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22 Panels Episode #233 - Copra Round Four · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics across the interwebs.
• 0:14
  Tyler Johnson: from me, is Tad.
• 0:17
  Tad Eggleston: Going old school again!
• 0:19
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, Phil has got some other family thing this weekend, and here we are.
• 0:26
  Tad Eggleston: Hmm…
• 0:26
  Tyler Johnson: weddings.
• 0:28
  Tyler Johnson: Sweating. God. I'm kidding.
• 0:31
  Tad Eggleston: Shit.
• 0:34
  Tyler Johnson: Fine.
• 0:34
  Tad Eggleston: like… responsibilities to other people… I don't know what that shit's about.
• 0:41
  Tyler Johnson: What… what a grown-up.
• 0:44
  Tad Eggleston: I know.
• 0:48
  Tad Eggleston: Alright. I know, I know.
• 0:50
  Tyler Johnson: I… I am here because I care.
• 0:55
  Tad Eggleston: That's right.
• 0:56
  Tyler Johnson: That's right! Alright.
• 0:58
  Tad Eggleston: It's your own comic shop and you're here. The Nexus Vault. La Verne, Minnesota.
• 1:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, listen to this. Magic the Gathering came out with a new set yesterday.
• 1:09
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:10
  Tyler Johnson: I had my bed.
• 1:11
  Tad Eggleston: Imagine people can be crazy.
• 1:13
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I had my best day of sales yesterday, ever.
• 1:17
  Tad Eggleston: out of everything new set related.
• 1:19
  Tyler Johnson: We were pretty, pretty dang close. Pretty dang close. So, yay, Magic the Gathering releases are a good thing for me.
• 1:31
  Tyler Johnson: But, you know, since it's not my cup of tea, I mean, I do know how to play Magic, but…
• 1:36
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, that's something.
• 1:38
  Tyler Johnson: I mean, I'm not into it like these guys are, right? And so, it's intense.
• 1:44
  Tad Eggleston: My brother Peter plays in a Magic League.
• 1:51
  Tyler Johnson: So has he been talking about the, secrets of Strixhaven?
• 1:56
  Tyler Johnson: Booster set that just came out?
• 1:59
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, not with me, but I don't play in a Magic League, so…
• 2:04
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 2:05
  Tyler Johnson: True.
• 2:08
  Tyler Johnson: But, anyway, so yesterday was a great, great day.
• 2:12
  Tyler Johnson: At the store, I can't wait to see if we sell any more today.
• 2:17
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you don't have much more to sell.
• 2:19
  Tyler Johnson: I do have a booster box that I've been holding back, so I do have…
• 2:23
  Tyler Johnson: I do have packs of cards, but I don't have any more collector boosters, or commander decks, or…
• 2:30
  Tyler Johnson: They cleaned me out.
• 2:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 2:35
  Tad Eggleston: You should see how much that booster box is going for on eBay.
• 2:38
  Tyler Johnson: I should.
• 2:43
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah, we had a couple pieces of comic news, one good, one not as good this week. There's been a new festival organizer named for Angalem, the Morgane Group.
• 2:58
  Tad Eggleston: So they should be on… On track to be… coming back next January.
• 3:07
  Tad Eggleston: Which… AngleM's one of those, those…
• 3:12
  Tad Eggleston: Cornerstone Historic Festivals, so, like, it was a real shame when it had to be canceled this year. The not-so-cool news is there was another round of layoffs at
• 3:26
  Tad Eggleston: Mad Cave.
• 3:28
  Tad Eggleston: That's good.
• 3:29
  Tyler Johnson: bad, man. I… Mad Cave's stuff that they've been putting out has been great. I…
• 3:34
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and that's…
• 3:35
  Tyler Johnson: title.
• 3:36
  Tad Eggleston: That, that's, that's, that's kind of what's weird, is, like, all indications of their sales have been good.
• 3:46
  Tyler Johnson: I sell a ton of it to myself.
• 3:48
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, huh?
• 3:53
  Tad Eggleston: But, you know, they, they, they, they let… Let go of… Lauren hits Susan.
• 4:09
  Tad Eggleston: Back in December…
• 4:11
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 4:13
  Tad Eggleston: That was the Mavericks senior editor, they let go of…
• 4:19
  Tad Eggleston: senior editors James Emmett and Chaz Pangburn in this round, as well as, maya
• 4:28
  Tad Eggleston: their, their marketing manager, with, with, with Maya, Lauren, and… Maya and Lauren have been laid off, and, and,
• 4:42
  Tad Eggleston: God, why can't I, anna Escalano.
• 4:47
  Tad Eggleston: was my other…
• 4:49
  Tad Eggleston: contact at Mad Cave, and she's now at Skybound. So, like, the three people that I knew at Mad Cave are all gone now. Oh, boy.
• 4:58
  Tyler Johnson: Aww.
• 4:59
  Tad Eggleston: So… I don't think that's related to… to,
• 5:08
  Tad Eggleston: to my knowing them, I hope that's…
• 5:11
  Tyler Johnson: I… we hold.
• 5:13
  Tad Eggleston: Not related to my knowing them.
• 5:16
  Tyler Johnson: God, you're like… you're like, J.D. Vance meeting the Pope, and you're just…
• 5:21
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, oh, please, please don't, don't, don't,
• 5:27
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, no, we don't want that to be it.
• 5:32
  Tyler Johnson: Michaels.
• 5:36
  Tyler Johnson: I'm… I'm filling out stuff that I had probably forgot.
• 5:41
  Tyler Johnson: So, yes, talk amongst yourselves. Here's a topic. Neither come nor a clot.
• 5:49
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, we will go into what kind of week has it been, and it's been…
• 5:57
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, as weeks go…
• 6:00
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 6:00
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's been a less crazy one, I guess.
• 6:05
  Tyler Johnson: in the time of Trump,
• 6:07
  Tad Eggleston: Right!
• 6:08
  Tad Eggleston: In the room.
• 6:09
  Tyler Johnson: relatively… easy-going week.
• 6:14
  Tad Eggleston: But… but, like… That means that, the, the, the, like…
• 6:24
  Tad Eggleston: we did fire the Secretary of the Navy, because he wasn't…
• 6:35
  Tad Eggleston: whatever it is that Pete Hegseth is looking for enough,
• 6:43
  Tad Eggleston: And also, because one of the undersecretaries who's been really, really pushing for… for…
• 6:51
  Tad Eggleston: let's just call it what it is, more graft, more money from the military budget to go into the hands of various private contractors. Didn't think that he was facilitating that.
• 7:06
  Tad Eggleston: Fast enough.
• 7:10
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's crazy. It couldn't be more clear, the kind of…
• 7:15
  Tad Eggleston: This is the type of place where I really, really, really, really kinda… Like, want…
• 7:27
  Tad Eggleston: Way, way… Way more… Transparency and accountability for military spending?
• 7:40
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
• 7:41
  Tad Eggleston: Because more and more, I'm thinking our military is… is like… Our healthcare system.
• 7:49
  Tad Eggleston: You know, it is the most expensive in the world, But I'm…
• 7:54
  Tad Eggleston: Less and less convinced that it's the Best?
