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Heavy Metal Book Club #36: September 1979 · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:01
  Tad Eggleston: Good evening, everybody! Welcome back to the Heavy Metal Book Club on 22 Panels. We have Dylan Gilbertson, we have my brother Peter, we have my friend Matt, and it is Heavy Metal from September of 1979.
• 0:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 0:21
  Tad Eggleston: My first comment is they really, really dropped the ball by not serializing all of Alien, because they absolutely could have fit more into the last two issues.
• 0:36
  Matt: Yep.
• 0:38
  Tad Eggleston: Without cutting anything that we would have missed.
• 0:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 0:43
  Tad Eggleston: Also, there was way too much pros in this issue.
• 0:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's a lot. It was a lot.
• 0:49
  Tad Eggleston: Some of it might have been good, but I wasn't in the mood.
• 0:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: I feel like a lot of the pros, however, was accompanied by pretty awesome art.
• 0:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yes! Yes, I will give you that.
• 1:01
  Tad Eggleston: Great art to go with the pros. I do like the cover. The, the, the robot…
• 1:07
  Matt: Elvis dude, I don't.
• 1:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alice-looking dude.
• 1:10
  Tad Eggleston: He actually feels more Little Richard to me.
• 1:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, okay.
• 1:14
  Tad Eggleston: He's got the big pompadour.
• 1:18
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah.
• 1:22
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I also wanted to point out…
• 1:25
  Tad Eggleston: just… just… I don't know how it wound up catching my eye, But it did.
• 1:31
  Tad Eggleston: And, I mean, we're, we're.
• 1:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We're in September, and they're talking about August in a commercial.
• 1:39
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, but that's… that's not actually the thing, because if it says September on the cover, that's generally when it comes off the stands. Correct. Not when… or at least it used to be, when it came off the stands, not when it went on.
• 1:55
  Tad Eggleston: And, you know, it's 46 years too late for this to matter.
• 2:00
  Tad Eggleston: But… Pecatonia is actually Pecatonica, Eleanor.
• 2:10
  Tad Eggleston: And South Bend is in Indiana.
• 2:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Was it back in 1979?
• 2:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yes.
• 2:19
  Matt: Good catch, Dylan.
• 2:21
  Tad Eggleston: both Pecatonica was Pecatonica then, and South Bend has been in Indiana for a long, long time.
• 2:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm gonna Google it.
• 2:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But you went to these, you went to these cars.
• 2:34
  Tad Eggleston: I did not go.
• 2:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: shows anyways, right?
• 2:36
  Matt: I was 3 when those shows happened.
• 2:39
  Tad Eggleston: Which means I think you were the only one of us alive.
• 2:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You're right, mom would have had to go to these shows. I was thinking 10 years later. Don't know where my head was.
• 2:51
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, it caught my… you know, because I saw the Illinois one, I'm like, oh, cool, like…
• 2:57
  Matt: they were in our area, and then I'm like.
• 3:01
  Tad Eggleston: South Bend, Illinois?
• 3:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: And then I went, do I know a Pecatonia?
• 3:08
  Tad Eggleston: So I looked it up, I'm like, oh, I kinda know a Pecatonica, but… but no, there's not a Pecatonia!
• 3:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Confirmed by Wikipedia, Pecatonica was Pecatonica as far back as 1869.
• 3:22
  Tad Eggleston: This is what I'm saying. It had been Pecatonica for more than 100 years.
• 3:26
  Matt: even half cars away.
• 3:29
  Tad Eggleston: Since you're on the Wikipedia page, what's the… what's the population of Pecatomica?
• 3:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: I will say that there is a South Bend, in Indiana.
• 3:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, I said it was in Indiana. It says it's in Illinois, though, on this list.
• 3:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: What's interesting is if you type in South Bend, Illinois, South Bend, Indiana comes up.
• 3:48
  Tad Eggleston: That does not surprise me, because I don't…
• 3:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: What'd you want me to look at at Picatonica?
• 3:54
  Tad Eggleston: What's the population?
• 3:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: In the current population, or back in 1979?
• 3:58
  Tad Eggleston: I imagine it wasn't much bigger back then.
• 4:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: Current population, as of 2020 is 2,090 people.
• 4:07
  Tad Eggleston: So, how the hell did they have the cars in town?
• 4:10
  Matt: You know what, Ted, it's funny that you mention this, because I was looking at those two, and I'm like, they only come to New York, to New York City?
• 4:17
  Matt: Wow. And yet they go from 2000…
• 4:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: My… my dad…
• 4:22
  Matt: in town? Jesus Christ.
• 4:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, the other thing is, that's just a… They played two nights in Jackson.
• 4:27
  Tad Eggleston: Mississippi.
• 4:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But what I was gonna say is it sounds like Pecatonica might be one of those places that…
• 4:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: has a big stage or something, but doesn't… doesn't have a lot else.
• 4:41
  Matt: That's true, could be.
• 4:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: The population in 1980, a year after this issue, was 1732.
• 4:50
  Matt: And that's because… People got pregnant.
• 4:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, because of this issue. Because of this issue.
• 4:56
  Tad Eggleston: Show, yeah.
• 4:57
  Matt: I…
• 4:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But this is actually really odd, like, the number of shows they have in the South is… I didn't know the cars were so big in the South.
• 5:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, there you go.
• 5:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not even talking to you about.
• 5:15
  Tad Eggleston: Louisiana?
• 5:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We were just talking to you about this, the car…
• 5:18
  Tad Eggleston: I saw, again, two nights in Jackson, Mississippi.
• 5:21
  Matt: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 5:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's a different time, man.
• 5:26
  Dillon Gilbertson: It was the 90s.
• 5:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And now we'll talk to you about the aliens advertisement.
• 5:31
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, like, if it had been 1979,
• 5:36
  Tad Eggleston: And I had seen this ad.
• 5:38
  Tad Eggleston: In both of the last two issues of Heavy Metal that were…
• 5:45
  Tad Eggleston: Frankly, subpar, after having two issues, where… There had been great…
• 5:52
  Tad Eggleston: segments of Alien, I would say, I'm buying your magazine, why do I have to buy the book, too, rather than…
• 6:01
  Tad Eggleston: You've got the space here!
• 6:05
  Matt: Literally.
• 6:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: I wanna say, before we dive too far into the comics already, that the…
• 6:12
  Matt: For a book that has a lot of pros, an issue that has a lot of pros, the first couple comics, no words at all.
• 6:20
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 6:21
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 6:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: That was interesting.
• 6:22
  Tad Eggleston: I also love the, I do dig the… the serpent dragon and the… like, man… fish dragon?
• 6:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: Here it is, fun…
• 6:35
  Tad Eggleston: On the contents page?
• 6:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: provocative.
• 6:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: It almost looks like this dragon thing is stitched together as well, with its… with its skin.
• 6:45
  Tad Eggleston: A little bit.
• 6:46
  Tad Eggleston: Though I think… I think that that's… well, oh yeah, the, the, the…
• 6:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, the green one.
• 6:51
  Tad Eggleston: The scales are done.
• 6:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 6:52
  Tad Eggleston: But it also… the way this leg comes out, it almost looks like the knee, or the serpent is also part of the knee, but it's really…
• 7:03
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 7:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's cool, though, I like it.
• 7:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 7:08
  Tad Eggleston: And then, we get our papers.
• 7:11
  Tad Eggleston: Cigarette papers.
• 7:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, no, no thanks.
• 7:14
  Tad Eggleston: Definitely cigarette papers.
• 7:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: More of a zigzag guy myself.
• 7:19
  Tad Eggleston: And then we have what might be my favorite story in the, whole comic.
• 7:24
  Tad Eggleston: We got some, S&M… D&D… ogre-type fellows?
• 7:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Month.
• 7:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: This looks like an outtake from the animated Pinocchio movie when he goes to the carnival.
• 7:40
  Matt: Yes, yes, it's awesome.
• 7:41
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that'll work too. And it's Elvis the Dragon meets Grail-hunting Heroes, an albino's sword has a mind of its own, the saucers are coming to rescue the hippies. Won't somebody please throw the werewolf a bone?
• 7:59
  Tad Eggleston: Folk was a fad. It's as dated as soul. Reggae has had it just like rock and roll. Heavy metals like the blues, a relic from the past.
• 8:09
  Tad Eggleston: Put on your Plexa Dancing shoes and let that disco blast.
• 8:16
  Tad Eggleston: Shopping mall zombies are caught in the fallout.
• 8:21
  Tad Eggleston: Brugal pedestrians block up the streets. Chess master wizards are waiting to crawl out and swipe little robot girls' baskets of treats. Country sounds mopey, and jazz has its day. Opera's just dopey, and salsa's passe. Heavy metals like the blues, a relic from the past. So wash them quaaludes down with
• 8:46
  Tad Eggleston: Booze and let that disco blast.
• 8:50
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know who SK is.
• 8:54
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe Sean Kelly?
• 8:56
  Tad Eggleston: Is the…
• 8:56
  Matt: 30 Disco Edito.
• 8:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: Stephen King.
• 8:59
  Tad Eggleston: is the Vice President Creative Projects?
• 9:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe.
• 9:08
  Tad Eggleston: Because it is, it is kind of a table of contents, as well.
