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Thanks for watching!

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what is up everybody and welcome to the

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united states department of nerds where we

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are for the people by the people and

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of the people and tonight

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The shadows are whispering and the ink is

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bleeding and we're cracking open the

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coffin to all things horror comments.

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We're talking from Boom Studios to all the

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Andes you can think of.

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And as always,

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I'm the host and joining me tonight is

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my good friend and artist and talented

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individual is Francisco Nilo.

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We call him Fran.

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You can call him Fran as well,

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because he's a great guy who is always

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doing his part down in Argentina.

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See what I did there?

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Thank you for having me.

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That was my Starship Troopers reference

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for everybody.

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So, bro,

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we talked about this show when you were

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on last time earlier this year when we

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were talking about Vidalirium.

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Oh, yeah.

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it just come about and we keep in

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touch.

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We talk, you know, probably, you know,

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at least once or twice a month sometimes.

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And,

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I was like,

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I built this busy schedule for October.

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I wanted to get a lot of horror,

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indie horror comics interviews completed

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and done to stay with the theme of

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the month.

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And I was like,

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I can't forget about Fran because we want

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to do this show together.

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And here we are.

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Fran, how you been?

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I know you're going through a move right

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now and you're keeping busy,

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but what are you working on right now?

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Well, I'm still working on Vicalirium.

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I'm finishing it.

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I think I might,

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actually finish the next issue today or

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rather tonight uh it's which is cool

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because it's a very horror cosmic it has

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some very cosmic horror fueled sequences

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in it that i'm very proud of they

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are sort of i think they are the

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best

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Stuff that I've drawn ever.

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And now,

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is this the issue zero or the issue

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two?

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This is issue zero.

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Okay, perfect.

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Okay,

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I know what we're talking about there.

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Yeah.

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I've gotten to paint some stuff in a

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radically different style and play a lot

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with the sort of horror genre,

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which I love,

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which is basically why I'm here.

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That's why we're here tonight, man.

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We arranged for these episodes.

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Because we share the same passion for

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horror stories,

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horror comics in particular.

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I'm an avid listener of horror podcasts

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while I'm working.

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So a huge consumer of horror media in

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general.

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So I'm excited.

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I'm pumped for it.

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Dude, let's dive into...

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I don't want to say they're the

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heavyweight right now,

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but they may be the heavyweight of horror

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comics,

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and that is going to be Boom Studios.

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Oh, yeah.

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And we'll do one that I know you

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just picked up yourself,

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and that's going to be Be Not Afraid

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by Jude Ellison S. Doyle.

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I mean,

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this story is like Children of the Corn

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and The Omen.

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Had a beautiful evil baby and that's what

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this story is basically.

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I know you haven't had a chance to

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read it yet,

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but I know you're excited to pick this

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one up.

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I only got my hands on it like

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yesterday.

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I haven't had the chance to read it,

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but I have gotten to read like a

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small preview because the funny thing,

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the artist or one of the artists is

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from Argentina too.

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So I had him on Instagram.

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I was following him and he shared it.

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I got to read sort of the preview.

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And I was like, okay,

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this is the sort of horror that I'm

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really interested in.

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It's very atmospheric, very like,

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just from the preview alone,

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you could tell that it wasn't just the

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comic book equivalent of a jump scare.

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It's more like the atmospheric.

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I mean, you get,

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you get, like, pictures of, like,

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plagues happening,

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the ground burning where this child walks.

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It's just, like,

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children of the corn or the omen or

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something like that.

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And it is, um... Like,

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the town itself is basically scared

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shitless of this child and the terror that

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he brings with him every time he is

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out.

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So...

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and basically what we're going to do

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tonight i don't want to want to put

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this out here now is we're going to

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basically list off comic books that we

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hope everybody you know gets to read right

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and to read and i kept it more

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modern that way if you did want to

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go to your local comic book shops and

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pick this title up you could or you

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could still get it off the manufacturer's

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website that's why i'm going to break it

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down each one by publisher that way

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You know who you're going to be looking

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for when you go into your comic book

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shop or website.

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You need to go check out to find

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certain titles.

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If there's something here that you are

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interested in, as always,

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you can drop your favorite horror comment

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or comic books down in the comments for

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all of us.

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And more than likely,

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we may have already read them or it

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may be something new to us that we

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want to read.

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But I wanted to put that out there

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now before we got too deep into our

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list because I did make a pretty extensive

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list.

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And up next on that list is a

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book that is about to come to its

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conclusion.

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And that is Grimm by Stephanie Phillips,

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also from Boom Studios.

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Fran, have you read this one yet?

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I hadn't even heard about it until you

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told me about it.

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It looks...

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Let me get this straight.

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I only heard about it now.

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It feels more like it's got more of

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a superhero-ish feel to it.

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There's a Grim Reaper who's...

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There's multiple Grim Reapers.

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And basically, it's supernatural...

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It borderlines like the horror, sci-fi,

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like a thriller almost.

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Okay, okay.

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But the horror element comes from the fact

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that these are grim reapers who do

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reaping.

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And they reap the reapers of souls,

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but they're just like people, you know?

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They have their own issues.

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It's basically...

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like nine oh two one oh of the

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ground reapers you know it basically gives

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us their stories and what they the traumas

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that they go through the reason why

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they're in hell and that kind of stuff

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oh no it's really fun it's it's a

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fun series it's really good to read

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they're stopping on issue twenty five

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which i believe comes out the end of

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this month or early next month i can't

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remember which but i got a feeling

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It is going to be a fun finale.

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And you can get this one on trade

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paperbacks,

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which I would highly recommend you doing

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versus trying to track down individual

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copies because this book was pretty

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popular.

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And that may be get kind of expensive

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if you try to track down individual issues

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of it.

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I'm going to sort of throw a small

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recommendation here because it's sort of

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this description that gave me

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of Grimm reminds me of a separate comic

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book that is sort of,

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I'm guessing it's not very well known in

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the U.S.,

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but I know that it's being published by

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IDW, different publisher,

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but it sort of threads the same lines

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as what you're describing for Grimm,

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and it's called Angela de la Muerte.

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And it's by a writer,

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artist named Salvador Sanz,

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who's from Argentina, actually.

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And it's this story about this sort of,

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they are an agency,

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it's basically about two agencies that are

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fighting each other.

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There's this group of people who sort of

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are able to,

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send their souls into different bodies and

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sort of inhabit them.

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Oh, damn.

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That's really interesting.

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There's this Green Reaper sort of

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character that is able to kill them in

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spite of them being in different bodies

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and being sort of...

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So he's able to kill the Reaper inside

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the body.

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Exactly.

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There's this Green Reaper character that's

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able to kill this displaced soul

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okay are inhabiting different bodies which

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in theory he shouldn't be able as this

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sort of spy thriller horror story that I

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think probably falls if for those who may

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know about green or maybe interesting that

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sort of story I think that Angela de

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la muerte will be writing to

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that same space you'll have to send me

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that i want to try to track that

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down i can work it through with my

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broken spanish but um up next for me

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is going to be one of our personal

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favorites i know you're a big fan of

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this one too and that's going to be

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hello darkness oh yeah oh yeah it's got

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various writers various artists that work

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on this story um i know rl stein

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robert hack

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are some of the other big contributors to

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it i know james tinney and has contributed

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to it just tons of great artists tons

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of great writers yeah work on this book

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and i think my favorite so far of

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all the it's still uh being having issues

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released i think they released like a

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halloween special just a week ago uh they

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did it's called uh

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Hello Halloween.

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Hello Halloween.

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Last week.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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And it is an anthology series,

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so it's a little bit more pricey,

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but it is a hundred and ten percent

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worth the sticker price on the book

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because the stories are so good and they

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extend over multiple volumes of books.

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And I know their last Hello Darkness had

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just come out,

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closed out a couple of these stories from

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like Robert Hack and R.L.

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Stine.

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And I know Francisco Frantavilla,

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he was the main artist for the R.L.

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Stine story.

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So you know the art is, like,

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superb and top-notch.

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Yeah.

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And the covers are really great, too,

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I think.

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Dude,

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it's some of the best covers out there.

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I think.

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A hundred percent.

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Who's doing the covers for that one?

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I guess.

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Pablo Rivera.

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Pablo Rivera.

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There's been so many different artists

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that work on this book,

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like on the covers.

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I think there's like three to five covers

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per month, something like that.

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So they have this amazing rotating thing

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of artists.

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I know Genie Frism has done covers.

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Weather Deladera from Something is Killing

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the Children has done covers.

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Robert Hack himself has done covers.

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Francisco Francavilla has done covers.

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Yeah.

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I'm a fan of his covers in general.

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They keep having this same character pop

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up in every cover.

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This red-haired character.

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Yeah.

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Ginny Frism,

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the way she draws her is absolutely

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amazing.

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I'm a big fan of Ginny Frism's art

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to begin with.

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Yeah.

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If I see her name on the cover,

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it's almost immediately coming home with

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me because she's up there with Peach

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Momoko for me.

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You know, it's like, I want that cover.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Which has been your favorite story

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featured in Hello Darkness so far?

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The reoccurring one with R.L.

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Stine.

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And then also the reoccurring one with

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Robert Hack.

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I can't remember the names of the stories

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off the top of my head.

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It's just, it was like classic RL Stein.

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Yeah.

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And then the Robert hack was like,

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it felt like RL Stein and a little

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Stephen King mitts in there, you know?

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Yeah.

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So both those stories have been phenomenal

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in my opinion.

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But it doesn't matter.

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It's just a good book.

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Yeah,

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you get to choose from a variety of

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different styles of horror.

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I think my favorite was the Garth Ennis

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one.

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Okay, yeah.

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I think the ending,

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I'm not so sold on,

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even though I get what he was going

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for.

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I'm not going to spoil anything.

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But everything else, I felt,

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It was depressing all the way through,

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I think.

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You know, depressing horror, I think.

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So that's like,

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I didn't put it on the list,

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but Lou Anna Vecchio's Lovesick,

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which is about a depressed female who gets

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through life,

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gets through her depression and anxiety in

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her teenage years through murder and

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domination of men.

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And it's very much a horror book,

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but I didn't put it in this one

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because I tried to, that one is,

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I wouldn't classify it as PG-thirteen.

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That one's more of a rated R.

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So I didn't really list that one,

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but if you wanted to go more adult,

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Lovesick is amazing.

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There's a prequel to it as well.

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And Luana Vecchio, amazing writer,

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amazing artist.

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So she's another one that I put up

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there in high regards of just being a

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phenomenal writer slash artist.

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But next up.

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On my reading list.

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Next up.

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This show just got announced that it will

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be a TV series, animated TV series,

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and also a movie made about this next

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title.

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And it's going to be from James Teeny

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and the Fourth,

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Boom Studios' Something is Killing the

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Children.

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And I'm going to group in House of

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Slaughter.

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house of cutter house of butcher because

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it's all just one big long story that

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you can immerse yourself into and not just

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a story it's a world right there's there's

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a there's the azure arc the blue arc

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there's so many different arts to this

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story already out that you cannot go wrong

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and you can literally just i recommend

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picking up the trade paperbacks of this

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book

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Because, again,

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if you try to buy the individual issues

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of this starting at number one,

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before you get to the current story,

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I think we're on issue fifty or something,

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you're going to be in debt thousands of

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dollars trying to track.

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Because it is such a popular book.

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I wish I was joking.

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I wish I could say I was joking.

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But I got really lucky with it.

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And when I found this book,

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I was able to get back issues pretty

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cheap for it.

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And then it skyrocketed again.

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And now it's kind of like on the

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downturn a little bit.

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But I know with the announcement of the

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movie and the animated series that the

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prices on this book are once again going

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to skyrocket.

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That's why I recommend everyone,

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if you want to read this,

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you definitely want to read the trade

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paper bats.

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And they're out there.

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They're available.

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You can order them on Amazon Prime.

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You can order them digitally from Boom

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Studios.

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But read it before you see it because

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it is absolutely happening.

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Something is killing the children.

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It's getting a TV series and movies.

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I haven't gotten to read that one.

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It's been on my list for a while

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now.

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So I'm going to.

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But I did get to read it.

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Tim wrote this short story that is set

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within that universe.

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And it's actually featured in Hell of

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Darkness.

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And it's been going on for a while.

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It's one of the continuing stories.

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I think that one's another one that comes

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to an end either in this last issue

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of Hello Darkness or the next issue of

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Hello Darkness.

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I do know that they're getting ready to

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kind of do a.

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A hundred percent like new,

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fresh stories and start a new arc of

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Hello Darkness, I believe,

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because a lot of those stories are

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starting to come to an end.

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Right.

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I don't know how he does it because

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he consistently puts out lots of

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high-quality horror stories.

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I know that you have more in your

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– This whole list could have been just

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straight up a tribute show to James

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Tinian.

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But I didn't want it to be like

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that,

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but I could have easily had done it.

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And, um,

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just because he's got such a good writing

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team with him right now with over at

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tiny onion,

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which is his production company.

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And they are absolutely on top of their

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game right now.

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Oh yeah.

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With house of slaughter ended finally, uh,

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which I think he had a co-writer on

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it that finished out the story with him.

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And I think she did just a phenomenal

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job of closing out house of slaughter.

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Um,

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The next book up is going to be

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a so if you're a fan of like

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the exorcism and stories about exorcisms,

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this is going to be a good book

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for you.

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And it's called When I Lay My Vengeance

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Upon Thee by Gus Marino.

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And it takes place in a Caribbean island,

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I believe.

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Or maybe in an African country.

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I can't remember which one it is.

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But there is a Catholic priest there who

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performs exorcisms for the villages.

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And they send a new priest to learn

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the ways of the elder priest and how

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he does his exorcisms.

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And now the way he does exorcisms isn't

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exactly by the book.

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Okay, okay.

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He has developed his own...

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I don't want to say evil method,

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but definitely his own method of doing it.

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And it was just a phenomenal series.

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I think it's a five-issue run.

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It might actually be out on trade

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paperback now.

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But it was just such a fun series.

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Gus Marino is a fantastic –

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I feel like he can be out there

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so much more than what he is because

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he is that good.

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But I want to say he also writes

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books as well,

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and that's where the majority of his time

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is spent.

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Oh, but yeah, he has that background.

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Yeah, but it is a very,

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very damn good series.

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So if you're a fan of esotericisms and

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stuff like that,

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I highly recommend When I Lay My Vengeance

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Upon Thee.

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And it's just fun to say.

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That's just a fun title.

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The way it rolls off your tongue sounds

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amazing.

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But next up is one of our favorites

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from R.L.

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Stein.

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It's one of his books called The Graveyard

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Club, and this one is called Fresh Blood.

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I believe it was a one-shot just to

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reintroduce a new graveyard club.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think the Graveyard Club was also

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a part of Hello Darkness as well at

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one point.

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Yeah, I think so.

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I think so.

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But it's just a fun book.

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I mean, it's R.L.

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Stine.

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You got the creepy subliminal R.L.

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Stine messages in his story.

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It takes place in a graveyard and it

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reflects back to the original graveyard

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club with the parents.

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And they're trying to find this other

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kid's parents who disappeared from the

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original graveyard club.

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So it's a really fun story.

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I really enjoyed it.

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And I can't wait for it to come

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back out again because it was really,

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really good.

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I think somehow this sort of brought back

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a recommendation from, you know,

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it's not exactly a new book.

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It's actually, I think it has,

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it's a year or two,

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it came out like a year or two

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ago.

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Okay.

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um that sort of i think uh stein

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actually wrote one issue for and it's this

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anthology series where each issue is a

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separate story they are all connected by

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the same element and it's called uh the

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silver coin okay fantastic horror book of

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course there are issues that are better

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than others but overall it's very very

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consistent uh it's it features this

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the eponymous silver coin that is sort of

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it has this monkey paw um magic to

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it but it's decidedly more evil it's like

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the monkey paw finds uh meets uh the

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one ring from the

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from Lord of the Rings, right?

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People become obsessed about it and also

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sort of fucks up their lives completely.

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It's very grotesque,

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sometimes very depressing,

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other times sort of fun in the gory

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aspects of it.

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Okay.

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I like that, dude.

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That's some of the best stuff.

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Yeah, I think if you like Hello Darkness,

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if you're into R.L.

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Stine, um,

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Definitely,

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if you are into Arnold Stanton,

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because I'm certain that he wrote at least

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one issue.

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Yeah,

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that's sort of my recommendation to sort

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of plug in there.

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All right,

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I got one more from Boom Studios.

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It literally just came out, I believe,

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last week.

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And it is called Marion Heretic by Teenie

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Howard,

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who you may know from the Rick and

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Morty series.

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But it is about a rogue nun who

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hunts witches.

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That sounds fun.

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I mean,

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it's got covers from some of the best

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cover artists out there right now.

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And it's written by Teenie Howard.

00:25:19.585 --> 00:25:20.405
It's her book.

00:25:21.787 --> 00:25:23.807
And it is absolutely amazing.

00:25:23.847 --> 00:25:25.469
So if you're a big fan of like

00:25:25.489 --> 00:25:26.509
The Last Witch Hunter.

00:25:27.412 --> 00:25:29.532
or anything related really to kind of that

00:25:29.633 --> 00:25:30.894
D&D feel,

00:25:32.233 --> 00:25:35.395
then this would be absolutely a perfect

00:25:35.455 --> 00:25:36.615
book to check out.

