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Episode 723 - The Big Three
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On this week's show, we took your listener questions, including one about the most influential living writers, who we named immediately.
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Lightus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
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got War Rocket Ajax to bring back his body. Terminate! Exit! Yo! Yo!
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to a War Rocket Ajax. This is the Internet's Most Explosive Comic Book and Pop Culture Podcast. We are your hosts. My name is Chris Sims. With me, as always, is Matt Wilson.
Hypothetical secret identities: wizard, elf, or prince?
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And Matt, if I had to choose to be either a secret prince, a secret wizard, or a secret elf, I think I would choose secret wizard.
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I mean, my first instinct is also secret wizard, but it is tempting to choose secret elf because of the lengthy lifespan a that an elf has.
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Can i can i throw something out there? Yes. I ask you this question because I want to know your feelings, but I'm...
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I gotta say, I had you pinned as a secret prince. Now why? Why why do you think I would have chosen prince? Matt, you know I love you.
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ah ah Oh no, oh no. That's definitely building to something i I might not want to hear. I think you have a reputation. i mean you're You're circumspect, right? You're you're a little... ah Of the two of us, you're the one who's a little more distant, a little more reserved, a little more not having a good time.
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Sure, sure. And I think in the type of stories... Where someone is a secret wizard, secret prince, or secret elf.
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That type of person is a secret prince. Well, I guess if an author was choosing one for me, then it would be Secret Prince. But ah my first instinct is to is to also want to be a secret wizard.
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Because I would say Secret Elf would grant me a longer lifespan, but do I really want that? Yeah, ah in this economy?
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In this economy. me And Secret Prince would afford wealth, right?
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But is that as cool as being able to do spells? I don't think so. I mean, what could you do with wealth that you could not do by casting secret wizard spells is my question.
Fan art appreciation and community engagement
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exactly this This question, by the way, inspired by the fact that I'm rereading ah Sarah J. Mass's Throne of Glass novels, which are my absolute favorite trashy romanticy books.
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Yeah. They're so good. They're so good. Everyone should read them. They're hilarious. Yeah. While we're on the opening question of the show, I want to give a shout out to Zig Posca on Blue Sky, who drew fan art of us with our back tattoos for a couple weeks ago. It's incredible.
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Yeah. ah Great stuff. we I reposted it on our Blue Sky account, so ah go go go check it out. It is exactly what we requested.
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Also, yes, followed the instruction of, if you're going to do this, make us jacked. yeah i'm ah I'm a big burly boy in this picture.
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ah ah We both are are looking are looking pretty Yakuza in this drawing. I like that via the color scheme, I'm Kiryu and you're Majima.
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ah did That tracks, I think. Yeah, Matt Juma. Matt Juma. As I called you, yes. We have a great show for everybody this week. um We are coming off the road.
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Chris, you you just got in a couple of days ago. Yeah. From your road trip from Tennessee. So we're going to just have a ah nice little easy, easygoing record sesh here on a Friday morning.
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ah where we take your listener questions. So ah hang around and listen to us answer your listener questions here in a little bit. But Chris, before we do that, we do need to take care of some business.
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And the first piece of business is thanking our newest supporters over on Patreon.
Supporting the podcast and charitable mentions
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That's right, Matt. Now these are the people. who maybe were thinking about going down to 723 Gimmick Street, thinking they could maybe give us a little bit of money there.
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But you can't do that, because something else is at 723 Gimmick Street. ah That's right. Someone has paid for the naming rights at 723 Gimmick Street, and that person is Ryan Holiday.
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There's a place where you can give someone else money. at 723 Gimmick Street, in addition to giving us money. um It's a branch of Appalachians for Appalachia, a charitable organization dedicated to helping the people of Appalachia in a number of ways.
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ah Like the people of my home area of southeastern Kentucky and Matt's people in western North Carolina that still need help recovering from natural disasters, any help would be greatly appreciated. ah That's from Ryan Holiday, and that's what's at 723 Gimmick Street.
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Thanks, Ryan. I mean, look, Ryan, that's good that's that's a great thing to put there. that's That's a fantastic thing to put there, and I would encourage everyone to go to 723 Gaming Street or to Appalachians for Appalachia. Having recently driven through ah chunk of Appalachia myself, oh but now I have to ask for money for us.
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so well Look, people can spread the wealth. Once again, thanks thanks for making me seem like a real dweeb. ah Thank you, Ryan, for for setting that location. That i that that is a great organization enter and and worth ah kicking in a little bit of money to.
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um We did not read new Patreon supporters last week because we were on the road. So I don't know where we left off. only took the time to call Bobby Heenan a weasel.
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That's right. ah So I don't know where we left off, so I'm just going to start reading names. Well, I think it might just be the most recent name, because I think we thanked Harry Merrill. If we haven't, thank you, Harry Merrill.
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um But our newest Patreon supporter is Michael Gulliver. Thank you, Michael. Thank Or perhaps it's Gulliver. ah So, Michael, however you pronounce your name, thank you very much.
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If you would like to be like Michael and help us out, ah you can do what Chris said and go to patreon.com slash warrocketajax to kick in as little as $1 per month to make sure that we do this show every week, that we do Comics Catch-Up and Every Story Ever monthly, that we do Snack Situation and Movie Fighters. All of those shows are made possible.
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by your support over there on Patreon. And as a patron, you get a totally ad-free feed of all of those shows that I just listed off. Completely free.
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ah and complete Well, not free. You pay for them. But completely ad-free. ah Which... ah It's pretty nice, and you get everything all in that one feed that is special for you.
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um At other levels of the Patreon, at the $5 level, you get bonus content, ah bonus audio that we record, outtakes from the show that I put exclusively on Patreon, writing that Chris and I have done.
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The 420 special is still over there. for everybody to listen to if they wish. You can also buy that piece of audio and only that piece of audio for $5 without being ah full Patreon subscriber.
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But if you are a Patreon subscriber at the $5 level, you get everything we've ever done. um We are currently still sitting at over 420 paid subscribers. We have 428 the moment, which pretty fantastic.
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but is pretty fantastic um At the $10 level, you get line-stepping privileges for our segments, which currently include Every Story Ever and 1 to 10 of Swords.
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At the $15 level, you get naming rights for Gimmick Street, like Ryan did earlier in this episode. And at the $20 level, you get our annual t-shirt, which I need to check in on, and I will let people know about as soon as possible.
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If you are unable to help us monetarily, which we do understand might be the case in this economy, you can help us out in other ways. You can leave us a five-star review on the podcasting app that you use. ah whatever that might be.
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Or you can ah just spread the word about the show, give us some good word of mouth, talk us up on social media or wherever ah you are around your friends and family and tell them, hey, there's this podcast I like and you should listen to it.
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And then maybe they will contribute to our Patreon and things will progress from there. With that, Chris, it's time for some Checks and Wrecks. What do you say?
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Let's do it. So come over diggity
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Chris, what do you have to check in with this week? As you mentioned, I just got back from ah from a little bit of a road trip. I drove down to to Tennessee.
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i was having wicked dreams of driving to Tennessee. Mm-hmm. L. Collins' wedding time. Do you know what's calling me? Mm-hmm. I saw my mom.
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She made me want to scream. Mm-hmm. So I ah stayed in Tennessee for a couple days, had a great time, ah saw you ah saw you and Marlene and Ben and and a lot of our friends, Jordan Witt, Megan Nielsen, Elle Collins, of course.
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ah Then on the way back, I got to see Benito. I got to see David Wolkin. i got to to see my family. Had a great time. Had a great time. ah Got to go to Smoky Mountain Knife Works, the world's largest knife store.
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so For all the good and bad that entails. For all the good and bad that entails, listen, there are some...
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There are some products available at Smokey Mountain Knifeworks that are bad. Yeah.
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I mean, like, there's some... Look, look... Whatever you expect from the world's largest knife store in Sevierville, Tennessee, it's there.
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It's exactly what it did. Smoky Mountain Knifeworks could not be other than it is. You know? that's That's just how it'd be.
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But I did buy a lot of knives.
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And I had a great time. I was a little reluctant to go on a solo road trip of a distance of 2,000 miles. ah Because, you know, that's a bit daunting.
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ah But up till when I get into Kentucky, it's it's flat. there's There's not a lot there. Also, boy, there's not a lot there.
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you cut You cut diagonally across Indiana, there ain't a lot there, bud.
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there's There's a couple of ah of aggressively Christian attractions. you want to hit the Creation Museum and the Noah's Ark encounter and the Shrine of the Passion of the Christ?
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Indiana's got it. ah But all that said, I vastly preferred that to flying. I would rather spend six days on the road than two hours in an airplane.
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I did not realize how much you disliked flying. Flying's bad, dude. I'm not saying it's good, but I get real tired driving.
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um i i mean, you know, it's choosing between two evils. Yeah. And I mean, look, I did break the trip up. So kind of the longest, I think the longest I was actually on the road was between here and Chicago, which is like six and a half hours.