• 9:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's not a table of conscience, but it is an intro, for sure.
• 9:20
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, they're not in order, I suppose.
• 9:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Amen.
• 9:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: manufacturing.
• 9:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There's an actual… Table of cons.
• 9:28
  Tad Eggleston: I know, I know, I know, I know.
• 9:31
  Tad Eggleston: But, but it does, it does allude to all of the stories in the…
• 9:37
  Tad Eggleston: And I just realized that it's got… it's got a Seven Dwarves feel to the arc, too. So yeah, we've definitely got Disney Bondage…
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: Something.
• 9:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: Period. End of September.
• 9:56
  Matt: from Fantasia.
• 9:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 10:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 10:04
  Tad Eggleston: So, anyway, that's my frontrunner for Best Stories, so you guys gotta, like, convince me I'm wrong.
• 10:13
  Tad Eggleston: Though, I do kind of like the art on Soft Landing.
• 10:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: I didn't understand soft landing. I had no idea what…
• 10:20
  Matt: Soft landing is… this Corvette thing… have you seen the heavy metal movie?
• 10:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's… that's what software is.
• 10:28
  Dillon Gilbertson: Okay.
• 10:29
  Matt: This part of that thing, it's a theme that goes.
• 10:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's true.
• 10:32
  Matt: heavy metal.
• 10:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 10:35
  Tad Eggleston: I do dig this bottom panel here.
• 10:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Didn't we read something like this recently?
• 10:41
  Matt: We have.
• 10:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It is a recovery.
• 10:43
  Matt: ordering theme.
• 10:44
  Tad Eggleston: Damn.
• 10:48
  Tad Eggleston: We're just waiting for their flying cars.
• 10:50
  Matt: Yeah.
• 10:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay.
• 10:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I want to make sure of that, because I remember reading something that seemed to have, like, it had a little bit more going on than this one.
• 11:00
  Tad Eggleston: I think it did.
• 11:02
  Tad Eggleston: Not a lot.
• 11:03
  Tad Eggleston: But a little.
• 11:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I felt like we had more intrigue on it, and this one, I'm not, like, this one's entertaining, like, I'm fine with it.
• 11:12
  Tad Eggleston: It is, but, like, I think the only angle that I really like is this bottom panel.
• 11:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You mean checking it out from the back of the car?
• 11:21
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 11:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: nosediving.
• 11:24
  Tad Eggleston: Like, almost all of the other panels, I wish we had a different angle.
• 11:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I am kind of amused by all the wreckage in that top, top, right one there.
• 11:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 11:38
  Matt: Yeah, I don't think he's driving that car away.
• 11:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And then… and then the fact that the thing goes off after he crashes into the ground, I mean, like, you'd think you'd want that to go off sooner.
• 11:48
  Matt: Yeah…
• 11:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The, what is that thing called? Parachute?
• 11:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's not even supposed to be a parachute.
• 11:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: Would think so.
• 11:57
  Tad Eggleston: And we did shred his tires really good.
• 11:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hmm.
• 12:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right. He destroyed the entire bottom of his car.
• 12:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And one foul crang.
• 12:08
  Tad Eggleston: The license plate is Lander.
• 12:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And, or…
• 12:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: He does seem pretty excited at the end, though.
• 12:19
  Matt: Well, he lied, he lives.
• 12:20
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, he's alive, wouldn't she be?
• 12:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know.
• 12:23
  Matt: I throw my helmet.
• 12:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I completely agree that.
• 12:26
  Tad Eggleston: Just fell from orbit.
• 12:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I… again, I completely agree.
• 12:31
  Tad Eggleston: In a, in a 50s…
• 12:33
  Matt: It's convertible.
• 12:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, to be perfectly honest, like… How would that even work?
• 12:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 12:43
  Tad Eggleston: Best not to ask that question.
• 12:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, it's just like… Like, from a physics point of view, it's like…
• 12:49
  Matt: balance that's drawn.
• 12:51
  Matt: To be honest.
• 12:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't.
• 12:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, he'd have to be going pretty fast, otherwise it would have burned up.
• 12:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, no, like, I'm not sure even the ship can get to a point where they can drop it when it would… where it would, like, drop like that, not drop in sort of an orbital, sort of…
• 13:07
  Matt: ship having getting sucked in, too, yeah.
• 13:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking. I know that the ship has boosters going, but I'm just not… I… and again, I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm just curious whether that's even feasible, or…
• 13:22
  Tad Eggleston: Let's see if Tracy will join us?
• 13:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: that so much, but…
• 13:27
  Tad Eggleston: We could get… we could see if we could get our rocket scientist to come join us.
• 13:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure, why not?
• 13:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Let's do that.
• 13:36
  Tad Eggleston: Well, let's talk about the doll, but I will actually send a message.
• 13:41
  Dillon Gilbertson: The doll, when I first read it, not so much when I'm looking at it now, but when I first read it,
• 13:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: I had a hard time wondering, like, if these were photographs that were, like, digitally altered.
• 13:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 13:56
  Tad Eggleston: did kind of.
• 13:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: altered, or just altered?
• 13:59
  Matt: Not digitally.
• 14:00
  Tad Eggleston: That's necessary.
• 14:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: But altered in some way, just like that they were actually photographs made…
• 14:05
  Tad Eggleston: overexposed.
• 14:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:07
  Matt: Painted art around.
• 14:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: Right.
• 14:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I mean, it seems like he eats this doll, and then this doll becomes his… Your turn.
• 14:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, it's a… it's a really basic…
• 14:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Comeuppance, irony thing. He eats the doll.
• 14:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: Goes on a bad trip, the doll eats him.
• 14:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe he just goes on a bad trip.
• 14:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, the doll definitely eats this guy.
• 14:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Or at least it starts to cook him to eat him.
• 14:34
  Matt: He's got…
• 14:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: At least part of his trip, for sure.
• 14:38
  Matt: Yep.
• 14:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And for some odd reason, there's a D12 involved, don't ask me why.
• 14:43
  Tad Eggleston: Whatever that shape is called.
• 14:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: What?
• 14:47
  Tad Eggleston: Is it D12?
• 14:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, keep going. Oh, there's some shapes there.
• 14:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: just…
• 14:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Same thing.
• 14:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think those are just shapes, to be shaped.
• 14:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I know they're just shapes, but if you go to the last page, You see it again.
• 15:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And it's not… it's obviously… again, it's not actually a D12, because it doesn't have any sides marked, it's just a.
• 15:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I wasn't… I wasn't a super big fan of this comic, it was really just kind of whatever.
• 15:12
  Matt: No, I think they were trying to play with perspective… It started better than it ended.
• 15:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's also true.
• 15:23
  Tad Eggleston: Just…
• 15:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It was interesting, and then it stopped being.
• 15:27
  Matt: Yes.
• 15:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, actually, the point where he starts eating the doll is kind of weird in and of itself, so…
• 15:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But then, like, it's kind of redeemed, and then it's just sort of like…
• 15:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: At least I had to evolve.
• 15:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Into the world, and hits whatever that is on… Page 13.
• 15:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Before the doll finds him, it's kinda like… Whatever.
• 15:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: It was a complete story, it seemed. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• 16:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Shut up.
• 16:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's dead.
• 16:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And?
• 16:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: even… even airtight garage, I was like, okay.
• 16:12
  Tad Eggleston: Now, I do have a question.
• 16:14
  Tad Eggleston: And I enjoyed Airtight Garage this time.
• 16:18
  Matt: I mean.
• 16:18
  Tad Eggleston: I often enjoy air… I never don't enjoy airtight garage.
• 16:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: But…
• 16:24
  Tad Eggleston: This was the first time that they started talking about levels, and I know from what little I've read of…
• 16:32
  Tad Eggleston: like, the broader-reaching plot of Airtight Garage, as it becomes harder and harder for me not to go read it.
• 16:39
  Tad Eggleston: Before we're done with it.
• 16:43
  Tad Eggleston: there's, you know, part of it is all essentially on one place, in different levels of that place, but is this the first time we've had the levels mentioned?
• 16:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think so. Okay.
• 16:57
  Tad Eggleston: Things are going badly on second level.
• 17:00
  Tad Eggleston: And I feel like…
• 17:02
  Matt: I don't think so. I think it's been mentioned before.
• 17:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I feel like it was actually mentioned a long time ago. Okay.
• 17:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not sure, like, it might have been mentioned various times throughout, but I do remember…
• 17:16
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe it got mentioned before I really knew about it, and I started looking for it after…
• 17:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just remember at some moment where, like, the head of the robot man got snapped off, and they scurry into some hole, because the robot man is controlled by people.
• 17:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, and then they mentioned that they were going into a different level. I thought, but I could be completely wrong about that. I mean…
• 17:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's hard to keep track of all the little details over… Months and months and months.
• 18:00
  Tad Eggleston: So… Yeah… No, I'm…
• 18:07
  Tad Eggleston: Like, I keep going back and forth on whether we… whether I want to finish it, or whether I want to take, like, a hiatus and have us…
• 18:14
  Tad Eggleston: Reed, airtight garage, and then come back.
• 18:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: Should we just skip Airtight Garage and every issue from here on out until we…
• 18:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 18:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, he means, like, read it all… well, I mean, like, if we read it all right now, we could skip it for going forward, theoretically.
