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Alright, let's get on with the show. Waiting down upon the underworld to smash gangland, come a friend of the unfortunate enemy of criminal. In a serious, powerful character, a problem to the police, but a full state of law. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Rackham Sound.
I'm Tiffany. So forgive me in advance. The pollen index is astronomical right now. I'm taking my Allegra, but it is just a nightmare in here.
Like, I can taste the pollen in my throat. And it is just a nightmare. So I'll be clearing my throat periodically throughout the show. Hi, everybody, I'm Sal.
I'm Tiffany. So before we jump in, first I want to address Super Chats because it's important to the show and also because Jack O'Connell's got to go. He says, I don't know if I'm going to be here when you go live, because it's 24 o'clock where I am, so I love it channel. Thank you very much, Jack.
I really appreciate it. We appreciate it. Yeah. You're the man.
And we understand. That's why the show is recorded for posterity. So while you are enjoying the live stuff live, if you can't, you always catch it here after the fact. Mm-hmm.
Speaking of Super Chats, that's actually a great segue into reminding people who are watching the show live that the Super Chats are great way for you to collaborate with us. So that if you have a question or comment, do you want to say something? Use Super Chat so we can actually keep a straight list of everybody who wants to do that, so we can actually address them in an orderly manner, in an organic way. And also the Super Chat proceeds go to support this space here, which you don't get to see very much of.
Every time I plug the space, I'm like, oh, look at all this space, but like, I'll use these as a wall. Trust me, there are many walls. I've got at least seven walls going on in here. No fewer than seven walls, but certainly an even number of them.
Anyway, so before we jump into the books, I want to wish I believed it happy for a comic book day. Yeah. Every comic book day to you, too. Thank you.
And to you as well. I know, that's like made the fourth. I'm like, what do I say? Right.
You say made the fourth with you. And also with you. And lift up your heart. Yeah, no, that's just the like, yeah, that's the rigor that's put into there.
I know, I know. When I was a huge Star Wars fan, my friend Jason and I used to debate what we say when you say made the fourth with you. And then Lucas is like, I don't know. And he had to do it.
So it happened in the prequels. And I think one of them says, end with you. It's like, that's all I could say. Yeah.
So we're talking about a lot of books this week. But before we do, free comic book that happened. Yeah. To me, I know that you grabbed more free comic books than I did.
Yeah. And probably read more of them than I did because I didn't have time to do anything. I didn't read anything. I filmed through a few.
OK, well, let's see. Well, it's really just the one that I brought. But I was trying to read this before we started. And that just didn't happen.
Yes. DC was promoting their Year of the Villain. Yeah. Only 25 cents.
Although I noticed that a lot of stores we went to. It's free. It's free on Commetology, too. I know.
So if you didn't grab a new free comic book, you can grab it on there. Yeah. I very briefly thumb through it. I'm seeing a lot of the work of Snyder's built in here.
A bunch of other stuff. It's cool. I like when they do little backups of designs and stuff. That's really wrong all about.
Ooh, character designs. But what I really wanted to mention was I picked up this sweet random book. And this is going to be like, we're going to get to the real comic goodness in just a second. But for those of you who are comic fans who also have other loves and enjoy D&D in particular, I picked this up, which was unexpected.
I was just sitting outside. And I was like, oh, it's a soft touch cover. It couldn't possibly be free. It was.
It totally was. It's totally rolled and told. And I was like, all right, cool. A little D&D comic, whatever.
Because I opened it up. I saw that. I was like, fine, I'll take it, whatever. That's not what it is.
Oh, no. It's a comic in here. And this issue, since it's the free one, has a campaign in it, too. Oh, like a D&D campaign.
A D&D campaign would take like, I think, six to 12 hours, play time. It's relatively small. For a D&D campaign, it's very, yeah. It's like a one-shot kind of deal.
Yeah, done one. And honestly, in the back of it, there's also little characters. If you want to just jump in and play, you can do that. But apparently, the guys who make this, if you buy the issue, it's only $8.
But for that $8, you get two campaigns. Oh, cool. Illustrated maps. And there was a little illustrated map in here.
And it's so cute. It's so cute. It's so cute. So I just wanted to put this on your radar.
I'd never heard of this before. No. Again, this is really just a bit of a paper in two pen and paper games. Or you want to try it out.
It's kind of just has everything you need in a way, except for some of the extra materials. But it's a good place to start. Anyway, that was it. I just wanted to put that there.