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yeah So i didn't you know I was originally planning to do do chicago or do Minneapolis to Cincinnati in one day, which would have been 12 hours.
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And that, I don't think, would have been enjoyable. But you know like if if you can arrange it so that it doesn't take... You've got plenty of time to like stop, and and if you've got some audiobooks, and you've got some music to listen to, and you're going to see friends at the end of it, and their dogs, then, yeah, man.
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it's it's a It's infinitely preferable to being crammed into a method of travel that is notoriously terrible.
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Like, no one likes flying. That's what amazes me about how we don't have trains yet. Nobody likes flying. It's bad. It's just fast.
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um The lack of high-speed rail is... Boy, it's it's a bummer. Yeah, like, I went on a train from Durham to Washington, D.C. once with ah Jeremy Parrish.
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And, like, they got Wi-Fi. They got big ol' seats. They got... they like It's a train, so it can only go in certain places, so you can kind of take whatever you want on there.
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Like, nobody's making me take my shoes off. Trains, man. Trains are great. Cars? I think less great, but still better than flying.
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And Matt, I think you and, you and me and Benito need to go on a road trip. I think that is a, that is necessary. All right. We'll, we'll, we'll see about arranging that sometime in the, in the future.
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But yes, I had a great time. Uh, loved seeing everybody, uh, loved, uh, being a part of Collins wedding, uh, which was an absolute delight. Uh, and I'm so glad to see them, uh, so happy.
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oh So thank you to El for giving me that opportunity, and ah thank you to you, Matt. like the The one bad thing is I'm back at home wishing I got to see you every week.
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Yeah, it was really nice. It definitely was very nice to get to be in the same place for a little but a little while. Yeah, man. i I hate that it got a little messed up, because in the middle of...
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hanging out, I got it ah messages that was like that were like, hey, you gotta get home as soon as possible to do a thing. ah Which kind of messed me up for the rest of the time. But ah but nonetheless, that's how it goes sometimes.
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That is how it goes sometimes. Matt, what have you been up to while I've been driving? Well, Chris, I mentioned this on the that Well, a couple of things I've mentioned on the show before.
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ah One is a thing that is currently over, if you're listening to this, but as I'm recording this, it is going on now.
Attending Rose City Comic Con: plans and support
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ah The Asheville Improv Festival um was last weekend, and a hoot.
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And I told you you should come, and if you didn't, too bad. um Because it's a blast. And and ah it is going on now. It's why we're recording on a Friday morning instead of a Thursday night, because I was at the shows last night and and having a great time.
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Seeing Carla and Craig Krakowski be amazing. The other thing I wanted to mention... is something I mentioned on last week's episode, but only kind of in passing.
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And then I think, I think my mention of it was a bit misinterpreted. Like I said, i applied to go to Rose City Comic Con in September. And I recently got the message, the notification that I, my application was accepted and, and that I can go.
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um just have to pay them $400 for a table. And and Like, look, I can do that. it's ah what i was I wasn't asking for like money to pay for the table.
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Some people on our Discord very kindly suggested like doing a GoFundMe or something for that, and absolutely not. I won't be doing that. ah When I said, make it worth it for me, what I meant was, am I going to see people who are happy to see me and that I will be happy to see and that we will have fun and they will buy my stuff and um we'll hang out and have a good time?
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That's what I want to know, because i do not want to pay $400 to get on a plane, which There's no way I'd go in there without getting on a plane. And sit at a table and just be miserable for two and a half days.
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Because i have definitely had that happen at cons before. And I'll be real here. I sort of reached a make or break point with cons pre-COVID.
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Where I went to a few that were so... Soul draining that I kind of wondered if I would ever do any ever again.
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Because it was just sitting there, nobody being interested in my stuff. you know it's not like there was nobody there that I could hang out with or anything. It's not like I didn't have any fun, but like the part of it where I was just sitting at my table was excruciating, and I really don't want that to happen again. i don't want to travel a really long way for that to happen.
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So that's what I'm interested in knowing from people about if I go to Rose City, because I'm interested. you know i have a new book. I want to get it in front of people.
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But also, like I don't know, man. i'm I'm not in a great place as far as like thinking what my future is going to be in comics.
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Because I think this book is really good, and I keep trying to get it in front of people. and I don't know. There's not much reaction. um And I know there's a lot of stuff...
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dividing people's attention. And it's, it's hard to get people to pay attention to something. I know nobody can give me a guarantee that it's going to be good and fun and nice, but like,
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you listeners who live in that area could be like, I'll help you make you make it good and fun and nice. And so that's what i that's what I'm hoping and looking for. So um just tell me.
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Tell me that that will happen, and I'll be way more interested in and excited about going to this ah convention in September. Help me out, folks. Help me feel good about it.
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I mean, look, Matt, a couple things. Just a couple things. ah A... You said you were going to fly. could drive to Minneapolis and then we could road trip to Portland.
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and We could. Yeah, we could. That would be, i mean, i' boy, I would have to take so much time off from work. Yeah, would be it would be a significant investment of time.
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yeah Also, um just I know you don't you're not going to do it now, but ah just in case it ever comes up, go fund Matt. GoFundMat is ah clever and good and yes worth considering.
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And also, I'm pretty sure that that we had a a recorded Dark Knight of the Soul. oh yeah. Re-cons on this very show.
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We did. ah it It was a while ago. I forget what con it was even at, but we we definitely did that. Yeah. i'm I'm not far from there in my feelings of cons and where I'm at in comics right now, which I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about at this particular juncture, but I need more emotional help than monetary help is what I'm is what i'm getting at here.
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ah Help Matt's emotions. Yes, please. ah Chris, let's make some recommendations. what do you have to
Audiobook recommendations and supporting local bookstores
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recommend? David Wolkin. When I stopped in his house with ah his incredibly fantastic wife, Keeley, and ah their wonderful dog with heterochromia waffles, and their two cats, Phineas and Robocop, David Wolkin made me chicken sandwiches, like fried chicken sandwiches, and was like, I expect your check and rec to be Elle Collins' wedding and being friends with David Wolkin.
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I mean, it's hard to recommend that to people who don't know David and have no ah way of being friends with him, but sure. Yeah, that is what I was thinking. um i do recommend being friends with David Wolkin.
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Sure. Like, highly recommended. I mean, you absolute treasure of a person. You just have to, certain circumstances have to happen in your life. Yeah, like, I mean, I would also recommend, like, getting into comics blogging in the early 2000s.
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Right, yeah. i mean, well, no, I wouldn't, actually. Well, it's, ah that's a big, that put a big asterisk on that, yeah. Yeah. I would recommend a lot of the people that I met.
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doing that, I think. yeah yeah um So I'm not sure that I can I'm not sure that's an actionable recommendation for the people. You know? I totally get it, yeah. ah What i would say is an actionable recommendation ah is that one of the audiobooks that I purchased for my trip ah on Libro.fm which is ah a great, not a sponsor, but could be and Very easily could be.
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ah it is ah an audiobook website ah that not only allows you to get a bunch audiobooks, if you want to disentangle yourself from ah former sponsor, audible.com, then you can go to Libro, and purchasing books there will also help you support a local bookstore of your choice.
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ah which is a ah fantastic and noble goal. I still got mine set to The Regulator, which was my local independent bookstore in Durham, North Carolina. ah But i could ah there there are plenty of options for ah stores here in Minneapolis, and likely stores near you as well.
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ah But I picked up the audiobook version of a book that I actually bought at The Regulator online, ah from local author John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, friend end of the show.
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hey Devil House. And I mentioned reading it, and some people asked me, oh did did you like it? And I did one of those things where I kind of had to pause ah lot, because I did like it, but it's...
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It is an interesting book. And I think I found it interesting more than I liked it. Which is not to damn it with faint praise.
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Just that it is by its nature very interesting. very ah Very well written. I, you know... And well-read if you get the audiobook version. ah John Darnielle does the audio as well, so it's kind of like listening to an 11-hour spoken word Mountain Goats track, which, you know, I'm a fan of.
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But it is a book about true crime. The main character, like the POV character and narrator for the kind of first half of the book, is a true crime writer who is researching...
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a ah some murders that happened in Devil House. And it's less about the actual story of those murders and the other things that that character has written about, and more about an examination of how those stories are put together.
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And also, at one point, It just fully goes into a Canterbury tale. You know, like like you might expect from John Darnielle.
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Yeah, that is that is not surprising. Yeah, no, it all tracks. It all tracks. I really enjoyed it, but I really want people to read it that I know.
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so like, you, so that I can talk about it. and And see what other people think about it. So, Matt, I'm recommending it to you specifically, and also anyone else that I know and like to talk about things with.
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Which is a okay small but but definitely powerful group of people.
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What would you like to recommend, Matt? Uh... My recommendation, Chris, is i recommend YouTube videos on here often um because that's that's the thing i I do put on while I work. I ah can't really listen to music while I work.
