it's an issue of saga versus an issue of
• 36:46
  Josh Eiserike: I don't know, pick your superhero? I'm, at this point in my life, I'm reading Saga.
• 36:51
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah. No, no, no.
• 36:53
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that's…
• 36:55
  Tad Eggleston: I sometimes get frustrated when friends of mine get gigs on superhero books, because it's like, dude, do you know how many comics a week I read? I don't have time to read
• 37:08
  Tad Eggleston: Blank superhero?
• 37:10
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 37:12
  Tad Eggleston: Well, they don't. I'm like, I can't not read one of your books!
• 37:17
  Josh Eiserike: And also, they can't not take the job.
• 37:20
  Tad Eggleston: Right. No, exactly. I'm not telling you not to take the job.
• 37:24
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 37:26
  Tad Eggleston: I just want your other stuff to sell so well that you don't need to take the show.
• 37:31
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 37:35
  Tad Eggleston: Oh… I feel like I don't have anything more to say about this volume that's not Chris Farley show-esque.
• 37:43
  Matt: Oh, I get it. I think we said it all.
• 37:46
  Tad Eggleston: And we already did that in our Jonah Hex episode of Pulp Blotter on Sunday morning, where we just got into the… remember that time?
• 37:57
  Tad Eggleston: When… When Goose said, I'm not that… Sweet.
• 38:05
  Tad Eggleston: It was awesome.
• 38:10
  Tad Eggleston: Bell Fox?
• 38:17
  Tad Eggleston: Still not even listening?
• 38:19
  Josh Eiserike: studying. Look, I was… I was just gonna… I was just gonna say, this was the volume that… I mean, I love this book.
• 38:25
  Josh Eiserike: now I'm, like, totally locked in on the reread.
• 38:28
  Josh Eiserike: You know, minus a couple…
• 38:32
  Josh Eiserike: things I didn't quite care for, I'd say, you know, overall, like, I love the action, I love all the divergent plot threads, and I love how at the end it shakes everything up in another time jump.
• 38:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right?
• 38:45
  Josh Eiserike: So, I mean, it's a magic trick what these two do.
• 38:49
  Tad Eggleston: He times his time jumps just right.
• 38:51
  Josh Eiserike: Yep.
• 38:52
  Tad Eggleston: He times his shakeups really well.
• 38:57
  Tad Eggleston: And if you look at this, you've got multiple shakeups, because, like…
• 39:04
  Matt: Alana loses Hazel.
• 39:06
  Matt: When she gets back, Marco.
• 39:08
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Yup. And because he's got…
• 39:12
  Tad Eggleston: Princeling now, but we'll be calling him Squire soon. You know, it's not clear that Robot's still with them.
• 39:21
  Matt: floor.
• 39:21
  Tad Eggleston: I don't actually remember right now whether… I mean, I know they'll be together again, but I don't know that it's immediately. Yeah.
• 39:29
  Josh Eiserike: I don't remember either.
• 39:32
  Josh Eiserike: And he's also no longer… villainous.
• 39:38
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 39:39
  Matt: Yeah.
• 39:40
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, because he has been disowned, he's been stripped of his title.
• 39:45
  Josh Eiserike: Yeah.
• 39:46
  Tad Eggleston: You know, the way things are with Will, you don't know what's gonna happen next there.
• 39:55
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I know what's gonna happen next, but it gets left in such a way that, like, it's not at all clear…
• 40:02
  Tad Eggleston: That Gwendolyn's gonna get to stay with them, it's not at all clear that Sophie's gonna get to stay with them.
• 40:08
  Josh Eiserike: Right.
• 40:09
  Josh Eiserike: I don't remember what happens with Sophie at all.
• 40:12
  Tad Eggleston: I do. There's… I mean, it's actually kind of funny that, that, like…
• 40:20
  Tad Eggleston: More of these pairings come back around than I would have expected.
• 40:25
  Josh Eiserike: Hmm.
• 40:26
  Matt: Yup.
• 40:27
  Tad Eggleston: But there are… Major bumps in the road.
• 40:35
  Tad Eggleston: You know… Because, you know, Intergalactic Civil War, Bounty hunters?
• 40:44
  Tad Eggleston: Romeo and Juliet Love Story. This is how I used to sell the book.
• 40:51
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just looking at this… this ship that looks like the inside of a speaker.
• 40:59
  Matt: Does look like a speaker, I love that.
• 41:01
  Tad Eggleston: And I'm just…
• 41:02
  Josh Eiserike: It was supposed to be, like, his blaster.
• 41:04
  Tad Eggleston: Mesmerized by it.
• 41:06
  Josh Eiserike: That's cool.
• 41:08
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it does kind of look like some blasters, too, but to me, it looks like…
• 41:13
  Tad Eggleston: The inside… like, if you take… take apart a speaker, it looks like that inner…
• 41:21
  Tad Eggleston: I can just see this, this part here thumping.
• 41:32
  Tad Eggleston: Because that's what we haven't gotten in Saga yet, but I also know is coming, is music.
• 41:38
  Tad Eggleston: I've had hints of it.
• 41:40
  Tad Eggleston: We know that we've seen a couple of rock and roll t-shirts, and we had dancing.
• 41:51
  Tad Eggleston: I think that's what I like the most about Brian K. Vaughan's story, like, writing, is that, like, you can go back and read, and the foreshadowing is so clear once you know.