• 18:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: OnlyConnect, I…
• 18:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: I get that it's chess, Right. And it seems cool.
• 18:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: That they're having these arguments about, effectively, what the chess pieces can and should do.
• 18:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: And I just… I don't know if I act… I don't know if I like it or not. I thought it was cool, but I don't know if I actually like what's going on, if I understand what's going on.
• 19:04
  Matt: I… it's kind of like humanizing chess pieces.
• 19:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: Right, right.
• 19:09
  Matt: You know, I dug it, and it also had a very spy versus spy feel.
• 19:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: Sure.
• 19:13
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: What happened at the end of this? It's a one… it's the first of a series, right? Like, it's to be continued or whatever?
• 19:22
  Matt: Well, it's a two-partner in this issue.
• 19:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Excuse me.
• 19:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah.
• 19:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I totally forgot that there was a second part of this, it'd be a shame.
• 19:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, it can…
• 19:30
  Tad Eggleston: Continues back near the back.
• 19:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go.
• 19:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I kind of just wish they had, like, considering it's just two parts, and it's in the same issue, I don't…
• 19:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know, it seems like it would have done better as a… not separated.
• 19:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But that's just my opinion.
• 20:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Then again, if they're stretching for content, and this is one of the better items they have, then maybe.
• 20:08
  Matt: They might have put it in to fill space, the second part, right?
• 20:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, or they were just trying to keep your attention for the entire comic or something.
• 20:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think I liked it?
• 20:25
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it.
• 20:30
  Tad Eggleston: Particularly.
• 20:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: sleeping.
• 20:31
  Tad Eggleston: because, like, it's chess, and it's Tetris, and it's…
• 20:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: So I don't… I don't understand this end part, where he's like, the decisions of Magnus can all be debatable.
• 20:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: someone tells them, like, this is illegal, and it's like a… I don't know if this is, like, chess math that I don't understand.
• 20:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: And then at the end, it says cancel illegal.
• 20:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: transmit orders. I was like, well, are you canceling it, or are you transmitting it? Like, what are you doing? Is the move happening or not?
• 20:59
  Matt: Well, he's got 2…
• 21:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it might just mean that he is overriding the illegaleness of it, I don't know.
• 21:13
  Matt: It reminded me of Ender's Game. Have any of you guys seen that or read that book?
• 21:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Tad Eggleston: I have meant to.
• 21:20
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't.
• 21:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There's something else I can remember. I do like this guy's.
• 21:26
  Tad Eggleston: space, though.
• 21:28
  Matt: We've got a mask on.
• 21:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: the mask.
• 21:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: The art overall in this story was cool. I liked all of it.
• 21:35
  Matt: I did too.
• 21:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: Same with, with Buck Rogers. I really, I really liked Buck Rogers, I thought it was a good little thing.
• 21:43
  Matt: I was disappointed with it.
• 21:45
  Dillon Gilbertson: I was mad that I couldn't… I was mad that I couldn't read a lot of the panels.
• 21:49
  Matt: That's why I was disappointed.
• 21:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah. I like at the end how horrid the bald guy looks when he's, like, in his vampire mode or whatever.
• 22:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: Also, he's like… so, when the bald guy turns into vampire…
• 22:11
  Dillon Gilbertson: Buck Rogers jumps on him, and he says something like, even carving my initials doesn't stop him. I'm like, did you think that that was, like, a better move than just stabbing him? Is carving your initials somehow more powerful than just stabbing the dude in the neck?
• 22:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You mean when the bald guy's doppelganger comes in place, right?
• 22:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Well, it's… well, at the end, you're meant to question it, right? Because the guy's normal again, then they take off his shirt, and he's got the initials carved in his chest.
• 22:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But I think it's.
• 22:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: One of those, like, was it all a dream situations.
• 22:43
  Matt: Buck Rogers probably didn't want to kill him.
• 22:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: Even copying my initials doesn't work.
• 22:48
  Matt: Yeah, exactly!
• 22:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: like a jeez.
• 22:50
  Matt: Break his kneecap.
• 22:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: Take his kneecaps instead, how about that?
• 22:54
  Matt: initials in their chest.
• 22:58
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that just felt…
• 22:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Something to do with a skull, and it's like, here's a skull.
• 23:04
  Matt: It's… it's got that weird, campy…
• 23:06
  Tad Eggleston: I was carving the initials into the chest the thing to do?
• 23:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know, that's what I'm saying. And also, to Peter's point, like, you're just showing this monster a skull.
• 23:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: It, like, melts.
• 23:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's supposed to be a skull of itself, and the monsters are all fucking illusions, excuse my language, but…
• 23:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, maybe, yeah, I mean, that makes sense, I guess.
• 23:26
  Matt: divergent ears.
• 23:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yes, Persioneers. Let me go say it some more.
• 23:32
  Matt: Another stuck of penis in my ear.
• 23:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: I would…
• 23:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Whoa.
• 23:36
  Dillon Gilbertson: I wanna… I wanna believe that there's some cool symbolism with, like, showing the skull to itself as its own skull, and it destroys it, but it's just… it was just… it was very weird to see.
• 23:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's kind of one of those things where it's like…
• 23:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Hey, look at your skull, you're already dead.
• 23:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, get out of here, don't you know, you stupid idiot?
• 23:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Pretty much.
• 23:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: You're fuckin' dead already, you dummy.
• 23:58
  Matt: can't be sci-fi, like, early Star Trek, the first Star Trek series.
• 24:03
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 24:03
  Matt: And Buck Rogers, of course.
• 24:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: I love.
• 24:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Rogers, like, a show?
• 24:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Well, I'm more of a Duck Dodgers guy myself, but…
• 24:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, no, I'm, I'm with you there.
• 24:17
  Dillon Gilbertson: I… I'll be honest.
• 24:18
  Matt: Yes, Gordon.
• 24:19
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just the sheer absurdity and the audacity of Buck Rogers to think that carving his initials is the most powerful move he can do to subdue this insane creature. It almost makes… this might be my favorite story in the book… in the thing. It's just so weird and hilarious.
• 24:38
  Matt: And for that exact reason, it's not my favorite.
• 24:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: I love it. It's so weird.
• 24:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Stupid. Is it just?
• 24:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's Buck Rogers, and, like, it just looks like the only…
• 24:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: First of all, I'm not even sure that's a B. It does look a little bit like a… It looks like a TS, almost. Exactly!
• 24:56
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, maybe that's why it didn't work, is because he didn't effectively do his initials, he drew a TS instead, and so it wasn't as effective.
• 25:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: If it was a fee, it would have worked. Supposed to be, like, his holy,
• 25:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Holy symbol, so it's just… Like, scra- or, you know…
• 25:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Carves his holy symbol into, sorry, his initials into the monster, and the monster will just go away, right?
• 25:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, even Zorro didn't have the audacity to think that the Z was what's gonna stop them.
• 25:29
  Matt: Correct.
• 25:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think there was something else going on there.
• 25:34
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I believe that.
• 25:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think he thought it was gonna stop other people by him putting a Z on them.
• 25:40
  Matt: And the word initials By itself, kind of implies two letters?
• 25:47
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah, well, it actually doesn't… hold on, it doesn't say initials, I just realized. It says my initial.
• 25:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh my god. So just, just B, so just his first name, the initial of his first.
• 25:59
  Matt: Ravi and Buck.
• 26:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Fuck.
• 26:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It just reminds me of, a different buck. Anyhow…
• 26:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: like, oh, like, my name is Buck, kind of a situation, I know what you're saying.
• 26:12
  Matt: Cocoa?
• 26:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: I get you.
• 26:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, different, different one.
• 26:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think, didn't that, didn't they do the whole bloody affair recently? Is that still in theaters?
• 26:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: I don't know, I mean, they did.
• 26:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: So in theaters.
• 26:25
  Tad Eggleston: My, the Kill Bill?
• 26:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Nope.
• 26:28
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Tad Eggleston: Jonah went yesterday, or… Saturday, rather.
• 26:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 26:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's my fault.
• 26:39
  Dillon Gilbertson: God.
• 26:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: carve a bead in the thing's chest, and you can't stop it, I don't know what does.
• 26:48
  Tad Eggleston: John's calling.
• 26:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Damn.
• 26:49
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe if he'd done a, an R… He used the wrong initial.
• 26:55
  Matt: Bright.
• 26:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's gotta be the other, Rogers, Rogers.
• 26:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, to be fair, depending on how we did it, it would have been an R for a moment.
• 27:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: One of that?
• 27:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's true.
• 27:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: He just went too far. He started to die, and then he finished…
• 27:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Being like…
• 27:11
  Dillon Gilbertson: And then he finished the B, and then it came back.
• 27:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: This is not like he made a, like, round B. He very much.
• 27:19
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, yeah, no, you're… yeah.
• 27:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, cut this into the game.
• 27:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I'm gonna choose.
• 27:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That sent me to go this far into it.
• 27:26
  Dillon Gilbertson: Somewhere… somewhere between the panels, he did 90% of this B, and the thing started to weaken and die, and then he… and then he was like, oh, now he's weakened, and I can finish my B, and then finishes it, and then the thing regains its strength and starts to come after him again.