• 7:58
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, oh, yeah, 100%. We're getting, we're getting robbed here.
• 8:03
  Tad Eggleston: Right. For…
• 8:04
  Tyler Johnson: For a return on investment.
• 8:07
  Tad Eggleston: So, like, even… even if you're… you're…
• 8:11
  Tad Eggleston: somebody that's bigger on military spending than I tend to be…
• 8:18
  Tad Eggleston: We're really not getting a return on our investment.
• 8:24
  Tad Eggleston: There seems to be an awful lot of bloat in… in…
• 8:35
  Tad Eggleston: In, like, all of our contracted spending.
• 8:40
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 8:42
  Tad Eggleston: And it's time for the DoD to be expected to, you know.
• 8:50
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, yup.
• 8:52
  Tad Eggleston: Well…
• 8:52
  Tyler Johnson: you know.
• 8:53
  Tad Eggleston: Pass an audit?
• 8:54
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yep.
• 8:56
  Tad Eggleston: Maybe? Maybe pass an audit?
• 8:59
  Tad Eggleston: I agree.
• 9:02
  Tad Eggleston: So… yeah, that's what kind of week it's been.
• 9:06
  Tyler Johnson: It hasn't been.
• 9:07
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's so weird that that qualifies as a quiet week.
• 9:11
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 9:13
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, because if this had been a different administration, any other administration, that would have been big news, that he fired that person.
• 9:22
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, like…
• 9:25
  Tad Eggleston: That's been his whole strategy from the get-go. I'm gonna do so many completely out-there things that it no longer feels out there.
• 9:36
  Tad Eggleston: That eventually, when I crime, you'll just call it Tuesday.
• 9:42
  Tad Eggleston: And that's.
• 9:44
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, and that's really what's happened.
• 9:48
  Tad Eggleston: President crimed. It was Tuesday.
• 9:53
  Tyler Johnson: Typical Tuesday, Trump is in trouble.
• 9:57
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, no, no!
• 9:59
  Tyler Johnson: Not in trouble. Nope, it's the wrong word.
• 10:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I was about to say, when has he actually gotten in trouble?
• 10:08
  Tad Eggleston: President Cro- oh, oh, the other great thing,
• 10:14
  Tad Eggleston: You know what won't be talked about at the next… Big… G7… Environmental Summit?
• 10:28
  Tyler Johnson: What?
• 10:29
  Tad Eggleston: climate change.
• 10:31
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, that's true.
• 10:33
  Tad Eggleston: No, no, it literally isn't on the agenda.
• 10:37
  Tyler Johnson: Because…
• 10:37
  Tad Eggleston: The United States will be there, and they know that…
• 10:44
  Tad Eggleston: they can't talk about it with the United States.
• 10:47
  Tyler Johnson: It's so bad. That is ridiculous.
• 10:50
  Tyler Johnson: Good God Oh, okay.
• 10:57
  Tad Eggleston: Though, there, there was, there has been some information out that,
• 11:01
  Tad Eggleston: like, completely inadvertently, Trump has, at least globally, driven perhaps the, the most… new…
• 11:20
  Tad Eggleston: green energy initiatives of, of any U.S. president, because,
• 11:27
  Tad Eggleston: you know, going to a dumbass illegal war with Iran and making all of the oil expensive made other countries go, wind, solar, those sound like good things!
• 11:45
  Tyler Johnson: If the United States says no…
• 11:48
  Tad Eggleston: As we just hand over, renewable energy dominance to China.
• 11:55
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 11:56
  Tad Eggleston: We just handed it to him. Like, like, like, you know, I mean, we had it, Trump became president, we just, we said, hey, China, you wanna be, you wanna be globally dominant in, in,
• 12:12
  Tad Eggleston: in renewable energy? Because we don't want to anymore, so…
• 12:17
  Tyler Johnson: We wanna… we wanna screw it up here.
• 12:19
  Tad Eggleston: Why don't you do that for us?
• 12:24
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… Yeah, no, like, all of the world, except the US, buys Chinese electric cars.
• 12:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yes?
• 12:37
  Tad Eggleston: They make a massive amount of the world's solar panels.
• 12:44
  Tad Eggleston: et cetera.
• 12:46
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 12:50
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, anybody who thinks that they're doing it out of some…
• 12:54
  Tad Eggleston: some, oh, we need to save the planet, doesn't really understand China that well. It's 100%, there's money to be made.
• 13:07
  Tad Eggleston: Which is, like, what people don't understand about…
• 13:12
  Tad Eggleston: U.S. so-called capitalism is it's not about making money, it's about the right…
• 13:18
  Tyler Johnson: Money for a specific piece.
• 13:20
  Tad Eggleston: The right people making the money.
• 13:25
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm.
• 13:26
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, we have a brand new catalog.
• 13:31
  Tad Eggleston: So why don't…
• 13:34
  Tyler Johnson: Which is crazy, because we went through that last one quickly, but it wasn't… it felt really quick, but…
• 13:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 13:40
  Tyler Johnson: Ugh.
• 13:41
  Tad Eggleston: So let's…
• 13:42
  Tyler Johnson: some books.
• 13:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, let's talk some new order comics.
• 13:46
  Tad Eggleston: You wanna lead us off?
• 13:47
  Tyler Johnson: No, because I didn't pull up the,
• 13:52
  Tyler Johnson: Did I change that one, or what? .
• 13:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that one should have been up, that was one of the first ones you picked, Tyler.
• 13:58
  Tyler Johnson: The Doom one? Man.
• 14:01
  Tad Eggleston: What?
• 14:02
  Tyler Johnson: You're talking about the challenges of doom?
• 14:03
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 14:04
  Tyler Johnson: Fantastic.
• 14:05
  Tyler Johnson: This is weird, I don't have it. Hold on, this'll just be a second.
• 14:10
  Tad Eggleston: You just… Tyler's all unprepared!
• 14:16
  Tad Eggleston: Trying to multitask. Okay. If you've got, like, a store, and he needs to put in orders…
• 14:23
  Tyler Johnson: Doing it all at the same time.
• 14:25
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 14:26
  Tad Eggleston: Andy's got, I think, a kid walking behind him.
• 14:30
  Tyler Johnson: No, that was Peggy.
• 14:31
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay.
• 14:32
  Tyler Johnson: That was Peggy. Alright, Dr. Dude.
• 14:35
  Tad Eggleston: Well, she should be happy, I just called her a kid.
• 14:39
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, this is the Challenges of Doom, Mr. Fantastic, number 1. Doctor Doom clashes with the Marvel Universe.
• 14:47
  Tyler Johnson: Again, an epic series revealing pivotal confrontations between Doctor Doom and Marvel's greatest heroes. Dive into the intense rivalry between Doom and Mr. Fantastic as young Victor von Doom faces Reed Richards.
• 15:01
  Tyler Johnson: In a battle of minds, discover the secrets that ignite their legendary feud and the fateful events leading to Doom's transformation into the infamous supervillain. This bi-monthly series is packed with drama, suspense, and relentless pursuit of power.
