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Can't argue with that. So yeah, let's jump in. Anyway, some books came out. I'm going to talk about an amazing Spider-Man at number 41 from Nick Spencer in Rhinautley and Rathburn, Fairbairn.
I don't know who those people are. Well, one's the color of someone's probably the letter. There you go. We're putting the letters on the cover now.
I get you can be the anchor. Hey, those are both difficult jobs. Why should they be on the cover? Because who are we going to think?
Their parents too? Like we'd have filled the cover with all those words? No one. Speaking of filling the cover with words, this cover has a little bit of business going on to it.
Yeah. It breaks from the new tradition of like it basically being the equivalent of a poster or some kind of like you know hyper-enhanced version of what happens within the pages. Yeah. I think it's terrible.
It's not great. A little bit of business that like doesn't really belong in the issue, but that being said, there's tons of, this actually is a great indication for what's going on in the pages, because it's a lot of banter, a lot of business, a lot of that kind of thing. A lot of nixpensures like patting himself in the back for thinking is really clever and funny. Right.
So this issue, if you've been like reading amazing Spider-Man and you've been waiting for an expense sort of like deliver on not being dance lot and also being like, yo, I'm going to give you some classic Spider-Man look, Mary Jane and Peter Parker back together. Oh, there she goes. She's on the other side of the country. Right.
So I mean like eventually I'll deal with that. Hey, did you guys like my superior photos of Spider-Man book? You like Boomerang? He's a room in a peanut parkers.
Oh, all the tie-ins made me forget about that. Like a lot of stuff is being paid up. Hey, Kindred, not in this issue. So there's a lot going on.
Hey, did you think maybe I might be a big fan of Demetrius's work on Spider-Man? Looked up further than every issue of it? Which is good because Demetrius is great. Okay, I know you have thought that.
No, it's true. I have. But yeah, so the idea here is that Spider-Man is, this is a retcon of a book not to anything like a long-standing history. Spider-Man or a long history or any kind of like classic story.
This is literally him retconning his own book where he's like, okay, so I had to do those tie-ins because like I'm probably still paying for secret empire over there. And so I got to do all these tie-ins, tell these different things. But I never really got a chance to actually tell like one Spider-Man story that wasn't an event or like an arc that had to do with like a thousand of the characters and tie-ins and whatnot. So yeah, I'm gonna make you remember when Kingpin really wanted to get Boomerang for some reason?
No, me either. But thankfully the characters all contextualized that for me. And the idea here is that Spider-Man and Boomerang have been off-panel throughout the story, hunting artifacts, a la Indiana Jones, and kind of like a fun whimsical like buddy cop adventure kind of story where Spider-Man and Boomerang will go from like the loneliest sewers to the highest point of a mountain to find these different artifacts because hey, do you remember when Kingpin wanted to kill Vanessa? Well, yes Vanessa's dead and yes, Dan's flat resurrected her and then Kingpin killed her because she wasn't technically real.
But now Kingpin wants Vanessa back because Spencer's on the book. Vanessa. Vanessa. It's almost Emmy.
Yeah, but yeah, so that's the idea is that Kingpin wants that talisman. Remember the talisman? Classic Spider-Man fans? I kind of do vaguely.
Well, they're looking for pieces of it to put it together to make sure that Kingpin can't get it. And that's a fun story. Wouldn't that have been fun to read? Well, you can kind of because it takes up like three pages.
You know, like all these different little things that it is. That's the same. You know, what they should have done is like told a story and then like have like random like issues come out when you need like a break or something where it tells that story and then we go back to the main story. Right.
Yeah, now I just put it all in here. That being said, dude, pay attention actually read the stories. So every reference to the talisman would happen to it and where it went and like how it involved Silvermane and the lizard and how Dr. Strange ultimately got the talisman because of course and he's like, poof, get rid of that.
Like, and then just go, okay, yeah, I know the doctor mentioned that but like it came back. It didn't take. Right, which is fine. But yeah, like the dude who was researching the whole talisman thing imbued boomerang with like a virtual map for all the pieces of the talisman.