00:25:37.076 --> 00:25:38.958
It's got very fun covers.

00:25:39.637 --> 00:25:42.038
The story is very action-packed.

00:25:42.159 --> 00:25:47.121
You get to know who Marion is.

00:25:47.141 --> 00:25:49.603
This could be up there with a comic

00:25:49.623 --> 00:25:51.644
book of the year, in my opinion.

00:25:52.683 --> 00:25:54.704
It could definitely be a top ten

00:25:54.924 --> 00:25:56.465
contender, in my opinion.

00:25:57.954 --> 00:26:00.096
up there with like exquisite corpses and

00:26:00.136 --> 00:26:01.018
stuff like that.

00:26:01.597 --> 00:26:06.142
Oh, exquisite corpses.

00:26:06.182 --> 00:26:06.342
Rich,

00:26:06.402 --> 00:26:09.265
we're going to get to that one because

00:26:09.305 --> 00:26:10.987
that was another one that is

00:26:11.977 --> 00:26:17.077
But so that's my recommendations from Boom

00:26:17.117 --> 00:26:17.699
Studio.

00:26:18.199 --> 00:26:20.858
Fran gave you some recommendations from

00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:22.680
Argentina, which is really cool.

00:26:22.700 --> 00:26:23.980
And some Spanish comic books,

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:25.861
which I'm personally going to check out

00:26:26.361 --> 00:26:28.080
because I think it's really cool when you

00:26:28.121 --> 00:26:31.261
get to see comic books or when you

00:26:31.281 --> 00:26:33.002
can get your hands on comic books.

00:26:33.797 --> 00:26:34.897
from other countries.

00:26:34.958 --> 00:26:36.679
I think that's really cool to be able

00:26:36.719 --> 00:26:37.179
to do.

00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:39.500
And I've seen a few here lately that

00:26:39.560 --> 00:26:41.221
I'm really wanting to get my hands on

00:26:41.261 --> 00:26:42.222
from Italy.

00:26:42.242 --> 00:26:44.903
Oh, they do great horror.

00:26:45.704 --> 00:26:46.005
Yeah,

00:26:46.085 --> 00:26:48.326
there's some phenomenal comic book writers

00:26:48.366 --> 00:26:49.428
and artists over there.

00:26:49.928 --> 00:26:51.509
I got one coming up a little later

00:26:51.808 --> 00:26:53.951
on who I think is absolutely amazing.

00:26:54.631 --> 00:26:59.914
But right now we're going to be shifting

00:26:59.954 --> 00:27:00.194
from

00:27:01.990 --> 00:27:04.330
Boom Studios over to what could be one

00:27:04.471 --> 00:27:06.711
up there with some of the best horror

00:27:07.471 --> 00:27:10.633
genres out there with EC Comics,

00:27:10.653 --> 00:27:13.192
which stands for Entertaining Comics and

00:27:13.452 --> 00:27:14.314
Ani Press.

00:27:14.993 --> 00:27:16.413
They're kind of one in the same.

00:27:16.513 --> 00:27:18.894
Ani Press is with the EC stamp on

00:27:18.974 --> 00:27:19.095
it.

00:27:19.954 --> 00:27:21.715
So I consider them the same company.

00:27:22.894 --> 00:27:24.336
But I think they do different types of

00:27:24.395 --> 00:27:25.958
work, but not really.

00:27:26.679 --> 00:27:28.780
But they are definitely some masters of

00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:29.260
horror.

00:27:29.821 --> 00:27:31.063
And the very first one I'm going to

00:27:31.143 --> 00:27:36.087
recommend from them is called Blood Type.

00:27:37.696 --> 00:27:41.200
And this book is actually a spinoff from

00:27:41.259 --> 00:27:43.681
another book called Epitaphs from the

00:27:43.741 --> 00:27:44.261
Abyss,

00:27:44.281 --> 00:27:46.943
which is an anthology comic book written

00:27:46.983 --> 00:27:48.244
by various artists.

00:27:48.904 --> 00:27:51.988
And the writer of Blood Type is Karina

00:27:52.508 --> 00:27:53.087
Beko.

00:27:53.769 --> 00:27:56.810
I'm probably mispronouncing her name very

00:27:56.871 --> 00:27:57.372
badly.

00:27:59.670 --> 00:28:02.413
but the main character from blood type is

00:28:02.532 --> 00:28:05.135
actually from epitaphs from the abyss

00:28:05.836 --> 00:28:09.121
which both of those comic books blood type

00:28:09.161 --> 00:28:12.344
is about a vampire who finds her way

00:28:12.384 --> 00:28:14.926
to the caribbean to an island like a

00:28:15.007 --> 00:28:18.971
tourist island where people go missing all

00:28:19.011 --> 00:28:19.772
the time so

00:28:20.932 --> 00:28:22.834
It's going to be remiss if a vampire

00:28:22.894 --> 00:28:25.815
starts taking a victim here and there to

00:28:25.934 --> 00:28:28.696
feed off of because, well, this island,

00:28:28.717 --> 00:28:30.478
this resort island is known for people

00:28:30.538 --> 00:28:31.258
disappearing.

00:28:31.278 --> 00:28:32.898
Right.

00:28:32.919 --> 00:28:34.980
Whether it be a shark or what have

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:36.740
you, a drowning.

00:28:37.020 --> 00:28:38.441
So who's going to miss one or two

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:39.041
tourists?

00:28:39.861 --> 00:28:41.621
with a vampire feeding on people.

00:28:42.201 --> 00:28:44.541
But what she doesn't realize is that

00:28:44.561 --> 00:28:48.083
there's something else on the island who

00:28:48.143 --> 00:28:51.263
has also been doing that and was there

00:28:51.304 --> 00:28:55.345
before her and is now hunting her.

00:28:55.365 --> 00:28:56.964
Nice.

00:28:57.425 --> 00:28:59.605
So it is a very fun story.

00:28:59.625 --> 00:29:00.165
Karina,

00:29:00.246 --> 00:29:04.666
I think is a very fun writer who

00:29:04.707 --> 00:29:06.667
brings different spins to things and,

00:29:08.775 --> 00:29:11.436
I loved her stories in Epitaphs from the

00:29:11.477 --> 00:29:13.478
Abyss, which, again,

00:29:13.597 --> 00:29:18.701
an anthology series of really dark and

00:29:18.781 --> 00:29:20.624
twisted horror stories.

00:29:22.065 --> 00:29:23.965
Whether it was bloody or gory or

00:29:24.105 --> 00:29:26.768
psychologically just a mindfuck,

00:29:27.509 --> 00:29:29.250
Epitaphs from the Abyss kind of had a

00:29:29.289 --> 00:29:31.152
little bit of everything in it.

00:29:31.868 --> 00:29:35.511
And so Epitaphs of the Abyss ended,

00:29:36.393 --> 00:29:39.736
and they brought out Catacombs of Torment,

00:29:40.336 --> 00:29:41.518
which replaced it,

00:29:41.577 --> 00:29:42.939
and it's the very same thing.

00:29:42.979 --> 00:29:45.662
It's just different – it's just a

00:29:45.701 --> 00:29:48.324
different name on the same book basically.

00:29:48.344 --> 00:29:52.087
Yeah, but it's still written by –

00:29:52.595 --> 00:29:53.674
it's the same aesthetic.

00:29:53.714 --> 00:29:55.435
It feels very eighties horror.

00:29:55.455 --> 00:29:56.155
Yeah.

00:29:56.195 --> 00:29:57.596
And that's what they're very much known

00:29:57.616 --> 00:29:59.817
for is that eighties horror feel like all

00:29:59.836 --> 00:30:01.057
their comic books are that way.

00:30:01.498 --> 00:30:04.318
They look and smell and feel modern,

00:30:04.898 --> 00:30:07.599
but the content itself and the covers all

00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:09.560
feel very nineteen eighties,

00:30:09.621 --> 00:30:10.961
nineteen seventies.

00:30:11.721 --> 00:30:13.082
And that's what I really,

00:30:13.261 --> 00:30:17.442
really like about them is modern history

00:30:17.702 --> 00:30:20.023
or modern comic books with the historic

00:30:20.044 --> 00:30:20.304
elements.

00:30:21.567 --> 00:30:25.009
look to them and it's really cool on

00:30:25.049 --> 00:30:28.673
that note shout out to uh the cover

00:30:28.712 --> 00:30:31.914
artist for epitaphs from the beast uh

00:30:32.055 --> 00:30:35.376
liver mejo who did a great job sort

00:30:35.416 --> 00:30:37.377
of mixing his style that is very very

00:30:37.419 --> 00:30:41.161
greedy very very uh you can almost feel

00:30:41.201 --> 00:30:43.402
the grease on the skin of the characters

00:30:43.422 --> 00:30:46.825
the blood on the you know all the

00:30:47.025 --> 00:30:49.987
textures with the sort of more

00:30:50.801 --> 00:30:54.305
spectacular gory fantastical elements from

00:30:54.724 --> 00:30:57.646
sixties or eighties comic books so what's

00:30:57.686 --> 00:31:00.729
really cool is that ec comments and ani

00:31:00.769 --> 00:31:04.111
press they have um sci-fi books like this

00:31:05.352 --> 00:31:08.634
as well it's that that modern feel to

00:31:08.674 --> 00:31:11.537
like a nineteen seventies classic you know

00:31:11.557 --> 00:31:13.597
what i'm saying yeah and i was going

00:31:13.617 --> 00:31:15.019
to include that too because it's like

00:31:15.098 --> 00:31:17.701
sci-fi horror but i left it off the

00:31:17.740 --> 00:31:19.982
list just to focus on the pure horror

00:31:20.042 --> 00:31:20.403
stuff

00:31:20.836 --> 00:31:23.518
Yeah, but they've got like Cruel Universe.

00:31:24.238 --> 00:31:25.338
Yeah, Cruel Universe.

00:31:25.358 --> 00:31:30.201
I think that it's more medieval oriented.

00:31:30.622 --> 00:31:31.961
Well, it's like medieval.

00:31:32.061 --> 00:31:33.963
There's some dinosaurs in there.

00:31:33.983 --> 00:31:37.566
It's like Lost Planet almost,

00:31:37.605 --> 00:31:39.166
but with a horror feel to it.

00:31:40.166 --> 00:31:41.807
Medieval times with, again,

00:31:41.827 --> 00:31:43.328
like a horror feel to it.

00:31:43.628 --> 00:31:44.490
Yeah.

00:31:44.509 --> 00:31:45.549
But they're really good,

00:31:45.589 --> 00:31:49.712
but it's more sci-fi and medieval like

00:31:49.772 --> 00:31:50.192
thriller.

00:31:50.232 --> 00:31:50.313
Yeah.

00:31:50.867 --> 00:31:54.851
But again, beautiful stories,

00:31:54.951 --> 00:31:55.771
beautiful covers,

00:31:55.872 --> 00:31:58.654
always great artwork that is very modern,

00:31:59.234 --> 00:32:02.538
but also very retro at the same time.

00:32:03.818 --> 00:32:06.621
And the last one I'm going to do

00:32:06.721 --> 00:32:08.042
from Ani Press,

00:32:08.103 --> 00:32:11.726
which is this story was absolutely amazing

00:32:11.766 --> 00:32:13.467
by Michael W. Conrad.

00:32:13.948 --> 00:32:15.409
And it is called Plague House.

00:32:16.782 --> 00:32:18.943
Oh, I haven't heard about that one.

00:32:18.963 --> 00:32:19.784
So basically,

00:32:19.844 --> 00:32:22.164
it's about a group of guys who go

00:32:22.204 --> 00:32:24.685
around cleansing haunted houses.

00:32:24.705 --> 00:32:29.047
Oof, that sounds...

00:32:29.446 --> 00:32:32.367
But the main guy who does the cleanses,

00:32:33.008 --> 00:32:35.588
there's a dark spirit that has leeched

00:32:36.148 --> 00:32:37.509
itself onto him.

00:32:38.490 --> 00:32:40.471
So it's basically following him.

00:32:40.570 --> 00:32:40.830
Yes,

00:32:40.891 --> 00:32:42.991
he did the exorcism on this one house

00:32:43.031 --> 00:32:44.692
where it couldn't be exorcised,

00:32:44.751 --> 00:32:45.873
but he managed to...

00:32:47.298 --> 00:32:49.200
cleanse the house and to exercise the

00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:53.540
house but that spirit leached itself onto

00:32:53.621 --> 00:32:57.082
him and now it's killing his friends and

00:32:57.102 --> 00:33:00.461
those close to him and it was a

00:33:00.663 --> 00:33:03.722
phenomenal story i had the chance to meet

00:33:03.762 --> 00:33:07.064
michael w conrad at a recent comic-con and

00:33:07.284 --> 00:33:10.805
i missed him where his booth was supposed

00:33:10.845 --> 00:33:12.705
to be it was moved and i never

00:33:12.746 --> 00:33:13.465
could find him

00:33:14.616 --> 00:33:16.438
i was very disappointed in that because i

00:33:16.498 --> 00:33:18.038
really wanted to get that number one

00:33:18.118 --> 00:33:20.681
signed it is again one of those books

00:33:20.701 --> 00:33:23.842
that felt very retro with the way the

00:33:23.882 --> 00:33:28.065
covers were done and um it was just

00:33:28.224 --> 00:33:29.586
such a good series i think it was

00:33:29.625 --> 00:33:32.426
a five-part series i know it's out on

00:33:32.467 --> 00:33:36.028
trade paperback now but it was just such

00:33:36.048 --> 00:33:38.069
a good story it was like every time

00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:39.330
i would go to the comic shop and

00:33:39.371 --> 00:33:40.731
i knew it was going to be there

00:33:42.048 --> 00:33:43.528
it gave you that brand new assignment

00:33:43.568 --> 00:33:45.609
because you're ready for that next part of

00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:46.590
the story, you know,

00:33:46.631 --> 00:33:49.152
and it's not often that a story will

00:33:49.211 --> 00:33:50.472
pull you in like that.

00:33:51.173 --> 00:33:52.913
And just like, like, damn,

00:33:52.953 --> 00:33:54.535
I got to wait like another month before

00:33:54.575 --> 00:33:55.756
the next issue comes out.

00:33:56.415 --> 00:33:57.596
That one, a hundred percent.

00:33:58.277 --> 00:33:58.916
Is it complete?

00:33:59.258 --> 00:34:01.699
Has it been released in full already?

00:34:02.338 --> 00:34:03.680
It is.

00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:05.240
I think it was like five issues.

00:34:06.082 --> 00:34:06.382
Oh, nice.

00:34:06.682 --> 00:34:07.502
Short and sweet.

00:34:08.123 --> 00:34:09.123
Yeah, short and sweet.

00:34:09.304 --> 00:34:10.164
It was like, I think,

00:34:10.224 --> 00:34:13.545
twenty-eight or thirty pages per book.

00:34:14.045 --> 00:34:16.507
The trade paperback is out.

00:34:17.307 --> 00:34:19.550
And it was such a good book.

00:34:20.809 --> 00:34:21.690
Like, highly,

00:34:21.771 --> 00:34:23.711
highly recommend that one to people.

00:34:25.753 --> 00:34:26.773
So next up...

00:34:28.476 --> 00:34:32.137
We're going to IDW and they have a

00:34:32.277 --> 00:34:36.137
new kind of spinoff on theirs called IDW

00:34:36.438 --> 00:34:36.958
Dark.

00:34:38.378 --> 00:34:39.998
And then also I'm going to group in

00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.639
here another comic book company called Bad

00:34:42.998 --> 00:34:45.239
Idea, which is an indie publisher.

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:52.621
And this is going to be kind of

00:34:52.681 --> 00:34:54.942
a sci-fi horror-esque

00:34:56.512 --> 00:34:59.134
But first up we're going to do from

00:34:59.393 --> 00:35:02.693
bad idea, a book called cul de sac.

00:35:03.153 --> 00:35:04.614
We were talking a little bit about this

00:35:04.775 --> 00:35:08.715
before we went live and this book is

00:35:08.875 --> 00:35:10.936
scary as shit.

00:35:12.235 --> 00:35:15.077
Like the idea of this book is kind

00:35:15.137 --> 00:35:22.137
of, um, the house from, uh, it.

00:35:24.505 --> 00:35:27.188
yeah yeah the ones so imagine the whole

00:35:27.228 --> 00:35:33.610
cul-de-sac kind of that way okay it's

00:35:33.670 --> 00:35:37.512
those vibes but there's like one normal

00:35:37.552 --> 00:35:41.074
family there and every and to close out

00:35:41.114 --> 00:35:43.757
the summer they um they take all the

00:35:43.777 --> 00:35:47.458
kids in the neighborhood on a camping trip

00:35:48.655 --> 00:35:50.135
And on the camping trip,

00:35:50.896 --> 00:35:52.936
it's realized that some of the parents

00:35:53.137 --> 00:35:56.318
sacrifice their children,

00:35:56.958 --> 00:35:58.778
like a family must sacrifice their

00:35:58.798 --> 00:36:03.141
children to appease the demons that haunt

00:36:03.181 --> 00:36:04.722
the cul-de-sac, basically.

00:36:04.922 --> 00:36:05.041
Right.

00:36:08.590 --> 00:36:10.972
That sounds like... It's a trippy book,

00:36:11.012 --> 00:36:12.233
man.