There you go. For those of you watching the show, after the fact, let us know what books you picked up for a free comic book day that you want to recommend. Because there were a lot of them that came out. And it's all a small issue.
It's all a tick. They never got either of them. They were enough. I got a Spider-Man Carnage event.
Didn't all the Avengers books must have run at like nine o'clock in the morning. Because every story they had at least three stores, they were all out. No, but they didn't have War of the Realms. They didn't have War of the Realms, which we did pick up.
Teen Ninja Turtles. Mm. I just saw they were one of those little imprints for one of the young, all ages. Yes, smaller book.
I picked it up just because sometimes folk want to know about that. If you have families, you want to know what's up? So I picked it up to check it out. It's just cute.
But if you are like us, a lot of your stores also were taking advantage of all the foot traffic and made some crazy deals, crazy sales going on. And so we went a little ham and got this short box full of books. Yes. Just from, I think this is actually one store.
Is this really just one store? Because they were doing quarter bins. They really were. But the quarter back issue bins, you can't get better than that, honestly.
I made a critical strategic error. There is a creator who I wanted a book signed by. It's coming up at a con. But you didn't.
I bought the first issue of a comic. I was Catwoman number one from Jim Belent. And I just thought it would be kind of fun. And it was discounted from $5 to $2.50.
Yeah. Super nice deal. Really can't go wrong with that. And I don't think you should have.
I don't think you should have wager. No, no, no. But in the quarter bin, I did get Catwoman number one again. But this one was signed by everyone who worked on it.
For $0.25. For $0.25. Yes. This includes people like Joe Duffy, Jim Belent, Joe Ordano, and Buzz Setzer, only $5,000 in circulation.
It's pretty neat. But this is the kind of magic you can find. Again, in the quarter bin. Or you find other random things that you necessarily want.
Right. This divider? Yeah. So I really wanted this acrylic divider.
Yeah. Let's go for it, man. It keeps rigidity in your boxes and bags. There you go.
There you go. We also got some great trades which are not reflected here. Mine are all at home. Yep.
Because I was like, no, I want to be able to read those. But I forgot 50% of those as well. For all, it's like, I mentioned this on my stream yesterday that it was like Black Friday. Right.
That's exactly what it was. And I think they need to do something like that. I guess that's literally what it is because there's nothing cheaper than free. And the free comics are the thing that gets you in the door.
That's how you should treat it. Yeah. So it does that right. If you don't find one or at the very least take advantage of your local comic con and try to take advantage of those dollar bins.
Yes. Listen, I'm sure that the people who were selling us these books were thrilled to lose multiple long boxes of inventory. Except for the Catwoman. They probably were less thrilled about it.
No, he was very happy. He was really impressed with the Catwoman. He got the Catwoman. Nice.
Well, why would you put that in there? Oh, yeah. I mean, he just got a collection. He put out there.
He's in care. He's in care. He's like, yeah. That's awesome.
Pass the savings on to us. So jumping into the Super Chat before we finally get into the books and we apologize for the delay. Well, why does Thor have a baby sister that has never mentioned anywhere else? Madness.
Well, they did announce that he had a sister and it was Angela, and I mean, Odin was a busy guy. I could buy that. He's not like Zeus level. No.
Listen. I hear what you're saying. And I heard it years ago, which is why I'm not affected by the War of the Realms. tie-ins because I don't read tie-ins.
No. I deliberately avoid them unless the cover is gorgeous. That Spider-Man War, the Realms tie-in, which I don't think even came out yet, is when I was like, oh, I'll pick that up, because it's Spider-Man War, like a fun Thor helmet and carrying a shield. But Aaron seems to want to make Spider-Man into a big fat joke in this book.
I'm sure it'll be more the same. That being said, you know, as far as Titans go, I leave them pretty much every single time. And I'm usually not disappointed nor am I in the cold when it comes to the story. Now we do back issues and I'm like, I was explaining to Ty and it doesn't matter.
Usually there's like a throng of people who are like, ugh, actually it mattered a lot. And then they proceed to explain how little it actually mattered to the main story. Unless you're a secret empire, in which case it was actually better in the Titans. That wasn't what I was.
So Caleb, Jay, Via says if you both could write a DC in Marvel series or any series, what dream characters would you pick? You first. I mean, honestly, I would want to pick characters we made fun of in the wrong box and then the ugly. Why?