• 15:17
  Tyler Johnson: Spotlighting the true challenges that test Doom's genius and resolve. Al Ewing and Mike Henderson craft a tale of triumph and torment that will shed a whole new light on the world's greatest supervillain. This has got a final order cutoff of June 1st coming up, and will be, on sale July 1st.
• 15:37
  Tad Eggleston: Dun dun.
• 15:38
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, the next one is also…
• 15:40
  Tad Eggleston: Two in a row.
• 15:41
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, that's how I like it. The Foundry by Mike Mignola and Chris Robertson, with illustration by Christopher Mitten.
• 15:51
  Tyler Johnson: Meet the Queen's own secret agency that investigates the paranormal and the mysterious. Characters from the Witchfinder and the British Paranormal Society join together in this adventure series.
• 16:03
  Tyler Johnson: Where they traveled the world over… traveled the world over seeking out supernatural-powered technologies and the stories of the civilizations that harness them for good.
• 16:14
  Tyler Johnson: And for evil. Longtime Hellboy Universe writer Chris Roberson and fan favorite Christopher Mitten reunite for this series that will take readers around the world, and hopefully back again. A final order cutoff of July 6th, and will be in shops August 12th.
• 16:32
  Tyler Johnson: from Dark Horse.
• 16:34
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, now you're finally gonna give me a turn. I've been waiting for this book forever, and thankfully, don't have to wait a couple more months, because Liam was…
• 16:44
  Tad Eggleston: Kind enough to hook me up!
• 16:48
  Tad Eggleston: That's awesome. Starhenge, Book 2, A Kiss for Atticus.
• 16:53
  Tad Eggleston: Amber, Daryl, and Merlin appear to be stranded in strangely familiar realms without any real sense of who they are or how they got there. Will they be able to find each other and solve the mystery of their surreal captivity? This is a final order cutoff of June 8th, in stores July 1st. Finally Book 2 of the Starhenge Saga.
• 17:16
  Tad Eggleston: I, I, I love these books.
• 17:19
  Tad Eggleston: So much.
• 17:21
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 17:22
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I can't wait to check it out, get it in shot.
• 17:27
  Tad Eggleston: And his daughter Matilda did a great cover.
• 17:30
  Tad Eggleston: Me too. I like Medilda's covers.
• 17:33
  Tad Eggleston: I get to do two in a row, because you did two in a row, so I'm.
• 17:37
  Tyler Johnson: Fine, fine, go ahead.
• 17:39
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna do Vampirates number 1, which includes a glow-in-the-dark variant cover.
• 17:48
  Tyler Johnson: I gotta get that. I love that. I love that kind of, marketing stuff, where I'm like.
• 17:52
  Tyler Johnson: It's just weird, you know?
• 17:54
  Tad Eggleston: Bad Idea's actually doing a bunch of glow-in-the-dark ones coming up.
• 17:57
  Tyler Johnson: That's.
• 17:58
  Tad Eggleston: From Fred Van Lenti and Luca Pizari.
• 18:03
  Tad Eggleston: Through the darkness of the thousand-year eclipse they sail, seeking adventures, treasure, and… Blood.
• 18:13
  Tad Eggleston: In a world ruled by vampires, Empress Nira of the Night Isles has always cared more for sword fighting and carousing than ruling. But when she escapes a vicious coup by stowing aboard the VMS Abyss, a pirate ship run by the mysterious Captain Akeo, she gets more than she can handle of both.
• 18:32
  Tad Eggleston: She must rise through the ranks of the vampirates, from lowly swab to Queen of the Sea Knight.
• 18:38
  Tad Eggleston: So the oceans will run red with her vengeance.
• 18:42
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff is… May 18th, in stores on July 18th.
• 18:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wow, I go 3 in a row.
• 18:55
  Tyler Johnson: You go… I was just gonna say, you go next. We're going into graphic novels, but…
• 18:59
  Tad Eggleston: Three in a row.
• 19:00
  Tyler Johnson: This one is you.
• 19:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, A Confederacy of Dunces, a graphic novel.
• 19:07
  Tad Eggleston: adaptation of the John Kennedy O'Toole Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
• 19:13
  Tad Eggleston: Set in the French Quarter of 1960s New Orleans, this cult classic satire follows unforgettable misfit Ignatius J. Reilly as his misadventures ricochet from hot dog carts to Bourbon Street and collide with the city's politics, vice, and absurdity.
• 19:31
  Tad Eggleston: A wildly outrageous, darkly hilarious portrait of America, still razor sharp and painfully relevant, reimagined in stunning visual form for lifelong fans and new readers.
• 19:47
  Tad Eggleston: and Albert Montes was involved in the… the adaptation of Slaughterhouse 5, so… so… I… I have high hopes that it will be…
• 20:02
  Tad Eggleston: oh, so good. Oh, it looks like there's a special edition hardcover of… Slaughterhouse 5, coming in October.
• 20:16
  Tad Eggleston: Look at that.
• 20:18
  Tad Eggleston: Anyway, this is Final Order Cut Off June 29th in stores on September 29th.
• 20:30
  Tyler Johnson: Next up is Penelope's Escape from the Platypussary trade paperback. This is, a historical fiction about an unusual heroine.
• 20:42
  Tyler Johnson: In 1957, Penelope the Platypus successfully escaped the Bronx Zoo and her destined male, Cecil, with the help of some unlikely allies.
• 20:52
  Tyler Johnson: Throughout their adventure, Penelope and the readers realize the power that comes with reclaiming your agency. Final order cutoff is June 29th. We'll be in shops, July 22nd. This is, Ariana Irwin and Prenzy.
• 21:10
  Tyler Johnson: from Maverick.
• 21:14
  Tyler Johnson: Let's see, what else is… who's…
• 21:16
  Tad Eggleston: I think you go two in a row this time.
• 21:18
  Tyler Johnson: Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre. I love that title, by the way.
• 21:23
  Tad Eggleston: Have you read it?
• 21:24
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. It's crazy. I think we're on issue 3 right now. Yeah. So the trade's coming out from Fred Kennedy, and art by James Edward Clark.
• 21:35
  Tyler Johnson: This is a no-nonsense federal agent and a lone wolf cop chase down a brutal drug lord in a flooded amusement park, swarming with blood-crazed hippos and cutthroat mercenaries.
• 21:47
  Tyler Johnson: Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City, but few realize its corpulent owner
• 21:56
  Tyler Johnson: Jan's Mior Discal is about to release the most potent drug ever created, Coke 445. Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clark Nebraska is on the case. She'll track down Disco come heck or high water.
• 22:13
  Tyler Johnson: That was the plan until her undercover agent, Tico Senokoza, was captured. And before she can rescue him, Miguel, Tico's sexy loose cannon of an older brother, beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying.
• 22:28
  Tyler Johnson: Discalpenix pumping, or excuse me, dumping the COPE 45 into the Hippo enclosure.
• 22:35
  Tyler Johnson: And letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into the Wonderland's tunnel network.
• 22:40
  Tyler Johnson: Nebraska's plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke-fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain. Now it's up to Nebraska and Miguel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Disc Scout down before he escapes. Whew!