So you need boomerang in order to get it, which is why Kingpin want to boomerang in the first place. Right. So it's a fun issue. The Otley art, not great.
Like if you love invincible, it's all the same. But his Kingpin is like he's more grotesque and monster-like. Okay. But otherwise, I mean, it is- The art doesn't really bother me.
I mean, it's weird. There's like simultaneously like a fluidity to it but also like it's static. Yes. So it's like a contradiction of itself.
Also, I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of the coloring. No, it's a little flat. It's a little like muted. Yeah, or it's like, it's just choosing a different part of like a palette.
Like, you know, like it's a lighter palette. Yeah. Yeah. Which I'm guessing works well with Otley's art.
Maybe like it doesn't. It looks very invincible. That's right. It maybe just doesn't work well when it's colored kind of more standard comic book way.
But yeah, I'm looking for a little more depth of color here and again, maybe it just doesn't work. No. It would be worse. I guess if they tried to put like coloring that doesn't work on that art.
That's true. Yeah. So ultimately Spider-Man and Boomerang are fighting a horde of vermin in the sewer. Not like rodents or whatnot, but actually the villain vermin.
But no, it's not him. It's actually a whole bunch of people who've been turned into vermin, into that character or that have that kind of expectation. It's like a werewolf but it's a rat. But yeah, but they run away because they're going to be attacked by Gog.
And if you're like 90s comics, you may remember Giant Gog because Gog was the sixth member of the Sinister Six in Revenge of the Sinister Six, which featured like everybody. We actually did that episode on Back Issues. It's a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the issue.
But I was like, you know, why did it take this long to get like, why is it you had to do all those tie-ins? Like, why did you not sure horn those in? Like, why did you front load or back end all of that like kindred stuff? Maybe they had to.
Like, maybe there's something else happening where it was like, it's got to happen. Yeah, it just it feels like an afterthought. It feels like, hey, oh shit, right Boomerang. I'm probably even the book soon.
I got to do the Boomerang stuff. Like, you know, it's like, I don't think it's leaving. But you know, it's like one of those things where it's like, oh shit, I'm going to do that thing and it's going to have a ripple effect and effect all those other things and I never even paid off the Boomerang stuff. And it's like, true, but you can't put it all in one.
I mean, you can put it on one issue. Right, right, right. Like, I wish it wouldn't. Well, maybe like, maybe it feels like an afterthought.
Maybe this is a start to like, is like a soft start to his actual hit to his run. Right. That's 41 issues. I said that's soft.
It's like, what the hell man? Otherwise, I mean, like I said, everyone is in character, the story itself is fun. Like, it's all it's, it's interesting is it's actually kind of similar to the ongoing national conversation about how like, oh, COVID-19 is forcing people to work from home. So hey, as it turns out, everybody really always could have worked from home and we've just been kind of lying to you.
But like, as it turns out, everybody, yeah, but a lot of people don't, like, if you have a corporate job or a desk job, you don't need to be in the office at all. And it turns out we can all lean on Skype or Discord, not Discord today right now, by the way, but, you know, other elements to reinforce this like hidden infrastructure. It's something that we've all been kind of saying for years now. And what we're doing with this issue and the reason why I'm talking in it is because the issue itself is like, hey, you know, like, there were six issues worth of things in this issue.
Like, he paid off stuff that he has taken longer to pay off less with, you know, so it's like, oh, as it turns out, an expenseer could actually put in a ton more story per issue, but just hasn't. And then like, remember, he had all this stuff shoved into this issue and hey, worked out fine, didn't feel bloated and, and, and, you know, like all over the place. Sure. Okay.
So it's like, hey, this is cool. Hey, how come it's not always like this? Or how come it's never like this? Right.
Like I said, it's still cool. It's still cool. But it does be a bit tray. It's kind of like, truth, this other underlying truth to it, which is like, hey, decompression sucks.