00:36:12.313 --> 00:36:13.614
I live in a cul-de-sac,

00:36:13.653 --> 00:36:14.514
so it's kind of like...

00:36:15.135 --> 00:36:18.699
The covers are very nightmarish, honestly.

00:36:18.759 --> 00:36:19.739
Dude, that was...

00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.802
It's the one cover with the monster with

00:36:22.842 --> 00:36:23.983
the nails coming in.

00:36:24.623 --> 00:36:25.505
I have that cover.

00:36:25.545 --> 00:36:28.226
That was the cover I had to get.

00:36:29.027 --> 00:36:32.871
It is absolutely a terrifying cover and a

00:36:33.070 --> 00:36:33.471
fun...

00:36:34.331 --> 00:36:38.572
weird quirky story that literally gives

00:36:38.592 --> 00:36:47.596
you a lasting impression and it's amazing

00:36:47.615 --> 00:36:50.376
so now i got two up from idw

00:36:50.556 --> 00:36:53.697
idw is dipping their their toes into the

00:36:53.777 --> 00:36:56.358
horror genre and the very first one i'm

00:36:56.378 --> 00:36:59.539
going to do is a a story from

00:36:59.699 --> 00:36:59.719
a

00:37:01.621 --> 00:37:03.021
She appeared on Ghost.

00:37:03.523 --> 00:37:04.903
I think the name of this TV series

00:37:04.923 --> 00:37:05.644
was Ghost.

00:37:06.405 --> 00:37:08.527
She's done other little smaller roles on

00:37:08.586 --> 00:37:09.108
TV.

00:37:10.148 --> 00:37:12.269
But her name is Hannah Rose May.

00:37:13.371 --> 00:37:16.614
And it's the exorcism at sixteen hundred

00:37:16.753 --> 00:37:17.235
pin.

00:37:18.014 --> 00:37:19.856
And for those who are watching this later,

00:37:19.996 --> 00:37:24.740
sixteen hundred pin is the White House.

00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:24.800
Oh,

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:26.782
I think basically the president is a

00:37:26.842 --> 00:37:27.262
female.

00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:29.780
and her husband is the first man,

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.322
or whatever you want to call him,

00:37:31.521 --> 00:37:32.382
the first lad,

00:37:33.402 --> 00:37:35.764
and their daughter gets possessed by a

00:37:35.864 --> 00:37:39.266
demon who wants to start World War III

00:37:39.585 --> 00:37:44.248
through nuclear holocaust, basically.

00:37:44.487 --> 00:37:44.568
Nice.

00:37:44.628 --> 00:37:45.768
So the whole premise of,

00:37:45.849 --> 00:37:47.650
I think it was like five issues or

00:37:47.710 --> 00:37:49.110
six issues, something like that,

00:37:49.791 --> 00:37:52.793
but the whole story is about them trying

00:37:52.833 --> 00:37:55.054
to exorcise the demon from her daughter

00:37:56.123 --> 00:38:00.106
to prevent World War III from happening.

00:38:00.126 --> 00:38:00.465
Well,

00:38:00.846 --> 00:38:02.686
they're trying to stop World War III from

00:38:02.746 --> 00:38:05.068
happening while also trying to exorcise

00:38:05.088 --> 00:38:06.489
the demon from their daughter.

00:38:08.110 --> 00:38:09.690
And while they're trying to do that,

00:38:09.811 --> 00:38:11.532
their focus is obviously on their

00:38:11.572 --> 00:38:12.052
daughter,

00:38:12.552 --> 00:38:14.373
but the world around us is going to

00:38:14.413 --> 00:38:16.855
shit in a handbag.

00:38:16.894 --> 00:38:19.456
That's great because it sort of mixes the

00:38:19.516 --> 00:38:22.157
elements that I love from the more

00:38:22.217 --> 00:38:25.119
supernatural aspects with the more

00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:28.523
Yeah, like books, apocalyptic stories,

00:38:28.684 --> 00:38:31.367
like the war in Hell of Darkness from

00:38:31.427 --> 00:38:32.248
Garth Ennis'

00:38:33.554 --> 00:38:34.014
Yes.

00:38:37.896 --> 00:38:40.257
Like news from the Fallout that has just

00:38:40.318 --> 00:38:41.097
come out.

00:38:42.619 --> 00:38:43.139
It's really good.

00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:44.239
I didn't list it on here.

00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:46.121
I really didn't consider it horror.

00:38:47.061 --> 00:38:50.222
To me, it's more of a sci-fi-ish.

00:38:50.903 --> 00:38:52.103
But it is about zombies,

00:38:52.143 --> 00:38:53.625
so I guess we could have included it.

00:38:53.724 --> 00:38:54.746
It's from Image Comics,

00:38:54.766 --> 00:38:55.806
which I think we're going to be doing

00:38:55.965 --> 00:38:56.447
next.

00:38:57.327 --> 00:39:00.688
But that was a phenomenal ongoing series.

00:39:02.030 --> 00:39:02.289
So...

00:39:03.817 --> 00:39:07.018
but also from IDW Dark.

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:09.099
It's a book that I was supposed to

00:39:09.139 --> 00:39:11.300
talk about with CJ Loves Horror,

00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:13.422
but we had to cancel that show.

00:39:13.442 --> 00:39:15.043
Hopefully we can circle back to it,

00:39:15.443 --> 00:39:18.605
but it is called Event Horizon Dark

00:39:18.644 --> 00:39:20.326
Descent by Christian Ward.

00:39:20.925 --> 00:39:22.686
It is exactly what you think it is.

00:39:22.746 --> 00:39:25.668
It is based off the movie and the

00:39:25.788 --> 00:39:28.469
book of Event Horizon.

00:39:29.534 --> 00:39:32.795
but it takes place within the universe and

00:39:32.815 --> 00:39:36.456
it kind of gives you more of the

00:39:36.516 --> 00:39:40.097
details of the individuals from the book

00:39:40.197 --> 00:39:42.918
or the movie as they go crazy.

00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:44.539
Nice.

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.280
So it's giving you different character

00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:50.420
perspectives of their descent into

00:39:50.621 --> 00:39:51.320
madness.

00:39:51.902 --> 00:39:52.461
Nice.

00:39:52.981 --> 00:39:54.641
Before they start killing themselves,

00:39:54.722 --> 00:39:55.943
you know, or killing each other.

00:39:56.532 --> 00:39:58.072
I was curious about that one because I

00:39:58.092 --> 00:40:00.114
know the IP from back when I was

00:40:00.193 --> 00:40:00.974
like a kid.

00:40:01.914 --> 00:40:03.735
And I was wondering whether it sort of

00:40:03.775 --> 00:40:05.315
expanded the story.

00:40:06.315 --> 00:40:06.856
They did.

00:40:07.195 --> 00:40:09.077
It's an expansion of the story.

00:40:09.416 --> 00:40:09.697
Oh,

00:40:09.936 --> 00:40:12.378
it sort of adapts and expands rather than

00:40:13.057 --> 00:40:14.338
follow up the story.

00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:16.518
That's right.

00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.179
It's literally taking place within that

00:40:20.300 --> 00:40:23.260
universe on the same ship everything.

00:40:24.931 --> 00:40:26.293
It's really fun.

00:40:26.753 --> 00:40:28.594
Issue two just came out, I think,

00:40:28.855 --> 00:40:29.775
last week.

00:40:30.275 --> 00:40:31.597
So I haven't had a chance to sit

00:40:31.617 --> 00:40:32.538
down and read it yet.

00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:34.980
But that's a hundred percent on my list

00:40:35.019 --> 00:40:36.240
to read here soon.

00:40:36.902 --> 00:40:38.382
Probably be with the very first one I

00:40:38.443 --> 00:40:41.744
read when I start reading October.

00:40:41.784 --> 00:40:42.025
So...

00:40:43.952 --> 00:40:46.853
But now we're going over to what can

00:40:46.974 --> 00:40:49.974
only be defined as the masters of the

00:40:50.014 --> 00:40:53.295
macabre in this image comics.

00:40:53.315 --> 00:40:54.596
Oh, yeah.

00:40:54.615 --> 00:40:56.257
And we're going to start with another

00:40:56.317 --> 00:40:59.677
James Tinian book called Exquisite

00:41:00.237 --> 00:41:01.038
Corpses.

00:41:01.458 --> 00:41:02.358
Is it horror?

00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:08.039
Kind of.

00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.001
And here's why I listed it in horror.

00:41:11.541 --> 00:41:12.601
Think of it as...

00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:15.141
Shit,

00:41:15.181 --> 00:41:17.623
what's the name of that movie where once

00:41:17.664 --> 00:41:19.065
a year you can kill people,

00:41:19.105 --> 00:41:19.525
you can rob?

00:41:19.545 --> 00:41:19.684
Oh, yeah.

00:41:19.706 --> 00:41:20.085
Yeah, I know.

00:41:25.831 --> 00:41:27.373
It's basically like that.

00:41:27.393 --> 00:41:27.472
Yeah.

00:41:28.554 --> 00:41:30.916
But basically what happens is the power

00:41:30.956 --> 00:41:33.998
families in the United States every year

00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:35.840
pick a small town.

00:41:36.780 --> 00:41:39.003
And they drop the most dangerous,

00:41:39.123 --> 00:41:40.385
most murderous...

00:41:41.818 --> 00:41:44.478
people that they can get their hands on

00:41:44.998 --> 00:41:47.780
and they drop them in this small town

00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:51.661
and basically let them run amok they can

00:41:51.722 --> 00:41:56.903
kill they can rob and it's basically the

00:41:56.963 --> 00:41:59.724
last man standing in the town is the

00:41:59.804 --> 00:42:03.467
winner yeah i think it's it's cool because

00:42:03.487 --> 00:42:06.547
it's got it's got action it's got it's

00:42:06.648 --> 00:42:11.429
like a large uh

00:42:12.358 --> 00:42:16.581
ensemble cast of Slasher.

00:42:17.581 --> 00:42:17.882
Yes.

00:42:18.382 --> 00:42:19.362
Yes, exactly.

00:42:19.762 --> 00:42:22.644
Cream meets, I don't know,

00:42:22.744 --> 00:42:24.666
Chainsaw Massacre meets,

00:42:25.166 --> 00:42:27.949
and all of them sort of versus each

00:42:28.028 --> 00:42:28.329
other.

00:42:28.728 --> 00:42:29.349
It's really fun.

00:42:29.789 --> 00:42:30.409
It's really, really fun.

00:42:30.469 --> 00:42:32.472
And here's what is the coolest part about

00:42:32.552 --> 00:42:32.672
it.

00:42:33.932 --> 00:42:35.574
James Tinian, Michael Walsh,

00:42:35.594 --> 00:42:37.355
the two guys who were writing it together,

00:42:37.894 --> 00:42:41.057
they got together, created a card game,

00:42:42.150 --> 00:42:43.951
based off exquisite corpses.

00:42:44.811 --> 00:42:47.612
And they're playing the card game to

00:42:47.652 --> 00:42:51.574
determine who dies next in the comic book.

00:42:52.335 --> 00:42:53.034
Nice.

00:42:53.815 --> 00:42:56.056
That explains it.

00:42:56.177 --> 00:42:57.717
I'm not spoiling it, right?

00:42:57.737 --> 00:42:59.858
But at the end of each issue,

00:42:59.878 --> 00:43:04.061
you've got that sort of tier list with

00:43:04.081 --> 00:43:05.922
the versus,

00:43:06.882 --> 00:43:09.262
the name of each killer versus the name

00:43:09.282 --> 00:43:10.304
of the other killer.

00:43:10.827 --> 00:43:12.969
And they go to the next round whenever

00:43:13.009 --> 00:43:14.648
each one kills another one.

00:43:14.789 --> 00:43:17.269
It's funny because you start to see when

00:43:18.630 --> 00:43:20.590
you're sort of anticipating who the

00:43:20.630 --> 00:43:22.391
finalists are going to be.

00:43:23.150 --> 00:43:26.231
So the only people who know are the

00:43:26.331 --> 00:43:28.572
ones who are playing the game with Tinian

00:43:28.652 --> 00:43:29.472
and Michael Walsh.

00:43:31.414 --> 00:43:32.034
And it's literally,

00:43:32.155 --> 00:43:33.356
I don't know if they're still playing the

00:43:33.396 --> 00:43:35.137
game or if they played it in one

00:43:35.197 --> 00:43:37.340
go to determine the order of the deaths.

00:43:38.099 --> 00:43:39.641
Or if they still get together once a

00:43:39.681 --> 00:43:41.282
week and determine, like, hey,

00:43:41.302 --> 00:43:42.744
let's play and see who's going to die

00:43:42.824 --> 00:43:43.125
next.

00:43:43.164 --> 00:43:43.846
I'm not sure.

00:43:44.925 --> 00:43:48.550
But there's also a polybag variant where

00:43:48.570 --> 00:43:50.472
you get a card from the game.

00:43:51.112 --> 00:43:52.634
Like, a killer's card.

00:43:53.134 --> 00:43:54.114
So at the end of it,

00:43:54.155 --> 00:43:55.396
if you have all the polybags,

00:43:55.416 --> 00:43:57.038
you have all the killer's cards...

00:43:58.117 --> 00:44:00.679
you can play the game yourself nice so

00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:02.900
it's kind of cool and i put that

00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:04.262
on here but it is more of a

00:44:04.322 --> 00:44:10.686
thriller more i i consider it horror i

00:44:10.706 --> 00:44:12.327
know some people aren't liking it some

00:44:12.367 --> 00:44:14.708
people aren't feeling it i personally have

00:44:14.829 --> 00:44:17.690
loved it from issue one and i will

00:44:17.710 --> 00:44:19.271
put it in the top ten at the

00:44:19.331 --> 00:44:22.152
end of the year easily hands down in

00:44:22.193 --> 00:44:24.735
my top ten yeah i think if you

00:44:24.755 --> 00:44:26.356
like flasher horror movies

00:44:27.367 --> 00:44:27.686
Yeah,

00:44:27.706 --> 00:44:30.027
if you like Jason and Freddy Krueger,

00:44:30.148 --> 00:44:31.027
Michael Myers,

00:44:31.688 --> 00:44:33.588
imagine dropping all of them in a small

00:44:33.648 --> 00:44:35.829
town and just letting them run amok,

00:44:35.909 --> 00:44:38.110
and the last man standing is the winner.

00:44:39.409 --> 00:44:39.909
Exactly.

00:44:40.269 --> 00:44:41.590
I think if you like this sort of

00:44:42.951 --> 00:44:44.371
sub-genre horror,

00:44:44.431 --> 00:44:45.692
you're going to love this comic book.

00:44:46.112 --> 00:44:48.032
Absolutely.

00:44:48.072 --> 00:44:49.632
So next we're going over to one of

00:44:49.672 --> 00:44:51.152
my favorite streets.

00:44:52.523 --> 00:44:54.204
And it's going to be from Ghost Machine

00:44:54.423 --> 00:44:57.045
and Image Comics written by Jeff Johns.

00:44:57.565 --> 00:44:59.766
It is going to be Hyde Street.

00:44:59.786 --> 00:45:01.425
Oh, yeah.

00:45:01.485 --> 00:45:05.487
So it's the horror comic from Ghost

00:45:05.527 --> 00:45:06.068
Machine.

00:45:06.648 --> 00:45:08.809
It also currently has a spinoff called

00:45:09.088 --> 00:45:09.829
Sisterhood.

00:45:10.610 --> 00:45:12.710
And it also has another spinoff called

00:45:13.050 --> 00:45:13.811
Devout.

00:45:14.451 --> 00:45:15.791
There's been a few one shots,

00:45:15.831 --> 00:45:19.052
but Hyde Street is the main book from

00:45:19.152 --> 00:45:19.293
it.

00:45:19.373 --> 00:45:20.793
And that's the one I chose to focus

00:45:20.914 --> 00:45:20.994
on.

00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:24.461
Again, it's from the legendary Jeff Johns.

00:45:25.463 --> 00:45:29.065
And I know they have a crossover coming

00:45:29.105 --> 00:45:33.367
up soon with a cover crossover coming up

00:45:33.387 --> 00:45:35.710
with Batman with Jim Lee and Jeff Johns

00:45:35.769 --> 00:45:37.190
doing covers for each other.

00:45:38.492 --> 00:45:40.052
And it's going to be an amazing cover.

00:45:40.072 --> 00:45:42.335
I already know that.

00:45:42.675 --> 00:45:44.596
But Hyde Street is really fun.

00:45:45.016 --> 00:45:48.798
It's like a different kind of story each

00:45:48.958 --> 00:45:49.360
week.

00:45:50.269 --> 00:45:52.672
but it pretty much focuses on the same

00:45:52.992 --> 00:45:53.994
group of characters.

00:45:54.134 --> 00:45:55.815
It just has a different feel to it,

00:45:55.916 --> 00:45:57.918
each issue.

00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.240
You have the matinee monster,

00:46:00.260 --> 00:46:02.163
which is like Frankenstein's monster.

00:46:03.123 --> 00:46:06.146
You have Mr. X-Ray, who is a,

00:46:06.246 --> 00:46:07.748
I think he's a time jumper,

00:46:08.628 --> 00:46:10.311
and he jumped into the wrong time,

00:46:10.351 --> 00:46:10.911
basically.

00:46:12.072 --> 00:46:13.592
But he's also a serial killer.