• 27:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, then a skull has to be used.
• 27:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, then we gotta go nuclear with the… with showing it its own skull.
• 27:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Showing it, that's already dead.
• 27:52
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 27:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Anyway, Buck Rogers was bad.
• 27:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: I loved it. I'll be honest, I might say this is my favorite.
• 28:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It was bad, but it was funny bad.
• 28:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: I enjoyed it.
• 28:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: What's that line? So bad it's good?
• 28:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:11
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's the Troll 2 of its day.
• 28:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: Alright, we can move on.
• 28:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 28:19
  Tad Eggleston: I was trying to send the pictures to my cousin, but they didn't work from the iPad the way they were supposed to.
• 28:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Bummer.
• 28:31
  Tad Eggleston: So, I will try again.
• 28:34
  Tad Eggleston: In a second.
• 28:35
  Tad Eggleston: Rising to the occasion.
• 28:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Thoughts? Thoughts on this one?
• 28:46
  Matt: I like the artwork.
• 28:49
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yep.
• 28:52
  Matt: It's a cute story, it's not…
• 28:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: cloudy looking.
• 28:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Tad Eggleston: I… I would have liked a little bit more definition to the artwork.
• 29:05
  Matt: I like that stippled, no hard lines.
• 29:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Very interesting.
• 29:10
  Tad Eggleston: No, I… and I'm… I'm not… I'm not completely disagreeing, I'm just saying… A little bit more definition.
• 29:19
  Tad Eggleston: I would have appreciated.
• 29:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, maybe color.
• 29:27
  Tad Eggleston: That might have done it.
• 29:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 29:34
  Tad Eggleston: And I feel like Little Red V3 would have worked a lot better.
• 29:38
  Tad Eggleston: and color.
• 29:39
  Matt: Probably.
• 29:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, especially since I don't know who Little Red V3 is… no, I'm kidding. I'm guessing it's the little robot.
• 29:47
  Matt: Which one's the red one?
• 29:51
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, it's the Red Riding Hood story, but, like, there's just not enough. And clearly, like.
• 30:00
  Tad Eggleston: The tables get flipped at the end, but, like…
• 30:02
  Matt: Not in a way that makes a ton of sense.
• 30:06
  Matt: That's true.
• 30:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, not like the doll.
• 30:12
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 30:13
  Matt: Right.
• 30:14
  Tad Eggleston: Say the doll made more sense.
• 30:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm just saying, the tables get flipped with a dot, it makes more sense.
• 30:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: In this case, it's just like, oh, you're pretending to be Mother Brain, and I'm shooting you.
• 30:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: a grand generator.
• 30:40
  Tad Eggleston: But… yeah.
• 30:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Tad Eggleston: And then these are crazy times we live in?
• 30:48
  Tad Eggleston: The better to discombobulate you with.
• 30:59
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 31:01
  Tad Eggleston: It's just… and I think also color would have worked better because of the level of detail to, like, all the circuit boards behind.
• 31:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 31:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I do really like the detail of the grand generator, and of the first few pages, really.
• 31:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, I mean, there's a lot to like about this story.
• 31:19
  Matt: Oh, yeah.
• 31:20
  Tad Eggleston: And I just think…
• 31:26
  Tad Eggleston: some basic color, like Mobius-style… not overly… .
• 31:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The design of Wolfbot is pretty good, or whatever that thing is.
• 31:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I like the, I like the design of, V3, too.
• 31:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, no, it's a good design.
• 31:48
  Tad Eggleston: and… I… I thought kind of the… the… they went almost too far with the…
• 31:55
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, Grand Generator, what big Matagulls you have!
• 32:01
  Tad Eggleston: The better to… Mad Goli is you, my dear.
• 32:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, if you're gonna do it… We're gonna go, go hard.
• 32:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Go hard.
• 32:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The quiet one.
• 32:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, just… In the Grail War, I didn't actually read, but the art was great.
• 32:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That is some pretty great art.
• 32:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, like this skelly boy, this grim… this grim boy in the back there.
• 32:35
  Matt: Yep.
• 32:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I also did not read this one.
• 32:45
  Tad Eggleston: This helmet doesn't look very practical.
• 32:48
  Matt: It reminds me of, Monty Python.
• 32:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, the piece when he's the black knight.
• 32:53
  Tad Eggleston: It kind of reminds me of IG-88.
• 32:56
  Matt: It does, yeah.
• 32:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, I can see that.
• 33:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: I mean, just the big thing on top of its head? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's all you need. That's all… that's all that defines IG-88, is that this is his head.
• 33:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I guess, like…
• 33:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Theoretically, it's better than getting hit directly in the head, but it doesn't… yeah. No, it just seems like it's making a bigger target for him. I don't know.
• 33:23
  Dillon Gilbertson: Very top-heavy.
• 33:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: Nick Cross.
• 33:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Unless it's set up so that when it gets hit, it, you know, breaks.
• 33:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: In most case, I could see an advantage for that, but…
• 33:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But something tells me that's not the case.
• 33:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: This, this Elvis story…
• 33:50
  Tad Eggleston: Elvis the Mushroom Dragon?
• 33:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: it has two of my favorite panels.
• 34:01
  Matt: Yeah, this was a great… this was a fun read. I really liked this story.
• 34:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 34:05
  Matt: And I love the Tolkien-esque, music on one of the pages, where.
• 34:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah!
• 34:11
  Matt: But you have to sing it!
• 34:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: so cool!
• 34:15
  Tad Eggleston: That was cool.
• 34:17
  Tad Eggleston: That page kicks ass.
• 34:19
  Matt: It does.
• 34:19
  Tad Eggleston: That… that was in the running for my panel.
• 34:28
  Tad Eggleston: But I don't think it wins.
• 34:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: And then, like, a few pages down, this one with, like.
• 34:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: The dinosaur on the cliffside in, like, this cloud skull situation.
• 34:39
  Dillon Gilbertson: Pretty fucking cool.
• 34:53
  Matt: Yes, this was a fun read, good story.
• 34:57
  Tad Eggleston: It was.
• 34:58
  Tad Eggleston: I still think that I liked its reference in the Disco Edito.
• 35:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: Hmm.
• 35:06
  Tad Eggleston: better than I liked it as a Story.
• 35:09
  Tad Eggleston: Cause among other things, I also, like…
• 35:13
  Tad Eggleston: We've talked about this a few times in Heavy Metal, where…
• 35:17
  Tad Eggleston: It feels more like an illustrated story than a comic.
• 35:21
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 35:22
  Matt: Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 35:25
  Matt: Which is what Elric, I think, tried to do?
• 35:28
  Matt: But we'll get that, we'll get to that.
• 35:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, we'll get to Elric.
• 35:33
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, the art… the art was good. It was fun.
• 35:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Tad Eggleston: But… .
• 35:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Very colorful.
• 35:44
  Tad Eggleston: The bus?
• 35:47
  Tad Eggleston: like… I love Paul Karchner's art.
• 35:53
  Tad Eggleston: and this might be the least interesting bus, to me, anyway.
• 36:00
  Tad Eggleston: Cuz, yeah, like, they're fantastic creatures, and I love that.
• 36:05
  Tad Eggleston: But I'm used to, like… and I like what he does with perspective with the bus.
• 36:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, it doesn't…
• 36:10
  Tad Eggleston: have anything with perspective.
• 36:11
  Dillon Gilbertson: There's no, there's no real, like…
• 36:13
  Tad Eggleston: Here, it's just…
• 36:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: It doesn't pull the rug out from under you at all, it doesn't slip anything on its head, it's just, oh, a weird thing happening.
• 36:20
  Tad Eggleston: It's just a weird group of people crossing the street and getting honked at.
• 36:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 36:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: She goes, no.
• 36:27
  Matt: The little guy at the end, he crosses before he's… after he's not supposed to, because the light changed.
• 36:33
  Matt: So now he's got a hustle, and he's getting honked at.
• 36:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: So, like, the what?
• 36:40
  Tad Eggleston: No, I got that, but it's still… like…
• 36:50
  Tad Eggleston: The only part of the conceit here is that it's creatures crossing the street rather than…
• 36:57
  Matt: people.
• 37:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You're right. You should have just made it people, and we should have just had a very, very in-depth look at people crossing the street.
• 37:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: That would be…
• 37:11
  Tad Eggleston: I'm not saying that. I would've made it worse. I'm just… I'm just saying…
• 37:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: leave it again.
• 37:14
  Tad Eggleston: And, like… No, I'm sorry, I was trying to be funny.
• 37:18
  Tad Eggleston: does such interesting things with perspective and playing with the medium, generally. And this is about content rather than delivery.
• 37:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 37:32
  Matt: Thank you so much.
• 37:32
  Tad Eggleston: It's kind of an outlier, and I don't dislike it, I just… it's not as, like…
• 37:39
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, if I wasn't comparing it to other the buses… Right.
• 37:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure. No, I was gonna say, to me, this is his…
• 37:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: hey, I don't have any ideas right now, go throw this together and, you know, take it or leave it, right?
• 37:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 37:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's worth it.
• 37:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The half page, and they're just trying to get content, they took it, right?
• 38:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: If this were the only bus, it would be the best bus.