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um It's too distracting. um But for whatever reason, a lot of times putting on a YouTube video and just letting it play and listening to it or a Nebula video or something on Dropout is that's that's easier for me to just kind of like let be on in the background.
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Somehow or another, I got down a rabbit hole of a certain type of YouTube video, but one particular creator of those types of YouTube videos in particular, they're they're called YTPs.
00:28:22
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They've been around for a long time. um But they're like, i I really love the Vic Berger videos, and these are sort of like those in that they're just like taking like old video um or or sort of like Everything is Terrible, where it's like old video from old like instructional tapes and DVDs and stuff like that.
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um or Or even just like game show clips or or anything. And editing them in such a way that they're like funny and weird and pointing out the weird stuff that happens on this stuff we all watch sometimes.
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Um, but there's one YTP editor in particular. Um, the, the channel is called to things da D a things. Um, but the editor is named Ellie spectacular that, um, I have been watching like,
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Constantly. And are a great alternative to like YouTube videos that are about something. Because more and more lately, um i just don't want to hear about the world at all.
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um So watching a YouTube video where it's just a bunch of re-edited The Price is Right. um So you know they're saying ridiculous things.
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um ah that's That's oddly soothing to me. ah The one that I would recommend to start with, or most um that I've shared with some people, is um the the video is just called Products.
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And it's just a bunch of re-edited infomercials. ah that like The timing's really good. It's it's very funny. so um My recommendation is...
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A lot of the videos on the channel, duh things.
Exploring YouTube Poops for comedic content
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ah But if if you want one to start with, it's ah it's the one that's just called Products. There's a follow-up to that one called Goods.
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um And they're both they're both very good. um But Ellie Spectacular does like series several different series of videos. like There's one taken from like a DVD series about food safety.
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hosted by this chef. I don't know what his real name is, but Ellie Spectacular edits it, so it's Jonathan Lonathan. Those are pretty good. There's a bunch of Mythbusters re-edited things.
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um Oh, there's there's a bunch of different edits of like the show, how it's made. um And they're all very funny and good. ah So, that's my rec.
00:31:15
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Now that we've done our checks and recs, Chris, it's time to talk about some comics. What do you say? Let's do it.
00:31:22
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So Chris, you told me that you wanted to talk about the new Captain Planet number one from Dynamite. And I'll tell you what my read on this was.
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ah Because it is it is written by David Peeples, who was also the writer of the Space Ghost comic that made Space Ghosts dark and aggressive.
00:31:49
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Where Space Ghost ah like punched Brack's spine out of his own body or whatever. yeah yeah. yeah And so, my thought was that this was that sort of take on Captain Planet, but I have not read it.
00:32:05
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You have. So is that correct? Is that a correct take? That that's what this is? It's not to the extent of that Space Ghost book.
00:32:16
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Okay. It is... the The darker, more mature take on Captain Planet, as evidenced by the Jay Lee cover, and Captain Planet having a beard.
00:32:31
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The redesign of Captain Planet in this is bananas. if The redesign of Captain Planet where he just has like rocks on his shoulders now, and a beard. And a beard, and vines growing on his chest and stuff.
00:32:48
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like Like, he came from the Earth. Like, you know, he's not just a guy who represents the planet, but he's he's made of of planet stuff.
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I mean, don't mind that. I just feel like they shouldn't have... Like, why does he only 10% look like Swamp Thing? And, like, 90% looks like a guy in a superhero costume.
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like Great question. If you're gonna do it, do it. Like, I mean, I think it's fine. Like, I feel like the spirit of the planet shouldn't have had, like, a mullet either.
00:33:28
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But it was the 90s, and that's just what dudes look like. I'm gonna compliment sandwich it. Alright. Hit me. There's a really good line early on where Captain Planet rescues Gaia from some baddies.
00:33:45
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And he says, I haven't lost a fight since the Cretaceous. And I do like that because that implies that the Cretaceous Tertiary Extinction event was a fight that Captain Planet lost.
00:33:58
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Which I think is very funny. That also implies prehistoric......planeteers of extinct creatures.
00:34:12
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ah Yeah, man. Which, honestly, where's that book?
00:34:19
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Where's the book of of dinosaurs with power rings? yeah I do like that one of the first things that we learn about Captain Planet is that he lost a fight and that resulted in the extinction of most of life on Earth.
00:34:37
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like It's a great line, but it's also very weird to be like, yeah, he loses sometimes.
00:34:45
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Like, every time animal has gone extinct, Captain Planet has failed. Yeah. Wild. But I do like that line.
00:34:56
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A lot. ah Just, I like the idea of him fighting a meteor. I'm trying to think of what the other side of the compliment sandwich will be. Because I don't really have one. Alright.
00:35:08
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ah But I... the The thing that's like that Space Ghost book... is that all of the ah Planeteers, they're they're new cool Planeteers.
00:35:21
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So, Linka is like very obviously the lead singer of like Pussy Riot.
00:35:35
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Okay. Which is not like, earth not a that's not a band name I'm comfortable saying here on the show, but it's very, like she's wearing a balaclava and performing on stage ah with her band. One of whom is just fully just wearing a Naruto t-shirt, which is pretty funny.
00:35:54
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Uh-huh. But I'll tell you who, also Wheeler's in a union, which I like. Wheeler's a union man. Okay. Yeah, great. ah But, uh, Mati, ah who you might remember as the, uh, the, the heart.
00:36:11
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Heart. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he's like, you're lucky I didn't kill you. ah Okay.
00:36:20
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You and the rest of your colonizer should consider yourselves lucky. Yesterday I might've killed you all myself, but fortunately for you, I've had a sudden change of heart.
00:36:32
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he's like an eco-terrorist who I guess kills people in Brazil.
00:36:38
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Yeah, man. it's It's cool and edgy. I guess the other column of sandwich is ah that the ah the water the water lady whose name I don't remember.
00:36:50
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ah ah Gee? I think. ah She's gay, which is nice. That's nice. More gay planet ears.
00:37:03
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If you're going Planeteers, might as well make them gay. Sure. If you're going to make them eco-terrorists, make them eco-terrorists. That's what I say. It is g yes G-I. G-I.
00:37:13
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G-I. Not as kind of hilariously bad as Space Ghost, but I also don't have the attachment to Captain Planet that I do to Space Ghost. like It's just fully a thing I remember from when I was a kid.
00:37:32
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I can't believe that there isn't a credit here that says Captain Planet created by Ted Turner.
00:37:39
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Because he absolutely was. ah Wild, man. Wild.
Comic reviews: Absolute Superman #7 and Power Company Recharged #1
00:37:45
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ah Let's move on to ah Absolute Superman number seven, which kind of starts a new phase of Absolute Superman.
00:37:58
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um Superman is barely in this issue. it is... largely a ah origin story for Brainiac, who we learn is like part of a big collective of Brainiacs.
00:38:14
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ah This is by Jason Aaron and Carmine D. John Domenico. who the The art is is very different from what it's been on the book before from before for Rafa Sandoval.
00:38:30
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um It's kind of like gritty. There's a part very early in this issue where Brainiac makes a guy puke up his bones. I'm glad you mentioned that because I was also like, damn, bones.
00:38:43
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That guy puked up his own bones. He puked up his bones. he There's a thought bubble that says, my bones, I think I'm puking my own bones. I wish it just would have said, my bones!
00:38:58
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And like, look, I i think we have have made it clear in the past on this show that we're we don't mind some ultra-violence in a comic book.
00:39:12
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But like, I feel like so far, Absolute Superman has been very much a ah book anybody could read. This issue is like,
00:39:23
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oh no, ah guy's going to puke up his bones and Brainiac's brain is just going to be out and he's going to pick at it with his finger and it's going to be gross. It does. Look, if there's one thing that we can get from this book, as we said before, the absolute books are about taking ah a thing you know and kind of changing it around yeah to something else.
00:39:50
Speaker
And kind of the the difference here is ah that Brainiac's not like a cold, emotionless robot. He's a nasty freak. He's an absolute nasty freak who like experiments on people's bodies and makes hands gigantic and like does weird shit to people. He makes you puke up your bones.
00:40:13
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He makes people puke up their bones. That's not how puke works. I mean, when Brainiac makes you do it, it is. Brainiac says, pick up your bones.
00:40:26
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he He shrinks people's skin so that it's not there anymore. He removes their muscles. I do like the... Like, so much of what he's doing is, like, weird shrinking stuff, right? Yeah. yeah Like...
00:40:47
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Which I like, because you know that's that's kind of Brainiac's deal. That's like his his signature move, is shrinking down a city. The bottle city of Kandor, yeah. Yeah, coming up with new ways to use like shrinking stuff feels like very much in line. like He shrinks that dude's skin, and all that dude's skin is gone.
00:41:07
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Right. I don't know what... I don't think there's a relationship... between shrinking things and puking up your own bones. I mean, I guess he shrank the bones.
00:41:19
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He shrank the bones? I think he shrank the bones. I shrank the bones.