• 23:00
  Tyler Johnson: That will be final order cutoff of July 6th, and will be in shops July 29th.
• 23:06
  Tyler Johnson: From Mad Cave.
• 23:09
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, my favorite limited series of last year, FML from Kelly Sudakonic and David Lopez.
• 23:18
  Tad Eggleston: Riley is a teen that sketches out his heavy metal future with a ballpoint pen between monster movies and band practice. But musical stardom needs to compete with high school. The temper of former Riot Girl mother
• 23:31
  Tad Eggleston: The morbid obsessions of a goth sister, and the eccentricities of bandmates that threaten to drive him and everyone around him insane. The balance gets harder after a ritual during a party in Portland's Forest Park.
• 23:43
  Tad Eggleston: Causes him to wake up one day and discover that the creature's witchcraft, and metal world he's obsessed with may be a bit closer to home than he preferred.
• 23:54
  Tad Eggleston: This is a final order cutoff of June 15th, with a September 29th release. So, so, so good. I, I love me some Kelly Sue.
• 24:09
  Tad Eggleston: So, final order cutoffs for the week of May 4th, we have The Halloween Boy, Volume 1, Last of the Halloween Boys from Dave Baker at Oney Press, out on May 27th.
• 24:23
  Tad Eggleston: It's Jeff, brand new week, number one, from Kelly Thompson, Heru, and Goodman Yamada, out from Marvel on June 3rd. Lucky Devils from Charles Sewell, Ryan Brown, out from Image Comics on September 16th.
• 24:37
  Tad Eggleston: Record Journey Volume 1 from Ryoshiro Kazuka at Titan Comics, out on May 27th.
• 24:44
  Tad Eggleston: Skate Ali No. 1 from Sam Humphreys, Kelly Suda Comics, and Natasha Bustos, out from Dark Horse on June 10th.
• 24:53
  Tad Eggleston: Superman Father of Tomorrow, number 1, from Kenny Porter and Danny Earls, out from DC on May 27th. And the Zdarsky Comic News, 18 months I can't Get Back.
• 25:08
  Tyler Johnson: I love that title.
• 25:09
  Tad Eggleston: Selected edition.
• 25:11
  Tad Eggleston: From Zdarsko, out on June 24th.
• 25:16
  Tad Eggleston: Funding.
• 25:17
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, you do crowdfunding, and I'll do Humble Bundle, how's that?
• 25:19
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 25:20
  Tad Eggleston: Crowdfunding, we've got the comic staple from Tiffany Babb on Kickstarter through May 1st, The Forgotten Five from Alex Segura, Sarah Century, Pat Kennedy, Dean Kotz, Noon Payne Productions, also on Kickstarter through May 11th.
• 25:36
  Tad Eggleston: Runaway to the Stars from J. Eaton at Iron Circus Comics on Kickstarter through May 14th. Stefan Frank's Complete Palomino!
• 25:47
  Tad Eggleston: From Dark Planets Comics, the Kickstarter has gone live, and is running through May 15th. And, still launching sometime soon in the future, but we've talked to…
• 26:00
  Tad Eggleston: Many of the players involved, the Forgotten Divine, Mark Russell, Russ Braun, and Ahoy Comics on Kickstarter sometime very soon.
• 26:11
  Tyler Johnson: Great! We got some humble bundles that are still going on. Many of we've talked about before, well, all of them we've talked about before. The Collected…
• 26:19
  Tad Eggleston: One's new.
• 26:20
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, the collected peanuts.
• 26:23
  Tyler Johnson: $25, guys, gets you 43 items. That's huge. This is…
• 26:28
  Tad Eggleston: every Peanuts comic ever.
• 26:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, this goes to the Canine Companions, and it has now been extended through April 30th, so you have a whole nother week to go. The boys, the grand finale.
• 26:43
  Tyler Johnson: For $18, you will get 13 items. This money will go towards the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
• 26:51
  Tyler Johnson: And…
• 26:52
  Tad Eggleston: Those 13 items do represent all of the boys.
• 26:56
  Tyler Johnson: Correct. Yes, you get everything. And that is April 30th as well. The Valiant Classic Omnibuses, this is what I want to get. This is $18, you guys. 7, you get 7 items, but…
• 27:10
  Tad Eggleston: But they're… they're big, thick phone book omnibus.
• 27:12
  Tyler Johnson: They're massive. I'm going…
• 27:15
  Tad Eggleston: And I say phone book, we should point out, humble bundles are generally digital.
• 27:19
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:22
  Tyler Johnson: If it was, if it was a printed copy, it would be massive.
• 27:27
  Tad Eggleston: It'd be about a thousand pages.
• 27:28
  Tyler Johnson: Okay. And the last one, up that, I just lost my place.
• 27:35
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, not last one, we got two more. Strange Romance is out from Image Comics. This is $18, this is a big one. You get $18 for 59 items, which includes Falling in Love on the Path to Hell, Love Everlasting, Saga, Sex Criminals, and, like, a ton more.
• 27:52
  Tyler Johnson: Right. It's awesome. This is going towards Book Industry Charitable Foundation.
• 27:57
  Tyler Johnson: And that is running through May 7th.
• 28:01
  Tyler Johnson: And then, now the last one. This one is one you shouldn't miss, because you get the most bang for your buck, really. The complete… the complete Terry Moore, for a minimum of $16, right? You can go higher, but $16 gets you 54 items. And that will go towards the World Central Kitchen.
• 28:21
  Tyler Johnson: They've, have that running through May 15th, so you got about two and a half weeks to go.
• 28:28
  Tad Eggleston: Unless it gets extended, but yeah.
• 28:31
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, unless it gets extended.
• 28:32
  Tad Eggleston: Cause this one just went live.
• 28:34
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, yep.
• 28:36
  Tad Eggleston: But yeah, no, that's… that's literally all of the Terryverse.
• 28:40
  Tad Eggleston: So, Strangers in Paradise, Rachel Rising.
• 28:45
  Tyler Johnson: Cereal, like we talked about.
• 28:47
  Tad Eggleston: Serial, Motor Girl, why can't I remember the, the nuclear bomb one?
• 28:56
  Tyler Johnson: They don't remember either. Echo. Echo. Echo. Yep.
• 29:00
  Tad Eggleston: Yup. So, yeah, it's, it's, yeah.
• 29:04
  Tyler Johnson: Don't mind?
• 29:05
  Tad Eggleston: some Francine Catsu, and all of the wonderful other characters that make up.
• 29:11
  Tyler Johnson: Let me just click on the…
• 29:12
  Tad Eggleston: first.
• 29:13
  Tyler Johnson: If you put in $40, that's what they've got out here. Let's click $40, let's see what we get.
• 29:18
  Tyler Johnson: Or does he get everything for the 16?
• 29:22
  Tad Eggleston: Everything for the 16.
• 29:24
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, I wasn't sure if you get more… no, you just help the community. Okay.