Like, that's true. Where will this fit into the trade? Because you're always writing for the trade. Yeah.
Well, I mean, comments are kind of written differently now. Also tip of the hat to an expenseer, because I haven't seen a new character in a while. And it's like, I would love to see someone make, you know, like there's this big image, it's a tear and you know, I know you've seen it before, a marble has this horrible promo image of their universe, where it's like, ran into the marvel and everybody's there. Like they're all posing for a picture.
And it's using art from all different people. And like, they did just hire someone to frick and draw it like they had for the last 80 years. And they just like, used some graphic designer that some poor schmuck who like, had to use a similar color palette to like, you know, put like an effect on all the different artists to make it look like it's all part of an art. I like to see somebody do the equivalent of that, but for all the new characters that people have created over the last like five, 10 years, that like never like a team of characters where it's like, I know I could have used a character that existed before, but can I just create a character on the hopes that they'll put him in agency, I go check.
Is that even solid? It has one more season. I think it might be either ending or as soon. I don't know.
I got warm. Yeah, there's one thing that's working at least here. And it's the heat. Yeah, Geoffrey, Geoffrey, kind of low.
Good afternoon. Currently finishing most of my 130 games on steam and reading some comics got a lot of quarantine, winky face, but do stay safe out there. Absolutely. It's true.
But take this advantage. I was telling my parents this the other day, because they were like, my parents were like, Oh my God, I'm like, you yourself quarantine a day and a half ago. Yeah. What are you playing about?
I was like, why don't you literally just go on Netflix and make a list of all the shows you want to watch? And then just literally watch the ball. Yeah. Yeah, why not?
I heard that 20 million people were on like steam on a weekend or whatever, but yeah. Yeah. That's right. Right.
Forging views. What do you guys think the deal with Black Widow being given a current, given the current situation? I don't know what that means. The movie looks cool.
I'm hoping that's good. In terms of it being possibly postponed. Oh, well, if it's post, yes. Well, it is postponed.
They definitely kick the camera on the road for Black Widow and all the Disney Fox movies are over there. There you go. They're not coming out. You mean this is never coming out.
Yeah. But yeah, it's too bad because I really wanted to say that movie. I do too. No, we'll see it.
We'll see it. Yeah. I feel bad. Yeah.
I it sucks because like a lot of movies are feeling the pinch because of this. I know. And the theaters themselves and I feel bad too much for Hollywood. It's like, Oh, no, these billionaires can't make up a billion dollars tomorrow.
But on the other hand, you got like movies like Bloodshot, which came out and they're like, man, we're lots right on this movie. Oh, no. Yeah. No one can go see it.
It's a shame that they moved the date. I know they really should have stayed in February. That was the time to pull it out. No, because like things were in the world wide.
We're not going so well. Now it's like, Oh, now it's really should have put it out in February. That was the month for Bloodshot. Maybe they'll do a rerelease.
That's the word I work out too. Well, they could do a video on demand release would be basically like a new release. Well, because no one's going to see it. Yeah, no one's going to see it.
Well, it's never all the critics scores, which are super low, but the user scores super high. Well, they are. Well, they are. That's and I mean, like we can go anyway because the theater's closed.
Exactly. It's an 8 p.m. this evening. Yeah, New Jersey, shutting down, baby.
Yeah, no, I'm my concern for Black Widow, at least, is like, you know, there's been a lot of like, crapping on female super hero movies and it's like, man, we're already 10 years too late for a Black Widow movie. I kind of really wanted it to do well. Hopefully well. Hopefully it will in its new time slot.
Hey, put it on Christmas time. Tell the pastor, Hey guys, I usually work today, but my mom got exposed to someone with the virus. Oh shit, I'm sorry about that, man. We are all fine.
No, I know sometimes I had to take the week off of work just as a precaution. Yeah, I know we're coming in. Yeah, no, take those precautions. Definitely.
Sure, be fine. Yeah, but you know, follow all the procedures and tell them. Hey, anyone else who is in a situation like that, are you thinking not feeling well? It's okay to stay home and it's okay to tell someone that you're not feeling well because honestly, you're doing everybody a favor by being that responsible.