00:41:26
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But also, that group of guys that he fucks up at the start of this is the Omega Men, which is cool. um But the the whole notion here is that he used to be ah just a regular Brainiac who was part of this order of Brainiacs with this very distinct hierarchy Yeah, he was like, in the way that we've had Brainiac and Brainiac 5 and Brainiac 13 and that sort of thing in the future, he was like, they they made they made a Brainiac to clean up.
00:41:59
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Yeah, he he cleans up. He cleans up bodies. um And he ends up um kind of losing losing it, appoints himself Brainiac 1. Well, all the Brainiacs in his branch of the Brainiac Collective don die. They yeah. And it's kind of implied that like whatever their leader was killed himself.
00:42:26
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Yeah. um And so he appoints himself Brainiac 1, and then over time becomes ah total freak and obsessed with Superman. And...
00:42:38
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There's one part in this issue where he contacts all the other brainiac but other all the other Brainiac branches to try to get them to tell him about Superman, and some of them don't know anything, and some of them are like, oh yeah, he's from Krypton.
00:42:53
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And so he learns about them. And when they start asking, like wait, who are you? He ends the transmission. yeah it's very like It's very Borg.
00:43:05
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It's very Borg, but he's like a rogue Borg. Yeah. He's like Lore. Kinda, yeah. lord Lore is not a nasty freak, but Lore is a freak.
00:43:16
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Yeah. It's interesting, um but like ah gross and freaky in a way that I didn't necessarily expect from this book. it's I think it's my least favorite issue so far. i mean, there there ain't there a hide nor hair of crypto in this.
00:43:32
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True. But I do... It's also... it it's also
00:43:38
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yeah it's I'm trying to think of a way to say this that will not make it sound like I didn't like this issue. Because I i did. i think it's a lot of fun. But it's kind of the most Jason Aaron-y in a lot of ways.
00:43:54
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But like in the way that like Ghost Rider was Jason Aaron-y, or Punisher was Jason Aaron-y. Well, it's hyper-violent in the way that Jason Aaron can be sometimes, but that this book has not been until now.
00:44:06
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Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes Jason Aaron will put a nasty freak in a book. but Absolutely. um and And that's what happened here. It's it's not bad, but it's it definitely is a weird shift in tone. did you not Did you not like it when Brainiac reached into his own brain and was poking at it, and the sound effect was scritch-sklitch?
00:44:28
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I mean, if that's what you're into. I had a hand real big, and I was like, did this Brainiac see the video for Everlong by the Foo Fighters? It's exactly like influenced by Michel Gondry.
00:44:40
Speaker
It's exactly like the video for Everlong by the Foo Fighters. ah One last comic we want to talk about is The Power Company Recharged, number one, which you read, Chris.
00:44:51
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I have talked about my affection for the original Power Company series, and I liked this issue. I think there's a lot of actually youre like really interesting stuff in here, and this is by ah Brian Ebert Hill with... ah Kyrie Randolph, Aletha Martinez, Norm Ratmund, Ray Anthony Height, and Studio Sky Tiger as your artists.
00:45:14
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ah Because it's longer than... like I think it's 48 pages. Quite an art jam of an issue. Yeah, it's it's maybe 40 pages, I think. But there's good stuff in it.
00:45:27
Speaker
But again, i feel like a first issue of anything... needs to explain who people are.
00:45:38
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We gotta have some caption boxes. Because there's a Batman in this who isn't Bruce Wayne. And if I'm new to this, that's not explained.
00:45:54
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Now, what are the odds that that a new Detective Comics Comics reader is picking up the power company of Recharge number one? Maybe... maybe pretty low.
00:46:06
Speaker
But also, it's a first issue. Maybe you remind me who this guy is, or I'm going to spend the whole thing being like, why is Bruce Wayne black?
00:46:19
Speaker
i feel like that's I feel like that's not an unfair complaint to be made about a first issue. That's that Tim Fox, Batman, right? Is that who that is?
00:46:30
Speaker
I believe so. Yeah. it from ah He was from Future's End or something? Yeah, i won one to write one of those books. Which, again, like I didn't read that stuff. I just kind of know who this dude is because I read a bunch other comics.
00:46:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's i mean even if you're a person who reads a lot of comics, a little reminder of, like okay, now who's that guy, is very helpful. Yeah, like, there's a bit in here about Signal, Duke Thomas, having powers.
00:46:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That, I didn't think Duke had powers. I missed wherever Duke got powers, if Duke has powers, or if it's, like, something that he has, like, equipment for.
00:47:10
Speaker
I know who Josiah Power is, but there's no mention in this comic of Josiah Power having powers.
00:47:19
Speaker
like That said, aside from the fact that not a lot was explained, I did enjoy the issue, and I did like the the idea here is that this Batman is like, like, Josiah Power's like, hey, you want to join the power company?
00:47:35
Speaker
And Batman goes, companies have employees. No.
00:47:40
Speaker
Which I thought was a really fun bit. Oh, he's Jace Fox. Jace Fox. he he He used to be Tim Fox, but I guess his name got changed to Jace in the New 52 or something.
00:47:53
Speaker
Well, there was also Luke Fox. Yeah, that's right. Luke's Lucius Jr., who was also Batwing. But he was the second Batwing. There have been a lot of Lucius Fox sons.
00:48:06
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when I don't know ah a big family if they're all brothers or like if they all coexist at the same time. Yeah. Do you know what could solved this? One caption box.
00:48:17
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Yeah.
00:48:19
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You know, like, just just throw that in there. I do also enjoy it when there's superhero stuff that takes place in the South, so setting this book in Atlanta, good idea. I just, i you know, i i feel like there's a happy medium between this, where nothing gets explained, and Hush 2, where it's like, that's Talia al Ghul.
00:48:39
Speaker
We have a long history. Remember when that Power Girl... that power girl ah series, like the first ah issue of that Power Girl series, I had the opposite complaint because there was like a caption box explaining who Power Girl was that through no fault of the creators had to explain who Power Girl was.
00:49:01
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yeah And so there was stuff in there like it was wild, you know, like it was like four paragraphs and that's simply too much.
00:49:13
Speaker
Yeah. So, I don't know. I feel like there's a i feel like there's a ah middle ground there of just telling me who this is. Actually, pretty, yeah.
00:49:25
Speaker
I just went looked it up. Kara Zor-El was just an infant when her parents sent her away in a sentient symbioship to save her from a doomed and dying Krypton. It was to be Kara's mission to look after her younger cousin Kal-El when both arrived safely at Earth-2.
00:49:37
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However, her journey took much longer than expected. She came into her own and worked with Superman until a cosmic calamity destroyed the planet. leaving her the sole survivor, seeking refuge on Earth Prime, and taking the name Paige, she fights alongside the Superfamily as Power Girl never-ending battle against evil.
00:49:51
Speaker
That's too much. That's too much. It's not Leo Williams' fault that that is too much, but that is too much. Yeah. Yeah. and And nothing is not enough.
00:50:03
Speaker
All right, Chris, that's going to do it for our comic segment. Let's take some listener questions.
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00:51:01
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All right, Chris, our first listener question comes from our Discord. It's from WellBehavedKnifeCat on our Discord, who wants us to name the top three most influential comics writers still living.
00:51:18
Speaker
I mean, that's easy. Let's hear it. Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Jerry Conway. I feel like the Mont has to be in there somewhere.
00:51:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. i I should have thought about that. That is my mistake. You are correct. Take Jerry Conway off the list front of the show. Put the Mont on there. Yeah. So, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Chris Claremont.
00:51:48
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Done. Period.
00:51:51
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Yeah, man. i don't like i don' i don't think that's I don't think that's arguable like at all. I think that's just kind of factual. as far but I mean, if you're if you look at who is influencing comics now, it is those three guys.
00:52:08
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Yeah. We're certainly in the post-Morrison era. Not post as in Grant's not doing stuff, because they still are, but like post as in Jonathan Aikman, Al Ewing, Steve Orlando,
00:52:24
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like Scott Snyder. These are all the descendants of Grant Morrison. I think. yeah Yeah, I mean, it's it's very true.
00:52:35
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I think there are others who could arguably be contenders. Like, I mean, you and I know he both but know that he got lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1993.
00:52:51
Speaker
But Frank Miller it is up there. i think frank's Frank's up there. I do think Jerry Conway is up there. Yeah, for sure. i mean i think there are a lot of like underrated or undervalued writers whose influence
00:53:11
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it isn't as overt, but it's felt. like Like people like Dwayne McDuffie. Absolutely. absolutely i think I think he's probably... like If we're doing a top ten, I think he's on the list. Dwayne McDuffie's not living, so yeah well that yes that unfortunate changes it, unfortunately.
00:53:29
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um But... Yeah, i I don't know. i I think there are there are other contenders, but I think it's hard to argue that those three, Moore, Morrison, and Beaumont,
00:53:42
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are are probably the three names you have to say. I mean, if we're including work as editors, which I know is not – exactly the question, but like I would put Larry, Hama, and Priest on there as well.