• 29:28
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:29
  Tyler Johnson: I shouldn't say just help the community, like…
• 29:31
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, you know, world's… world… World Central Kitchen's, like, worthwhile…
• 29:38
  Tyler Johnson: Charity, yeah.
• 29:41
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 29:42
  Tad Eggleston: You know, for that matter, sending money towards Terry Moore is a good thing.
• 29:46
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, then Terry Moore can make more comic books.
• 29:49
  Tad Eggleston: And it's right.
• 29:50
  Tyler Johnson: to make.
• 29:51
  Tad Eggleston: There were a bunch of good comics this week.
• 29:55
  Tad Eggleston: I didn't read as many of them as I would have liked, because it was a busy week.
• 30:00
  Tyler Johnson: But… Oh, good.
• 30:01
  Tad Eggleston: I'm gonna highlight… highlight 3 that… that stuck out.
• 30:07
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, you know, we should have said, 3 amazing books this week! Yeah. We're so bad at, like, separating our podcasts, like, if we ever wanted to actually do, like, bumpers and real editing, it'd be such a pain in the ass.
• 30:20
  Tyler Johnson: So, we'd have to complete…
• 30:23
  Tad Eggleston: Completely work on our professionalism.
• 30:26
  Tyler Johnson: Which I think is the charm of the show, that we don't have any.
• 30:30
  Tad Eggleston: I do too. Yeah.
• 30:33
  Tyler Johnson: Your first pick, Ted, was one of my favorites this week. I pumped it on my pod… er, my web… my Facebook and Instagram.
• 30:41
  Tad Eggleston: It was so good.
• 30:42
  Tyler Johnson: It was really good.
• 30:44
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I mean, like, here I go, Penny and the Yeti by Jimmy Gasparo and Amber Aiken. I have my kids comic. Not even, like, YA. This is, like, middle grade and.
• 30:57
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 30:58
  Tad Eggleston: Arguably low middle grade at that.
• 31:02
  Tyler Johnson: Yes, but it was… it was good. My daughter loves it. I… I'm so excited.
• 31:05
  Tad Eggleston: And it's not dumb to them.
• 31:07
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 31:08
  Tad Eggleston: It deals with some tough issues that kids have to deal with, or at least a lot of kids have to deal with, and even if you don't
• 31:17
  Tad Eggleston: Have to deal with it yourself, you have friends that do.
• 31:21
  Tad Eggleston: You know, and does so without making…
• 31:27
  Tad Eggleston: Feel like you're telling kids that, like, their emotions or… or confusions or… or hopes or dreams are silly.
• 31:38
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 31:42
  Tad Eggleston: you could… you can go listen to my discussion with Jimmy and Amber for a full rundown, but, like.
• 31:49
  Tad Eggleston: It's centered on, what, a 7-year-old whose parents Fight a lot.
• 31:56
  Tyler Johnson: Correct, yep.
• 31:58
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no.
• 32:01
  Tad Eggleston: Powers 25, number 8, Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oming. What more can I say about Powers 25? It's just… it's just like a warm hug every time I read it.
• 32:11
  Tad Eggleston: As well as being, like, the fantastic crime story and whatnot, but, like…
• 32:16
  Tad Eggleston: Powers has been part of my life for so long that it's just… it's nice to have new stuff.
• 32:21
  Tad Eggleston: Coming out again.
• 32:24
  Tad Eggleston: And then, Peril of the Brutal Bark, an Ezra Kane Mystery, number 3.
• 32:32
  Tad Eggleston: Jacob Phillips. Anybody not reading Jacob Condon, or Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips?
• 32:38
  Tad Eggleston: You too.
• 32:39
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, poor man.
• 32:39
  Tad Eggleston: Where have you been for the last 6 years?
• 32:42
  Tyler Johnson: Poor Mandel, right, where you had… you ate Chris Phillips, you just combined them.
• 32:46
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 32:47
  Tad Eggleston: No, Jacob Condam, Chris Phillips, you know.
• 32:50
  Tad Eggleston: Where have you been for the last 6 years? That's all I have to say to anybody who's not reading anything either one of them does, but especially anything they do together.
• 33:00
  Tyler Johnson: And this Peril Dark, or this… The Peril of the Brutal Dark, an Ezra Cain mystery, is really good.
• 33:06
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah.
• 33:06
  Tyler Johnson: I've been enjoying it. I'm not a fan of, the painterly-style covers. I don't think they fit with the, with the story, but I really, I really do enjoy it. The story is amazing.
• 33:22
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 33:24
  Tad Eggleston: Tyler?
• 33:25
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 33:25
  Tad Eggleston: Since Phil's not here, why don't you take a walk?
• 33:28
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, well, what I did with this week is I picked 4 things that I feel like are heavy hitters this week, right? So, when we talk about, your… the baseball analogy, these are my heavy hitters. Zatanna has a new series coming out with, from…
• 33:43
  Tad Eggleston: So it'd be like Dansby Swanson hitting a two-run triple and then a two-run homer in the late innings to beat the Dodgers last night.
• 33:51
  Tyler Johnson: I love sports. Go sports!
• 34:00
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, man, you have to call me out like that? Jubilee, Deadly Reunion number 1 from Gene Yang and Michael, YG… Yig? Ig? From Marvel? And then New Swan…
• 34:13
  Tad Eggleston: Might actually just be Michael YG, since it's both capitalized.
• 34:16
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 34:17
  Tyler Johnson: And, Swamp Thing, 1989, number one, from Rick Veach, and Michael Zuley, and Vince Luck from DC, Vertigo, I should put on that. And then,
• 34:31
  Tyler Johnson: Final Boss, Masked Vigilante, number one, from Tyler Kirkham and Leon Govender, from Image.
• 34:39
  Tyler Johnson: Those are 4 things that I think are gonna be, big titles this week.
• 34:46
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I'd have them quite in the order that you had them, but… but I agree.
• 34:50
  Tyler Johnson: they're not in any order. I just… those are…
• 34:53
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, that's fair.
• 34:54
  Tyler Johnson: It's like, if I was a… if I was a walk, you know what I mean, in baseball, I'm like, that's where I was going with this.
• 35:01
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 35:02
  Tyler Johnson: But…
• 35:03
  Tad Eggleston: Three wild pitches. Yeah, okay. Or 4 wild pitches, yeah. That makes sense.
• 35:09
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 35:10
  Tad Eggleston: All over the place. Just a bit outside.
• 35:13
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it was admitted all over the place, that's what they are. Loosely tied together as…
• 35:21
  Tyler Johnson: Anyway, I don't know what Phil normally does for that, but…
• 35:25
  Tad Eggleston: I don't think Phil knows what he normally does for that.
• 35:28
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 35:29
  Tad Eggleston: So, I mean, it works out.
• 35:31
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, okay, well, that's what I… that's what I've come up with.
• 35:35
  Tad Eggleston: We're… we're copacetic, dude.
• 35:37
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 35:37
  Tad Eggleston: Copacetic.
• 35:39
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 35:40
  Tad Eggleston: That was actually a word and a song back when we were kids.
• 35:44
  Tyler Johnson: Copa said…
• 35:45
  Tad Eggleston: I just don't get it. Keep it.