Because it's like a challenge. I don't know if I could actually write a good Spider-Man story because I'm too close to character. I would be like, oh, let's have a beat like that everything goes well for him. And people like that's not fun.
So, you know, probably these characters like Cloak and Dagger, who I think are kind of a big fat waste time in most cases. And I've never really enjoyed any really good series of them. Right. But, you know, maybe Lunatic, bring him back.
Blood Wolf? Why not? Black Wolf, I'm sorry. Blood Wolf.
Rob Liefeld. Black Wolf. Whoever. I'm just gonna know.
No, no, no, no. No. No. No.
No. No. No. Not just strange.
Naturally. I'm not too close. No, you would. Ghost Rider as well.
Yeah. I'll bring that Danny. We'll make it right, Danny. We'll fix it.
We'll show your face in garbage. Mr. Roboto Sistibi, how is it? How is it?
It's kind of. It's kind of. It's ultimate. It is, but like color-wise, it's sort of.
Yeah. What characters Marvel DC should get a beyond or 2009 example to not Deadpool 2009? What other characters should go into the far-flung future? Moon Knight.
Moon Knight 2009? That would sell like crazy. Just saying. Moon Knight 2099.
You could either do it as Moon Knight himself in like a fish out of water story or you can do like, Conchoo in the future. Yeah. Future Conchoo. I don't know.
Yeah. That would work. Green Lantern 2009 or whatever. The equivalent Green Lantern Beyond would be fun.
And yes, I know. There was like an animated one where it's a little kid. That's boring. No.
Like, Future Core. There you go. My pitch, the Core's dead. Someone finds a ring in the Beyond future.
Nice. And so like they have to like, it's basically Kyle Ranger in the future. I don't do a Constantine Beyond. Just because of the like, his religious undertones, obviously overtones the nature of him in the future and what that actually entails at this point.
Like, is that a thing anymore? Right. Yeah. Like, how do you function in that?
Yeah, I'm seeing really how they swear that circle for magic in the Beyond universe. Right? Yeah. And then just one other I guess for 2099.
Bishop. He's from the future. Yeah. I don't know what year Bishop comes from.
So what would it be the future of the past? I don't know. He's still gonna say the same thing. He doesn't care.
He just wants that harmonica playing. Joey Troyer, Batman Beyond in Bad Issues. One day. Probably maybe.
Conqueror Worm, Free Book Eye Snag was Interceptor, Issue One by Donny Cates. Definitely worth a look. I think Punky, Stify me. Spamfire hunting feels like my jam.
I saw that there. But I had my Limit of Five. And I didn't want to be greedy since we had already bought so many 25 cent comics. I was like, I don't need to take these out of the...
There was literally a pile of children there. It's like, let them grab. So I was like, I have my five. Let's not push it.
Yeah. Any independent titles are new or current to check out. I mean, yeah, we recommend all kinds of new, new, end or independent titles. And in fact, at the end of the show, we're gonna recommend some titles for you to pick up that are coming out this week.
We think you can grab. But I can recommend one that's independent right now that isn't on my list today because it hasn't come out and that would be die. Which I think you've heard me talk about before. But I think it's fun and I definitely get to look.
There you go. And infamous Cavalier. Love you guys. Love you guys.
Love you guys so much. So jumping into the books. Let's do it. War of the Realms.
Number Three. Wow, we're just gonna start there. Why not? Okay.
Written by Jason Aaron. We're by Russell Dauterman. Just continues the war. Again, not really the tie-ins so far as we're concerned.
Things are happening. There's a lot of implication about those tie-ins. But again, we only get little windows into them and that's fine. It's not a big deal.
Can I say something really quickly? I really was digging on the art last time. Oh no. I still have some degree but then cash shows up and I'm like, what happened to your face?
I was saying the same thing for Daredevil. Why is it giant infant being crammed into the Daredevil's costume? Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that. It was really bad.
I felt really bad because I love Russell Dauterman's work earlier. Like you said, this book? He went with him under the gun. Maybe?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. Other stuff. Weapons, locations, horses. The hardest thing to draw in fiction.
Or non-fiction. Looks really cool while they were pack-as. Technically fictional horses. But really great looking once you got to the people in the faces.
It was like, oh no. Especially faces that weren't distinct. Wolverine looked pretty normal. Blind doll looks pretty normal.
Frank Castle. Then you get to cap Daredevil. It's something about the top mask. I don't know what happened.
It was just so jarring. I didn't even notice the Daredevil thing. I've seen it now. But at first, Paige, your cap on it.