00:54:00
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Again, if we're doing a top 10. If we're doing a top 10 on writers, Priest is on the list. Yeah, i I think so too. Yeah. and And Larry as well. Like, again, underrated.
00:54:15
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or so Or somebody like a Walt Simonson. The tricky thing is It's very easy to see the influence of an Alan Moore, a Grant Morrison, a Chris Claremont.
00:54:29
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It's harder to see the influence of Walt Simonson. Because i think I think you're right, but I also feel like... I don't know. like Kind of that nobody's that good. like yeah like nobody's Nobody's done what Walt did.
00:54:49
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ah because You know, like, obviously he was influenced by ah by Kirby, by you know by Lee, by a lot of people. i Look, I hate to say it.
00:55:01
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i mean, I don't hate to say it, but you know what I mean. I feel like if we're doing a top ten, Roy is also on that list. i I hate to say it would be by default, but... Yeah, I mean, it kind of would be. Yeah.
00:55:20
Speaker
Like... yeah I feel like we don't get Geoff Johns without Roy Thomas. Oh, Mark Waid is also on that list. like Mark Waid, for sure, yeah. huge Hugely influential, yeah. It's hard to think of Mark Waid because he's still such an active writer.
00:55:36
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whereas Whereas Morrison is kind of semi-retired. Morrison's certainly not doing as as much as they used to. Yeah. But I mean, Morrison could do another multiversity like tomorrow.
00:55:51
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That's true. Yeah. it You're not wrong. I think it's got to be those three, but I think there are a lot of other names in the orbit um that are that are worth mentioning. yeah um Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants to know, if War Rocket Ajax was the type of podcast where men in baseball caps set on bar stools, what would be on display in your studio?
00:56:12
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I mean, I do i do wear baseball caps. I mean, I wear baseball caps as well, but we don't we don't video our podcast in the studio. know And I don't wear them while I podcast because i we I think we both wear, like, cans.
00:56:26
Speaker
Yeah, we wear over-the-ear headphones, yeah. Should I put on a baseball cap for this question? You could. i don't think you have to. Okay. um I know there are some podcasters who wear the the cans over a baseball cap, which seems like madness.
00:56:44
Speaker
Yeah. Doesn't seem like it'd be comfortable. Does not. Also, who wants to sit on a bar stool? It's got that little button on the top of the hat, and your your headphones are going to go right over that. I mean, I guess you could like do that thing where you like twist them to the back, but I'm not doing that.
00:57:02
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Yeah, man.
00:57:05
Speaker
Sitting on a bar stool while doing a podcast, that sounds like madness. Okay, what would our what would be in our studio? i've I'm imagining a big Batman statue.
00:57:17
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I mean, look, i'm I'm looking around what's in my actual office, and i have a framed, pretty poster-sized commission of Goku from Jay Gonzo.
00:57:32
Speaker
yeah I have a a display of my knives that I sent you a picture of yesterday. oh yeah, that you made symmetrical. it's you got There's a lot of knives on that thing.
00:57:47
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Yeah, I like knives. I've got like a shelf of action figures with Batman and Goku and Steve Austin and Link and Guts and Joker from Persona and your Forger and Asagi Ojimbo. I've
00:58:02
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I kind of feel I'm already kind of living that life, unfortunately. like i don't like ah Unless you're asking if War Rocket Ajax was a completely different kind of podcast hosted by two completely different guys.
00:58:19
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Like we talked about high-value males or whatever. i Okay, I'll tell you what's on my bookshelf that I would probably have on display. ah I have a big statue of AEW Sting.
00:58:35
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I have a battle-damaged Riker figure. Original. from From back in like the original Next Generation figures. I have a Guts statue.
00:58:50
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I have a whole set of Star Trek The Next Generation Pez dispensers.
00:58:58
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I have a John Cena figure and a bunch of little John Cenas. Little John Cena. Yeah, and ah Sasha Banks. ah
00:59:11
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I've got ah a gritty, a stuffed gritty.
00:59:15
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um a Garfield beanie baby that's wearing sunglasses.
00:59:21
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I feel like you know that kind of stuff i would put on display. if If there's one thing that I would like buy special for our studio to have on the wall, you know how there's always like a neon beer sign or whatever? Uh-huh.
00:59:33
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um Mine would be a sun drop sign. i saw, like, you have talked about, because you do some streaming of video games.
00:59:46
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I'm going to get back into that. I'm going to get it back into that soon. I finally got a headset, so my audio will sound better. um So i'm I'm going to maybe try to stream the Silent Hill 2 remake sometime soon. Right.
01:00:01
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Like, I remember you saying that, like, I think you said something like you couldn't be a professional streamer because you don't have any neon signs. yeah And I saw an ad for neon signs that the example that they used was literally the phrase neon sign. And I was like, yeah that is perfect for Matt Wilson.
01:00:25
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It is the kind of joke I like. Yeah. Yeah. But if I was actually going to buy a neon sign for like a brand or product or drink that I that i like, it would be it would be a Sundrop neon sign.
01:00:40
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I would also take ah um would also take a Cheerwine neon sign. That would be good. any I would like that. Any North Carolina-based soda. Krispy Kreme?
01:00:52
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I would do Krispy Kreme, sure. yeah um I just searched for Sundrop neon sign. and got an eBay page of a lot of like old signs, but none of them are neon.
01:01:06
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um There is a clock, though, that looks cool as shit. Oh, send it to me. Send it to me. um It says, ah it's back from when Sundrop was called the Golden Cola.
01:01:19
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ah And ah it says, ah like in a circle around the the edge of the clock, refreshing as a cup of coffee.
01:01:29
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What a great What a great tagline. Yeah. ah Let's see here. I'm sending it to you. um It looks cool. it's it looks like a very cool clock.
01:01:41
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um i I feel like... um man, this is this is a good clock. Yeah. I feel like my grandfather, who was a barber, had some stuff like this.
01:01:55
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And I wish I had gotten it. I don't know where it ended up, but I ended up with none of it. Some of this old sun drop stuff is very cool, but none of it is a neon sign. so I think we can deal with this this sun drop clock, though.
01:02:14
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I think that's a good idea. Yeah, it's pretty good.
01:02:18
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Alright, here's a question from Blue Sky. This is from I Wonder Woman. Who says, I wonder, what's your favorite DC line-wide reboot?
01:02:32
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It's got to be the post-crisis reboot, right? i mean, yeah. Zero Hour?
01:02:41
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I think... I don't think they ever did a better job than, like, 86, 87 right after Crisis. Well, mean, Zero Hour cleans up after ch Crisis.
01:02:53
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Yeah, yeah. So... yeah i mean like i I love my beloved post-Zero Hour DC Universe. I think it's it's very funny to me ah that when Benito wrote a fake obituary for me for my birthday one year, um it included...
01:03:13
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a line about me dying in 2011 at the moment of the destruction of my beloved post-Zero Hour DC Universe. hu Because that's what it felt like.
01:03:24
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that's Yeah. yeah The New 52, the worst one. New 52, pretty bad. Pretty bad. New 52, like, ramshackle.
01:03:37
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And all ah everything since has not been like a full-on reboot, but kind of just like... tweaking or saying everything counts again. Yeah.
01:03:49
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And I don't have a problem with that, but like, that's not a line. Rebirth brought back a lot of good stuff. Yeah. Like Rebirth was the one that was like, Oh, all that stuff we said didn't count anymore. Actually does actually did count. Yeah.
01:04:02
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Yeah. And then now it's just, it's hyper time, baby. yeah It's all hyper time now.
01:04:09
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Which I don't mind. and like um That's what Marvel's done forever. It's just said, like yeah, it's all in there. It's just you know weirdly compressed.
01:04:20
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yeah
01:04:23
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Other Josh asks, I know what happens when you salt a wound, but what happens when you pepper a wound? i mean, it's probably also very unpleasant. I mean, I don't think it's going to be the same assaulting a wound, but it ain't going to be good.
01:04:38
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Yeah. I mean, it it makes it more flavorful. It does. ah You get a nice kick. But, I mean, like especially if you've got like you got like a peppercorn in a wound, bleh.
01:04:52
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Yeah, that's no fun. um Antony on our Discord says, what's your favorite heel turn in comics? I was thinking about this i so when I saw this question.
01:05:05
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And I feel like comics does a lot more face turns than heel turns. Like, a lot more characters become heroes, or villains who become heroes, than are heroes who become villains.
01:05:17
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Yeah. And usually when a hero does become a villain, it sucks.
01:05:24
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Yeah, like... The...
01:05:30
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Like, the one that comes to mind immediately is Terra...
01:05:35
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But I don't love that story. people i mean, people do. People do love that story. And it it is probably the best story in that run of of Titans, Judas Contract. But like but if if you were secretly a heel the whole time, is that a heel turn?
01:05:54
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I mean, well, that's getting into philosophy, Matt. Yeah.
01:06:02
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But like... like the the the one The example that immediately comes to mind for me is Hank Pym becoming evil Yellowjacket. And that sucks. That ain't good.