Yeah. You know, like, I know for a lot of people, like, they don't have the opportunity or the option to work remotely. Yeah, but there are like some, especially in New York, I know that they've got some things in effect where it's like, you can use like all your sick time and vacation days like immediately, like in order to like, try to, yeah, I think that I'm sure they're going to figure out something else. Yeah, definitely.
Got to care of you too. Dr. Comic catching more live shows and reading more comics. Where's the downside here?
We're all staying at home. Thank you. I mean, we talk about the downside, but hopefully, you know, you're making the best of that. Yeah, exactly.
We're staying at home kind of. Yeah. Evla says, first time watching live. Welcome, Eve.
Do you think the reason the reason the X and one Franklin phrase for him to alter reality, like house of M and replace the humans with mutants? No, I think it's more like he's their insurance policy because he can't like, he'll never die in a life or ever and he can read old reality. I think their plan with him is like, well, we saw what the future's like. And we clearly Franklin Richards was not part of the Hawks Pox future prognesications.
So it's like, he's our insurance policy to preserve the future. Well, it could also be that they don't want reality to be altered where like, more doesn't exist. Right. And he can't just kill it.
Yeah, it could be that they're also using him as like an insurance policy. Like, you said that. Well, I mean, saying to protect from like a house of X or a house of M and say, where it's like, yeah, if anyone does, like, even if an Avenger does decide to like alter reality, Franklin could buffer us from it. Yeah, I'm thinking no, not for us.
So yeah, I think he's an insurance policy. Okay. And you want to talk about the, the the indie book you have? Should we do that now?
Yeah, we're not. Okay, I'm sure we're going to do Hicman back back. Oh, that's fine. Whatever.
Okay. I read decorum decorum number one from image. This is a pricey book I got to tell you right now. So it's a lot, but it was $5.
That's fine. Five isn't bad. But I mean, like, how many ads? None.
Zero ads. Okay, sorry. One ad in the back for issue two. That's fine.
It's by Jonathan Hickman with art by Michael Huddleston. I'll be perfectly honest with you guys. I pick this up because it's like, you know, all aboard the Hicman train. I actually know Hickman more from his indie work than I did from his main work.
Yeah, exactly. Like East West, Black Monday murders, you know what I mean? Like that kind of stuff. And I was like, Oh, okay, cool.
I'm gonna pick this up, check it out, that kind of thing. I promised like, you know, proper, mannered assassins. And when I started the book, I wasn't getting that. So first I was like, okay, here we go.
But literally by the end, I was like, I'm in on board. Initially, the book really won me over with the art because this is not a standard looking book by any means. I mean, obviously it has panels and, you know, like, we're balloons and stuff like that. But the art shifts from being like fully painted image to just black and white outline, to black and white outline with color pops in certain places to draw your eye.
It's really spectacular to look at the art is right of my alley. So that helps to cover itself is incredibly kind of this is this is never seen a book that looks like right. This was the one of the alternate covers. Oh, okay.
I literally just was like, this book looks so off the wall. That might as well to be the cover. Yeah, no, no, I love the cover of this book of this one. I grabbed this one specifically because of that.
But the, but the Hulston did the cover of the regular one. That's great too. And you can see it behind. Yeah, you can.
There it is. But if you can imagine you open this book up and guess what you're going to see. Is it a Hickman graphic like language image? No, you do get some sweet graphic design.
Oh my God. Um, sweet graphic design. Um, sweet graphic design. Right.
And then the book starts and the book starts with little info, don't page. Oh, no. And by info, don't page, I mean, like at first you're almost reading like a book like a book and I'm like, okay, I'm reading a book. Here we go.
I got to put my thing in cap on comics. You've completely wrecked my ability to read books. But then after that info, you get literally a series of pages that have like no dialogue. Right.
It's just the image has to carry you. It's happening. It's gorgeous stuff too. It really is go less.