00:46:14.273 --> 00:46:15.333
Then you have,

00:46:15.353 --> 00:46:17.474
I think his name is Scrappy the Boy

00:46:17.514 --> 00:46:17.873
Scout,

00:46:18.793 --> 00:46:22.056
who is possessed by a demon who's always

00:46:22.096 --> 00:46:24.777
causing chaos and unrest in the city.

00:46:26.137 --> 00:46:28.137
And it's just a fun,

00:46:29.318 --> 00:46:32.018
fun comic book from Geoff Johns and Ghost

00:46:32.059 --> 00:46:32.599
Machine.

00:46:33.659 --> 00:46:34.039
And...

00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:36.181
Dude, it's just so good.

00:46:36.282 --> 00:46:38.625
I cannot recommend checking it out enough.

00:46:39.224 --> 00:46:41.527
I think the first trade paperback is out

00:46:41.608 --> 00:46:42.307
already on it.

00:46:42.327 --> 00:46:43.349
So if you wanted to pick up the

00:46:43.369 --> 00:46:46.231
trade paperback and read the first five or

00:46:46.291 --> 00:46:50.797
six issues, you could.

00:46:50.817 --> 00:46:53.498
But it's Jeff Johns, dude.

00:46:53.518 --> 00:46:55.221
The dude is just a phenomenal writer.

00:46:55.740 --> 00:46:57.382
And Ghost Machine as a whole has been

00:46:57.822 --> 00:46:59.525
putting out some great titles.

00:47:00.068 --> 00:47:03.231
just amazing titles from rocket fellers

00:47:03.271 --> 00:47:08.956
to, to red coat to Geiger, um,

00:47:08.976 --> 00:47:12.139
junkyard Joe Geiger is probably my

00:47:12.179 --> 00:47:14.742
favorite red coats been really good.

00:47:15.784 --> 00:47:18.065
Um, rocket fellers is,

00:47:18.746 --> 00:47:21.068
is a fun one just from a perspective

00:47:21.108 --> 00:47:21.809
of what it is.

00:47:21.869 --> 00:47:22.550
It's like, uh,

00:47:23.722 --> 00:47:27.244
a future family that came back into our

00:47:27.264 --> 00:47:29.324
time to get away from somebody trying to

00:47:29.485 --> 00:47:30.045
kill them.

00:47:30.864 --> 00:47:32.965
So they brought all their futuristic

00:47:33.326 --> 00:47:35.606
madness with them to our time.

00:47:36.266 --> 00:47:38.728
And it's just a fun series.

00:47:39.467 --> 00:47:41.467
But Ghost Machine is absolutely killing

00:47:41.507 --> 00:47:41.588
it.

00:47:41.628 --> 00:47:44.789
And Hyde Street is their horror book from

00:47:44.809 --> 00:47:45.510
Ghost Machine.

00:47:46.489 --> 00:47:50.931
Chef Kiss, Jeff Johns, check that one out.

00:47:50.971 --> 00:47:52.871
So next up, I'm going to a...

00:47:54.275 --> 00:47:56.516
Xander Cannon's Sleep.

00:47:57.657 --> 00:47:59.478
That's the title of the book is Sleep.

00:48:00.038 --> 00:48:01.179
The main character,

00:48:01.298 --> 00:48:02.818
every time he falls asleep,

00:48:02.878 --> 00:48:05.039
he becomes a monster.

00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:06.880
Oh, nice.

00:48:06.940 --> 00:48:09.360
So it is really damn good.

00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:11.181
Xander Cannon, to me,

00:48:11.222 --> 00:48:12.101
he come out of nowhere.

00:48:12.161 --> 00:48:13.422
I've never heard of him before.

00:48:14.652 --> 00:48:17.614
But this book has been something truly

00:48:18.373 --> 00:48:19.014
special.

00:48:19.074 --> 00:48:21.554
I cannot recommend it to you enough.

00:48:22.056 --> 00:48:24.036
I think it's like on five or six

00:48:24.135 --> 00:48:24.996
issues right now,

00:48:26.237 --> 00:48:27.458
which I think the – actually,

00:48:27.818 --> 00:48:29.637
I think I just read the finale,

00:48:29.657 --> 00:48:31.579
and I think it was an issue six.

00:48:32.398 --> 00:48:32.619
Okay.

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:36.621
But it was really damn good.

00:48:36.740 --> 00:48:38.922
It's got these – I'm checking it out

00:48:38.942 --> 00:48:39.302
right now.

00:48:39.362 --> 00:48:40.141
It's got these –

00:48:40.818 --> 00:48:43.360
very like it's not your traditional

00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:47.121
american comic book it's not art style

00:48:47.141 --> 00:48:50.702
either it's more in the field yes it's

00:48:50.782 --> 00:48:52.802
very much it feels a hundred percent indie

00:48:52.842 --> 00:48:56.224
which is something image is known for and

00:48:56.364 --> 00:48:59.324
um i really enjoyed the way the art

00:48:59.344 --> 00:49:01.525
was done it's kind of like a black

00:49:01.626 --> 00:49:05.726
white and red and it was a fun

00:49:05.786 --> 00:49:07.728
story a different type of story

00:49:09.161 --> 00:49:11.344
And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

00:49:11.445 --> 00:49:13.407
Xander Cannon, get some kudos, man,

00:49:13.427 --> 00:49:15.188
because that was a rock star story.

00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:16.731
So,

00:49:16.891 --> 00:49:18.253
Up Next is going to be something that

00:49:18.273 --> 00:49:21.016
I think everybody will like and enjoy.

00:49:21.277 --> 00:49:24.159
And that's going to be Universal Monsters.

00:49:25.601 --> 00:49:25.762
So...

00:49:28.050 --> 00:49:29.990
All of the monsters are now released,

00:49:30.052 --> 00:49:31.452
including the Invisible Man,

00:49:31.472 --> 00:49:33.411
which is running right now.

00:49:33.472 --> 00:49:35.152
It was written by different artists.

00:49:35.952 --> 00:49:37.913
The art was done by the same people

00:49:37.972 --> 00:49:39.813
per series.

00:49:40.253 --> 00:49:42.614
My favorite so far has been the Mummy.

00:49:44.494 --> 00:49:47.375
If you listen to my episode with

00:49:47.875 --> 00:49:50.135
Christopher Ford and Dark Pink Comets,

00:49:50.795 --> 00:49:54.416
we both gave that one high regards because

00:49:54.436 --> 00:49:56.577
we're both fans of the Universal Monsters.

00:49:58.032 --> 00:50:01.673
And, yeah, I can't say enough about it.

00:50:02.313 --> 00:50:03.173
Check them out.

00:50:03.233 --> 00:50:05.335
We're all on trade paperback right now,

00:50:05.556 --> 00:50:07.275
minus The Invisible Man.

00:50:07.697 --> 00:50:09.197
And that's only because it's still

00:50:09.317 --> 00:50:09.978
ongoing.

00:50:09.998 --> 00:50:13.079
And that one is being written by Tinian,

00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:14.179
right?

00:50:14.219 --> 00:50:15.239
Yes, absolutely.

00:50:16.661 --> 00:50:18.402
The Invisible Man is being written by

00:50:18.481 --> 00:50:19.262
Tinian as well.

00:50:20.472 --> 00:50:23.795
he's putting out a lot of work he

00:50:23.835 --> 00:50:27.318
writes so so much and i skipped one

00:50:27.378 --> 00:50:30.480
i didn't mean to skip it's gonna be

00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.922
doug wagner's i was a fashion school

00:50:34.083 --> 00:50:37.646
serial killer so think of it as dahmer

00:50:38.887 --> 00:50:45.572
um gacy if they had a a young

00:50:45.612 --> 00:50:46.494
beautiful daughter

00:50:48.759 --> 00:50:49.760
That's what this book is.

00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:51.382
She goes to fashion school,

00:50:51.442 --> 00:51:00.130
and her medium of choice is human skin.

00:51:00.170 --> 00:51:02.192
She's trying to be on her best behavior.

00:51:02.231 --> 00:51:03.233
Her name is Rennie,

00:51:05.695 --> 00:51:07.777
but she doesn't like when people mess with

00:51:07.836 --> 00:51:09.278
her friends or her life.

00:51:09.994 --> 00:51:11.958
So she's got like a dexter element to

00:51:12.038 --> 00:51:12.778
you.

00:51:12.858 --> 00:51:14.882
Very much a dexter element to it as

00:51:14.963 --> 00:51:15.282
well.

00:51:16.045 --> 00:51:16.945
However,

00:51:17.768 --> 00:51:20.291
she will skin you and then turn you

00:51:20.371 --> 00:51:21.114
into fashion.

00:51:23.429 --> 00:51:26.371
But it is such a fun story.

00:51:28.134 --> 00:51:29.215
And it's Doug Wagner.

00:51:29.755 --> 00:51:33.619
I don't know if you're familiar with Doug

00:51:33.659 --> 00:51:35.942
Wagner, but he is a phenomenal writer.

00:51:36.822 --> 00:51:40.126
And this story was right up his alley.

00:51:40.166 --> 00:51:40.865
It was perfect.

00:51:40.945 --> 00:51:41.947
It's his story.

00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:44.161
So it is.

00:51:44.402 --> 00:51:45.782
God damn, it's so fun.

00:51:46.702 --> 00:51:48.324
Like the covers were phenomenal.

00:51:48.364 --> 00:51:50.184
The stories were phenomenal.

00:51:50.844 --> 00:51:53.005
Just really growing as a person,

00:51:53.045 --> 00:51:56.768
but also still having that that itch to

00:51:56.807 --> 00:51:57.188
kill.

00:51:57.507 --> 00:51:58.369
You know what I'm saying?

00:51:58.648 --> 00:51:59.409
But she's trying.

00:51:59.588 --> 00:52:01.630
She's trying really hard to change.

00:52:02.630 --> 00:52:04.871
But God forbid you upset one of her

00:52:04.911 --> 00:52:07.132
friends because she's going to skin you

00:52:08.052 --> 00:52:09.373
and turn you into fashion.

00:52:12.795 --> 00:52:12.974
I know.

00:52:13.014 --> 00:52:14.215
Very fun story.

00:52:15.655 --> 00:52:17.297
So the next one is one we were

00:52:17.317 --> 00:52:18.836
talking about a little bit earlier,

00:52:19.277 --> 00:52:21.157
and that's going to be World Tree.

00:52:23.378 --> 00:52:24.739
Also by Tinian.

00:52:25.539 --> 00:52:27.960
But if you thought the Internet was your

00:52:28.019 --> 00:52:30.661
friend, you are wrong.

00:52:31.021 --> 00:52:32.181
So in this book,

00:52:32.202 --> 00:52:35.043
there's three layers of the Internet.

00:52:35.063 --> 00:52:36.043
There's the Internet.

00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:38.039
the dark net,

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:41.280
and then there is the under net where

00:52:41.481 --> 00:52:45.001
our killer lives in World Tree.

00:52:46.123 --> 00:52:49.463
So basically in the first arc of World

00:52:49.503 --> 00:52:49.963
Tree,

00:52:50.864 --> 00:52:53.864
a killer is in the under net and

00:52:53.905 --> 00:52:56.806
she kills people.

00:52:56.846 --> 00:53:00.347
Like creatively, she's a ax murderer.

00:53:00.387 --> 00:53:03.407
She is a sociopathic killer.

00:53:05.063 --> 00:53:06.583
But is she a real person?

00:53:07.623 --> 00:53:09.505
She is, or she was, rather,

00:53:10.226 --> 00:53:13.306
before she died and got sucked into the

00:53:13.547 --> 00:53:14.987
undernet, her conscious.

00:53:15.807 --> 00:53:17.588
In part two,

00:53:17.748 --> 00:53:19.769
in the second arc of World Tree,

00:53:21.291 --> 00:53:23.952
they're discovering that she was, in fact,

00:53:24.072 --> 00:53:26.094
a real person at one point.

00:53:26.153 --> 00:53:28.614
And what happened to her in the first

00:53:28.855 --> 00:53:32.376
one is the reason why she is killing

00:53:32.396 --> 00:53:32.737
people.

00:53:34.389 --> 00:53:37.670
a fun story there's it's two arcs deep

00:53:37.710 --> 00:53:40.831
currently and it's just such an intriguing

00:53:40.871 --> 00:53:45.074
story with a new spin on a new

00:53:45.134 --> 00:53:47.655
fear of the internet you know what i

00:53:47.695 --> 00:53:49.835
love is that he picks up some of

00:53:49.856 --> 00:53:52.117
the of the themes like i was saying

00:53:52.177 --> 00:53:54.858
earlier he he picks up some of the

00:53:54.918 --> 00:53:59.139
themes that dean loves which is

00:53:59.769 --> 00:54:02.831
the sort of the memetic nature of things

00:54:02.873 --> 00:54:06.135
on the internet, how easily they spread.

00:54:06.175 --> 00:54:06.876
Yeah.

00:54:06.916 --> 00:54:08.737
Cause me horror because you ultimately.

00:54:09.157 --> 00:54:11.498
Did you ever seen a movie from the

00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:13.641
eighties or might've come out in the

00:54:13.721 --> 00:54:15.382
seventies called the lawnmower man?

00:54:15.443 --> 00:54:15.583
Oh yeah.

00:54:17.103 --> 00:54:18.405
Yeah.

00:54:18.425 --> 00:54:22.108
So if very much some similar to this

00:54:22.248 --> 00:54:25.731
story, only modern day for the internet.

00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:29.864
So it's really cool, really fun.

00:54:30.246 --> 00:54:34.896
The next book up is by Marguerite Bennett,

00:54:35.376 --> 00:54:37.882
and it is called Mommy Blog.

00:54:41.300 --> 00:54:43.682
I didn't even hear about it before.

00:54:44.483 --> 00:54:46.123
I'm not for sure if this was a

00:54:46.344 --> 00:54:47.804
one-shot or what,

00:54:48.405 --> 00:54:53.528
but basically it's about suburban moms and

00:54:53.628 --> 00:54:57.090
stay-at-home moms who want this perfect

00:54:57.130 --> 00:54:58.791
suburban family,

00:54:59.472 --> 00:55:01.474
perfect suburban children, right?

00:55:02.512 --> 00:55:05.273
And they will stop at nothing to have

00:55:05.313 --> 00:55:07.856
that perfect child, that perfect family,

00:55:07.896 --> 00:55:09.157
that perfect house,

00:55:09.996 --> 00:55:14.500
even murdering those who don't fit into

00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:15.320
their neighborhood.

00:55:15.340 --> 00:55:17.262
Oh,

00:55:17.282 --> 00:55:24.427
I love the sort of suburban horror sort

00:55:24.447 --> 00:55:26.288
of stories where it's all about keeping

00:55:26.327 --> 00:55:27.289
appearances.

00:55:28.028 --> 00:55:31.672
And it feels like, I think there's,

00:55:36.103 --> 00:55:37.083
There's plenty of TV series right now that

00:55:39.324 --> 00:55:40.684
sort of touch into those topics.

00:55:41.284 --> 00:55:43.284
I think there was a movie with Shia

00:55:43.324 --> 00:55:45.945
LaBeouf called Suburbia,

00:55:46.606 --> 00:55:48.907
very similar to that statement.

00:55:49.786 --> 00:55:50.547
Yeah.

00:55:50.586 --> 00:55:52.248
Where the neighbor thinks his neighbor is

00:55:52.268 --> 00:55:52.847
a killer.

00:55:54.447 --> 00:55:55.728
But he's on house arrest,

00:55:55.748 --> 00:55:57.728
so he's not really supposed to be.

00:55:57.768 --> 00:55:59.150
He just keeps getting himself in trouble.

00:56:00.543 --> 00:56:02.204
but I thought it was a pretty good

00:56:02.244 --> 00:56:02.644
movie,

00:56:03.324 --> 00:56:04.985
but it's all about like keeping up

00:56:05.005 --> 00:56:05.786
appearances,

00:56:05.885 --> 00:56:08.445
but she's not afraid to spill a little

00:56:08.485 --> 00:56:08.826
blood.

00:56:08.867 --> 00:56:09.646
You know what I'm saying?

00:56:09.666 --> 00:56:10.246
Right.

00:56:10.806 --> 00:56:12.407
But it was just a fun book.

00:56:12.467 --> 00:56:13.568
Was it really hard?

00:56:15.967 --> 00:56:16.068
Yeah.

00:56:16.088 --> 00:56:16.208
I mean,

00:56:16.248 --> 00:56:17.889
if you consider suburban moms killing

00:56:17.909 --> 00:56:18.228
people,

00:56:18.248 --> 00:56:21.090
they're dirtying up her neighborhood.

00:56:21.110 --> 00:56:22.150
Then yeah, absolutely.

00:56:22.190 --> 00:56:23.871
Because it's just blatantly murder,

00:56:24.291 --> 00:56:27.851
you know, in public, just, you know,

00:56:28.956 --> 00:56:30.376
but next up is going to be one

00:56:30.416 --> 00:56:32.597
of our favorite books and probably the

00:56:32.677 --> 00:56:35.898
book that really connected us and gave us

00:56:35.918 --> 00:56:37.320
the idea for this show.

00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:39.101
And that's going to be the deviant.

00:56:42.561 --> 00:56:43.402
Oh yeah.

00:56:44.043 --> 00:56:47.784
Awesome book.