01:06:15
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Yeah.
01:06:19
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I don't know. I'm trying to think of examples of anybody who actually went bad. Like a hero. Hal Jordan. Hal Jordan. Which. It's fine.
01:06:30
Speaker
Was fine. It cleared the way for for you know Kyle Rayner, which I like Kyle more than I like Hal. I mean, Hal Jordan's heel turn was a lot better than Hal Jordan's face turn again.
01:06:48
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Absolutely true. Yeah. I don't know. but Again, by default, that might be the best one because... like The thing is, like a lot of heel turns in comics have to be what-if stories.
01:07:03
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Right? Because you can't actually have heroes turn bad because these stories have to keep going forever.
01:07:13
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You know what i mean? Yeah.
01:07:16
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I'll tell you another a bad one. I'll tell you another bad one. Yes? Tony Stark. Yes. Oh, that's the worst one. That one sucks so bad. Talk about talking about Tony Stark has always been an assassin working for Kang.
01:07:30
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Well, there's that one. There's also Tony, like Civil War Tony, who like, you know, the whole idea was that he was just going to be on like one side of philosophical philosophical debate, but ended up being like, obviously the bad guy.
01:07:50
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you know yeah Yeah. The the the the Crossing... Tony's had it rough a couple times. He really has, yeah. The Crossing... wo The thing is... Even when he was created, but even more now, the character of Iron Man should be a bad guy.
01:08:16
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He's a billionaire... Who was a weapons dealer. Weapons manufacturer. Yeah. Like... there There was one particular period of time when that kind of person could be a superhero.
01:08:34
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I mean, like, you know, he feels bad about being a weapons designer. He does feel bad about it, and he stops doing it. What's weird about Tony Stark is that...
01:08:47
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He is a billionaire who's a weapons designer who just stops being weapons designer for other people. he's But not for himself. Yeah, he's like, oh, I'm going to keep making guns for me.
01:08:59
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Right. And my buddies. And my buddies. My boys.
01:09:06
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And, like, Stark Industries is still a thriving concern. They just don't make weapons anymore. Yeah, they make, like, cars and shit. Yeah, they make but they make whatever the Marvel Universe needs.
01:09:19
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According to Extremis, they make cool phones. Correct, yes.
01:09:27
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Yeah, it's a boy, but both of those Tony Stark heel turns that I can think of are real bad. yeah i'm I'm trying to think of a good heel turn, and it's like... Because like I don't feel like...
01:09:44
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Like, Ozymandias isn't a heel turn. Oh, okay. Okay, I got it. Okay. if If it counts that someone who's been a villain all along, but they they are posing as a hero, is is if that counts as a heel turn, then the first issue of Thunderbolts.
01:10:04
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The first issue of Thunderbolts is really good, yeah. Like, where there's the reveal at the end that this new superhero team is actually the Masters of Evil in disguise. Yeah. That is a masterful first issue.
01:10:15
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A Masters of Evil full first issue. Absolutely, yes. Like, Kurt Busiek knew how to do it, man. Knows how to do it. How to do it, yeah. Yeah. Damn.
01:10:27
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ah I would even go as far as saying, like, that's a good heel turn that also sets up good face turns. Right. It eventually becomes a story about face turns, because all of those characters, except Baron Zemo, end up becoming superheroes. Yeah, like, particularly for Songbird.
01:10:46
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Songbird joined the Avengers. Yeah. Yeah. And and so fucking Mach 1. Yeah. still out there. Mach 7 now, I think.
01:10:58
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Yeah, it did a lot of favors to those characters who had done nothing for a long time. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. ah well-had oh wait We already asked one from Well-Behaved Knife Cat, so let's move on.
01:11:12
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Phillip. Phillip says, if you could show one person from history a single episode of Dragon Ball, what would it be who would it be and what episode? Okay, so I've got to pick the person from history.
01:11:25
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It's very tempting to go with the historical Jesus Christ.
01:11:30
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But I guess he would have seen it in the Garden of Gethsemane. That's true. I mean, I do think it would be fun to tell Jesus, like, here's how your story has evolved 2,000 years after your death and resurrection.
01:11:44
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ah I don't know why this immediately came to mind, but the first person I thought of was Isaac Newton. I bet it would blow his fucking mind. Yeah.
01:11:58
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Who would really get into it, i think? That's a great that's a great question. Maybe like some some like Greek... ah ah Plato would fucking love it.
01:12:13
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A Greek philosopher, possibly, but I was thinking of a Greek dramatist. Like Aeschylus or somebody. Like like a Sophoclese? Or Sophocles, yeah. Yeah.
01:12:25
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Man. That... Okay, but but... We've got options, but... I bet Xena would love Dragon Ball.
01:12:35
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That's... Now, that's an interesting question. But what episode? what a Whatever historical figure you're showing this to, what episode? Obviously the one where Goku gives Super Saiyan on Namek. Like, obviously.
01:12:48
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Yeah, of course. Like, well, it has to be. Yeah.
01:12:58
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Okay, what if not Jesus Christ, but some, like,
01:13:04
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high-ranking historical religious figure, like, say, a Martin Luther? Man, I bet those those theses would be a lot different if he knew about going Super Saiyan.
01:13:16
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Yeah. The the theses, if if Goku had been there... Wouldn't gone down like that. ah the The episode, by the way, transformed at last the legendary Super Saiyan son Goku.
01:13:28
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That is the episode name. It's episode 95 of Dragon Ball Z. Also, the version from Dragon Ball Z Kai, Awakened Legendary Warrior Goku the Super Saiyan, I think, also.
01:13:42
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Actually, probably show them that one. Yeah. Yeah, man. like I mean, paul
01:13:50
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the the The Apostle Paul? The Apostle Paul? it Before or after his road to Damascus. Well, he would have been Saul. Literally that moment.
01:14:02
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The scales fall from his eyes, and I show him Awaken Legendary Warrior Goku the Super Saiyan. Alright, I think we've got it. I think we've found it. ah Kevin Maroney, womzilla.bsky.social wants to know, who's the nicest person you've met in comics besides each other?
01:14:20
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That is a very hard question to answer because I met a lot of very nice people. A lot of people have been like, really? I i
01:14:30
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don't think I've met many jerks. Yeah. Like, personally. I would say like the nicest, probably probably scott Snyder, probably Matt Fraction.
01:14:41
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Both incredibly nice. Yeah. um I mean, ah it's hard not to talk about like friends. Like... Jay Gonzo has done things, nice things for both of us that are like, this is too nice.
01:14:58
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like yeah Like, just giving us art and stuff. Yeah, I mean, like we met through comics, so I mean you know i know that not ah other than each other, but like also Benito, Erica,
01:15:11
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yeah like Johnso, like Kel, like actual friends of ours. oh It's, it's very hard to pick just one person because I've met a lot of people who are, I'm not friends with, but who were very kind to me.
01:15:28
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And I've met a lot of people who I became friends with. So it's tough. Yeah. oh but i I mean, I think we could just list off friends all day.
01:15:41
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Like, i mean, you know, I hang out with Ted Anderson all time. He's somebody who I met through comics. Vulcan, I met through comics. Jeremy Whitley. Jeremy Whitley, yeah. Like, you know, Betty, Allie, like ah like, all of my friends I met through comics, basically.
01:16:00
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So, as far as, like, big, but like, big-name creators, I mean, like, you know, I mean, We've obviously known Fraction for 15 years, so i think yeah you know i think I don't think he would be shocked to hear us call him a friend friend.
01:16:18
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Yeah, I mean, there's there's people we met 15 years ago or more who have been incredibly nice. And then like we talked to Bendis for the first time ever, what, three weeks ago? Yeah, super nice.
01:16:35
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And he couldn't have been nicer. Yeah. yeah like He's someone that I've i've i've seen at panels and stuff and has always come off as like really nice and personable. like i you know I haven't always loved the comics, but he he certainly comes off as a nice dude and was great on the show.
01:16:54
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was super nice to us off-mic as well. so Yeah, and like Jordan and Patton. and yeah like i I feel like I'm going to get in trouble for leaving people out.
01:17:07
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yeah like i like Anybody who's been on the show like twice was nice. Kibblesmith. Kibblesmith's a friend.
01:17:20
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i you know ah like i've met i'd say ninety percent of the people i've met in comics have been incredibly nice and the other ten percent have either been Not exactly jerks, but maybe just like a little cold.
01:17:40
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Or um there's a tiny 1% who were actually trying to take advantage of me. yeah you know like the I think the worst of most of my encounters with people, which it's very hard to judge, at cons, where...
01:17:58
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is like it cons where you know they could just be tired. like ah Right. it's it's but The most I've ever seen people be jerks in comics has been at cons, and it's that's not people as they actually are.
01:18:13
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yeah like I've mentioned before, i have no idea if Evan Dorkin hates me.
01:18:20
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Because I only ever see him at cons, and he's you know working and is tired. This is not the you know this is not this is not a a a diss on the person.