I'm talking about where we're going from like beautiful fully painted images to later on things that are more, you know, black and white, just some line art with a touch of color and you get this like, okay, so I'm gonna let me finish going. What else to find in the book before I actually try to jump into what this story is about because I'll be honest with you. Like I really have to read this again because I was so stunned by the art in this book. Look, what do you see here?
Oh, no, it's a fade up. It's a made up moon language. It is. But hey, you know what, it works for this book.
100%. Yeah. Sky man. So it's time to do this.
Oh, man. It's a beautiful looking book and it's time so it's literally go right. It's more loose than X-Men. Right.
So like at times, like these info on pages, these are actually like panel pages. Oh, that's cool. So like he's taken it from that to this, like this is the next step. Right.
It's kind of like dissection and like re-invention of how you can tell a story in comics. That's really a smart idea. I like that. So this book is about space.
Okay. We're in space in either like some alternate history of us or some future of ours. It doesn't matter. We mentioned like a solar galaxy and stuff like that.
And here's where it seems to me that like this book is clearly going to go in a very different direction than X-Men. But I think from X-Men, he had some things he wanted to explore more. And so we see a little bit of it here and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. No, yeah.
So it's not like literally duplicating it. At the beginning, I was like, oh, good Lord. It's probably more like he had all this stuff and enough room for it. And like this isn't gonna fit the more we get it for.
Or they were like, don't do that. Yeah. So he's like, okay, you know, I don't have to do that. I have his other story and I could use it there.
And so I'm gonna say, yeah. So like the idea is that like there are these preserves. Oh no. And yeah, it's like basically like little seed planet things that are created and like civilizations are like up and coming there.
And then like, like the thousands that have been created, most of them have died off. Okay. Five of them joined the empire. And I'm like, some of them kind of like fought back, right?
Yeah. So we see like these natives of this planet who have like these crazy weapons and are fighting against these like conquistals. They look like conquistals, yeah. They're androids.
Okay. Artificial intelligence. And I'm like, oh no. Right?
And like they're there to collect basically. And like they end up like these really like grotesque sequence where they like use their lasers on their hands and like peel a guy's face off and like open up his mind and like almost like a worm crawls out of it and then presents an idea to him. And then he's like, I want that. The answer is like, I want that one to get that.
It's his egg. Eggs. Oh no more eggs. But like, so the sequence is really well rendered because it's black and white.
Right. So like, so it's not as jarring or grotesque. It just kind of fits. It just kind of fits.
Yeah. And I'm telling you like honestly, like if you get this book for no other reason, it's too like poor for the artwork in it. We kind of got to feel for like this galaxy that's there that there's like this church of the singularity. Oh no.
And it is like it is an artificial intelligence who is like a contradiction of itself because it's like it's an artificial intelligence but it also has like this mezzie on it. So routine and green in it. Okay. And then there's like the union who's like against all this, right?
And then there's like this floating world and it's this one world and like it has all this shifting like parts to it. And so like the continents and countries never say where they are, which makes it the perfect place for like backdoor dealings because it's like this city's never quite where it would be or should be at once. And like that's really cool. And that's where our story is really taking place right now.
I'm sure this is all goes tie into this history that he's giving us because as we've seen from Hickman, he lays some ideas like the groundwork for some later stuff. And then we get to the story. So that was the point where I was like, Oh got it. All right.
We're doing this. I'm in. So we meet a girl named Neha and she's a courier and she has been charged with taking this like package to a location. She usually does she usually does many deliveries.
However, this night she only has one and she's pretty mad about that because she needs money. And you're gonna get paid triple for this and she's like triple. Why? Wait.
Oh, that's nice. That's cool. She's like, why? And they're like, well, special priority.
And she's like, usually special priority plays double. What's up? She sees where it's going. She's like, I'm gonna need quadruple.
Oh, so she gets the quadruple and she goes on where she's going. It's like basically like a mob boss kind of thing. Okay. So then we get an idea of like, because like she gives the like her like boss some crap because she's like, I get why you picked me because you're like, he's saying like, my best, you're the best curry.