• 38:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not finished.
• 38:07
  Tad Eggleston: For that matter, I'm even a little bit disappointed that the windshield wipers aren't moving.
• 38:13
  Tad Eggleston: They're in, like, an up position.
• 38:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm trying to remember where a bus's window shield might be to stop, but that definitely doesn't seem like it's right.
• 38:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's definitely not right in the middle.
• 38:27
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 38:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I mean, like, it might stop in the middle of, like, the panel…
• 38:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 38:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But it's not gonna stop half-hedged.
• 38:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, one of them is.
• 38:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right, and it's not gonna… I don't think any of it's gonna… or much of it's gonna be blocking the window.
• 38:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Normally, I think it's just, like, a single…
• 38:48
  Tad Eggleston: How much time you're spending on… 8.
• 38:51
  Matt: Always spend the time on the bus.
• 38:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: rationally.
• 38:54
  Matt: I love it.
• 38:55
  Matt: My only critique.
• 38:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And to be perfectly honest, it's your fault, man!
• 39:00
  Tad Eggleston: That's true.
• 39:01
  Matt: Can I just say my only critique about the bus? In the first panel, the light should be yellow.
• 39:07
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, that would be good. Yeah, yeah.
• 39:08
  Matt: Because then you'd understand, these guys just stopped, now these people are crossing.
• 39:15
  Matt: I feel like that was a missed opportunity, but other than that, it was great.
• 39:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 39:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: A world between. Everybody read it? Everybody read it? No? No?
• 39:32
  Matt: Nice.
• 39:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You've read it twice?
• 39:35
  Matt: I'm joking.
• 39:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I.
• 39:37
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, good on you. I did not.
• 39:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, and then Elric came, and my first instinct with Elric was, oh, it's prose, it looks like it has some pretty imagery, but I'm not gonna read this. And then it, like, did this devious switch from…
• 39:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: being pros to actually being a comic, and I was like…
• 39:58
  Dillon Gilbertson: You son, I love it.
• 39:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I actually went back to try and read the first bit, which was not…
• 40:04
  Matt: Yeah, it reads like the Silmarillion by Tolkien.
• 40:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: Ehhh…
• 40:09
  Tad Eggleston: Michael Moore.
• 40:10
  Matt: That's hard to get.
• 40:10
  Tad Eggleston: Is an acquired taste.
• 40:13
  Tad Eggleston: But, damn.
• 40:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Andrew is great.
• 40:15
  Tad Eggleston: it.
• 40:16
  Matt: Yeah, but Bruner's artwork, Frank Bruner drawing this stuff…
• 40:20
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, no, the art was amazing.
• 40:22
  Tad Eggleston: But I just… I decided just not to read the words, even in the parts that were more comic.
• 40:28
  Matt: You could read the words?
• 40:32
  Matt: I couldn't.
• 40:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But, yeah, it was not an easy thing to get through.
• 40:42
  Tad Eggleston: The art is pretty.
• 40:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: the artist.
• 40:44
  Matt: Yo.
• 40:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I like… I like the green eyes there, yeah.
• 40:48
  Tad Eggleston: to have the.
• 40:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I like the one previous where the…
• 40:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Woman looks like she's being possessed.
• 40:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 40:57
  Matt: Yeah, this… the crappy dialogue…
• 41:00
  Matt: That was not to slay you, it was to persuade you from attacking me so I show you my prowess. I just… ugh, it was hard. It was painful.
• 41:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 41:10
  Dillon Gilbertson: enough.
• 41:10
  Tad Eggleston: And then we got to the…
• 41:11
  Matt: Oh, wait, devil!
• 41:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I really like this, this bottom panel here.
• 41:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, that's cool.
• 41:19
  Tad Eggleston: The chess pieces shooting out. That was pretty cool.
• 41:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Hitting, like, what seems to be the end of space.
• 41:28
  Matt: Well, no, they're doing a hype.
• 41:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: black.
• 41:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right?
• 41:31
  Matt: They're doing a hyperjump from one square to another.
• 41:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I think you're right.
• 41:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But…
• 41:37
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's still amusing.
• 41:39
  Matt: Yeah, no, I love it. I really like this.
• 41:42
  Matt: story.
• 41:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: This is only Kinect, the spirit of the game, this is the second part, continued from earlier.
• 41:52
  Tad Eggleston: Page 24.
• 41:59
  Tad Eggleston: And then there's another shoot-em-off-into-space.
• 42:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I like that one too. I like how they're… they're conclave and convex as well.
• 42:11
  Tad Eggleston: I kinda like the chess pieces in Space Battle.
• 42:14
  Dillon Gilbertson: Pew, pew, pew.
• 42:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Joe.
• 42:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, I didn't notice that the… the panels here are, like, checkered.
• 42:34
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and see, we get the… the…
• 42:38
  Dillon Gilbertson: A little game…
• 42:39
  Tad Eggleston: It also turns out that, like, maybe we had people, like.
• 42:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, you got the hand coming from outer space… Starts messing with perspective.
• 42:50
  Matt: And that's why it had that Ender's Game feel to me.
• 42:53
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 42:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 42:59
  Tad Eggleston: They actually.
• 43:00
  Matt: AirTight garage was great.
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: Very much enjoyed this part of Airtight Garage.
• 43:05
  Matt: I enjoyed this half better than the first half.
• 43:08
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Particularly, like, right now, it's…
• 43:14
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't think it's changing. This is my favorite panel.
• 43:17
  Tad Eggleston: The harpoon at the.
• 43:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: Submarine.
• 43:19
  Tad Eggleston: in the…
• 43:22
  Matt: There's a lot to unpack there.
• 43:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 43:26
  Dillon Gilbertson: Submarine…
• 43:30
  Tad Eggleston: crashing waves.
• 43:35
  Tad Eggleston: I don't even know how to describe the sky.
• 43:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, lightning bolts.
• 43:41
  Matt: I'm Lesbury. Naive.
• 43:42
  Tad Eggleston: So, 3 sons.
• 43:45
  Matt: Yeah?
• 43:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 43:47
  Matt: Or those moons.
• 43:48
  Tad Eggleston: For that matter, the panel above it's pretty damn good, too.
• 43:51
  Matt: Yup.
• 43:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 43:57
  Tad Eggleston: Then we got some more Telefield.
• 44:00
  Matt: Yeah, this was…
• 44:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: Meh.
• 44:03
  Tad Eggleston: That's pretty much what Telefield has been.
• 44:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: Meh, meh.
• 44:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Why you guys don't love Tunnelfield?
• 44:09
  Tad Eggleston: I do, I do kind of like this, this, this… explosion.
• 44:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: I've seen better.
• 44:14
  Matt: Almost Corbin-esque, but it's not.
• 44:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I've seen better.
• 44:18
  Matt: Yeah.
• 44:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah,
• 44:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I was gonna say, my favorite panel, keep going, one more page. See that little, little panel there in the very bottom?
• 44:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: What?
• 44:27
  Tad Eggleston: end.
• 44:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: I get it.
• 44:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Bad joke. Bad joke.
• 44:34
  Matt: What?
• 44:34
  Dillon Gilbertson: I get the joke.
• 44:36
  Matt: you're bad.
• 44:37
  Tad Eggleston: Shelter continues to be good.
• 44:39
  Matt: Oh yeah, my God, this was my favorite story.
• 44:42
  Tad Eggleston: makes me want to, like, go… I still have it, I have it, but it makes me need to read the better translation in 1996 even more.
• 44:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh. Yeah.
• 44:55
  Tad Eggleston: Because the shelter is really good.
• 45:03
  Tad Eggleston: But, I mean, frankly, for my money, if they… if they had given us the shelter, airtight garage,
• 45:13
  Tad Eggleston: the… the Game 1… Maybe the car from space, and then more alien?
• 45:24
  Tad Eggleston: I would have been happier.
• 45:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Wait, no, no Elvis.
• 45:29
  Matt: I can see where you're coming from.
• 45:31
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, if they.
• 45:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I needed Elvis to fill out.
• 45:37
  Tad Eggleston: Again, if they would add color to Little Red V3.
• 45:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 45:42
  Tad Eggleston: And if there was space for Elvis, I mean, it all depends on how much Alien they were gonna give us.
• 45:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I'm just saying, there's only, like, 64 pages.
• 45:50
  Tad Eggleston: I just told you.
• 45:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: cutting out, I feel like they're…
• 45:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Still be room for a few of these things.
• 45:58
  Tad Eggleston: No, and that's my point, is like, I hope that they'd keep Elvis rather than Telefield.
• 46:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Unfortunately, that probably wouldn't happen, just cause it's ongoing.
• 46:15
  Tad Eggleston: But also, because Elvis is a one-shot thing, they could have dropped it
• 46:19
  Tad Eggleston: And some other issue that they needed.
• 46:21
  Matt: Filler.
• 46:22
  Matt: Absolutely.
• 46:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, some other issue could have been bad, is what you're saying.
• 46:27
  Tad Eggleston: No, see, if you're not having to use.
• 46:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: He's awful.
• 46:30
  Tad Eggleston: All the filler in one issue?
• 46:33
  Tad Eggleston: Then the filler generally plays better.