01:18:35
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I met Jim Rugg at a con, and I was way more excited to meet him than he was to meet me. But, like, yeah. Like, obviously.
01:18:46
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You know, like, that's that's... That's the kind of... I'm going to say that's the worst, because I've definitely had, like, you know, worst experiences at cons, but, like, most of the ones that are, like...
01:19:03
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not pleasant or just kind of neutral in that way. Yeah. Chip also super nice. Yeah. I mean, teeny, teeny Howard was incredibly nice.
01:19:15
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ah when I met her for the first time, uh, and, and, you know, we, we became, uh, friends and she became a friend of the show as well. So yeah, like, don't know, man, lot of people are nice.
01:19:31
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lot of nice people. it's It's really hard to pick one name. ah Captain McGlue on our Discord asks, Who are the assholes? Comics Counterfactual. How would DC Comics be different if instead of the Flash of Two Worlds, the multiverse started with the Green Lantern of Two Worlds?
01:19:50
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Oh, would that would be bad. It would be worse. It would be demonstrably much worse. Yeah. like I feel like nobody would have read it.
01:20:07
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it's ah yeah It would have been bad. It wouldn't have been as good. i remember reading and i'm sure i've told this story for but I remember reading an interview in Wizard Magazine with Garth Ennis where he was like, yeah, if you ever see me writing Green Lantern, you'll know I needed money.
01:20:24
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Damn. Because I think Green Lantern is dumb. And at the time I was like, Garth Ennis, that's such a pretentious thing, like, you know, being mad at, you know, ah superhero comics, whatever. And now I'm like, yeah, I get i get you, Garth.
01:20:39
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Yeah. I get you, dog. Yeah. I mean, Garth has written his share of of superhero comics, but he's never written Green Lantern. ah Kyle Rayner shows up in a couple issues a Hitman and doesn't have a good time.
01:20:54
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Doesn't go well. yeah yeah Burn Bun on our Discord ah asks if we're watching Andor um I plan to but I have not watched it yet.
01:21:07
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I watched the first season I will get around to watching the second season but I have not watched it yet.
01:21:16
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Same. It's good. it's As far as I know, and of what I've seen, it's the good Star Wars Disney Plus show. Yeah, I certainly liked that first season.
01:21:27
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Yeah. I like yeah how like everybody is um like kind of just sad, and then somebody kicks a droid, which is the Star Wars equivalent of kicking a dog, and then like everybody just goes fucking apeshit about it.
01:21:42
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Yeah. There are no dogs in Star Wars, man.
01:21:49
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I don't... yeah Has there ever been a dog in Star Wars? Just Chewbacca. Yeah, Chewbacca, I guess, is the dog. And he's more he's like a dude.
01:22:03
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And in Spaceballs, they made him canonically a dog. Yeah. A mog, but... He's a dog. wild Wild. Ain't no dogs in ah and Star Wars. that's You know what? Blow up all the planets. They got dogs. They're better off.
01:22:17
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Yeah. Anar Mouson on Blue Sky wants to know, you boys ever played G.I. Joe on the n NES? It had Duke, Blizzard, Snake, Snake Eyes, Captain Gridiron, and Rock and Roll on the roster.
01:22:31
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There were two G.I. Joe games on the NES, and I played them both. ah As did I. The one I owned was the one that had a subtitle. what was the What was that game called? Because there was one that was just called G.I. i Joe.
01:22:52
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It was, I want to say, Operation Atlantis? Yes, Operation Atlantis. Which I can't even call it Throne of Atlantis, but I think that's an Indiana Jones game. The Atlantis Factor. The Atlantis Factor, yeah. um That one was the one that was developed by Capcom.
01:23:09
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And that's the one I had. It was hard. It was hard as fuck. They were not good games. They were not good games.
01:23:20
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I remember really wanting to like G.I. i Joe the Atlantis Factor. um But ah it it was one of those games where like ah you had to like get through the level without dying. And if you did, you lost your character.
01:23:38
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And then you had to be a different character and play through the level, kind of like the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game. um And that had a different that game had a different roster. It was Hawk, Roadblock, Wetsuit, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and Duke.
01:23:54
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Man, are they putting Wetsuit in a game? Come on. because Because there was a water level. Put Shipwreck in it. Man, I don't know. They put Deep Six in it. It was Wetsuit. Come on, man.
01:24:05
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Yeah.
01:24:08
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Don't be so ridiculous. I played those games, both of them. They they weren't they weren't that good.
01:24:15
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ah Scott HPDX on our Discord asks, What are some good wrestling comics besides do a powerbomb?
01:24:26
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That is the best one. Yeah. um Super Pro KO is really good. Super Pro KO is very good. ah we've We've had um ah the creator of Headlocked on the show before, which is... is A very different kind of wrestling comic, but ah a good one that I like a lot and has a lot of involvement from actual pro wrestlers.
01:24:44
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ah That one ah issue of Spider-Man's Tangle Web that Raven and Brian Azzarello wrote is really good.
01:24:54
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I forgot about that one, but yeah. I think it's best issue Tangle Web.
01:25:00
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it's the best issue of ta a web is That's the one that's all about Crusher Creel, right? Crusher Hogan. Crusher Creel is the absorbing man. Crusher Creel is the absorbing man. Yeah, Crusher Hogan.
01:25:11
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um I'm tired, folks. Sorry. Hey, it's been a long week for Matt Wilson. It really has. ah The Joe Cating wrestling book Ringside. I remember that being pretty good. Yeah.
01:25:26
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LaMara D'Eldesino, of course. Foolish to not think of that one first, but yes. Yes. um So those are some good ones. You're going to have a hard time if if you've read do a Powerbomb and you want more Do a Powerbomb.
01:25:44
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Sorry, there isn't any more. Like every other good wrestling comic is very different than Do a Powerbomb.
01:25:54
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But ah those are some good ones ah that we listed off. And of course, nash
01:26:05
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There's no wrestling in that comic, though. No, there's not. There's more wrestling in in in The Rock. There's more wrestling in the Marvel WCW series from the early 90s. Now that's a comic that's not good. Yeah.
01:26:28
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It sure not, but it's fun. it's it's It's fun to remember it. My single favorite thing that happens in that comic is that there is a scene where Sting is looking into a mirror. Oh yeah, it's the best part of the comic. It's the best part of the whole series. And he has a completely different expression.
01:26:45
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Yes.
01:26:47
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Great. Great. Love it. All you had to do was draw the same thing twice.
01:26:56
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And yet. and It didn't happen. yeah
01:27:01
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Let's see. Here's our next question. it is from Ultimate Nick, who wants to know, anything y'all looking forward to in Strange New World Season 3? three Yeah, man. like i Everything.
01:27:17
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I want them to get... i love They're getting weird, and I love it when they get weird.
Catching up on shows and discussing media introductions
01:27:22
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That's a show I have to catch up on. i I need to sit down and just watch that show.
01:27:28
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I've only watched the first episode. There's a musical episode. There's a weird Renaissance Fair episode. I have still not gotten over Captain Christopher Pike showing the inhabitants of a world that is about to erupt into Civil War footage of January 6th.
01:27:49
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Yeah. I... i so I'm still processing that, if I'm being honest. ah But I do need to catch up on that show.
01:28:01
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ah Quinn on our Discord wants to know, do you think discovering a character from a non-comics medium, or in a non-comics medium, for example, learning about Daredevil from the show before ever reading a Daredevil comic, diminishes the experience for the reader when they ultimate ultimately read the comics?
01:28:20
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No. No, not at all. I learned about just about every comics character from watching non-comics stuff.
01:28:32
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Yeah, I mean, I certainly watched... you know i'm I'm sure I saw Super Friends before I could read. Yeah, yeah. i I got into the Spider-Man cartoon before I got into Spider-Man comics.
01:28:44
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Yeah, and I mean, you know, I i definitely saw a Mr. Freeze episode of Batman the Animated Series before I read a single Mr. Freeze story, because that's what the character was reinvented for.
01:28:57
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yeah I mean, okay that's like that's why non-comics media with those characters exists. I will say it's probably different now than it was for us.
01:29:11
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Because i remember watching the Spider-Man cartoon and liking it. But then I read Spider-Man comics and I was like, oh, these are so much better than the TV show. you know because Because you loved Comics Morbius a lot more.
01:29:31
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He was not hungry for plasma. Yeah, ah I feel like the thing that's going to be different now is that you you probably have a different idea what the real version of a character is.
01:29:47
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Because for you and me, the the default version of Spider-Man is the Spider-Man who exists in the Marvel Universe in the comics. Right. But if you've seen you know five, six movies with Tom Holland's Spider-Man, or spent 80 hours playing Sony's Spider-Man for PlayStation 5...
01:30:14
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five like it it's reasonable to feel like that's the default version. right like But ah that would never be the case for you and me. Spider-Man is never the real Spider-Man.
01:30:29
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I think Daredevil is an interesting example. Because that show is
01:30:40
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ah show for adults. Yeah. That is a very you know gritty TV drama take on Daredevil, which is pretty pretty definitely different from comics Daredevil.