Well, you know I need the money. Then we get explanations to why they need the money. And the first I was like, Oh, the cool was this and it is. And I was like, hooray.
We see her looking at some like cryo pods. And I was like a boy and an old woman of them. And she's looking at them, right? And then it turns out that like, I guess the government Luxor or no, Luxor creates these cryo pods and you pay for them.
It costs a lot of money. And the idea is that it's like the Disney lore, like the Disney lore where it's like, you put go in the cryopod and we figure out what's wrong with you, we fix you, right? What costs a lot of money to keep you in there? So like, okay, so they there was a plague that was bioengineered to give to rogue worlds.
And they gave it to them. And like, it didn't like kill everybody. What it did was it made you really, really sick. Then you would have to put into those pods and your family members who were an ill would have to work for them to get the cure.
Okay. I was like, that's messed up. Yeah. That's messed up.
So she's working constantly to not like keep her family and these cryopods, but also to pay for their cure. Yeah. So she needs money. So she goes off to like a graphic of like her lunch.
I was like, I love this. I kind of love this. Yeah. It's a graphic of what her ramen is made out of.
Which I was like, oh, ramen. So I go for that. Damn it. So we meet the gentleman that she's going to be giving the current like the package to and he's like met with an older looking, or an adult woman who's like there and is just like, hi.
And he's like, she was like, hi, she's kind of soldiers and she's like an incredible looking design. Like, I love the design of her and I love the way that like, I love all the character designs of this period. Just moving on. And the guy's like, oh, you're kind of older for a career.
Are you sure to be a snorkeling? Are you a little old to be a courier? And she's just like, yeah, no, I'm not. And she goes and this whole thing about manners.
And I'm like, oh, I read the teaser for this. She's an assassin. And she is. Basically, she works for the syndicate.
Okay. And the syndicate uses this guy because syndicate's not allowed on this planet to do their dirty dealings. I'm sure these other people too, but they use this guy in particular. And, you know, things aren't going well, basically, because as we find out later on, he turned them into the government and that's how the guy kicked off the first place.
So once they figured that out, they want a retribution. Yeah, definitely. Now, naturally, this woman did just walk in here with like a whole bunch of weapons or anything like that, right? But like the courier, like pops in, they're like, Oh, excuse me, the courier, she brings the package in.
And like, he's like, open it. And she's like, I can't only the person who is for has to open it. And so she's looking for someone named Morley. It's not that guy.
It's the chick. She opens it and reveals like this crystal. It's the weapon. He proceeds to take everybody out.
There's a whole lot of amazing banter in this. I mean, like legit amazing banter in this. And yeah, at the end of the day, she's like, looks at the girl and she's like, now what am I going to do with you? And I'm like, this is awesome.
Like, I'm really into the world that they're creating. Without seeing too, too much of the universe or like the city, it still gives me like bleed runner or like fifth element vibes. Yeah. You know what I mean?
So it's like, if you're dealing, if you dig what Hickman did with Hawks and Pocks, but maybe sci-fi is more your jam. This is probably something you're going to be interested in because he's doing that same sort of deep dive, it's creating his own lore. So like, if you were an X-Man fan and you kind of felt lost hearing about everything that was going on, you might want to jump in here because everyone's on the same footing. Nobody knows, except for his favorite one.
Yeah, where this is going to go because he's just going to be telling us the story's going to unfold as it goes along. I mean, like I said, like if for nothing else, then what the art looks like because like it's just so well done. The mixture of styles just works perfectly somehow. Yeah, I just can't get enough of it.
So I'm ready for the next issue. Decorum. It's such a weird like name for it. It works perfectly because yeah, it's not like a dinosaur, promise, or not promise, but like indicated.
I love that. It's like a cowboy and like it's like a shoot-down happening and a dinosaur and it's a big mushroom. It's in robots. Neat.