• 35:48
  Tyler Johnson: That is…
• 35:49
  Tad Eggleston: AHS.
• 35:50
  Tyler Johnson: I loved Local H. I do too. Oh, man, still do.
• 35:53
  Tad Eggleston: And Local H is local to me, so I've seen them a few times.
• 35:56
  Tyler Johnson: They are, man.
• 35:58
  Tyler Johnson: Would you like me any better if I…
• 36:03
  Tad Eggleston: I was sick.
• 36:04
  Tyler Johnson: Ready.
• 36:05
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Tyler Johnson: That was funny. Let's go on to our one-piece raise. Let's talk about Halloween.
• 36:12
  Tad Eggleston: Hey, hey, I am on an island.
• 36:16
  Tad Eggleston: punk something that, half of it is, like, air and lava, and half of it is ice and snow.
• 36:26
  Tad Eggleston: and, and, and… And Luffy and crew are trying to get from the fireside.
• 36:32
  Tad Eggleston: to the ice side, to, to, to save.
• 36:37
  Tad Eggleston: Nami and, and, and couple… Nami and Chopper and, and, Sanji?
• 36:48
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yep.
• 36:52
  Tad Eggleston: who are also trying to save some kids. So, you know, all sorts of stuff going on, just like, always, and…
• 37:01
  Tad Eggleston: In one piece. Yeah. As we continue our ventures into the new world.
• 37:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm… I… like, like I said, I, I, I had, I had time get away from me,
• 37:16
  Tad Eggleston: But… But I did get in, like, a little bit more than half a volume this week.
• 37:23
  Tad Eggleston: That's…
• 37:24
  Tyler Johnson: That's awesome, because I have gotten into a little, other manga from our old friend Urasawa. Which one? Naoki Urasawa, wrote a little series called Billy Bat.
• 37:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh!
• 37:41
  Tyler Johnson: I am starting to get into.
• 37:43
  Tad Eggleston: Well, Billy Bat is getting a new release soon.
• 37:48
  Tyler Johnson: Great, great. Yep, that's why it spurred my attention a week or two ago when I saw that. And then Aceadora is our ongoing one that we're.
• 37:57
  Tad Eggleston: I love Aesidora.
• 38:01
  Tad Eggleston: We haven't… we haven't gotten a volume in a while.
• 38:03
  Tyler Johnson: No, I'm gonna have to check up on that. But anyway, I am very excited to get back into One Piece. I'm finally rounding a corner with my crazy, crazy schedule, where I'm getting a handle on things, where I can fit in.
• 38:21
  Tyler Johnson: Leisurely activities, you know?
• 38:24
  Tad Eggleston: Whaa?
• 38:24
  Tyler Johnson: Woo!
• 38:26
  Tyler Johnson: But, instead of Phil has read nothing this week, I… Tyler has read nothing this week.
• 38:33
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 38:35
  Tad Eggleston: Does that mean you also didn't read Copa Round 4?
• 38:38
  Tyler Johnson: I did read Cobra.
• 38:39
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, some great responsibility here. Copra Round 4.
• 38:43
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 38:44
  Tad Eggleston: Ugh.
• 38:45
  Tyler Johnson: It was good. Talk about… talk about a psychedelic, trip, man.
• 38:52
  Tad Eggleston: The artwork just, like… Particularly given that, like.
• 38:57
  Tad Eggleston: He describes it as, as, like… Working fast to… to…
• 39:06
  Tad Eggleston: You know, he, like… I wanna say he… he…
• 39:10
  Tad Eggleston: he challenged himself to be Kirby-esque. Correct. So, like, just… just get it out, get it out, get it out, and it's just…
• 39:20
  Tad Eggleston: So… .
• 39:28
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so let me put it this way. If round 3 was the deep breath, where we get to a little bit of, like, character backstory and that kind of stuff, Round 3…
• 39:37
  Tyler Johnson: 4 is, like, the heart attack that happens right afterwards.
• 39:42
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Tyler Johnson: So, if you were… oh, good, we get a breath, because, like, Volumes 1 and 2 were action-packed, right? Stories of,
• 39:51
  Tyler Johnson: Reminiscent of the Suicide Squad. And then Round 3 tapered off into getting some look at the characters, a lot of character development, and Round 4 is just like, boom, we're right back in it. This train, is issues 19 through 24, and I… Michael Fife is just like.
• 40:11
  Tyler Johnson: Cranked up to 11, really.
• 40:13
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 40:14
  Tyler Johnson: With the tension, with everything.
• 40:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 40:18
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, psychedelic is what I had said, but it's suspenseful, it's crazy.
• 40:26
  Tad Eggleston: We got some intrigue going on.
• 40:29
  Tyler Johnson: It's an international kill… international kill list, where things go bad quickly.
• 40:36
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 40:37
  Tyler Johnson: And then it zoom… it really zooms in on, like, two specific characters, lloyd and Flo.
• 40:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right?
• 40:45
  Tyler Johnson: So… We finally get to understand what Lloyd's, like, revenge is all about, you know?
• 40:54
  Tyler Johnson: But…
• 40:58
  Tad Eggleston: I literally…
• 40:59
  Tad Eggleston: This is where the two of us being so tired and not having a third voice to, like.
• 41:05
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 41:06
  Tad Eggleston: The ground makes it hard.
• 41:07
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Oh, but the nice thing is, if you see it out in the wild, it's got a bright yellow cover, so you can't miss it.
• 41:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 41:18
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, yeah, I mean, like, it's really impressive the way… Fife… Mixes…
• 41:29
  Tad Eggleston: Character development with kinetic energy and action.
• 41:36
  Tad Eggleston: You know, like, th…
• 41:43
  Tad Eggleston: Actually, see, now it's starting to come back to me, because what we really got here was, oh, COPRA is this, this, you know, we'd already known that COPRA was this, like…
• 41:58
  Tad Eggleston: classified government agency deniability, whatnot. What we hadn't known previously, but we shouldn't be surprised by, because, you know, QS, is that they're not the only ones, so they're in competition with another
• 42:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. You know, so, I mean, it's essentially spy versus spy, only, theoretically, they're kind of on the same team, except they don't play that way, which is…
• 42:26
  Tyler Johnson: They don't want to see it that way, right? So, you've got… this, to me, is the payoff for… we're talking about if this is a good revenge story, round four is the payoff round, because,
• 42:43
  Tyler Johnson: We get to see where it really, you know, pays off.
• 42:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's gonna… you know, this feels like a turn, and we're gonna… I'm really interested in where 5, 6…
• 42:56
  Tad Eggleston: Go from here.
• 42:58
  Tad Eggleston: For sure.
• 42:59
  Tyler Johnson: I, I agree. The tone, the tone is definitely, the intensity for this has definitely ratcheted up from 3, and I keep giving.
• 43:09
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it's almost like.
• 43:09
  Tyler Johnson: allergies.
• 43:10
  Tad Eggleston: Like, like, like, 1 and 2 are…
• 43:13
  Tad Eggleston: Or one is, let's establish the characters as… Agents.