• 46:36
  Matt: Do you know how insulting it is that we're calling these stories fillers?
• 46:42
  Matt: I would feel like coffee fillers!
• 46:44
  Tad Eggleston: I would feel much less comfortable Doing so…
• 46:50
  Tad Eggleston: If it was 40 years ago.
• 46:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, okay. The one 40 years ago?
• 46:55
  Matt: Yeah, I get that.
• 46:56
  Tad Eggleston: Because I'm more comfortable doing so now, because the chances that I'm actually insulting somebody, or turning off
• 47:05
  Tad Eggleston: Somebody from something that they could have gone and helped somebody's career are slim to none, particularly because we didn't do a particularly good job of introducing artists this episode.
• 47:18
  Matt: That's true.
• 47:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's also true.
• 47:22
  Tad Eggleston: So, essentially, all we've said is, Mobius, good. Montelier, Montelier, good.
• 47:33
  Matt: Elvis.
• 47:33
  Tad Eggleston: You're looking at single-ish… Of… heavy metal. Maybe don't pay more than a couple bucks for this one.
• 47:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: 7.30, Peter got a hard out.
• 47:49
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, he's got a heart out at 7.30, my time.
• 47:53
  Matt: Oh, oh, okay, that makes way more sense. I was like, holy crap.
• 47:57
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I don't think we're gonna make it to there.
• 48:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I mean, we're almost… I mean, we just got through months.
• 48:02
  Tad Eggleston: This is the last story.
• 48:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yay.
• 48:03
  Matt: Yeah, this is the last story.
• 48:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, we're on Montelier, which is.
• 48:07
  Tad Eggleston: And I love how they split up them all, and I'm…
• 48:13
  Tad Eggleston: It's so organized that here's my question.
• 48:19
  Tad Eggleston: Is it eventually gonna turn out that the twist is no bomb went off?
• 48:25
  Matt: I thought the same thing.
• 48:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think we've talked about that before.
• 48:29
  Tad Eggleston: We might have.
• 48:31
  Tad Eggleston: Because it really feels like they built a bomb shelter, and they set this all up, and we have decided that we will stay in our…
• 48:43
  Matt: Administrative position.
• 48:44
  Tad Eggleston: Administrative positions.
• 48:46
  Matt: Yeah. Dicks.
• 48:50
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it just… it feels like, hmm, how can Mall Administrator become a cool job?
• 48:57
  Matt: Yeah, exactly.
• 48:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You mean more on the lines of…
• 49:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: How can I go off and try to…
• 49:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Take advantage of people and create my own mini-empire.
• 49:11
  Matt: Yeah, exactly. On the surface, it feels like a fallout story, but it's got this nice, political twist where people are trying to seize power very quickly and control the masses.
• 49:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It'll be interesting to see what happens.
• 49:26
  Tad Eggleston: They planned… they had planned for this in their mall.
• 49:29
  Matt: Exactly, like, look, we got.
• 49:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Not bad.
• 49:32
  Matt: Lumber badges for all of you?
• 49:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It'll be interesting to see where this goes, it's just…
• 49:37
  Matt: Yes.
• 49:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not sure, like, part of me is like, okay, if the mall, like, just shut down and there wasn't any sort of actual.
• 49:45
  Matt: Emergency.
• 49:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Emergency, then at some point, they're gonna be at odds with some outside force that's not radioactive waste.
• 49:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's probably gonna be, you know, an outside military force instead.
• 50:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Or, you know, maybe there'll first be some… some people just thinking that it needs to be opened up and rescued, unless…
• 50:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, they're sending off fake…
• 50:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fake, emissions of some weird… Shut down, right?
• 50:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 50:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It'll be an interesting ride. It's… it's good fun so far.
• 50:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: By which I mean there's definitely deviousness going on, and… pottery, and…
• 50:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: pottery.
• 50:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Lottery.
• 50:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, you know, words. They're great, aren't they? I totally know them right now.
• 50:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Definitely not recovering from being sick.
• 50:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: bigly words.
• 50:47
  Matt: I like the dude's Dorito pajamas there, or pizza slice pajamas.
• 50:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: That's clearly pi.
• 50:53
  Matt: Okay, my pajamas.
• 50:55
  Dillon Gilbertson: Clearly.
• 50:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It reminds me of the, like, weird, like, the weird, their tacos.
• 51:00
  Matt: Thought it was the reaction.
• 51:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Colors.
• 51:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah. It's almost like a Rocco's…
• 51:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's not that weird, like, 80s, whatever.
• 51:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Designs.
• 51:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I guess this is what happened in 79, so it couldn't be those, right?
• 51:17
  Tad Eggleston: Is there a reason that they're in formal wear, or did that just happen?
• 51:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't remember. I feel like…
• 51:26
  Matt: It didn't…
• 51:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Is that informal wear this entire time? That's the question.
• 51:31
  Matt: I feel like they just went to the mall and got new clothes to suit their assignment.
• 51:34
  Tad Eggleston: I don't even think they're informal… are they informal wear for the whole… oh, no, they're informal wear and paid.
• 51:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, they're informal all throughout this episode, or this issue, rather, but…
• 51:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But I don't remember if they were in formal wear in previous…
• 51:48
  Tad Eggleston: I don't either.
• 51:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think they might have been.
• 51:52
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna have to pull out my Montelier book.
• 52:00
  Tad Eggleston: I love how she gets to make a library. They've got everything since Gutenberg, and he's gotta learn to be…
• 52:09
  Tad Eggleston: Is it a…
• 52:09
  Matt: Electrician.
• 52:10
  Tad Eggleston: or a plumber?
• 52:11
  Matt: No.
• 52:12
  Dillon Gilbertson: I didn't know Steve wrote a boat.
• 52:14
  Matt: Wouldn't it already be cataloged?
• 52:16
  Matt: That's what kind of threw me. Like, the bookstore has a catalog of what it has.
• 52:20
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but that… that to me is more evidence that, that it's, like, staged.
• 52:29
  Tad Eggleston: You know, they brought everything in…
• 52:33
  Matt: We're gonna give you meaningless jobs.
• 52:35
  Matt: That make you feel purpose.
• 52:37
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 52:38
  Matt: We can control you.
• 52:39
  Tad Eggleston: And there are no kids now, but, you know, some later point, they're gonna start… advocating for…
• 52:48
  Tad Eggleston: Children to be made.
• 52:50
  Tad Eggleston: To give them more purpose.
• 52:54
  Matt: I mean…
• 52:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Aren't there kids? There's that little kid.
• 52:57
  Tad Eggleston: I thought there were, like… doesn't he say there are, like, 3 children in the whole place? That's why he can't be a teacher?
• 53:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.
• 53:04
  Matt: Yes.
• 53:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's right.
• 53:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: He does say that.
• 53:09
  Matt: Yeah, there are only 3 kids in the whole center.
• 53:12
  Tad Eggleston: A remedial math teacher.
• 53:14
  Matt: Yep.
• 53:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 53:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: If it's, anything like today, they probably still need a remedial math teacher.
• 53:30
  Tad Eggleston: Well, they might at some point.
• 53:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I didn't mean for the kid.
• 53:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No!
• 53:36
  Tad Eggleston: No, because the administrators don't want everybody else to know math.
• 53:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, the administrators need to know math, though.
• 53:44
  Tad Eggleston: No, they don't.
• 53:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: He obviously needed to be put in finance.
• 53:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, I'm close… Finance position, where you can only see the parts of it.
• 53:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Only how slowly assimilate it all and figure it out.
• 54:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Nevermind. Anyhow.
• 54:05
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 54:07
  Tad Eggleston: And I don't know, they all have to sleep in the same…
• 54:11
  Matt: Furniture department?
• 54:12
  Tad Eggleston: Furniture department.
• 54:14
  Tad Eggleston: There are 800-some-odd people, do they sleep in shifts, and there's…
• 54:18
  Matt: That's a big branch of the apartment. Right?
• 54:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, and there's no, like, room, like.
• 54:25
  Matt: Privacy. No wonder I don't have enough kids.
• 54:28
  Tad Eggleston: You would think that they would allow for the beds to be moved places.
• 54:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right? Yeah, I… I kinda suspect, if it… it might still be day one, and, like.
• 54:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I can expect there are things that need to be done before other things are done, but…
• 54:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I have to suspect that they can't just, like, leave all the beds next to each other.
• 54:53
  Matt: long.
• 54:53
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but, I mean, it seems like that's what the administrators want.
• 54:58
  Tad Eggleston: Organize a communal lifestyle, which be as pleasant as possible.
• 55:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, you know,
• 55:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: you can just, get your… get your jollies by going to the bedroom and, seeing who's doing it at the time. Gotcha.
• 55:15
  Tad Eggleston: Something like that.
• 55:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry, this was before Christmas.
• 55:21
  Tad Eggleston: The guy in the glasses is weird, too, with the E on his shirt.
• 55:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: E is for everyone.
• 55:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, not.
• 55:31
  Matt: Today's episode is brought to you by the letter E.
• 55:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Does he have a stethoscope?
• 55:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Do you get a doctor?
• 55:40
  Tad Eggleston: BB?
• 55:43
  Tad Eggleston: Or is it… that, I think, is his numbered badge, because everybody has one.