Right? No. I'm down. Dan and Graham says reading more comics in my isolation.
He recommendations for good Superman stories and he recommends representations in modern DC since Ben doesn't understand him. You could check out Man or Superman or something like that. I think it's what's called. It's my Marvel movie.
He did like an original one-shot story. He always reads Superman Birthright, which is enough to pick up Superman Last Sun by John Zetaksel. I was going to say Superman Blue, but I think it's called Superman for all seasons. Thank you.
I'm like, it is blue. Yeah, it is blue. The cover is very blue. Yeah, Superman for all seasons is fun.
If you haven't read All Star. Also Superman. If you haven't read All Star. Yeah, if I go get it.
Yeah. There's so many. Yeah. Superman vs The Earth's Steelers.
And I would say like, you know, like prior to Ben is taking over. Oh yeah, the whole Tomasi Gleason run. You just grabbed the Tomasi run. If you haven't already, but that made him where you started and you weren't sure where to go after that.
But yeah, those are the things that are some solid choices. Yeah. Do you do? Seven, Tiffany, if you read Hickman's Nightly News.
No, which just sounds like he something he would tweet on that. That's just this podcast. I don't know how I read that then. Yeah.
Oh yeah, I guess not. The newsletter. Rescue on 1-0. Downside Quarantine is not an option for my job.
Upside I live in sticks where infections are low. So I have some money to stay safe. City dwellers. Oh, we're not.
Oh, so I have some money. Yeah. Well, we are close enough to the city. I mean, like we're in a town.
What our issue is is honestly the New Jersey is a highly densely populated state with a lot of people who work in New York, which is even more densely populated. Yes. And so that's where we are going to be having problems. Yes.
Is that like we have that commuting mentality. We have the fact that like everyone's kind of on top of one another. But you know what? Like we definitely live in a more suburban area, which is good.
But still people who live like around us don't necessarily work in this area and work in places where they could have gotten it. So just, you know, stay away. Try harness. Hey guys, still reading Hulk, Daredevil, X-Men, started to be Spider-Man thanks to the Marvel Unlimited app.
You love it. And Tiffany, the last issue has Dr. Strange. I mean, yeah, no.
See, Spider-Man is one of the best Spider-Man books come out in the last couple of years because it is in a flashback series that's written by Peter David who gets the character. The only problem is it's by Greg Land. And the art is distractingly terrible. Like it was, I finished the first volume in real time and picked up the first issue with the next volume.
And it was so horrible. I was like, I really like this, but I can't get conscience by it because like the art is so unforgivably bad and I get it. Like Land is like fast and it's consistent. It's not like it looks rushed or it starts out great and gets crappy.
Yeah. It's just like, it's just not good. And when it's good, it's fair. And when it's not, it's distracting.
And I just couldn't read it anymore. It was like, I have to stop. Adam Groves, hi y'all. Hello Adam.
Thanks for hanging out. Kev Bot, 1995. Hello relatively new to the channel. And I just wanted to thank you for re-reading my love for Spider-Man.
Another titles in general. Much love and keeps safe. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much for hanging out with us. Welcome to the population. We watched our hands here and all San at least six to two feet away from one of them. Yeah, except for this.
We also have, we also have a hand sanitat. Like, yeah, if I touch my face, I washed my hands before we came in here and also I have to hand sanitize. I didn't know we had hand sanitize. Oh, I would use that.
It's good stuff. I did for both foot instead. TV, currently reading V for Indetta. Seems appropriate.
Yeah. What's, what books or trade with three books or trades to recommend the possible extra downtime coming because of all this? Like, we're being you take care and say, you too, TV. I would read like an omnibus level amount of stuff.
You know, I'd read like, I'd get into the Grant Morrison new X-Men era. Oh, that's funny because I was going to say the Grant Morrison do but you know what I mean? Yeah, read all the Grant Morrison's do patrol. But I was going to say.
They don't have any time left. There you go. So long. But yeah, but grab, you don't have to get the volume.