• 43:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:22
  Tad Eggleston: Two is, let's give you a deeper establishment of the world, essentially by taking you off-world.
• 43:28
  Tad Eggleston: We're going into our pan-dimensional space, and by doing that, like, establishing more of, like…
• 43:38
  Tad Eggleston: The universe this, this exists in.
• 43:42
  Tad Eggleston: Three is, let's see them all when they're not at work.
• 43:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 43:48
  Tad Eggleston: And 4 is like, oh, breaks over.
• 43:52
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 43:53
  Tad Eggleston: And now we're getting into it.
• 43:57
  Tad Eggleston: But it's all done in a way where, you know, you don't feel like it's this meandering, you know…
• 44:03
  Tyler Johnson: No, no, no.
• 44:04
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 44:04
  Tyler Johnson: It's not meandering at all, it's just like, oh, we're gonna take a break here, and then now at Volume 4, we're like, cool, you had a little breath, good, now we're gonna put the battery charger to your nipples. Here we go! Right.
• 44:18
  Tad Eggleston: Y-you know, you thought you could breathe? Haha!
• 44:22
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's… it's really good. I… I didn't know I wanted to read Copra, you know what I mean? Yeah.
• 44:28
  Tad Eggleston: I did.
• 44:31
  Tad Eggleston: I both knew that I wanted to read Copra, and that you wanted to read Copra.
• 44:38
  Tyler Johnson: It's just…
• 44:38
  Tad Eggleston: Late to the game, and you were even later to the game.
• 44:40
  Tyler Johnson: Do you remember, like, same thing with concrete, when you had a…
• 44:44
  Tyler Johnson: concrete, it was like, oh, I should have been reading this, you know what I mean? Why didn't I know about this?
• 44:51
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, welcome to my world, that's how I feel every month on the Milestone Book Club.
• 44:56
  Tyler Johnson: Do you? Is it all?
• 44:58
  Tad Eggleston: How the fuck did I miss this when it was coming out?
• 45:02
  Tyler Johnson: I wasn't really aware of any Milestone comic books.
• 45:05
  Tad Eggleston: No, we lived in white towns. Yeah. They probably weren't even in our comic shops, which is just terrible, because every once in a while, we'll pull up what came out the same month this book… this milestone book we're talking about came out, and it's like, okay…
• 45:22
  Tad Eggleston: There's a Sandman, there's a preacher, and there's a lot of crap.
• 45:27
  Tyler Johnson: Preacher, that was what I was reading during that time, when that was coming out, I was reading that. I was getting Sandman, I was getting,
• 45:38
  Tyler Johnson: a lot of those Vertigo titles, I was on top of them.
• 45:44
  Tad Eggleston: But, but, no, I mean, we're talking early end of…
• 45:49
  Tad Eggleston: Sandman and Preacher, so… so, like, when you're saying you're on top of Virgo titles, no, you weren't, because they, like, they're not the ones that you know.
• 46:00
  Tyler Johnson: Oh!
• 46:00
  Tad Eggleston: They had to step up.
• 46:02
  Tyler Johnson: Sure.
• 46:02
  Tad Eggleston: We're talking, like, 94, 95.
• 46:05
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, no, I'm talking, like, 5 years later.
• 46:08
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, no!
• 46:11
  Tad Eggleston: Like, like, like… The, the, the milestone stuff is, like, 93, 94, 95, 96.
• 46:20
  Tyler Johnson: Yup, you're right.
• 46:21
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, during that time, in town here, we had a very small comic shop called The Dugout, and it was a hole-in-the-wall,
• 46:33
  Tyler Johnson: Parents hated it, because drugs were coming in and out of there all the time.
• 46:37
  Tad Eggleston: What else would you have at a comic shop?
• 46:40
  Tyler Johnson: And then, So, anyway, I, I just…
• 46:49
  Tyler Johnson: had limited access to things that were not Marvel or DC.
• 46:54
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that was pretty much…
• 46:55
  Tyler Johnson: Or DC proper. DC proper, right?
• 46:57
  Tad Eggleston: Right, I mean, that's… that's… that, to me is, like, the real crime, is that they were distributed through DC, they had crossovers with DC, and DC didn't then and doesn't now…
• 47:11
  Tad Eggleston: Promote them at nearly the level that they, that they should.
• 47:16
  Tad Eggleston: So… Okay.
• 47:20
  Tyler Johnson: Do you think this newest attempt at, jump-starting Vertigo again, do you think it's gonna take this time?
• 47:28
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, vertigo took for a long time before it went away, so…
• 47:35
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know that it's a take this time.
• 47:38
  Tyler Johnson: So, you know, about a few years ago.
• 47:41
  Tyler Johnson: there was an attempt to relaunch Vertigo.
• 47:45
  Tyler Johnson: that went, like, 2 book… I mean, it had, like, 2 or 3 titles, and then just.
• 47:49
  Tad Eggleston: That wasn't a… I mean, Vertigo hadn't actually gone away at that point.
• 47:57
  Tyler Johnson: I'm trying to think of the titles that I'm thinking.
• 47:59
  Tad Eggleston: It was more like a soft relaunch. Yeah, you had some Josh Williamson stuff and some Gail Simone stuff. It was much more of a soft relaunch, because it had never gone away.
• 48:12
  Tad Eggleston: so it was kind of like the dying throws, it was like the… the…
• 48:18
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, oh, yeah, we know Shelly left, and we know…
• 48:23
  Tad Eggleston: You know, young animals over, and… and…
• 48:33
  Tad Eggleston: the, fables is all done, and we don't have any flagship titles, but we're gonna keep calling it Vertigo for a while, but it was…
• 48:44
  Tad Eggleston: just kinda… I mean…
• 48:46
  Tyler Johnson: They didn't know, they didn't know they wanted to do the Vertigo Black Label DC.
• 48:51
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 48:51
  Tyler Johnson: Right, right. It was during that whole Black Label introduction.
• 48:55
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 48:57
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and that was the other thing. They were taking… they were taking traditionally titles that had been…
• 49:04
  Tad Eggleston: labeled as Vertigo in trade paperback, and making them black label, and… Yeah.
• 49:11
  Tad Eggleston: So, I mean, really, I view that period not as an attempt to relaunch Vertigo as much as I view it as…
• 49:23
  Tad Eggleston: the… the… The death knells of… the original vertical.
• 49:30
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so… so you see this as a, as the, as the…
• 49:35
  Tad Eggleston: That is really the first…
• 49:37
  Tad Eggleston: Vertigo relaunch. And I think it's going strong so far, and they haven't even gotten 100 bullets.
• 49:45
  Tyler Johnson: Nope.
• 49:46
  Tad Eggleston: You know, 100 Bullets is in this catalog.
• 49:49
  Tad Eggleston: So the first, the first title that's a direct tie-in to Old Vertigo.
• 49:55
  Tyler Johnson: There's a hundred.
• 49:56
  Tad Eggleston: is in this catalog. So, so, you know, I think it's a strong… Strong opening.
• 50:08
  Tyler Johnson: Right on.