• 55:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: Oh, yeah.
• 55:51
  Matt: Yeah, I see what you're talking about, I'm guessing bad.
• 55:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: bench.
• 55:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 56:04
  Tad Eggleston: Let's see.
• 56:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's not as good as fuck rides.
• 56:06
  Tad Eggleston: Rather than eating all over the center, it would be preferable if meals were served at fixed times in the cafeteria, which seats 1,000 people.
• 56:16
  Matt: How's my initial in your chest.
• 56:18
  Tad Eggleston: Sleeping quarters will be set up in the furniture department.
• 56:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, they're sleeping all at the same time.
• 56:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: In the furniture department, dude.
• 56:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Apparently.
• 56:32
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah… I don't know.
• 56:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, this doesn't… this seems like they were like, oh, we'll put together a nuclear apocalypse plan.
• 56:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And they just sort of half-assed it, and then they were like, It's definitely.
• 56:50
  Tad Eggleston: Something fishy going on here.
• 56:52
  Matt: I was just thinking about this. They're not half-assing it. They're trying to imagine what this situation would be like, and we're just so fucking jaded, because we're so close to that now, and you can't even know exactly what we're doing. You mean… you mean because we're living in it?
• 57:08
  Matt: That's what I'm saying, like, I feel like this is, like, someone's real honest attempt to, like, try and put this on paper and be like, it might be like this. I'm like, dude, you got it wrong.
• 57:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I guess…
• 57:21
  Tad Eggleston: You could be right about that.
• 57:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: 40 years later, things are.
• 57:25
  Matt: Oh, yeah!
• 57:25
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's gonna be interesting to see where it goes, because I could totally see the administrators being fascists.
• 57:33
  Matt: Oh, absolutely.
• 57:35
  Matt: Yeah, this was my favorite story and my favorite ongoing.
• 57:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yep.
• 57:39
  Matt: Loved it.
• 57:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry.
• 57:42
  Matt: And I didn't like it for when I read the first piece.
• 57:45
  Matt: In the previous issue.
• 57:48
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like this is the third piece, isn't it?
• 57:50
  Matt: Well, whatever. It finally got interesting for me.
• 57:54
  Tad Eggleston: Heh, yeah.
• 57:57
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, so you're saying this is your favorite… And favorite ongoing.
• 58:02
  Matt: Yep.
• 58:03
  Matt: Buck Rogers.
• 58:05
  Dillon Gilbertson: Mark Rogers! I'm telling you guys!
• 58:11
  Tad Eggleston: For both?
• 58:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, I think Buck Rogers… I mean, Buck… we all know that there's a lot more Buck Rogers comics, but, like, I don't know if…
• 58:19
  Dillon Gilbertson: this… I don't know if it counts, I think it says END at the end.
• 58:23
  Matt: Yeah, we've never seen one before.
• 58:25
  Dillon Gilbertson: Well, it does say end at the end, right?
• 58:28
  Matt: So I can'.
• 58:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, they'll say that.
• 58:29
  Matt: where I'm going.
• 58:30
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah. So yeah, so that one's just my favorite story, because it's the best.
• 58:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's pretty amusing.
• 58:40
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 58:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: choices.
• 58:42
  Tad Eggleston: Ongoing for Peter or Dylan?
• 58:45
  Tad Eggleston: Because mine's airtight garage.
• 58:48
  Matt: That was my second.
• 58:50
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like it was time to, while you're thinking, Tracy did weigh in and say that the shuttle wouldn't fly a convertible. Convertibles aren't very aerodynamic. How did the convertible get to space? And whether or not things fall into orbit depends on mass.
• 59:07
  Matt: You didn't… you didn't send her pictures?
• 59:09
  Tad Eggleston: I did, but she hasn't responded since.
• 59:11
  Matt: Oh, oh, okay.
• 59:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So… Yeah, that, that, that, that expands upon our problems.
• 59:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Favorite ongoing, I will also go with the second part of Airtight Garage.
• 59:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: I'm gonna say shelter.
• 59:29
  Tad Eggleston: So you're gonna specify the second part of airtight Garage.
• 59:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 59:34
  Matt: We do it.
• 59:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's a solid choice, I respect that, Peter.
• 59:39
  Tad Eggleston: Me too!
• 59:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not saying the first part isn't good, I just… it's not…
• 59:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 59:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They weren't ongoing.
• 59:49
  Tad Eggleston: Hell yeah.
• 59:50
  Dillon Gilbertson: Only one can be a favorite.
• 59:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, you could decide how to do it.
• 59:55
  Tad Eggleston: Both parts, but…
• 59:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, well, you're you, but I'm me.
• 59:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: Breaking the rules, it's your podcast, so you can do whatever you want.
• 1:00:02
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly.
• 1:00:03
  Matt: Exactly!
• 1:00:07
  Matt: Power corrupts, man.
• 1:00:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: An absolute power crops, absolutely!
• 1:00:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: What's.
• 1:00:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I can't listen to Spider-Man's uncle about…
• 1:00:22
  Matt: Great power.
• 1:00:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Responsibility? Responsibility.
• 1:00:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Are we going on to Favorite Story?
• 1:00:33
  Matt: Spirit panel.
• 1:00:33
  Dillon Gilbertson: We all, we all, we all chose Buck Rogers.
• 1:00:40
  Tad Eggleston: a favorite ongoing?
• 1:00:42
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, shelter.
• 1:00:44
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so Shelter was your favorite ongoing, too?
• 1:00:46
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:48
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, yeah, we're just down to Peter for favorite story, because mine.
• 1:00:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I was gonna say shelter for Favorite Story.
• 1:00:55
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:00:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, there's a lot of love for shelter and airtight garage.
• 1:01:00
  Tad Eggleston: As there should be.
• 1:01:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: Bold move. I'll let the comments rip you apart for not choosing Buck Rogers, I guess.
• 1:01:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Buck Roger's really good. I suppose I could have made some space for that, but I didn't.
• 1:01:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Sure, sure.
• 1:01:16
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, I'm gonna let the comments rip me apart. I didn't… I thought the art was good in Buck Rogers.
• 1:01:23
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't think this.
• 1:01:24
  Dillon Gilbertson: I… I really… I'm… the fact that he carves his initials in there is carrying… it's carrying a lot of weight for me. See, see…
• 1:01:32
  Tad Eggleston: Whatever I was there.
• 1:01:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: Like, completely went away when he carved his initials.
• 1:01:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Genius, or really stupid, and…
• 1:01:43
  Matt: I just have to watch.
• 1:01:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Watch the, the… car wreck in motion. Train wreck in motion, I should say, yeah.
• 1:01:52
  Tad Eggleston: I'm in there.
• 1:01:52
  Matt: There is a car wreck in motion in this… carving my initials in for what we were taking.
• 1:01:57
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah.
• 1:01:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Not initials, initials.
• 1:01:59
  Matt: Sorry, right.
• 1:02:01
  Dillon Gilbertson: First initial.
• 1:02:02
  Dillon Gilbertson: Only Buck. The only part of his name that's important is Buck.
• 1:02:06
  Tad Eggleston: My panel is the airtight garage… the last panel of airtight Garage from this book.
• 1:02:13
  Tad Eggleston: the, the, the way.
• 1:02:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's.
• 1:02:15
  Matt: Yeah, that's a…
• 1:02:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That was a big part of the reason why I chose Airtight Garage for, for ongoing, or the second part of Airtight Garage for ongoing.
• 1:02:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Because I have a different panel on what it is, so…
• 1:02:28
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, what's your… what's your panel, then?
• 1:02:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Only connect on page 73, the bottom panel that we talked about. Nice,
• 1:02:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Convexing, black into white, and… Space, space chess pieces.
• 1:02:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Going into Hyper Warp or whatever.
• 1:02:56
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 1:02:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We need to jump.
• 1:03:01
  Tad Eggleston: That is nice.
• 1:03:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: My favorite panel is this rockin' lizard on 52.
• 1:03:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: Rage 52.
• 1:03:16
  Dillon Gilbertson: But I want to give honorable mention
• 1:03:20
  Dillon Gilbertson: to this, where'd it go? What page is this on?
• 1:03:27
  Dillon Gilbertson: this weird…
• 1:03:28
  Tad Eggleston: This rockin' lizard?
• 1:03:29
  Dillon Gilbertson: Yeah, that's the one.
• 1:03:31
  Dillon Gilbertson: It's so cool looking.
• 1:03:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That would be really rad.
• 1:03:35
  Dillon Gilbertson: But I want to give honorable mention to this weird… this weird… what seems like might be an ape-looking dude, on the advertisement on page 93.
• 1:03:48
  Dillon Gilbertson: for… for Mobius's… Arzak?
• 1:03:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah.
• 1:03:56
  Tad Eggleston: I think that is just…
• 1:03:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I got it.
• 1:04:00
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just that dude's face… I don't know, I just get a lot of joy out of him.
• 1:04:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, our back.
• 1:04:04
  Tad Eggleston: Join us after we were done with Arzak?
• 1:04:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Thank you, Dad.
• 1:04:08
  Dillon Gilbertson: I think so, yeah, I don't think you're right.
• 1:04:09
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's Arzak.