00:56:47.804 --> 00:56:49.485
I think those who like, um, was, uh,

00:56:50.405 --> 00:56:51.425
like the, the Zodiac movie or, uh,

00:56:51.465 --> 00:56:52.547
the Y two K killer or B two

00:56:52.586 --> 00:56:54.146
take killer or whatever it is.

00:56:54.186 --> 00:56:54.748
The black Dahlia.

00:56:54.788 --> 00:56:54.867
Yeah.

00:56:54.887 --> 00:56:56.168
I think they're going to love,

00:56:58.438 --> 00:57:03.501
It feels very much in the same vein.

00:57:03.601 --> 00:57:06.402
It closed out earlier this year with the

00:57:06.481 --> 00:57:07.103
finale.

00:57:07.543 --> 00:57:10.523
And then they released kind of like a

00:57:10.603 --> 00:57:15.425
prequel to it called... Shit.

00:57:16.326 --> 00:57:17.706
Can't remember the name of it.

00:57:18.146 --> 00:57:19.947
But it was like something Hall H.

00:57:19.987 --> 00:57:22.688
But it takes place at a Comic-Con again.

00:57:23.869 --> 00:57:24.090
And...

00:57:26.376 --> 00:57:28.577
But it's a fun little – I think

00:57:28.617 --> 00:57:31.018
it's like a one-shot kind of prequel to

00:57:31.057 --> 00:57:31.797
The Deviant.

00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:34.699
But The Deviant is amazing.

00:57:35.278 --> 00:57:38.480
There's a man that goes to jail who

00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:40.039
they think is the killer,

00:57:40.059 --> 00:57:41.179
the Deviant killer.

00:57:42.581 --> 00:57:45.001
However – It's great, too,

00:57:45.041 --> 00:57:48.782
that it feels like a drama as well.

00:57:48.842 --> 00:57:50.083
It's not just – It does.

00:57:50.322 --> 00:57:51.802
It's a drama underneath it.

00:57:52.931 --> 00:57:53.851
It really is.

00:57:54.452 --> 00:57:57.992
There's some drama between the lovers who

00:57:58.032 --> 00:57:58.172
are,

00:57:58.532 --> 00:58:00.012
one of them's the actual killer and the

00:58:00.032 --> 00:58:01.193
other one takes the,

00:58:01.813 --> 00:58:03.193
I guess he takes the bullet for the

00:58:03.213 --> 00:58:04.954
killer and goes to jail.

00:58:06.335 --> 00:58:08.876
But it is such a fun book.

00:58:09.755 --> 00:58:09.956
Like,

00:58:09.976 --> 00:58:13.536
I cannot stress enough how great this book

00:58:13.597 --> 00:58:14.016
was.

00:58:15.277 --> 00:58:15.458
Yeah.

00:58:15.478 --> 00:58:16.057
And next up.

00:58:16.358 --> 00:58:18.099
Very atmospheric.

00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:19.639
Yeah.

00:58:19.659 --> 00:58:22.159
Main list for comics this year.

00:58:23.367 --> 00:58:24.648
I don't want to say it was a

00:58:24.728 --> 00:58:25.528
world build,

00:58:25.969 --> 00:58:28.110
but it was an atmosphere to the book.

00:58:28.271 --> 00:58:29.231
Yeah.

00:58:29.271 --> 00:58:32.795
Like, it had that... Like,

00:58:32.855 --> 00:58:36.318
it felt like the environment was built for

00:58:36.338 --> 00:58:37.278
a serial killer.

00:58:37.298 --> 00:58:38.699
Yeah.

00:58:38.739 --> 00:58:39.699
Like, the vibe.

00:58:39.739 --> 00:58:41.342
From book one to book, I think,

00:58:41.501 --> 00:58:42.503
six or seven.

00:58:42.523 --> 00:58:43.583
No, it went nine, I think.

00:58:43.623 --> 00:58:46.425
I think, yeah.

00:58:46.465 --> 00:58:50.268
Something around nine or ten issues.

00:58:50.289 --> 00:58:50.369
Yeah.

00:58:51.277 --> 00:58:54.139
But it was just such a phenomenal series.

00:58:54.298 --> 00:58:56.139
I cannot recommend it enough.

00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.061
It's on trade paperback right now.

00:58:59.802 --> 00:59:01.184
You can get your hands on a copy.

00:59:01.483 --> 00:59:04.146
Please read this book.

00:59:04.246 --> 00:59:05.626
And it's just going to be perfect in

00:59:05.666 --> 00:59:05.967
time.

00:59:05.987 --> 00:59:06.668
If you order it now,

00:59:06.708 --> 00:59:08.588
you can get it and read it for

00:59:08.648 --> 00:59:11.291
Christmas and let it give you some creepy

00:59:11.331 --> 00:59:11.871
nightmares.

00:59:11.891 --> 00:59:15.313
Oh, yeah.

00:59:15.393 --> 00:59:15.594
Oh, yeah.

00:59:15.614 --> 00:59:17.034
But next up is going to be Creepshow.

00:59:18.356 --> 00:59:20.056
It's been written by various artists

00:59:20.077 --> 00:59:21.177
throughout the years,

00:59:22.798 --> 00:59:24.360
drawn by various artists.

00:59:24.380 --> 00:59:25.539
It's an anthology,

00:59:26.260 --> 00:59:28.202
usually two to three stories,

00:59:28.762 --> 00:59:30.163
dependent on the issue.

00:59:30.824 --> 00:59:34.786
They had a Valentine's issue.

00:59:34.826 --> 00:59:36.407
They do one for Christmas.

00:59:38.427 --> 00:59:39.949
He kind of ebbs and flows.

00:59:40.068 --> 00:59:41.329
He'll end,

00:59:41.971 --> 00:59:43.391
you give it a couple of cycles,

00:59:43.431 --> 00:59:44.632
and it pops right back up.

00:59:44.811 --> 00:59:46.373
They just released new issues for

00:59:46.413 --> 00:59:47.114
Halloween.

00:59:48.525 --> 00:59:50.786
um but it's just a phenomenal series i

00:59:50.806 --> 00:59:53.206
think it's been around since the seventies

00:59:54.827 --> 00:59:57.648
so it has the longevity it has the

00:59:57.708 --> 00:59:59.628
leads and the creep is just one of

00:59:59.648 --> 01:00:06.128
those perfect characters yeah very very

01:00:06.409 --> 01:00:08.829
easily recognizable very iconic that's

01:00:08.889 --> 01:00:12.329
that's the word absolutely absolutely and

01:00:12.809 --> 01:00:14.590
if you watch the tv show back in

01:00:14.610 --> 01:00:16.351
the day tells from the crib that's the

01:00:16.391 --> 01:00:16.811
creep

01:00:17.818 --> 01:00:22.061
and it dude it's a chef's kiss on

01:00:22.101 --> 01:00:24.103
top of a chef's kiss they always have

01:00:24.123 --> 01:00:27.485
like phenomenal writers phenomenal artists

01:00:27.505 --> 01:00:29.148
some of the best cover guys in the

01:00:29.188 --> 01:00:32.090
world do the covers for it and it's

01:00:32.269 --> 01:00:34.532
always just so good it's so fun to

01:00:34.572 --> 01:00:37.414
get to see the creep with all the

01:00:37.454 --> 01:00:40.815
longevity that he has still going strong

01:00:41.255 --> 01:00:44.438
yeah yeah i i think part of the

01:00:44.998 --> 01:00:47.260
the success of the of that series

01:00:47.898 --> 01:00:49.059
beyond the horror elements.

01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:53.784
It's like this tongue-in-cheek element to

01:00:53.884 --> 01:00:55.105
it, right?

01:00:55.164 --> 01:00:57.206
They don't take themselves too seriously,

01:00:57.226 --> 01:01:00.690
but they are still able to deliver on

01:01:00.731 --> 01:01:01.831
the scares.

01:01:04.554 --> 01:01:05.795
And it's never like

01:01:06.940 --> 01:01:08.960
Like, the scares are, it depends.

01:01:08.980 --> 01:01:10.240
They're lessons learned.

01:01:10.900 --> 01:01:12.400
There's, like,

01:01:12.420 --> 01:01:14.541
there's always something unique about it.

01:01:14.581 --> 01:01:15.641
You know, the stories.

01:01:16.041 --> 01:01:16.262
Yeah.

01:01:16.282 --> 01:01:16.481
Like,

01:01:16.541 --> 01:01:18.342
some type of lesson will come out of

01:01:18.382 --> 01:01:19.143
the story.

01:01:20.182 --> 01:01:21.702
It's just so fun.

01:01:22.182 --> 01:01:23.764
Like, I cannot recommend.

01:01:24.443 --> 01:01:24.603
Like,

01:01:24.623 --> 01:01:25.983
you can just go pick up a trade

01:01:26.023 --> 01:01:27.385
paperback of Creepshow.

01:01:28.385 --> 01:01:30.144
Volume one, volume two.

01:01:30.204 --> 01:01:30.945
It doesn't matter.

01:01:30.985 --> 01:01:33.826
Just grab a trade paperback of Creepshow.

01:01:34.911 --> 01:01:36.032
And just let it take you for a

01:01:36.152 --> 01:01:36.572
ride.

01:01:36.992 --> 01:01:38.012
Yeah, yeah.

01:01:38.032 --> 01:01:39.413
Like some of my favorite ones are the

01:01:39.452 --> 01:01:40.952
Christmas special edition.

01:01:40.972 --> 01:01:42.474
It's like for Christmas.

01:01:43.693 --> 01:01:47.114
But it's about greed and lust and vanity.

01:01:47.235 --> 01:01:49.695
And it's just perfect Christmastime

01:01:49.775 --> 01:01:50.175
horror.

01:01:50.655 --> 01:01:51.596
Yeah.

01:01:51.695 --> 01:01:53.596
Those will always be some of my favorite

01:01:53.695 --> 01:01:54.235
issues.

01:01:54.615 --> 01:01:56.597
It's like a dark spin on It's a

01:01:56.657 --> 01:01:57.476
Wonderful Life.

01:01:58.971 --> 01:02:00.032
or a Christmas tale.

01:02:00.411 --> 01:02:05.315
It's that but twisted.

01:02:05.335 --> 01:02:07.416
He's taking a wholesome story and giving

01:02:07.797 --> 01:02:09.338
it an evil twist.

01:02:09.358 --> 01:02:10.179
I love it.

01:02:10.219 --> 01:02:15.063
It's absolutely top-notch storytelling.

01:02:15.163 --> 01:02:18.925
Last up from Image Comics is going to

01:02:18.965 --> 01:02:20.706
be what was a one-shot.

01:02:21.626 --> 01:02:23.047
It wasn't just a one-shot.

01:02:23.128 --> 01:02:25.170
It was magazine-sized.

01:02:26.277 --> 01:02:28.697
And it's going to be called Blood Train

01:02:29.438 --> 01:02:32.918
by Adam Glass.

01:02:32.958 --> 01:02:37.420
Very much the movie with Vinnie Jones,

01:02:39.141 --> 01:02:41.501
the last stop or whatever it was where

01:02:41.521 --> 01:02:43.161
he was feeding the demon at the end

01:02:43.202 --> 01:02:44.382
of the rail line.

01:02:45.842 --> 01:02:47.802
It's very much that kind of feel.

01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:50.340
But it was just a...

01:02:50.420 --> 01:02:53.344
If you want blood, you want the gore,

01:02:54.105 --> 01:02:56.306
you want a jump scare in a comic

01:02:56.347 --> 01:02:56.766
book,

01:02:57.588 --> 01:03:01.112
this book had everything if you're into

01:03:01.132 --> 01:03:05.096
the gory, bloody comic books.

01:03:06.016 --> 01:03:08.699
Because this is literally called blood

01:03:08.739 --> 01:03:09.701
training from cover...

01:03:10.922 --> 01:03:11.923
To cover.

01:03:12.744 --> 01:03:13.585
It is that.

01:03:14.045 --> 01:03:15.527
It's about a group of friends.

01:03:15.568 --> 01:03:16.949
Who get on a train.

01:03:17.588 --> 01:03:18.670
And they start dying.

01:03:19.110 --> 01:03:20.472
One by one.

01:03:21.172 --> 01:03:21.992
By one.

01:03:23.054 --> 01:03:24.735
Not just a simple death.

01:03:24.775 --> 01:03:26.797
Like oh he died.

01:03:27.277 --> 01:03:28.699
Oh he was poisoned.

01:03:29.139 --> 01:03:29.320
No.

01:03:29.340 --> 01:03:30.862
We're talking eaten.

01:03:31.242 --> 01:03:33.264
Ripped apart by the limbs.

01:03:34.204 --> 01:03:35.425
Just a bloody.

01:03:35.545 --> 01:03:36.547
Gory death.

01:03:37.934 --> 01:03:40.396
holy shit, you know,

01:03:41.056 --> 01:03:45.737
but Adam Glass absolutely delivered it on

01:03:45.777 --> 01:03:46.298
the book.

01:03:46.878 --> 01:03:49.360
It's odd because image doesn't print a lot

01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:51.641
of magazine sized books,

01:03:52.842 --> 01:03:54.081
but they did on this one.

01:03:54.382 --> 01:03:56.063
It's called blood train.

01:03:57.242 --> 01:03:58.684
If you go to image.com,

01:03:58.704 --> 01:04:00.224
you can probably buy it,

01:04:01.505 --> 01:04:03.425
but I thought this was an absolutely

01:04:03.885 --> 01:04:05.106
phenomenal book.

01:04:07.059 --> 01:04:08.338
definitely adding that one to my pool but

01:04:08.378 --> 01:04:12.001
that's all i have for image again such

01:04:12.201 --> 01:04:15.762
a image always has good horror and they

01:04:15.782 --> 01:04:18.804
will always be home to the indie creators

01:04:19.403 --> 01:04:21.364
which i love that you can just submit

01:04:21.445 --> 01:04:22.905
a book to them and they will tell

01:04:22.925 --> 01:04:25.047
you yes or no and they will give

01:04:25.086 --> 01:04:26.608
you feedback if they say no

01:04:27.847 --> 01:04:29.469
So if you submit a book to Image

01:04:29.509 --> 01:04:30.750
Comments and they say no,

01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:32.952
they're going to spell it out for you.

01:04:33.291 --> 01:04:35.034
Like, oh, the art wasn't there.

01:04:35.695 --> 01:04:36.474
Or, hey,

01:04:36.755 --> 01:04:39.318
you need to go back and refine this

01:04:39.378 --> 01:04:40.498
and resubmit later.

01:04:41.701 --> 01:04:43.681
So they're very good about that kind of

01:04:43.722 --> 01:04:44.043
stuff.

01:04:44.103 --> 01:04:45.744
And I will always give my love and

01:04:45.764 --> 01:04:48.086
my money to Image Comments.

01:04:49.931 --> 01:04:50.873
So next up,

01:04:50.893 --> 01:04:52.994
this is going to be our last stop

01:04:53.074 --> 01:04:54.556
on the horror coffin,

01:04:55.115 --> 01:04:56.817
and that's going to be just some indie

01:04:56.856 --> 01:04:57.818
nightmares, man.

01:04:58.217 --> 01:05:00.219
We're talking stuff from Vault Comets,

01:05:00.260 --> 01:05:02.581
from The Keen Spot, some from Dark Horse,

01:05:03.121 --> 01:05:04.443
some from Zenscope,

01:05:04.923 --> 01:05:07.425
and a special book from DC Dark,

01:05:08.106 --> 01:05:10.527
which really didn't need to be in...

01:05:12.690 --> 01:05:17.231
the dnd all others but because it's so

01:05:17.472 --> 01:05:20.572
such a new concept that dc i put

01:05:20.612 --> 01:05:22.492
it down there and we're going to start

01:05:22.512 --> 01:05:24.793
with it and it's a follow-up to a

01:05:24.853 --> 01:05:28.315
previous book called the nice house by the

01:05:28.355 --> 01:05:32.076
lake and this is the the nice house

01:05:32.737 --> 01:05:35.898
by the sea it's written by jeff lobe

01:05:36.458 --> 01:05:39.418
and james tinian iv of course of course

01:05:41.936 --> 01:05:44.597
So basically these books are about the

01:05:44.677 --> 01:05:47.697
houses, not necessarily the people,

01:05:48.438 --> 01:05:50.318
even though the people play a big part

01:05:50.378 --> 01:05:50.599
of it,

01:05:50.619 --> 01:05:54.119
but it's about the house itself and the

01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:58.081
way it has the ability to warp and

01:05:58.141 --> 01:06:01.862
twist people and reshape people.

01:06:03.081 --> 01:06:05.282
It was a fun series.

01:06:05.322 --> 01:06:07.244
I think it was like five or six

01:06:07.344 --> 01:06:07.844
issues.

01:06:08.505 --> 01:06:10.507
I know you can get both the Nice

01:06:10.527 --> 01:06:12.588
House by the Lake and the Nice House

01:06:12.628 --> 01:06:13.228
by the Sea,

01:06:13.289 --> 01:06:15.849
both of them in trade paperback.

01:06:16.371 --> 01:06:18.833
Both absolutely worth your money.

01:06:19.253 --> 01:06:19.413
Yeah,

01:06:19.452 --> 01:06:22.655
I would recommend buying both together

01:06:22.795 --> 01:06:25.016
because you can get lost with the

01:06:25.731 --> 01:06:27.032
With a number of characters.