I was like. Oh no. He's supposed to be square jawed and excited and he's just tapered and looks like a big silly boy. So anyway, Frey is like, you're going to have to leave the charge and we're going to go into my son.
Frey is smart. When I dig about how they're portraying Frey, she's like, I'm going to get my son. And then she re-evaluates. She's like, okay.
Oh, this is sleep. Yeah. So I'm going to go and deal with the black fibros. The black fibros.
I'm going to deal with that because that's really the main front. I know the most about it. I should be the one who goes and even though I want to get my son, you're going to get my son. And I'm like good on you.
I think Kat respects that. She's leading. Yeah, yeah. Kat's probably a little bit like, hey.
Okay. No, he seems pretty totally on board. No, I'm like, hey, I'm supposed to be. I lead.
I lead. I do the thing. What are you doing? But we get like naturally in an instance like this.
It's like, hey, let's see the thing where we have our breakdown of teams so we can't have our time. Right, exactly. So if you want to read more about that, you can find the tie in or not. You just accept that things happen in between the panels and you have fun with it, which is kind of what I have been doing.
Do we need to know all the things that happen to all these characters? Absolutely not. But let's do it anyway. It's amazing though.
It's from the last issue. We even get the payoff though of Daredevil talking with Heimdall. That was just a one off joke. No, no, no.
Let's go do something about that. Yeah. And Heimdall, no, sorry. He's just like, listen, man.
You want to give this a shot. You give this a shot, but you're just a mortal man. And you're about to see and hear things only that gods can. Yes, or should, for that matter.
And he's like, well, my sister always told me that was a bad Catholic, which was really great. Yeah, it's really fun. And so we get to see Daredevil to God with have fear. Yes, it was very reminiscent of a Dark Side War God of Knowledge.
But you know what? We wanted to see, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, conceptually, like this should be a really neat image again. It should be awesome.
It was really, really knocked the legs out from under this moment because it should be so cool. And instead, it's just kind of like silly looking. Yeah, but we find that Jane Heimdall, Daredevil, and the Destroyer have left behind Chukard as guard and the Bifrost. Right.
Because basically Daredevil has reactivated the Bifrost, allowing the other teams to go forth and hit everything on a multi-front sort of attack. Yes. We have Cap, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Likage, and Iron Fist. Which is like, I love this team.
This is such, yeah, it really is. It's just a new adventure, which is exactly a Maya. Yeah, this is such a great team because you have a lot of seriousness, but then you have it undercuts with folks like Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist to some degree. But they're thrown into Yotenheim, and in Yotenheim, they ride Pegasi, as you said.
I don't know if that's actually the correct. I think so. Okay. In order to get from point A to point B, which Luke questions, he's like, do we have snowmobiles?
Right. Where are the Avengers? But we're in Yotenheim. How often do they basically say they're like, how often do you get to go rescue a god from like, giant?
What ride in the flying horses? Okay, we're doing that. Even if they can be speared. Yes, which they do.
But we also see that a lot of our team has taken up arms of Asgard. Yes. They've got swords and capes and shields. They all kind of got like fun little like up rid of it.
Except Wolverine. Luke Cage, he's like, no. No, Wolverine took a hammer. Luke took a hammer.
Yeah, he took a hammer, but he didn't change his outfit at all. He's just like, I'm good. Yeah. I'm fine.
Wolverine has nothing. Cowboy hat. Yes. Well, I think he came with that.
I love Spider-Man and the helmet and the shield, and he's just like, I like that joke. That moment where he says, quick, I already got behind my shield. Because he's like ragging on the shield the whole time. Wait, you're not the shield.
He's just like, who cares? He's just a shield. Oh, right. Cap, you do that all the time.
Oops. Just, I'm just telling you right now. Just saying. Yeah.
Just in general, a lot of them having worked together in the past. It's a lot of fun. It's really cool. And so their job is to find Thor when they get there, they're like, how can we possibly find him?
And Wolverine's like, well, we could follow the river of Ice Giant Blood. Like it's a literal river going through a real time. Yes. So cool.
And so which they do until they find, like, you're like screaming and such. But then we go over to Sparthlheim. Sparthlheim. Sparthlheim.
The Dark Elf Realm where basically Freya, She-Hulk, Ghost Rider, Punisher, and Blade are undercover, which is hilarious. I love Frank playing ball and being undercover. By the way, this is your Savage Avengers. This is the most savage characters.