• 1:04:13
  Dillon Gilbertson: Just like that man's face.
• 1:04:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Arzak, spelled many different ways.
• 1:04:17
  Matt: Yes.
• 1:04:18
  Dillon Gilbertson: I believe it.
• 1:04:20
  Tad Eggleston: Kind of like Airtight Garage in all the different ways that the title is.
• 1:04:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 1:04:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Also true.
• 1:04:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, funny.
• 1:04:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Was that the same? Yeah, yeah, it was the same.
• 1:04:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Thank God.
• 1:04:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Airtight garage in Narzak?
• 1:04:36
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:04:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They're both Mobius.
• 1:04:39
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, Matt.
• 1:04:41
  Matt: First page of Elric.
• 1:04:44
  Dillon Gilbertson: Good morning.
• 1:04:49
  Matt: It made me want to read the whole story.
• 1:04:52
  Tad Eggleston: Did you?
• 1:04:53
  Matt: I tried to.
• 1:04:56
  Matt: I'm not lying!
• 1:04:59
  Tad Eggleston: That was a really cool… I mean, this is a shame, because I do like pros, I just… we haven't really run across a lot of pros in heavy metal that was actually good.
• 1:05:11
  Matt: Felt worth reading.
• 1:05:14
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there was… there were a couple. There was the one that Dylan read that he liked so much that we had to read it.
• 1:05:24
  Tad Eggleston: That actually had me reading the prose for a while afterwards, but nothing else, like…
• 1:05:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah…
• 1:05:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:40
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, any more thoughts?
• 1:05:44
  Tad Eggleston: It was… it was an alright issue, I mean, like… It was okay.
• 1:05:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But there… there were… we've had… we've had worse issues.
• 1:05:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, the last one.
• 1:05:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't even remember the last one.
• 1:05:58
  Tad Eggleston: The last, I mean, the last one, we, like…
• 1:06:06
  Tad Eggleston: We all chose the bus as the best ongoing.
• 1:06:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, really?
• 1:06:11
  Tad Eggleston: Two of us took Time Out, Opus, Infinity, and then A Space Story in Sympathy for the Devil.
• 1:06:17
  Tad Eggleston: Took the stories.
• 1:06:20
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, all of our favorite panels were from a couple of different pages.
• 1:06:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Opus Infinity was really good, I didn't remember that.
• 1:06:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, they also had that flying skater thing, freeways, that was kind of entertaining.
• 1:06:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry, I just pulled it up.
• 1:06:39
  Tad Eggleston: No, I understand. I understand.
• 1:06:42
  Tad Eggleston: So, next month… Wait a minute, that feels like it's too far, because that took me to November.
• 1:06:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: new RV.
• 1:06:53
  Tad Eggleston: November.
• 1:06:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: City.
• 1:06:54
  Matt: This is, joe Dresco cover.
• 1:06:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that, that is correct, but…
• 1:07:01
  Matt: Love Joe Jesko's work.
• 1:07:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We don't want November. Well, there you go, I already know what my favorite, favorite, image for next time is.
• 1:07:10
  Matt: And I believe he told me this is the first time they had an exposed breast on the cover.
• 1:07:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, really?
• 1:07:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I got.
• 1:07:21
  Matt: I've met him a couple of times. He comes to Rochester Pretty… pretty frequently.
• 1:07:30
  Tad Eggleston: The one we want to look at is actually… This one.
• 1:07:35
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 1:07:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That was… That was last month. That was the last time.
• 1:07:41
  Matt: Do I not know?
• 1:07:43
  Dillon Gilbertson: Joe Six.
• 1:07:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, sex would be this time.
• 1:07:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 1:07:51
  Dillon Gilbertson: this time.
• 1:07:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Are we… are we without a preview?
• 1:07:58
  Tad Eggleston: Oh no!
• 1:07:59
  Dillon Gilbertson: Are we going in blind? Let's go in blind.
• 1:08:01
  Tad Eggleston: You wanna go in blind?
• 1:08:03
  Matt: Yeah, let's do it.
• 1:08:04
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we can draw blind if you want.
• 1:08:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 1:08:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Also, what am I doing with all these, metal herlants and heavy metals that are new, that are stacking up?
• 1:08:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Anything? Nothing? Should I just delete that?
• 1:08:19
  Tad Eggleston: I…
• 1:08:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I thought.
• 1:08:20
  Tad Eggleston: I've been reading them, and I would love to do some of the new ones.
• 1:08:25
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, we've got two issues of each at this point.
• 1:08:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm glad to bring that up on air.
• 1:08:31
  Tad Eggleston: This is actually… this is actually the… the… the 79… October is the H.P. Lovecraft.
• 1:08:37
  Matt: Lovecraft, yeah.
• 1:08:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: On Earth.
• 1:08:40
  Matt: Good issue.
• 1:08:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: more a world between? I thought we said we didn't want any more of that. Just kidding.
• 1:08:46
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, this is… this is an ad to go buy it.
• 1:08:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, well… there you go.
• 1:08:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They've… they hurt us all the way in the future.
• 1:09:02
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, I like that, that castle-looking thing. Final Justice looks pretty good.
• 1:09:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe. I mean, the R looks pretty good.
• 1:09:09
  Dillon Gilbertson: I know justice.
• 1:09:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's half the battle, at least. Well, more than half the battle, really, in comics.
• 1:09:18
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, the Dunwitch Horror?
• 1:09:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Interesting.
• 1:09:22
  Dillon Gilbertson: There's a Dunwich Horror comic, that's rad.
• 1:09:25
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that is rare. I like that already.
• 1:09:27
  Tad Eggleston: Now, what is done with chore something that I should know?
• 1:09:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: H.p. Lovecraft, right?
• 1:09:34
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it is Lovecraft. Well, that would be why Lovecraft is on the… on the cover.
• 1:09:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Cthulhu.
• 1:09:38
  Tad Eggleston: Is it Cthulhu?
• 1:09:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Which is a really weird way to spell Cthulhu, I don't.
• 1:09:44
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it's Mobius.
• 1:09:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.
• 1:09:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: As I said, I don't think it's supposed to be an actual Cthulhu.
• 1:09:51
  Tad Eggleston: Alright.
• 1:09:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: BN.
• 1:09:54
  Tad Eggleston: Zeno meets Dr.
• 1:09:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: mouthy.
• 1:09:57
  Tad Eggleston: Also looks kinda cool.
• 1:09:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No thanks.
• 1:09:59
  Tad Eggleston: Thing?
• 1:10:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know, next… next month's looks pretty good.
• 1:10:06
  Tad Eggleston: does.
• 1:10:06
  Dillon Gilbertson: This seemed very horror-centric, probably because it's October.
• 1:10:09
  Matt: Good issue.
• 1:10:11
  Tad Eggleston: Man from Black Hole. Man from Black Hole.
• 1:10:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Interesting.
• 1:10:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: HBO. HBO.
• 1:10:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.
• 1:10:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, there you go.
• 1:10:20
  Dillon Gilbertson: A lot of, a lot of Lovecraft in this one.
• 1:10:23
  Tad Eggleston: Well, that might be why they put them on the cover. Both covers, even.
• 1:10:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Why they, they mentioned that.
• 1:10:32
  Dillon Gilbertson: How racist he was.
• 1:10:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, yeah, there is that, too.
• 1:10:40
  Dillon Gilbertson: Man writes… writes some sci-fi, though. He writes some good horror.
• 1:10:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
• 1:10:47
  Tad Eggleston: We do have… Oh, no, that's just an ad for the Grail War.
• 1:10:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah.
• 1:10:54
  Dillon Gilbertson: No, thanks.
• 1:10:57
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, depending on how it is as a book, it could be… But… yeah.
• 1:11:07
  Dillon Gilbertson: Alright.
• 1:11:08
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it looks… it looks good.
• 1:11:11
  Tad Eggleston: There doesn't have any, so, it…
• 1:11:18
  Tad Eggleston: Doesn't actually look like we have anything continuing.
• 1:11:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it seems like it's a very much.
• 1:11:27
  Matt: one-shot issue.
• 1:11:30
  Tad Eggleston: A reason I bring this up is that would make it a particularly good time to do…
• 1:11:39
  Tad Eggleston: Some recent stuff if we wanted to.
• 1:11:45
  Tad Eggleston: Matt and Dylan, have you managed to get Heavy Metal Number 2 yet? Number 3 is also available.
• 1:11:52
  Matt: Negative.
• 1:11:53
  Dillon Gilbertson: I have none.
• 1:11:53
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:11:55
  Tad Eggleston: Metal or launt, I can hook you up with 2 and 3.
• 1:12:02
  Matt: Cool, let's start there.
• 1:12:04
  Dillon Gilbertson: This is the way.
• 1:12:05
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:12:06
  Tad Eggleston: So let, let, let's, let's, let's go… Present day.
• 1:12:12
  Tad Eggleston: For a couple of…
• 1:12:15
  Dillon Gilbertson: Okay.
• 1:12:16
  Tad Eggleston: episodes.
• 1:12:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We'll look into that and talk more about it off-air.
• 1:12:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 1:12:23
  Tad Eggleston: But, alright. So, Matt, take us out.
• 1:12:26
  Matt: We'll continue after the next page.