01:06:27.632 --> 01:06:28.512
Yeah, absolutely.

01:06:28.552 --> 01:06:30.313
Because the characters are not the same.

01:06:30.353 --> 01:06:32.275
The house isn't the same.

01:06:32.295 --> 01:06:33.516
Same concept.

01:06:34.976 --> 01:06:36.757
Same types of scenarios.

01:06:36.838 --> 01:06:39.320
Sort of same universe.

01:06:39.340 --> 01:06:39.440
Yeah.

01:06:39.460 --> 01:06:41.181
I don't want to say too much,

01:06:41.201 --> 01:06:44.443
but it's sort of the same cinematic,

01:06:44.463 --> 01:06:45.764
comic universe, let's call it.

01:06:45.844 --> 01:06:46.224
Yes.

01:06:47.023 --> 01:06:49.686
But they're both just so much fun.

01:06:50.666 --> 01:06:53.688
Start with the house by the lake first.

01:06:54.675 --> 01:06:56.257
I think that was a lot more gorier

01:06:56.317 --> 01:06:59.398
and sadistic than The Nice House.

01:06:59.798 --> 01:07:01.119
And darker, absolutely.

01:07:01.579 --> 01:07:04.340
I like it a lot more than the

01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:05.181
one by the sea.

01:07:05.201 --> 01:07:06.581
I'm not going to lie.

01:07:06.641 --> 01:07:08.302
I preferred The Nice House by the Lake.

01:07:09.103 --> 01:07:11.463
But The Nice House by the Sea also

01:07:12.465 --> 01:07:15.146
still a very good book.

01:07:15.726 --> 01:07:16.867
Not to be missed.

01:07:18.268 --> 01:07:18.507
Dude,

01:07:18.547 --> 01:07:21.228
some of the best artwork you'll see had

01:07:21.248 --> 01:07:22.389
some of the coolest covers,

01:07:22.449 --> 01:07:24.371
especially The Nice House by the Lake.

01:07:26.641 --> 01:07:30.702
yeah add some of the grimiest like

01:07:30.722 --> 01:07:34.425
disgustingness covers that you could put

01:07:34.465 --> 01:07:37.306
on a a comic book but they were

01:07:37.467 --> 01:07:39.467
great reads i highly recommend you

01:07:39.507 --> 01:07:42.228
checking both out but since i wanted to

01:07:42.268 --> 01:07:44.190
keep it twenty twenty five that's why i

01:07:44.210 --> 01:07:45.871
went with the nice house by the sea

01:07:45.891 --> 01:07:48.572
right but definitely check both out

01:07:49.630 --> 01:07:52.172
Especially also if you like cosmic horror.

01:07:53.192 --> 01:07:53.952
Very much.

01:07:53.972 --> 01:07:57.635
It's a very, very central stage.

01:07:58.375 --> 01:07:58.795
Yes.

01:07:59.315 --> 01:08:00.096
It's also,

01:08:00.817 --> 01:08:02.077
so there's a new book out from,

01:08:02.097 --> 01:08:04.938
I want to say it's from Ani Press.

01:08:04.998 --> 01:08:06.119
It's called Benjamin.

01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:08.001
It's not really horror.

01:08:08.041 --> 01:08:09.320
It's more sci-fi.

01:08:09.882 --> 01:08:12.103
But a guy, he dies, right?

01:08:12.603 --> 01:08:14.384
Like he knows for a fact that he

01:08:14.503 --> 01:08:15.105
is dead.

01:08:15.744 --> 01:08:17.405
But he wakes up.

01:08:19.917 --> 01:08:20.899
Okay.

01:08:20.918 --> 01:08:21.738
Yeah.

01:08:21.819 --> 01:08:23.581
He wakes up and finds himself in a

01:08:23.640 --> 01:08:25.402
random building downtown.

01:08:26.842 --> 01:08:28.304
And he makes his way back.

01:08:28.363 --> 01:08:31.485
It's like a sci-fi...

01:08:31.525 --> 01:08:32.886
I don't want to call it a horror,

01:08:33.467 --> 01:08:35.609
but the guy basically gets a new start

01:08:35.649 --> 01:08:36.270
at life.

01:08:37.029 --> 01:08:37.730
Okay.

01:08:37.751 --> 01:08:39.212
He remembers dying.

01:08:40.632 --> 01:08:43.375
It's interesting because usually that sort

01:08:43.454 --> 01:08:46.256
of setup is played from a different

01:08:46.296 --> 01:08:47.257
perspective where

01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:50.740
people see their loved ones come back to

01:08:50.801 --> 01:08:54.064
life and that story is a hundred percent

01:08:54.484 --> 01:08:56.886
told through the eyes of the character

01:08:56.966 --> 01:08:59.229
benjamin who is the main character and

01:09:00.511 --> 01:09:03.894
it's absolutely amazing but it's got that

01:09:04.074 --> 01:09:07.198
that element to it that sci-fi world

01:09:07.318 --> 01:09:08.139
element to it

01:09:09.430 --> 01:09:11.171
But I didn't put it in here because

01:09:11.231 --> 01:09:13.293
I did consider it more sci-fi,

01:09:13.854 --> 01:09:17.136
even though the guy knows he's dead and

01:09:17.155 --> 01:09:19.096
knows he's given a second chance at life

01:09:19.117 --> 01:09:19.837
for some reason.

01:09:20.278 --> 01:09:21.979
It's figuring out the reason why he's been

01:09:22.019 --> 01:09:22.739
brought back.

01:09:23.220 --> 01:09:23.859
Right.

01:09:23.979 --> 01:09:24.461
So it's really cool.

01:09:24.480 --> 01:09:27.021
I want to throw in a recommendation there

01:09:27.042 --> 01:09:28.342
because it's also – Oh, absolutely.

01:09:28.363 --> 01:09:31.905
It blurs the line between sci-fi and

01:09:31.985 --> 01:09:34.787
horror, and that's Department of Truth,

01:09:34.827 --> 01:09:36.969
which is also – Oh, dude.

01:09:37.009 --> 01:09:37.168
Yeah.

01:09:37.753 --> 01:09:41.377
and still coming out spectacular.

01:09:41.737 --> 01:09:42.837
It's also very,

01:09:42.858 --> 01:09:45.541
I would say it's also cosmic horror

01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.502
because you've got these over,

01:09:49.823 --> 01:09:52.286
it taps into something that is.

01:09:52.305 --> 01:09:55.609
I mean, it explores the death.

01:09:56.250 --> 01:09:58.471
It explores the assassination of Robert

01:09:58.492 --> 01:09:58.971
Kennedy.

01:09:59.972 --> 01:10:02.175
It explores the death of Elvis Presley.

01:10:02.954 --> 01:10:04.497
It explores aliens.

01:10:06.557 --> 01:10:09.600
Basically, dude, Department of Truth,

01:10:09.859 --> 01:10:10.939
and I'm glad you brought that up,

01:10:10.979 --> 01:10:11.921
it's also Athenian.

01:10:14.641 --> 01:10:18.703
But, oh my god, it's really,

01:10:18.762 --> 01:10:20.243
it's all over the place, kind of.

01:10:22.145 --> 01:10:22.545
Yeah,

01:10:22.765 --> 01:10:27.907
it's every conspiracy theory rolled into

01:10:28.167 --> 01:10:30.387
one large story that sort of connects them

01:10:30.427 --> 01:10:30.547
all.

01:10:31.590 --> 01:10:31.949
Yes.

01:10:34.792 --> 01:10:39.255
Which I have first print, issue one,

01:10:39.916 --> 01:10:42.917
Department of Truth, signed by Tinian,

01:10:43.757 --> 01:10:45.819
slabbed and on my shelf over here.

01:10:47.100 --> 01:10:50.002
That's a treasure, right?

01:10:50.023 --> 01:10:51.104
And when I found it,

01:10:51.503 --> 01:10:53.945
it was when the Department of Truth kind

01:10:54.006 --> 01:10:55.827
of was on that skid in the lower

01:10:55.886 --> 01:10:56.606
price round.

01:10:57.307 --> 01:10:58.748
So I was able to get it for

01:10:58.809 --> 01:11:00.069
less than a hundred bucks.

01:11:02.594 --> 01:11:04.335
So I was not upset with it at

01:11:04.475 --> 01:11:05.355
all.

01:11:05.416 --> 01:11:07.396
Anytime you can get a good deal on

01:11:07.417 --> 01:11:09.998
a slab comic like the Department of Truth

01:11:10.498 --> 01:11:12.380
or really anything signed by Tinian,

01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:14.242
which I know Tinian is doing a sign-in

01:11:14.261 --> 01:11:17.143
tonight at one of the comic shops,

01:11:17.323 --> 01:11:17.663
I think,

01:11:17.743 --> 01:11:20.586
in New York with the whole Tiny Onion

01:11:20.626 --> 01:11:20.865
crew.

01:11:22.368 --> 01:11:23.369
So I think that's really cool.

01:11:23.390 --> 01:11:24.710
So if you're up there,

01:11:24.750 --> 01:11:26.371
I think it's called One Eye Comets or

01:11:26.390 --> 01:11:27.171
something like that.

01:11:27.832 --> 01:11:29.932
Tania is there with the Exquisite Corpses

01:11:29.993 --> 01:11:32.594
crew and the Tiny Onion crew doing

01:11:32.634 --> 01:11:33.314
autographs.

01:11:33.715 --> 01:11:34.715
I'm jealous of all of you.

01:11:34.755 --> 01:11:37.296
Go get autographs out there,

01:11:37.315 --> 01:11:38.476
which I've not got to meet him.

01:11:38.596 --> 01:11:41.698
I really want to meet him and just

01:11:42.538 --> 01:11:43.659
to be able to shake his hand and

01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:45.079
be like, dude,

01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:49.101
you are redefining and defining what it is

01:11:49.141 --> 01:11:50.182
to do comic books.

01:11:51.024 --> 01:11:51.323
Yeah.

01:11:51.344 --> 01:11:51.644
Granted,

01:11:51.703 --> 01:11:53.305
he gets some hits and some misses in

01:11:53.345 --> 01:11:55.166
there, but for the most part,

01:11:55.766 --> 01:11:57.068
I don't think he's really missed.

01:11:58.368 --> 01:12:00.229
Yeah, no, I think for the most part.

01:12:00.470 --> 01:12:02.030
There's another one that I haven't read

01:12:02.150 --> 01:12:02.930
yet,

01:12:02.951 --> 01:12:05.171
but I heard lots of good things about.

01:12:05.972 --> 01:12:06.912
What is it?

01:12:06.932 --> 01:12:07.774
Spectrograph.

01:12:08.613 --> 01:12:10.215
Okay, yeah, no, I've heard about that one.

01:12:10.234 --> 01:12:11.095
I haven't read it yet.

01:12:11.576 --> 01:12:13.356
Yeah, and that one I sort of,

01:12:13.516 --> 01:12:15.639
I won't read it because it, again,

01:12:15.679 --> 01:12:17.760
it's also, he sort of, yeah,

01:12:20.289 --> 01:12:22.551
touches on several of the same themes

01:12:22.671 --> 01:12:25.913
along his bibliography.

01:12:27.914 --> 01:12:31.118
But he always finds a different in for

01:12:31.158 --> 01:12:32.097
those topics.

01:12:32.798 --> 01:12:33.219
He does.

01:12:33.399 --> 01:12:36.001
He has a really good way of blending

01:12:36.060 --> 01:12:36.801
genres.

01:12:37.762 --> 01:12:39.783
I think horror is really his...

01:12:40.463 --> 01:12:43.766
Horror with a sci-fi edge to it is

01:12:43.787 --> 01:12:45.427
kind of like his forte.

01:12:45.488 --> 01:12:46.628
Yeah.

01:12:48.543 --> 01:12:49.444
But up next,

01:12:49.645 --> 01:12:51.345
we're going to go to Zen Scope.

01:12:52.126 --> 01:12:54.328
It's going to be Graham Tells of Terror.

01:12:54.387 --> 01:12:56.408
It's mainly written by Joe Bruscia.

01:12:56.989 --> 01:12:58.610
It always has really great art,

01:12:58.671 --> 01:13:00.051
really great covers.

01:13:00.771 --> 01:13:02.493
And basically,

01:13:03.974 --> 01:13:12.020
what he does is take urban legends and

01:13:12.039 --> 01:13:14.100
puts a spin on the urban legends.

01:13:14.220 --> 01:13:14.442
Oh, nice.

01:13:14.822 --> 01:13:14.902
Nice.

01:13:19.859 --> 01:13:20.340
And, you know,

01:13:21.819 --> 01:13:24.921
he does use the female covers to his

01:13:24.961 --> 01:13:26.402
advantage to sell,

01:13:27.242 --> 01:13:28.643
even though they're not the characters.

01:13:28.682 --> 01:13:28.783
Well,

01:13:28.802 --> 01:13:30.342
they can be the characters in the book,

01:13:30.363 --> 01:13:31.644
and they are often.

01:13:32.623 --> 01:13:35.824
But it's, I don't know, dude.

01:13:36.466 --> 01:13:39.247
It's one of those where he could put

01:13:39.346 --> 01:13:40.346
anything on the cover,

01:13:40.367 --> 01:13:41.787
and the story is going to be good.

01:13:42.387 --> 01:13:45.509
Like he did, like,

01:13:45.769 --> 01:13:47.010
what was the last one he did that

01:13:47.029 --> 01:13:47.609
I can remember?

01:13:49.537 --> 01:13:51.238
like the devil's chair in Florida.

01:13:52.257 --> 01:13:53.819
He wrote a story about that.

01:13:54.698 --> 01:13:56.640
It was, it's really cool.

01:13:56.680 --> 01:13:58.480
He just takes these really cool urban

01:13:58.541 --> 01:14:01.922
legends and urban myths and put something

01:14:01.943 --> 01:14:06.625
in a real world scenario into a story.

01:14:06.725 --> 01:14:07.985
If that makes any sense,

01:14:08.345 --> 01:14:09.947
he just does it in a really cool

01:14:09.987 --> 01:14:10.346
way.

01:14:11.006 --> 01:14:11.948
Yeah.

01:14:12.068 --> 01:14:13.007
It's funny because it's also, it's,

01:14:13.028 --> 01:14:17.550
it's like the same technique.

01:14:17.630 --> 01:14:18.810
Let's say that, that,

01:14:19.908 --> 01:14:22.609
that he uses for conspiracy theories he

01:14:22.689 --> 01:14:27.292
uses for for urban legends right yes yes

01:14:27.471 --> 01:14:30.872
absolutely and he he just does it in

01:14:30.893 --> 01:14:33.873
a way that like i don't know man

01:14:33.974 --> 01:14:36.335
i just really enjoy what grim tales of

01:14:36.375 --> 01:14:40.076
terror does with urban legends and like

01:14:40.095 --> 01:14:42.176
the redefining it you know and making it

01:14:42.237 --> 01:14:45.978
something this is the same but it feels

01:14:46.078 --> 01:14:47.338
different you know

01:14:48.953 --> 01:14:50.493
But up next,

01:14:50.554 --> 01:14:52.795
I want to go to Dark Horse and

01:14:52.835 --> 01:14:54.355
it's going to be a book called I

01:14:54.376 --> 01:14:55.777
don't know if this came out in twenty

01:14:55.796 --> 01:14:58.578
twenty five or twenty twenty four,

01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:01.360
but it's by Clay McLeod Chapman,

01:15:01.400 --> 01:15:03.561
who is a brilliant horror writer.

01:15:04.063 --> 01:15:05.604
Like his horror books are some of the

01:15:05.764 --> 01:15:06.904
best I've ever read.

01:15:08.564 --> 01:15:09.826
But the name of the comic book is

01:15:09.865 --> 01:15:12.408
called Seance in the Asylum.

01:15:14.436 --> 01:15:16.979
So think of it like it's one of

01:15:17.020 --> 01:15:20.743
the seasons of that show on FBATS.

01:15:20.845 --> 01:15:23.427
Yeah, American Horror Story.

01:15:23.587 --> 01:15:24.708
American Horror Story.

01:15:24.889 --> 01:15:25.529
Right.

01:15:25.869 --> 01:15:27.311
When were they in the asylum?

01:15:27.832 --> 01:15:28.634
Mm-hmm.

01:15:28.654 --> 01:15:29.795
Think of it like that,

01:15:29.975 --> 01:15:32.457
only from a exorcism point of view.

01:15:34.039 --> 01:15:34.140
Nice.

01:15:35.105 --> 01:15:36.827
And that's what you get with Seance in

01:15:36.846 --> 01:15:37.587
the Asylum.

01:15:38.127 --> 01:15:40.149
And it's like, are these people dead?

01:15:40.309 --> 01:15:41.149
Are they alive?

01:15:41.189 --> 01:15:44.192
The lines become so blurred for your main

01:15:44.252 --> 01:15:46.993
character that they don't know anymore.

01:15:47.014 --> 01:15:51.355
It feels like it's a bit like a

01:15:51.376 --> 01:15:53.238
gothic horror element.

01:15:53.257 --> 01:15:55.658
It's very much got a good gothic horror

01:15:55.719 --> 01:15:56.479
element to it.

01:15:57.220 --> 01:16:00.042
And Clay McCloud, Chapman, fantastic.