You could always go like the unlimited app or wherever you can find it. But you were suggesting, I was going to say the reason why I suggested reading Grant Morrison new X-Men is because clearly, you know, well, so read Grant Morrison's new X-Men. Jonathan Hickman. Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, because you were looking through an obloser magazine and you picked up on a couple of similarities, a couple of allusions to what's going on in the current run. So the deeper your extensive experience with X-Men is, the more either horribly frustrated you'll be with the run or rewarded because you cherry pick your canonical history of the X-Men. Of course, I'd also recommend Saga. You can pick up the whole thing.
The whole thing. Well, the whole thing to date in a giant book. Yeah. But that's only for that guy.
That's right. I only push Saga on those who, that's a kind of thing. Exactly. 94 even Gellion, I love your show, speaking of this news right now, do you think Marvel should do something similar?
I like the legacy virus, but for all the Marvel universe. I mean, who would it affect everybody? Or would it be like, like, it only affects people with superpowers? Would it affect you if you would have like some trace of radioactivity in your system?
That can be interesting. But like, honestly, the legacy virus is one of my least favorite errors of the X-Men because it was just like, it was clearly, you know, it was inspired, at least I believe it was inspired by like the A-semitemic. And I thought that like, you know, because it had those connections to it, it was like, there was a period of time, you know, where it was kind of like, it was incurable. So it's like, you can never end the story without it being complicated.
And then it did end finally, and it was like, barely an ending. And it was like, I was just, it just went too far, too long. It was very, you know, for me, it was like kind of clone saga-y. But it was like, when is this friggin legacy thing gonna end?
And I'm very wary and gun shy from stories that don't have a clear ending, or that might have the option of meandering into forever. Nerd King 101, Backish is deceased and metal are some of my favorites of the series. Thank you very much, man. For Hoboken, so I feel you on the quarantine.
As we know Black Widow ties into some of the shows and Phase 4, what if canceling it sets everything else back? I doubt it will. I think that, I think Black Widow will have references to it, but I don't think it's gonna be like a linchpin book or movie. I think it's more just like, more like a palette cleanser slash tone setter.
It's like, here we are. This is gonna be Phase 4. Despite the fact that it's like a retcon. So yeah, you read Ghost Rider.
Yeah, let's try it out really quickly back, Ghost Rider. Just briefly, Hearts of Dark is 2, Part 2. Oh, yeah. Oh, Dr.
Strange of course, it's not in Hearts of Dark. Yeah, whatever. I know. He's barely in this book anyway, so that's cool.
Yeah, I know. We want to show Dr. Strange in his Weird Buzz Cut, even though it's in the book itself, he's got the grind. That's something happened on the cover.
I don't know. We're out of the sweetie Stacy at home with her family and Blackheart shows up with like her friend Emma or her sister Emma or whoever Emma is controlling her and it's like, I need you. We will not see that in this issue. That's later.
Blackheart shows up does one thing and then leaves, or the next issue. Then there's a little bit of filler, honestly. We're like, Danny is the corruption knight. Spirit of Corruption.
I want to call him a knight because he's got a sword and a helmet. I'm just like, you're made of a knight. He's a knight of corruption, but he's the spirit of corruption. And like he like, the sword's calling to him and hunger is for corruption and like the other guys are like, give him a hard time.
Like, wait a minute. So Johnny did all this, like blah, blah, blah. And then like, he just takes his sword and like stabs Punisher in the gut. Why?
Because it like, it calls for corruption and he can't handle it. It's a very corrupted he just stabs him so that like, it would kill him basically, it would turn him into like, goo. Okay. And like, well, what do you do?
So like, he attacks Danny and he's just like, I am going to like, claw punch you. I'm like, claw punch you? That's what he says. Yes.
Oh, you don't think I want claw punch you in the throat or in the face. Okay. He's just like, I know like, I can't kill humans, but you're not a human anymore. Well, and you killed him like, you did that all the time.
You're part of X-Force. You jackass. So what this? This is a, gosh, yes, all the hard to play person.