• 50:08
  Tad Eggleston: Comics have been weird lately. We seem to… we seem to be going superhero-centric again. I know. I…
• 50:15
  Tyler Johnson: Man, I'm pushing the indies as hard as I can, yeah.
• 50:19
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, it drives me up the wall that when people's budgets contract, they, they, they…
• 50:25
  Tad Eggleston: They… they, cut out their… the books that they're actually gonna read, rather than the ones that…
• 50:33
  Tad Eggleston: Are… are their completest…
• 50:36
  Tyler Johnson: That's just it. Completist means, like, well, if I gotta cut some out, I can't miss Amazing Spider-Man. I've collected it for 400 issues.
• 50:44
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 50:45
  Tyler Johnson: You know, I can't let that go.
• 50:47
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 50:48
  Tyler Johnson: So…
• 50:49
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, that's essentially exactly what it is.
• 50:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 50:56
  Tyler Johnson: Alright. Well, that's our take on Copra Round 4. We'll be back for Round 5 next week, I think, right?
• 51:02
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, with any luck, Phil will be back, and he can… he can juice the conversation a little.
• 51:07
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I don't think it needed it, we did okay.
• 51:09
  Tad Eggleston: We did okay, okay, we did alright.
• 51:12
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, let's go into 3 books we hope will be spectacular.
• 51:16
  Tad Eggleston: This was a… this was a,
• 51:19
  Tad Eggleston: Even though it's a fifth week, and a light week, it was tough to… to… like, so quick shout-outs for New Space Age, Feral, Oddballs Odyssey, Roots of Madness, Wrestle Heist, and… and the Warbird Zero issue.
• 51:35
  Tad Eggleston: But I'm going with Exploit Number 2 from Lauren Hudson.
• 51:40
  Tad Eggleston: Tim Leong and Amelia Pina at Mad Cave.
• 51:45
  Tad Eggleston: Is Ted Okay? Number 3, from Dave Chisholm at Mad Cave, and The Exorcism at Buckingham Palace, number 2, from Hannah Rosemay and Kelsey Ramsey at IDW. I'm also gonna give a quick shout-out to,
• 52:00
  Tad Eggleston: because I have a copy of this already. The Marvel Creator Collection, the first volume, Back to the Savage Land from Barry Windsor Smith at Fanagraphics. Oh my god, it's…
• 52:13
  Tad Eggleston: It's beautiful.
• 52:14
  Tad Eggleston: these, like, Phantographics often collects
• 52:19
  Tad Eggleston: Like, they, they, they, they, they collect stuff
• 52:23
  Tad Eggleston: like, with an artist focus, so, like…
• 52:29
  Tad Eggleston: I've barely bathered to read any of this, but I've spent hours just looking at the pictures.
• 52:38
  Tyler Johnson: I'll have to check it out.
• 52:40
  Tad Eggleston: makes sense.
• 52:40
  Tyler Johnson: Yup.
• 52:42
  Tyler Johnson: So, skip your fillet.
• 52:43
  Tad Eggleston: Harry Windsor-Smith did some really impressive…
• 52:46
  Tyler Johnson: Skip your number 5 there, because I'm going to talk about that book in my Trade Leader.
• 52:51
  Tad Eggleston: Well, no, I was… I wasn't actually gonna mention any of the rest, I was… Okay.
• 52:56
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 52:57
  Tyler Johnson: So, Phil's all-new giant-sized trade waiter slash graphic novel pick… Slash.
• 53:03
  Tad Eggleston: This is Tyler's this week.
• 53:05
  Tyler Johnson: Tyler's this week. I'm going with Nerd Inferno, the essential Evan Dorkin. Milk and cheese was one of my favorite, just, raunchy, like, weird…
• 53:17
  Tyler Johnson: fun cartoons that became kind of an underground sensation for Evan, and nerd Inferno is kind of all of the essential Evan Dorkin stuff.
• 53:28
  Tyler Johnson: I'm very much looking forward to that.
• 53:31
  Tyler Johnson: Sure.
• 53:32
  Tyler Johnson: Have you checked it out yet?
• 53:34
  Tad Eggleston: I haven't gotten a… Dark Horse doesn't send me as much stuff.
• 53:40
  Tad Eggleston: I need to get on there, a better mailing list for them.
• 53:43
  Tyler Johnson: Hmm.
• 53:44
  Tad Eggleston: Working on it.
• 53:45
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, because.
• 53:48
  Tad Eggleston: I have certain publishers that send me all sorts of stuff, and other publishers that…
• 53:53
  Tad Eggleston: I'm not special to yet.
• 53:55
  Tyler Johnson: It's funny, because I have to get more, chummy with Publisher so I can get more free stuff for the store, because I don't, I don't right now. What I get is
• 54:06
  Tyler Johnson: Stuff that the company sends out to all of their retailers for.
• 54:10
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 54:11
  Tyler Johnson: advertisements and what have you, but shortly here, I'll be opening my box of inventory, and I'm sure I'm going to have this book inside, is the, Evan Dorkin book, so I'm very excited to unbox it here shortly.
• 54:24
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 54:27
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 54:27
  Tad Eggleston: Alrighty.
• 54:28
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, that was quick and concise today, look at it.
• 54:31
  Tad Eggleston: I know!
• 54:32
  Tad Eggleston: I know, every once in a while.
• 54:34
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, we got it in it. You know what? It was because you, did your, new books from the lists, that I, gave you access to, you know? And it was a little faster, and then we both got up today and just picked our, picked our stuff and got moving.
• 54:54
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and, and, yeah, so we got started faster, but also, like, we can thank the Trump administration for just not giving us anything worth talking about.
• 55:05
  Tyler Johnson: Thank you. Yes, that is exactly right.
• 55:08
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I don't really want to thank them, because I feel like they actually gave us things worth talking about, just like…
• 55:18
  Tad Eggleston: not on the Trump scale of things worth talking about.
• 55:23
  Tyler Johnson: Right, right, right, right. That's funny.
• 55:26
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, man.
• 55:28
  Tad Eggleston: Have you watched any of the, saturday Night Live UK?
• 55:35
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 55:37
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it's so good.
• 55:38
  Tyler Johnson: Pretty good.
• 55:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah…
• 55:40
  Tyler Johnson: I'll have to check.
• 55:41
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. And, like, I mean, it's weird, like, the places that they'll go…
• 55:48
  Tad Eggleston: That, that, that we don't really go stateside?
• 55:53
  Tad Eggleston: Particularly because, like, it's an over-the-air show.
• 55:57
  Tad Eggleston: Like, there was a great joke…
• 55:59
  Tad Eggleston: About, like, they're talking about Andrew Montbatten.
• 56:06
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, other Epstein people are wondering if
• 56:11
  Tad Eggleston: he can keep his mouth shut. His new cellmate is hoping that he won't be able to.
• 56:17
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 56:18
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, funny. Well, I'm gonna jump off, I gotta use the restroom, too.
• 56:23
  Tad Eggleston: Sounds good, so take us out.
• 56:25
  Tyler Johnson: Alright guys, thanks for listening, and we will catch you after the next page.
• 56:31
  Tyler Johnson: Later!