• 42:00
  Matt: Yeah.
• 42:01
  belle price: But, like, I overlooked all these things in the beginning. I didn't even notice that her t-shirt was for a band, you know what I mean? Like, on your first read, you don't appreciate these things in the same way.
• 42:10
  belle price: you know, you also don't know that there's merch, so you don't… you don't look into the t-shirt, because you don't know there's merch for it, so it's like, you know…
• 42:16
  Tad Eggleston: And they're still out there.
• 42:17
  belle price: Yeah.
• 42:18
  Tad Eggleston: I think there's a sale going on right now.
• 42:19
  belle price: Epic Christmas gift idea, man. Epic Christmas gift idea for the saga lovers out there. Support Saga, man.
• 42:27
  belle price: Plug saga.
• 42:28
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, they don't…
• 42:31
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, they're like the one independent comic that doesn't actually really need me to plug them. I mean, they had… they had midnight release parties after being gone for 3 years.
• 42:45
  Tad Eggleston: Think about that, a comic book with midnight release parties after being gone for 3 years.
• 42:52
  Tad Eggleston: That doesn't…
• 42:56
  Tad Eggleston: None of those words feel like they should be in the same sentence.
• 43:01
  Matt: You know, the first two panels, I thought this was back to the circuit.
• 43:06
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, for this? Yeah. The, the, the Quickie Mart?
• 43:10
  Matt: Yeah.
• 43:11
  Matt: Because that's what it reminds me of. And then there's Marco, I'm like, oh shit, they're not in the circuit.
• 43:16
  Tad Eggleston: Are those cups of ramen noodles?
• 43:19
  Matt: cups of ramen noodles. Yup, they probably are.
• 43:24
  Tad Eggleston: And I'm pretty certain he's grabbing, like… it says… Doke, but it looks like… Either flour or cookies.
• 43:38
  Tad Eggleston: And I do love the freezer aisle.
• 43:46
  Tad Eggleston: Just…
• 43:49
  Josh Eiserike: That's great.
• 43:52
  Tad Eggleston: And, and, and the, the arcade games.
• 43:58
  Matt: No, that's just the MCAT, dude.
• 44:00
  Tad Eggleston: No, I think, because it's got a thing on top, and it's got the weird box…
• 44:07
  Josh Eiserike: I thought it was a display rack.
• 44:10
  Tad Eggleston: It could be…
• 44:12
  Matt: I think the sign on the bathroom door is funnier.
• 44:14
  Matt: Or more info.
• 44:15
  Tad Eggleston: I'll give you that. The O and the minus.
• 44:18
  Matt: Yeah.
• 44:30
  Tad Eggleston: Goose coming out, hasn't even put his overalls all the way back on.
• 44:33
  Matt: Yep.
• 44:38
  Tad Eggleston: Just so much goodness in this book.
• 44:50
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I think… I think that's it for this month.
• 44:57
  Tad Eggleston: Next month, Volume 6, and we'll be…
• 45:00
  Matt: I'm forward to it.
• 45:02
  Tad Eggleston: Half.
• 45:02
  belle price: And I'll be out of hell. College will be… on break.
• 45:07
  belle price: God damn it, yes, I'm so excited to finally, I'll breathe.
• 45:11
  Tad Eggleston: When do you go back in January?
• 45:13
  belle price: ugh, late, like, like the 20-something of January. It's a Wednesday. The spring semester always starts on a Wednesday.
• 45:20
  Tad Eggleston: Gotcha.
• 45:21
  belle price: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 45:23
  belle price: But I live out in Fredonia now, so I'm going to be locked in doing graduate stuff over break, so don't think I'll be having too much of a break, because I've got much, much.
• 45:31
  Tad Eggleston: We'll find some comics for you to read.
• 45:34
  belle price: Much more ahead of me. Oh, I'm gonna play some Zelda, too. I need to finish Echoes of Wisdom, man. Oh my goodness.
• 45:38
  Tad Eggleston: I might… I might have… oh, I did also like this. Did you guys catch this at the back? I did. And you might not know this, Bill.
• 45:45
  Tad Eggleston: There, there's… A.
• 45:51
  Tad Eggleston: some… the winner of their second Saga costume contest got his own page, of art from… from…
• 46:04
  Tad Eggleston: Fiona, and a story page from Brian.
• 46:08
  belle price: That's crazy.
• 46:11
  Matt: That's pretty cool.
• 46:13
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, the only thing that would have been cooler is if, like.
• 46:17
  belle price: That's a lot.
• 46:17
  Tad Eggleston: This art had been the story page.
• 46:21
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 46:25
  Tad Eggleston: Also, did you notice that the story page goes from page 1, panel 1, to page 21, panel 2?
• 46:36
  belle price: That implies so much more story, I love this.
• 46:38
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 46:40
  belle price: I love that he, like, couldn't fit what he wanted to do on one page, so he, like, just started, like, page one, panel one, and then, like, edit, fill this in with your brain.
• 46:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 46:48
  belle price: It's great. I love when there's room for the reader to think.
• 46:52
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 46:52
  Matt: Stop.
• 46:53
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 46:54
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, final thoughts, anybody?
• 46:58
  Matt: Looking forward to next time.
• 46:59
  Josh Eiserike: Yup.
• 47:00
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, Matt, take us out.
• 47:03
  Matt: We'll continue after the next page.