01:30:57
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so Yeah, but but still but also still like very recognizably, that's Daredevil. Yeah, I mean, but there are definitely runs of comics that are very much like the TV shows, so...
01:31:10
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you know i like if you if you read the If you watched the TV show and then read the Bendis run on Daredevil, i don't think you would I don't think you would think they were all that different. yeah you're not going to You're not going to have any doubts about who's who. who yeah so I don't know. i don't think I don't think it lessens it at all. don't think i pretty it always for... I truly believe...
01:31:30
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like i i and always for like i truly believe comics are my favorite medium, right? Like they are my, they are my preferred way of consuming stories.
01:31:51
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And I love them.
01:31:57
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And I feel like if you are led to comics, great. Yeah. But also, there are people who like movies a lot more than they like comics, just by the nature of the medium.
01:32:11
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So, you know, if you like Spider-Man because of Spider-Man movies, then hell yeah, great. We both like Spider-Man. like yeah I feel like, you know, every every medium has its strengths and weaknesses.
Comic storytelling: Princess Projecta's controversial moment
01:32:26
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And certainly, like, you ain't gonna find a lot of comics that are better than Batman the Animated Series, you know?
01:32:34
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Like, still. Yeah. Like, 33 years later. You ain't gonna find a lot that are better than that. So, if that's how you like to consume Batman, I get it.
01:32:46
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i'm I'm scrolling through looking for a Stone Cold question, and there isn't one. well Yeah, man. it's It's the middle of the day on a weekday. We're not recording at the usual time. He's at work. He's the Hell Yeah Construction Company.
01:32:59
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He's working at the yeah Hell Yeah Construction Company, yeah. So here's a question from Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. How raw was it when Princess Projecta killed Nemesis Kid? Boy, that... I'm shocked nobody pitched that, because that would have been top five.
01:33:15
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You know about that, Matt? Uh... I don't know that I do. Okay, so Nemesis Kid ah has the power... Oh, that's a Legion thing. That's a Legion thing, yeah. Nemesis Kid has the power to... ah To basically get whatever power he needs to counter your power.
01:33:37
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the So, he kills Karate Kid, who is ah Princess Projectora's husband. Princess Projectora has the ability to project illusions.
01:33:52
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So, Nemesis Kid... ah Like... it like, yeah, I can counter your power. Like, you don't like you can't get me with your illusions. So she beats him to death with her bare fucking hands.
01:34:07
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Damn. Yeah, man. It owns.
01:34:14
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She's like, yeah, I'm not using powers. you You must have forgot.
01:34:21
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Run around like i ain't got guns. ah No, it's some of the coolest shit that's ever happened. So when did when did that happen? is that and that it seems like it That sounds like a story from the 80s. Oh, it is.
01:34:34
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It is absolutely. ah it is absolutely from the... It's pre-five years later. I guess five years earlier. Okay. ah But, yeah, man.
01:34:46
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That shit whips. and And her dialogue is like hard as hell, too. Yeah. he goes He goes, with my power, you're as good as dead. And she goes, look at my eyes.
01:34:59
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No power, yours or anyone's, can stop me. And then she beats him to death. Damn.
01:35:07
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Damn. She snaps his fucking neck, and then they and then they like kick her out of the Legion. They're like, hey, you you did just fully murder that guy?
01:35:19
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And she's like, yeah. What's up? It was worth it. She had to do what she had to do. Yeah, man. It's one of the one of the great ah full beatdowns of all of comics.
01:35:36
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Now
Naming swords creatively and humorously
01:35:37
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what? Is that a Paul Levitz jam? I believe that's a Levitz and Giffen joint. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, pretty good.
01:35:48
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Pretty good. Sounds pretty good. You broke his neck. I executed a condemned man, Element Lad, as is my royal privilege. Do any of you dare call me wrong?
01:36:02
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Got his ass. Got his ass? This is going to be our last question. It's from David L. And the question is, what makes for a good sword name?
01:36:15
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That's tricky. I feel like like I don't think there's anything that... There's no set pattern, right? Because the Dragonslayer is a good sword name.
01:36:33
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Excalibur is a good sword name. Grasscutter is a good sword name. I do think if you want to give a sword a good name...
01:36:47
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it doesn't hurt to name it what it does.
01:36:54
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Dragon Slayer, Grass Cutter. ah
01:37:00
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I'll think of other examples in a second. But like, calling a sword what it does, I think is a good is a good call.
01:37:15
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Demon killer. ah Demon killer's a little a little... Like, once you start getting into like being a little... ah Trying to be too cool... Then you get into problems.
01:37:30
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I mean, what about Tosaiga the steel cleaving fang? That's pretty good. I like that. that's That's a good sword.
01:37:41
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ah Speaking of which... The listeners need a picture of your sword so they can help you name it, Chris. I did, in fact, put one up in the Discord. Okay, great. Great. ah so So far, ah the the the leader is ah ah Chris Jr.
01:38:04
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What channel is that in? I put it in the ah One to Ten of Swords channel. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
01:38:14
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Chris Jr. chris j is pretty good. i Oh, interesting. i'm looking at the I'm looking at the photo now, and this the sword in the photo looks remarkably more gold-tinged than it did in person. Yeah, that's that's just the ah that's just the light in my office.
01:38:36
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I couldn't get it to not – I mean, it's steel, but feel um But whenever I take a picture of it, it kind of looks like brass. Or bronze. yeah Someone also suggested you saw jam, because it goes with biscuit.
01:38:52
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Oh, that's nice. that So so like you'd be like a traveler, and you'd have biscuit and jam. Yeah. it It should be gravy, though. but Well, I always said if I got another dog, the dog could be gravy.
01:39:06
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Yeah. But like, biscuit and jam makes it sound like you're from... From the UK. Obviously. Obviously not. But you're from South Carolina, so it's got to be biscuits and gravy.
01:39:22
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yeah Buttermilk? Buttermilk's good. Buttermilk the sword?
01:39:31
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Like, uh... Or just, what if it was just... What if the sword was just named Butter? Because Butter and Biscuit...
01:39:43
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And then it's named Butter because it cuts through people like Butter. Here's the thing. um
01:39:52
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Dog names are good sword names. Or dog names good are good, or food names. Food names are good dog names. yeah I don't know if food names are good sword names. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:40:04
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Yeah. I also have all these knives. You do. You do. Do you want named knives as well? ah I mean, I don't not want named knives, but I definitely need a named sword.
01:40:18
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Yeah. Yeah. Chris Jr. is pretty good.
01:40:25
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Chris Jr. is pretty good. ah I'm sure there's a like there's a ah name that when we hear it, we'll just be like that.
01:40:36
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Yeah. yeah
01:40:42
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Swords, man. Love them. Yeah. Yeah. It's weapons. Love them. Scattered and smothered.
01:40:51
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Hash Browns was another name for a dog that I have suggested. I think my next dog is goingnna be Hash Browns.
01:41:01
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Uh, let's see. What, what are like, what remind me of other Waffle House code words? Uh, Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, capped, peppered, and topped?
01:41:16
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Chunked.
01:41:19
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Chunked, diced.
01:41:22
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It can't be capped. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. What if the name of the sword was All the Way? That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
01:41:34
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A Waffle House-themed name seems really appropriate. A Waffle House theme name does seem pretty appropriate. Yeah. Pecan. Pecan the sword.
01:41:46
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All the way, like, again, I like the idea of naming a sword what it will do to you. And what's it going to do? It's going to cut through you all the way.
01:41:57
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That's true. i ah I like in um in the Crown of Candy season of... ah of Dimension 20. Dimension 20, which is the Game of Thrones but Candyland.
01:42:13
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ah All of the the weapons have ah names. And there's a sword named Payment Day. and That's a good sword name. Flickerish the Twizzling Blade is a good one. But yeah, Payment Day is very good.
01:42:34
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um This isn't a joke. This seems like a joke you would tell that I wouldn't tell, but I feel like it I have to say it. What if the sword's name was Matt Wilson?
01:42:46
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That's good.
01:42:49
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Matt Sword Wilson.
01:42:57
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ah All right. I think we're done ah with this episode. Thank you for everybody. Thank you to everybody who sent in questions. Sorry that we only got to some, ah but so we'll answer questions again sometime in the in the near future.
01:43:13
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01:43:33
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01:43:46
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01:43:52
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01:44:08
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01:44:20
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Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back next week. I think the plan for next week is to... finally reach the end of the Jurgis. Jurgis end.
01:44:33
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Jurgis end. Although that we will be
Conclusion and social issues awareness
01:44:36
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doing the remaining issues of Thor Disassembled as well, as a bonus. But ah next week I do think will be Jurgis end. So, come back for that.
01:44:51
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Yeah. Until then, everybody, do not forget Black Lives Matter. Trans rights or human rights? As are abortion rights. Drag is not a crime. And cops aren't your friends.
01:45:02
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But we love you. We love you. Yeah!