01:16:01.090 --> 01:16:02.030
Very nice guy.

01:16:02.711 --> 01:16:03.631
Very awesome guy.

01:16:03.652 --> 01:16:05.993
He's always full of energy.

01:16:06.033 --> 01:16:07.494
If you follow him on Instagram,

01:16:07.515 --> 01:16:08.855
he's just a really cool dude.

01:16:08.895 --> 01:16:09.697
Very humble.

01:16:10.938 --> 01:16:15.320
But I know there's been multiple short

01:16:15.360 --> 01:16:20.265
movies made out of his books.

01:16:20.744 --> 01:16:22.947
I think he's got a movie coming out

01:16:23.426 --> 01:16:25.628
based off his book called Ghost Eaters,

01:16:25.988 --> 01:16:27.010
I think is the name of it.

01:16:28.990 --> 01:16:31.332
So I wanted a shameless plug,

01:16:31.351 --> 01:16:33.511
not just because I love the comic book,

01:16:33.652 --> 01:16:35.152
also just because I think he's a

01:16:35.231 --> 01:16:37.412
phenomenal writer in general.

01:16:39.012 --> 01:16:41.173
So shameless plug, Clay McLeod Chapman.

01:16:42.033 --> 01:16:44.875
Check out his horror stuff because he does

01:16:44.994 --> 01:16:48.095
it so, so damn good.

01:16:49.114 --> 01:16:51.015
But also from Dark Horse is going to

01:16:51.036 --> 01:16:54.556
be another Tinian book called Let This One

01:16:54.877 --> 01:16:55.936
Be a Devil.

01:16:57.314 --> 01:16:59.876
It's basically about the urban legend of

01:16:59.935 --> 01:17:03.476
the Jersey Devil about a lady who gave

01:17:03.516 --> 01:17:06.238
birth to a demon child that turned into

01:17:06.278 --> 01:17:07.518
the Jersey Devil.

01:17:09.378 --> 01:17:13.760
And it's just a it's basically it gives

01:17:13.779 --> 01:17:16.240
you the story of how the urban legend

01:17:16.761 --> 01:17:19.742
of the Jersey Devil came to life.

01:17:21.841 --> 01:17:23.143
And I want to say he's doing a

01:17:23.203 --> 01:17:23.682
whole

01:17:25.067 --> 01:17:27.788
series based off of urban, excuse me,

01:17:28.689 --> 01:17:29.269
I'm so sorry,

01:17:29.930 --> 01:17:32.371
about urban legends like that.

01:17:32.411 --> 01:17:34.192
But he started with the Jersey Devil.

01:17:35.912 --> 01:17:37.314
Well, once again, you see,

01:17:37.594 --> 01:17:39.895
it's the same thing where he's speaking

01:17:39.935 --> 01:17:42.476
these themes that he's interested in.

01:17:42.577 --> 01:17:44.917
He's interested in conspiracy theories.

01:17:44.957 --> 01:17:47.720
He's interested in these sort of urban

01:17:47.739 --> 01:17:48.140
legends.

01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:50.881
I like that when writers,

01:17:51.020 --> 01:17:53.502
especially horror writers, do that.

01:17:54.664 --> 01:17:56.907
He does it better than anybody else.

01:17:56.926 --> 01:17:57.306
Yeah,

01:17:57.327 --> 01:18:01.048
and he's doing it consistently great.

01:18:01.069 --> 01:18:01.208
Yeah.

01:18:02.630 --> 01:18:05.131
I know he's got a phenomenal team with

01:18:05.171 --> 01:18:06.432
him at Tiny Onion,

01:18:07.233 --> 01:18:10.095
and they have put together something

01:18:10.154 --> 01:18:11.796
special over there.

01:18:13.372 --> 01:18:14.073
But next up,

01:18:14.092 --> 01:18:16.493
we're going to go to what we're going.

01:18:16.554 --> 01:18:17.613
We're still in Dark Horse.

01:18:18.413 --> 01:18:20.175
It's going to be Mark Miller's.

01:18:20.814 --> 01:18:24.176
Yeah, that Mark Miller of Vatican City.

01:18:25.115 --> 01:18:26.235
Now, I'm putting it on here,

01:18:26.336 --> 01:18:28.976
even though I was disappointed that it was

01:18:29.056 --> 01:18:31.636
only a four issue run.

01:18:31.817 --> 01:18:34.858
But it's about a group like basically the

01:18:34.898 --> 01:18:37.238
world ended because of vampires.

01:18:37.259 --> 01:18:37.338
Okay.

01:18:39.136 --> 01:18:42.157
and there's an artifact buried deep within

01:18:42.197 --> 01:18:46.179
the Vatican that they need and they want.

01:18:47.319 --> 01:18:48.099
So basically,

01:18:48.139 --> 01:18:51.921
the vampires sweep the planet of all human

01:18:51.980 --> 01:18:52.440
life,

01:18:52.701 --> 01:18:54.841
except for those within the walls of the

01:18:54.921 --> 01:18:55.462
Vatican,

01:18:55.521 --> 01:18:58.462
which is the sacredness of sacred ground

01:18:58.483 --> 01:19:00.963
that they cannot enter on their own.

01:19:01.784 --> 01:19:02.545
So basically,

01:19:02.585 --> 01:19:04.546
it's four issues of them trying to get

01:19:04.565 --> 01:19:07.846
the humans to become one of them,

01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:10.539
By going to get this artifact that they

01:19:10.600 --> 01:19:13.162
want.

01:19:13.402 --> 01:19:15.182
But it got rushed.

01:19:15.203 --> 01:19:16.363
Because I know Mark Miller.

01:19:16.662 --> 01:19:18.685
Was trying to close out projects.

01:19:18.725 --> 01:19:20.104
So he could go work on a bigger

01:19:20.145 --> 01:19:22.567
project.

01:19:22.587 --> 01:19:24.467
Which I think is a TV series.

01:19:25.167 --> 01:19:26.149
Well he always.

01:19:26.748 --> 01:19:28.829
The one thing that Mark Miller.

01:19:28.909 --> 01:19:30.470
Whenever he actually sort of.

01:19:30.490 --> 01:19:35.173
What's the expression.

01:19:35.213 --> 01:19:36.073
Like he actually.

01:19:37.114 --> 01:19:37.694
Locks in.

01:19:38.519 --> 01:19:45.064
He delivers consistently good blockbuster

01:19:45.484 --> 01:19:46.085
film.

01:19:47.085 --> 01:19:49.447
Comics that feel like a blockbuster film.

01:19:49.567 --> 01:19:50.328
Absolutely.

01:19:50.368 --> 01:19:52.869
I think that's why he left.

01:19:52.970 --> 01:19:55.511
Somebody was taking one of his comic books

01:19:55.731 --> 01:19:58.134
and converting it to film and he's the

01:19:58.173 --> 01:19:59.154
producer on it.

01:19:59.175 --> 01:20:02.016
I think that's why he rushed this book

01:20:02.037 --> 01:20:05.099
because it only got four issues.

01:20:05.378 --> 01:20:07.301
Honestly, it was a little disappointing

01:20:09.377 --> 01:20:10.698
It still had a good ending,

01:20:11.158 --> 01:20:13.640
but it was one of those where if

01:20:13.680 --> 01:20:15.280
we could have got two more issues,

01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:18.762
I think it would have been even better.

01:20:18.823 --> 01:20:18.983
Right.

01:20:19.002 --> 01:20:19.203
Yeah.

01:20:19.222 --> 01:20:20.923
So I'm recommending it simply because it's

01:20:20.984 --> 01:20:21.585
Mark Miller.

01:20:21.625 --> 01:20:24.546
And I think Mark Miller is probably up

01:20:24.565 --> 01:20:26.587
there with Tinian as far as writing goes.

01:20:27.307 --> 01:20:28.047
But with him,

01:20:28.127 --> 01:20:29.529
he has to be locked in.

01:20:29.588 --> 01:20:30.850
Yeah, he has to be locked in.

01:20:31.329 --> 01:20:32.310
Totally.

01:20:32.331 --> 01:20:32.451
Yeah.

01:20:34.061 --> 01:20:35.662
So next up is going to be a

01:20:35.802 --> 01:20:37.024
new one to this,

01:20:37.304 --> 01:20:39.405
and it's going to be from Zach Kaplan,

01:20:39.706 --> 01:20:40.827
Dark Horse Comics,

01:20:40.867 --> 01:20:42.528
and it's called Masterminds.

01:20:43.229 --> 01:20:45.650
And this one is another technological

01:20:46.430 --> 01:20:51.314
horror thriller where a young

01:20:51.515 --> 01:20:52.496
up-and-comer,

01:20:53.275 --> 01:20:56.738
like brand-new billionaire tech genius is

01:20:56.779 --> 01:21:00.261
invited to a secret underground club for

01:21:00.322 --> 01:21:03.304
the ultra-wealthy tech billionaires.

01:21:05.264 --> 01:21:07.166
and basically from there it just like

01:21:07.225 --> 01:21:10.930
starts going to shit it becomes like

01:21:11.470 --> 01:21:14.932
nightmare fuel from a tech perspective and

01:21:14.972 --> 01:21:17.496
like the uh him trying to get into

01:21:17.536 --> 01:21:21.019
this club and like what he must go

01:21:21.059 --> 01:21:23.180
through to be a part of this club

01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:25.222
it goes haywire basically

01:21:26.519 --> 01:21:28.038
I'll leave it at that.

01:21:28.640 --> 01:21:30.600
The covers are really cool.

01:21:31.279 --> 01:21:32.900
The art is phenomenal.

01:21:33.161 --> 01:21:34.320
Zach Kaplan, I think,

01:21:34.381 --> 01:21:35.841
is a phenomenal writer.

01:21:37.242 --> 01:21:43.002
Up next, we're going to Italy, my friend.

01:21:44.403 --> 01:21:47.524
I just found this year there are a

01:21:47.724 --> 01:21:49.725
lot, and I do mean a lot,

01:21:49.944 --> 01:21:50.885
of really,

01:21:51.725 --> 01:21:54.746
really good Italian writers

01:21:55.729 --> 01:21:59.270
and artist, like, phenomenal,

01:21:59.310 --> 01:22:02.171
like their top, top notch, like,

01:22:03.051 --> 01:22:04.533
where have they been all my life?

01:22:04.632 --> 01:22:05.912
And why didn't I know?

01:22:06.953 --> 01:22:09.295
I mean, you know, there are like,

01:22:09.555 --> 01:22:11.314
a lot of good artists in Europe,

01:22:11.435 --> 01:22:12.996
a lot of good writers in Europe.

01:22:13.997 --> 01:22:16.337
But I'm disappointed that I'm just now

01:22:16.398 --> 01:22:19.099
discovering them in twenty twenty five,

01:22:20.059 --> 01:22:21.699
when I could have been enjoying them a

01:22:21.739 --> 01:22:22.260
lot longer.

01:22:23.069 --> 01:22:25.069
Better late than never, right?

01:22:25.131 --> 01:22:26.211
You're absolutely right.

01:22:26.470 --> 01:22:27.993
So this one is going to be called

01:22:28.653 --> 01:22:31.015
Don't Run With Scissors.

01:22:31.074 --> 01:22:34.657
And it's by Francesca Perillo.

01:22:35.738 --> 01:22:36.798
Yeah, I think it's Perillo.

01:22:38.300 --> 01:22:39.780
And it's by The King Spot.

01:22:40.881 --> 01:22:44.184
And basically it's about a small town

01:22:44.264 --> 01:22:47.145
sheriff who, like,

01:22:47.546 --> 01:22:49.247
all of a sudden murders start happening in

01:22:49.287 --> 01:22:50.929
the city and that kind of stuff.

01:22:52.130 --> 01:22:53.490
But it has really fun,

01:22:53.530 --> 01:22:56.854
quirky covers by the main artist.

01:22:59.457 --> 01:23:01.298
It was just such a good series.

01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:02.319
I don't want to give a lot of

01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:02.921
it away.

01:23:03.501 --> 01:23:07.746
But if you're into small-town murders and

01:23:07.786 --> 01:23:08.686
that kind of stuff,

01:23:08.726 --> 01:23:11.069
but with a sci-fi horror twist to it,

01:23:11.628 --> 01:23:12.850
this is the perfect story.

01:23:12.911 --> 01:23:13.771
Francesca...

01:23:14.912 --> 01:23:16.813
like i've discovered some of her other

01:23:16.853 --> 01:23:20.175
writings as well since then and she's

01:23:20.234 --> 01:23:23.817
brilliant and i hate myself for not

01:23:23.856 --> 01:23:27.359
knowing about her sooner i have to check

01:23:27.399 --> 01:23:30.100
that one out i'm certain that italian

01:23:30.140 --> 01:23:33.542
comic books uh i think she writes other

01:23:33.582 --> 01:23:36.344
things as well yeah i think i think

01:23:36.363 --> 01:23:38.125
some european comics get here uh

01:23:41.203 --> 01:23:42.925
I think we're being cheated out of a

01:23:42.965 --> 01:23:46.788
lot of good comic books right now because

01:23:46.849 --> 01:23:49.130
the postage is so high to get stuff

01:23:49.189 --> 01:23:49.711
over here.

01:23:50.752 --> 01:23:52.153
But I really do want to go back

01:23:52.172 --> 01:23:54.154
and start finding more of the Italian

01:23:54.354 --> 01:23:56.115
stuff, especially their horror,

01:23:56.737 --> 01:23:59.078
because it's different and it's fun.

01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:00.699
Yeah.

01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:04.502
And not only them, but Portugal as well,

01:24:04.802 --> 01:24:06.704
I think has some good ones.

01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:11.262
But next up, France.

01:24:11.283 --> 01:24:13.926
The UK, I know for a fact,

01:24:13.966 --> 01:24:17.269
has a lot of really good talented writers

01:24:17.389 --> 01:24:18.449
and artists.

01:24:19.430 --> 01:24:20.931
I know a handful of them.

01:24:21.032 --> 01:24:24.414
I've had them on the show before.

01:24:25.395 --> 01:24:28.198
But yeah, we need more of them.

01:24:28.759 --> 01:24:30.140
I want to discover more of them.

01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:30.260
Yeah.

01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:31.060
Yeah.

01:24:32.542 --> 01:24:33.144
But next up,

01:24:33.203 --> 01:24:35.125
we're staying in the Keen spot.

01:24:35.185 --> 01:24:37.887
That's K-E-E-N-S-P-O-T.

01:24:38.448 --> 01:24:40.409
Very much an indie publisher and very

01:24:40.449 --> 01:24:41.190
much, I think,

01:24:41.810 --> 01:24:43.752
producing some really good work this year.

01:24:43.773 --> 01:24:45.173
This has probably been one of their best

01:24:45.234 --> 01:24:47.416
years I've seen.

01:24:47.576 --> 01:24:48.596
And the next one is going to be

01:24:48.636 --> 01:24:49.877
from Mark Spears.

01:24:50.198 --> 01:24:51.479
Yes, that Mark Spears,

01:24:51.859 --> 01:24:53.782
who produces some of the coolest stuff.

01:24:55.253 --> 01:24:57.295
villain covers you will ever lay your eyes

01:24:57.335 --> 01:25:00.416
upon he has such a unique way with

01:25:00.456 --> 01:25:04.078
how he draws villains he's okay drawing

01:25:04.118 --> 01:25:08.479
heroes but his money to me is with

01:25:08.639 --> 01:25:11.740
villains and monsters and that's the name

01:25:11.761 --> 01:25:12.801
of the comic book we're going to be

01:25:12.860 --> 01:25:15.462
talking about is monsters think universal

01:25:15.502 --> 01:25:17.622
monsters they're all there and

01:25:18.907 --> 01:25:21.108
This story takes place in a small town

01:25:21.969 --> 01:25:23.789
and these kids discover Mr.

01:25:23.829 --> 01:25:28.231
Crowley's house and the Wolfman and

01:25:28.813 --> 01:25:31.573
Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein.

01:25:32.055 --> 01:25:33.916
There's vampires, you name it.

01:25:34.735 --> 01:25:36.936
It's his own really cool spin.

01:25:37.637 --> 01:25:39.599
So basically, back in the day,

01:25:39.639 --> 01:25:41.380
he made a board game or a card

01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.862
game based off the Universal Monsters.

01:25:46.149 --> 01:25:49.731
he then turned that card game into this

01:25:49.771 --> 01:25:53.453
comic book called monsters.

01:25:53.554 --> 01:25:56.716
It started out on a Kickstarter,

01:25:57.277 --> 01:25:58.257
like issue one.

01:25:58.438 --> 01:25:59.859
The only way you could get it originally

01:25:59.878 --> 01:26:00.979
was through Kickstarter.

01:26:01.539 --> 01:26:02.539
It got funded.

01:26:03.081 --> 01:26:04.902
Then the keen spot was like, Hey,

01:26:05.943 --> 01:26:06.682
we want it.

01:26:06.922 --> 01:26:08.784
Can we pick it up from you and

01:26:09.364 --> 01:26:11.145
imprint it for you and do all that?

01:26:11.185 --> 01:26:12.127
And yeah,

01:26:13.018 --> 01:26:14.918
Hence, now the Keen Spot has monsters.

01:26:14.939 --> 01:26:15.838
They rolled the dice,

01:26:16.639 --> 01:26:21.841
and it came up perfect because this book

01:26:21.881 --> 01:26:24.082
has just been amazing.