They actually are a team. I think this is your Savage Avengers team. I would actually switch out this ghost rider. Oh, easily.
Robbie, man. Stay on your Avengers. The book I'm not reading. But yeah, no, Savage Avengers.
Not for lack of a real ghost rider. Look, I don't mind Robbie, but if you're talking Savage Avengers, I would not put Robbie on that team. He ain't sat. No, no, no, not a sister.
I'm sure he has had his moments. He's had his moments, but he's. I don't associate him necessarily with just that. Certainly not.
Anyway, they essentially, Frey has like, are you ever going to do? Blade, me, and Frank are going to dress up like Dark Elves. She'll keep your head down to your troll. And Robbie, get down, get tiny.
You're a little like fire gubber. Gubber. Yeah, we got this. It's totally going to be great, right?
And she has all the talking because she knows A-head. They speak and all that. But then they start, like other Dark Elves start asking questions. They're the other folks because like, Frank's really tall.
And so he's like too tall along with Blade, I guess, to be a Dark Elf. And their cover is not even blown for Frank. She's like, forget it. Frank is the greatest line in the entire book, I think.
He says, I asked him, what clan are you from? And Frank says, my clan is dead and so are you. And then just blows the way. We just complete Bad Assery.
That's the kind of stuff. Jason Aaron plays a lot with like continuity character, but like these moments he gets. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Blade this whole time is not one of these he wanted to do.
He's just going swinging. He's just like, no, it's a school. And he starts swinging away. And like, Frey is like, OK, Robbie, Colin, you're.
Colin, you're super car. Yeah. So he does. And that is a cool image of them riding on it.
I am so, again, I'm not against Robbie at all. No. That being said, how much more bad is it? A motorcycle just charging through.
Or if the ghost rider was riding a Pegasus. Oh. Yeah. And it was a skeleton Pegasus that was made of fire.
Oh, all right. Hang on. Let's one up that and take that Pegasus and make it to a Pegasus and a chariot. Right.
Yeah. Chariot of literal fire. Hellfire. Yeah.
That'll be freaking amazing. Yeah. Anyway, that didn't happen. No, that way cooler moment did not happen.
But it's still like punching people. It is a cool moment. And they ride through Sfartolheim. Yep.
And again, on their way to the Black Vyfrost. We check in with Malaketh, who's made his way over to Europe. Because each of the bad guys is splitting up the world, basically, into performing their own new realms. We see Black Knight there.
And the cat that Malaketh has the Ebony Blade. It is cool. Cool reference. Yeah.
And he's a Dark Elf. So he's like, I should have. He goes with my aesthetic. Right, exactly.
This is on brand for me. Yeah. And it's an important source. There's also that.
But also, how often do you get something that is so crucial, but also on brand? Yes. Never. No, it's true.
But people are like, here's are still there on Earth. And so the war Avengers ride in. Yeah. I say this is a title.
I guess so. I mean, like, they certainly are very branded. But like, yeah, it's a team of characters I couldn't care less about. I mean, you got Captain Britain and Deadpool team up with Venom and Hulk Vereen.
And it's like, paaat. It shifts there and Captain Marvel. And you got by the Winter Soldier. And they go running and they're doing their thing, right?
And basically, the important moment here is that Venom goes after Malaketh. Yes. And he turns the Ebony Blade on him. Right.
And that causes he and Malaketh to disappear. Disappear. And we do see a teaser later on that like, indicates what has happened to Venom. Yeah.
But that Malaketh has also been conversing with the symbiote. Yeah. I'm like, well, about what? I'll be about the god of symbiote.
Yeah, which I thought was interesting. That's kind of cool. That's true. Meanwhile, Daredevil, like God Without Fear, realizing he can hear everything that's going on.
He initially is having a hard time focusing, does a better job of it. But then realizes that he is under attack as well. And so like, James, we have to keep him from destroying the Bifrost. Otherwise, our friends can't come back.
So they all leads Siege to the Dark Elves who have come through with bombs on them, essentially. Yeah, they're basically helms-deeping. Yeah. Literally helms-deeping.
Oh, one of them literally does. They helms-deeping. They do. But like, it's all of them.
It's like if all of the orc I had it. Which actually, why didn't they? Yeah. Wow.
I don't think the orc I actually had them on them, they brought it in. They installed it. They installed the bomb. And then they had the Olympic torch runner.
Yes. But we get to see the Fantastic Four too, because we go all over the world to see the different realms who are attacking Earth. And the champions were fighting against us. And the Fantastic Four are pretty much handling all of Manhattan.
Right, which is pretty awesome. Although I do got to say, it's fun to see Chips of Darski as Regritters. Just literally just Chips of Darski's face with Dr. Strange here.
There's also that great moment of Sue using invisibility to bring spikes in the frost transliterate. Which like, really cool visual. It is a really cool visual. I'm not going to lie.
I'm getting shades of blue turtle shell, which you don't mess with. That's why that guy went down. Oh, that's right. But it's funny.
We got a lot of kind of back story narration going on. It's very cool, because it is spoken in the way of the oral tradition of like, kind of like, Norse storytelling in a way. But told about our modern day heroes. It's like, that's really neat.
It's a lot of fun. By the time Frey and team get to the Black Bifrost, the actual Bifrost is overwhelmed. Yeah. Because one guy gets past as Daredevil's unable to control all that he is hearing and seeing.
Yeah, he screws the pooch. He does. It's not really a fault. He can't help it.
He's doing the best he can. They didn't have enough guys. No. They need like one more guy.
But the Bifrost is destroyed over with Freyja. She-Hulk is been pounding in order to get herself more gamma irradiated, essentially so that she could use herself as a bomb to destroy the Black Bifrost. Right. Freyja feels like Obi-Wan feels the death of Alderaan.
She feels the destruction of the Bifrost. And it's like, hold the hold. We can't do this. If we destroy the Black Bifrost, our friends will be stuck.
We can't use any magic bridges to get to the development. So now instead, the new plan is we're going to hold this position. Yes. And so she helps like, right on.
Yeah. I got all this gamma radiation built up, why waste it. Exactly. Let's loose on the crocodile cannons that are coming at them.
Yes. Which is a really great visual to see there. I was thinking this actually might be a great continuity moment for them to be like, OK, we did the Savage Hulk thing. We made like She Hulk into a giant Hulk thing.
Like what if this is the moment where she like expels all this gamma radiation and then just shrinks back down. Yeah, they could definitely. It's funny how like every time they do a big moment, I'm like, oh, this is how they can put the gene back in the model, fix this one thing and like move on. And then like they never do.
And then it's always a dissatisfied, like continuity fixative. Right. Hopefully they'll do that. I don't know.
Maybe there's like some sort of like rule where they don't back in Jotunheim. Our new Avengers team is working their way towards the sound of screaming, which is the sound of Thor screaming. And when they get there, they're like, oh, like it's just beyond his mountains. And then they realize it's not mountains.
Those are dead frost giants. And that Thor is a top it with a broken hammer. And a missing arm. Yeah.
And he is just covered in blood. And like Wolverine's like, I've seen this before. He's in a berserker's rage. We have to stay back.
Like he's lost it. I'm very familiar with it. Yes. Bersker's a berserker is like, yo, let's do it.
Yeah. He's like, yo, it's still great. He's like, yo, berserker, bers, it's great. Yeah.
From this precipice of rage-fueled battle. Armless Thor. Yeah. It was just cool because he just craves more frost giants be given to him.
So he's still in the throes of battle. So I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next. Totally. No, I think it's a great book.
Yeah. Well, here's a great moment. Yeah. The art hurts this book.
Really good. Because there's so many amazing moments that deserve to be immortalized in awesomeness. And the Gone are the days of better artists doing cool recreations of said events. Yeah.
You won't get a book that remembers all these events. And they're going to get amazing splash pages, or card art. Yeah. So it would kind of just stuck with the Ironman's version of this stuff.
That being said, some of it's fun to look at. Yeah. And that's what's so frustrating. It's like the last time I thought it was pretty consistent.
And this time around, there was just such an inconsistency. I don't know if that's just a crunche. It could be the crunch. I mean, there's just a book on a grander scale.
And I know too many because it's a war of realms and all over the earth. I mean, again, you're talking about sheer number of characters. And it's coming out on time for right now. So I do have to give it a little forgiveness there.
However, when it's in trade, people are going to be less forgiving, I think. Because they won't be waiting. It'll just be there. So that is a shame.
But I don't think it's enough for me not to desperately desire the next issue. Absolutely. And I recommend it. Yeah.
Yeah, me too. I'm really excited to see how this is all going to turn around. Because seriously, this is the kind of book where it's like, you know we're going to win. Right.