01:26:24.323 --> 01:26:26.764
A really cool story told from Mark Spears.

01:26:27.444 --> 01:26:29.425
The art's amazing, of course,

01:26:29.465 --> 01:26:30.685
because it's monsters,

01:26:31.265 --> 01:26:32.746
and it's done by Mark Spears.

01:26:34.006 --> 01:26:38.748
But, yeah, it's very special,

01:26:38.769 --> 01:26:39.569
and it's very cool.

01:26:41.243 --> 01:26:43.182
And I'm going to end this with something

01:26:43.203 --> 01:26:45.203
from Vault Comics,

01:26:45.884 --> 01:26:47.423
which I think Vault is very much

01:26:47.543 --> 01:26:51.385
underrated from a sci-fi and horror

01:26:51.564 --> 01:26:52.645
related fields.

01:26:53.664 --> 01:26:56.006
I think they could be bigger than what

01:26:56.046 --> 01:26:56.626
they are.

01:26:57.586 --> 01:26:59.627
And that's just based off what they've

01:26:59.667 --> 01:27:00.466
done this year.

01:27:02.546 --> 01:27:03.828
And that's going to be a book called

01:27:04.047 --> 01:27:04.568
Lilith.

01:27:04.887 --> 01:27:06.887
And it's by Corin Howell.

01:27:08.828 --> 01:27:10.929
It's basically about the demon Lilith.

01:27:12.282 --> 01:27:15.103
And she's after this book that is owned

01:27:15.122 --> 01:27:17.003
by this young lady,

01:27:17.884 --> 01:27:20.125
but she needs that book to get herself

01:27:20.185 --> 01:27:23.326
back to hell.

01:27:23.405 --> 01:27:24.525
It's a fun story.

01:27:24.945 --> 01:27:26.886
There was a hiccup with the printing on

01:27:27.067 --> 01:27:29.028
issue three, I think.

01:27:30.167 --> 01:27:32.448
So it almost didn't get finished because

01:27:32.469 --> 01:27:33.069
they weren't,

01:27:33.548 --> 01:27:34.869
I don't think they really wanted to go

01:27:34.890 --> 01:27:36.590
back and fix the misprint,

01:27:37.029 --> 01:27:38.411
but thankfully they did.

01:27:38.470 --> 01:27:40.792
It delayed it about four months or five

01:27:40.851 --> 01:27:41.631
months, I think.

01:27:42.759 --> 01:27:44.980
But then it finally got back on track

01:27:45.041 --> 01:27:46.021
and they finished it.

01:27:46.681 --> 01:27:48.564
But I know it's been renewed for a

01:27:48.644 --> 01:27:49.305
part two.

01:27:50.626 --> 01:27:51.506
But Corinne Howe,

01:27:52.067 --> 01:27:53.507
she's a phenomenal writer,

01:27:53.608 --> 01:27:54.708
phenomenal artist.

01:27:55.289 --> 01:27:57.091
She worked with a lot of really cool

01:27:57.411 --> 01:27:57.832
artists.

01:27:59.005 --> 01:28:02.787
cover artist on this book so she's going

01:28:02.806 --> 01:28:05.347
to take home what essentially is my last

01:28:05.467 --> 01:28:08.769
spot for my horror comics for twenty

01:28:08.788 --> 01:28:11.529
twenty five but this one's literally about

01:28:11.550 --> 01:28:16.051
a Lilith the demon Lilith and it's bloody

01:28:16.171 --> 01:28:19.673
it's gross it's got some S&M elements to

01:28:19.734 --> 01:28:22.715
it some BDSM type of murders to it

01:28:24.855 --> 01:28:27.537
it was a really fun comic book

01:28:29.662 --> 01:28:32.182
that's all comics actually has there's

01:28:32.283 --> 01:28:35.003
there's one coming that it's it's not from

01:28:35.043 --> 01:28:37.164
this year but i want to throw the

01:28:37.185 --> 01:28:39.945
name in because i think it wasn't it

01:28:39.985 --> 01:28:43.046
went over loop like you said i think

01:28:43.067 --> 01:28:46.967
it's it came out in i was named

01:28:47.167 --> 01:28:55.371
black stars above and it's uh very it

01:28:55.411 --> 01:28:58.391
happens in canada i think um

01:29:02.631 --> 01:29:06.934
It takes place within a snowstorm.

01:29:08.554 --> 01:29:15.578
You have the spirits that the indigenous

01:29:15.618 --> 01:29:19.118
people from Canada believe in and they

01:29:19.179 --> 01:29:19.859
interact with it.

01:29:19.939 --> 01:29:21.921
It's got a cosmic horror element to it.

01:29:21.940 --> 01:29:23.502
I don't know how to sell it because

01:29:23.542 --> 01:29:24.442
it's very unique.

01:29:26.123 --> 01:29:27.505
But I love those types of stories,

01:29:27.524 --> 01:29:29.626
like anything related to indigenous,

01:29:29.645 --> 01:29:30.667
like skinwalkers,

01:29:31.528 --> 01:29:32.948
which I think came out last year.

01:29:34.050 --> 01:29:35.631
It was part of twenty twenty four was

01:29:35.650 --> 01:29:37.032
a book called Skinwalkers.

01:29:37.692 --> 01:29:39.052
And then there was.

01:29:40.894 --> 01:29:43.936
The bone something which is very much

01:29:43.997 --> 01:29:47.158
similar are the bone ethos or something

01:29:47.198 --> 01:29:47.578
like that,

01:29:47.599 --> 01:29:51.261
which is another like supernatural horror

01:29:51.301 --> 01:29:54.064
to it that I thought was brilliantly done.

01:29:54.676 --> 01:29:56.277
And it was a part of another story.

01:29:56.317 --> 01:29:59.479
It was like the prequel to it or

01:29:59.520 --> 01:29:59.859
something.

01:30:01.121 --> 01:30:02.341
I can't remember what it was,

01:30:02.402 --> 01:30:04.243
but the Bone Ethos, I think,

01:30:04.344 --> 01:30:05.323
was the name of the story.

01:30:07.046 --> 01:30:08.987
But it was kind of like a line

01:30:09.027 --> 01:30:10.728
of a comic book that went together and

01:30:10.769 --> 01:30:12.090
told a big story.

01:30:12.109 --> 01:30:15.893
Oh, the Bone Orchid Ethos, right?

01:30:15.953 --> 01:30:17.052
Yeah, the Bone Orchids, yeah.

01:30:17.073 --> 01:30:19.454
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:30:19.475 --> 01:30:20.716
I heard about that one.

01:30:20.735 --> 01:30:22.478
That one was really good.

01:30:22.557 --> 01:30:22.938
Thank you.

01:30:23.810 --> 01:30:26.951
It kind of went along with the Skinwalkers

01:30:27.011 --> 01:30:28.152
and that kind of stuff,

01:30:28.692 --> 01:30:30.131
which I thought was another really

01:30:30.212 --> 01:30:33.613
brilliant sci-fi horror adventure type of

01:30:33.632 --> 01:30:34.234
comic book.

01:30:35.453 --> 01:30:39.435
It's based off of the Skinwalkers Ranch,

01:30:40.275 --> 01:30:41.756
which was a TV series.

01:30:42.716 --> 01:30:45.516
It's basically what they think they

01:30:45.938 --> 01:30:46.818
experienced.

01:30:47.662 --> 01:30:49.863
So it's been some really great horror

01:30:49.903 --> 01:30:51.564
comic books over the last couple of years.

01:30:51.623 --> 01:30:53.144
And I kept this just to twenty twenty

01:30:53.204 --> 01:30:53.564
five.

01:30:54.085 --> 01:30:56.426
Yeah, because there's so many.

01:30:56.445 --> 01:30:57.145
Because I mean,

01:30:57.185 --> 01:30:58.606
we could do a two or three hour

01:30:58.646 --> 01:31:00.608
show, really.

01:31:00.967 --> 01:31:03.109
And I wanted to keep it about this

01:31:03.448 --> 01:31:04.789
about an hour, hour and a half.

01:31:04.850 --> 01:31:05.890
And we're at an hour and a half

01:31:05.930 --> 01:31:07.110
now, which I think is perfect.

01:31:07.989 --> 01:31:09.792
And I did twenty twenty five because I

01:31:09.811 --> 01:31:12.373
wanted people to be able to still get

01:31:12.394 --> 01:31:14.737
their hands on these books, whether eBay.

01:31:15.277 --> 01:31:16.497
They can still probably get a lot of

01:31:16.518 --> 01:31:19.662
these from their local comic book shops or

01:31:19.702 --> 01:31:20.802
they can order online.

01:31:21.422 --> 01:31:23.685
So I hope people found something or heard

01:31:23.725 --> 01:31:25.726
something that they will enjoy and pick

01:31:25.847 --> 01:31:26.007
up.

01:31:27.314 --> 01:31:28.935
And let us know what they picked up,

01:31:28.954 --> 01:31:30.015
because that would be really dope.

01:31:30.114 --> 01:31:32.695
You got any more recommendations before we

01:31:32.735 --> 01:31:33.615
sign off, Fran?

01:31:35.136 --> 01:31:37.417
A little-known comic book.

01:31:37.577 --> 01:31:43.537
There's a comic book author named Emily

01:31:43.559 --> 01:31:44.078
Carl,

01:31:44.939 --> 01:31:50.460
and she has put out a new book

01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:51.740
that came out, I think,

01:31:51.940 --> 01:31:53.621
last month or something like that,

01:31:54.201 --> 01:31:56.261
named A Guest in the House.

01:31:56.819 --> 01:31:57.279
Oh, sorry.

01:31:57.319 --> 01:31:58.720
No, it came out two years ago.

01:31:58.761 --> 01:31:59.242
Well, whatever.

01:31:59.261 --> 01:32:02.344
I only learned about it last month.

01:32:03.585 --> 01:32:06.207
And she does some great,

01:32:06.266 --> 01:32:13.792
great horror that sometimes touches into

01:32:13.813 --> 01:32:15.953
the gothic horror subgenre.

01:32:16.054 --> 01:32:18.756
Sometimes it's more body horror inspired.

01:32:18.775 --> 01:32:22.979
There's definitely a psychological aspect

01:32:23.019 --> 01:32:23.359
to it.

01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:26.141
One of her stories was adapted into a

01:32:26.908 --> 01:32:29.090
an episode of the Guillermo del

01:32:29.170 --> 01:32:33.132
Toro-produced Netflix series.

01:32:33.153 --> 01:32:34.713
Okay, The Cabinet of Curiosities.

01:32:35.213 --> 01:32:35.654
Yeah.

01:32:37.956 --> 01:32:39.877
She's a great horror writer,

01:32:40.037 --> 01:32:42.038
a great horror artist, too,

01:32:42.059 --> 01:32:43.619
with a very particular style.

01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:45.980
I guess in the house is her most

01:32:46.020 --> 01:32:46.662
recent book.

01:32:47.561 --> 01:32:47.742
No,

01:32:48.082 --> 01:32:49.804
that was the one with the actor who

01:32:49.844 --> 01:32:51.364
played Ronald Weasley.

01:32:53.126 --> 01:32:54.667
He was the main character in that story.

01:32:58.185 --> 01:33:00.225
Uh, no, no, it was a different,

01:33:00.326 --> 01:33:00.726
it wasn't.

01:33:00.827 --> 01:33:01.186
Okay.

01:33:01.287 --> 01:33:02.067
It was one of the other ones.

01:33:02.146 --> 01:33:02.387
Okay.

01:33:02.988 --> 01:33:03.328
Yeah.

01:33:04.349 --> 01:33:05.448
Um, but no, that's,

01:33:05.469 --> 01:33:06.609
that was one of my favorite shows.

01:33:06.630 --> 01:33:09.032
I have that one favorited on a Netflix.

01:33:09.051 --> 01:33:13.895
Uh, uh,

01:33:13.914 --> 01:33:14.954
I want to tell you which one he

01:33:15.015 --> 01:33:17.037
was, uh, out the outside.

01:33:17.117 --> 01:33:19.198
I think was the, the episode.

01:33:19.217 --> 01:33:19.518
Okay.

01:33:19.537 --> 01:33:20.838
It was adaptive.

01:33:21.323 --> 01:33:22.262
I'll go back and check it out.

01:33:22.283 --> 01:33:23.724
I have to say the comic book is

01:33:24.184 --> 01:33:24.885
even better.

01:33:25.005 --> 01:33:27.246
So if you get your hands on Through

01:33:27.626 --> 01:33:27.926
the Woods.

01:33:27.945 --> 01:33:29.527
Send that to me after the show and

01:33:29.587 --> 01:33:32.588
I want to check that one out.

01:33:32.628 --> 01:33:34.850
But that's all we have for the horror

01:33:34.890 --> 01:33:38.350
recommendations for twenty twenty five.

01:33:38.712 --> 01:33:40.792
I hope you found something that you would

01:33:40.813 --> 01:33:42.434
be interested in and pick it up.

01:33:42.453 --> 01:33:43.014
And if you do,

01:33:43.194 --> 01:33:44.475
make sure you let us know, man.

01:33:45.114 --> 01:33:47.176
Shoot us a reply on this on YouTube

01:33:47.235 --> 01:33:48.756
or Facebook or Instagram.

01:33:49.679 --> 01:33:52.161
let us know what you picked up from

01:33:52.201 --> 01:33:53.862
the list if you decided to pick something

01:33:54.002 --> 01:33:57.404
up but with that fran tell everybody where

01:33:57.425 --> 01:33:59.926
they can find you well then you can

01:33:59.966 --> 01:34:05.572
find me in instagram at f-a-h uh dross

01:34:05.631 --> 01:34:11.076
uh or as francisco nilo everywhere it's uh

01:34:11.476 --> 01:34:13.217
it starts with an h it's easy to

01:34:13.257 --> 01:34:15.479
find um yeah

01:34:16.703 --> 01:34:19.364
And drawing as a comic book artist on

01:34:19.404 --> 01:34:22.648
Vitalirium, which is a great sci-fi.

01:34:22.768 --> 01:34:24.469
Amazing sci-fi series.

01:34:25.270 --> 01:34:29.853
You and... Yeah, Nick.

01:34:29.872 --> 01:34:30.154
Nick.

01:34:30.274 --> 01:34:30.953
Holy shit.

01:34:30.993 --> 01:34:31.414
Thank you.

01:34:32.234 --> 01:34:34.556
Nicholas Keaton Casabarro.

01:34:34.596 --> 01:34:36.398
Phenomenal.

01:34:36.438 --> 01:34:38.119
I know he's doing the tour right now.

01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:40.280
He's been at so many cons this year.

01:34:40.822 --> 01:34:42.502
I'm super proud of the dude for coming

01:34:42.542 --> 01:34:44.404
into an element that he wasn't familiar

01:34:44.423 --> 01:34:44.725
with.

01:34:45.612 --> 01:34:47.813
both with this sci-fi writing in general

01:34:47.853 --> 01:34:50.434
and making a book and going,

01:34:51.274 --> 01:34:52.734
let's make it a comic book too.

01:34:53.114 --> 01:34:55.916
He's absolutely killed it on both sides of

01:34:55.935 --> 01:34:56.176
that.

01:34:56.256 --> 01:34:58.457
I know he's working on book two while

01:34:58.516 --> 01:35:01.438
simultaneously working with Fran here to

01:35:01.497 --> 01:35:02.938
do the comic book as well.

01:35:03.057 --> 01:35:05.279
So shout out to Nick.

01:35:05.338 --> 01:35:05.958
You're a boy.

01:35:05.979 --> 01:35:07.079
We love you over here.

01:35:07.140 --> 01:35:09.761
I know I talked to him probably once

01:35:09.801 --> 01:35:10.501
a month as well.

01:35:11.621 --> 01:35:13.001
So I try to keep in touch with

01:35:13.042 --> 01:35:14.521
people that have come on the show and

01:35:14.561 --> 01:35:16.082
they've been two of my favorites.

01:35:16.582 --> 01:35:18.342
Hence why Fran is here tonight.

01:35:18.923 --> 01:35:20.984
Fran, we're going to do this again soon.

01:35:21.524 --> 01:35:22.305
I promise you.

01:35:22.984 --> 01:35:25.345
But until then, and to all our listeners,

01:35:25.426 --> 01:35:26.886
keep those lights dim.

01:35:27.365 --> 01:35:28.787
Your comic book's bad.

01:35:29.287 --> 01:35:30.106
And remember,

01:35:30.948 --> 01:35:34.469
every good horror story begins with

01:35:34.509 --> 01:35:35.349
curiosity.

01:35:35.389 --> 01:35:36.510
So until next time,

01:35:36.569 --> 01:35:37.930
which will be tomorrow,

01:35:37.949 --> 01:35:40.470
we'll be back for another Indie Comic Book

01:35:41.314 --> 01:35:44.256
Review and interview with the writer

01:35:44.617 --> 01:35:47.199
tomorrow night, seven p.m.

01:35:47.859 --> 01:35:50.301
So make sure y'all tune in to that.

01:35:50.842 --> 01:35:53.586
But this is the chairman signing off from

01:35:53.626 --> 01:35:55.407
the United States Department of Nerds

01:35:55.688 --> 01:35:58.430
until next time.

01:35:58.470 --> 01:36:00.131
Behave yourself out there, people.