Halloween Comics Recommedation Special

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Your ears do not deceive you. You've just entered the Cryptid Creator Corner brought to you by your friends at Comic Book Yeti. So without further ado, let's get on to the interview.

[00:00:10] [SPEAKER_06]: You ever been to a martial arts tournament like this?

[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_02]: When I was a kid, there was a used bookstore in town. I begged my mom to drop me off all the time. They had a loose stack of comics that I used to thumb through searching for secret gold.

[00:00:22] [SPEAKER_02]: One day, I came across Daredevil 189. That's that Frank Miller cover that's iconic with Dee Dee flying through the air and a hail of arrows.

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The book was a complete snobber knocker throwdown with the hand and Stick sacrifices himself to save Matt at the end.

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Ever since that moment, I have loved martial arts comic books.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So when fellow Yeti Alex Green reached out about his Kickstarter project From Within, I was excited to find out more about it.

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a 240 page martial arts revenge graphic novel about a slave fighting his way through a deadly tournament where the rules shift according to the whims of, you guessed it, a tyrannical emperor.

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Full of high impact fight sequences, it's sure to delight any fan of action focused fiction.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Artist Renzo Podesta kills the genre. See what I did there?

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And the whole project is already complete. So the hardest part, the one that makes you wait, is already done.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Bounce on over to Kickstarter and search for From Within.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll drop a link in the show notes to make it easy for you. Make sure to check it out.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it's good!

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Y'all, Jimmy the Chaos Goblin strikes again. I should have known better than to mention I was working on my DC Universe meets Ravenloft hybrid D&D campaign on social media. My bad.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_02]: He goes and tags a bunch of comics creators we know, and now I have to get it in gear and whip this campaign into shape so we can start playing.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Another friend chimes in, are you going to make maps?

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_02]: It's fair to say it's been a while since I put something together, so I guess? Question mark?

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_02]: It was then that I discovered Arkham Forge. If you don't know who Arkham Forge is, they have everything you need to make your TTRPG more fun and immersive.

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[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I'm set to easily build high res animated maps saving myself precious time and significantly adding nuance to our campaign.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a win every day in my book. Check them out at arkhamforge.com and use the discount code YETI5 to get $5 off.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll drop a link in the show notes for you, and big thanks to Arkham Forge for partnering with our show.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm going to make Jimmy play a goblin warlock just to get even.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, and welcome to Comic Book Yeti's Cryptid Creator Corner.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm one of your hosts, Jimmy Gasparo, and I, well, we have a very special episode today

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_04]: because I am here with the other host, Byron O'Neill.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, hello.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_04]: The recently announced comic book Yeti's editor in chief.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_04]: He has taken over for Matt Leggetti.

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Byron is the man with the plan.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_04]: He is in charge now, and he is navigating us through this new era.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And we're very excited today to bring you a special episode with another special guest.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_04]: The Cryptid Creator Corner's number one most dedicated fan, my brother, Bobby Gasparo.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_04]: He's here with us today, too.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And welcome, Byron. Welcome, Bobby.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for having me.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_04]: And you sound so excited.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_04]: He does.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to be bringing you, since it's October, as we're recording this, Halloween is just around the corner.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_04]: This is going to be our Halloween horror comic recommendations.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Byron already sat down with a couple of creators who have some dark horse books to do horror movie recommendations.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, this is since we are, you know, comic centric, our comics recommendations.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And the three of us have all kind of gotten our own separate list.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to see if we have any overlap.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_04]: We haven't really discussed too much what everybody's list is.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, we're excited to talk to you about horror comics.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you'll find some things that you you've read.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and maybe you're going to discover some some hidden gems that you don't know about that you're going to want to go out and get if you're a fan of horror comics.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, let's let's get into it.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Byron, this was kind of your idea.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_04]: So I think you should start with the first one, you know, at the top of your list.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start with Hillbilly, which is one of my favorite all time series, not just horror series, but just in general series.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is Eric Powell kind of doing the solo mission with this.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: But being from the South, loving anything that has to do with Appalachia, Appalachian folklore.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: So this was absolutely right up my alley.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of probably more best described as like a fantasy horror hybrid.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_02]: But basically anything that has Taile Poe and witches in it is it's in my book coming from the South.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Both of those two things are absolutely terrifying.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, we we've we heard tales of Taile Poe when I was a kid.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. What's what's Taile Poe?

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, OK.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: So Taile Poe is basically a demon.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, you can't just say something like, oh, Taile Poe and assume that everyone knows what you just said.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Taile Poe like like Santa Claus, like everyone's just like, oh, yeah, I get it.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's December.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what being from the South is like.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how real this is.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_02]: At least it wasn't in my family.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So my first exposure actually to Taile Poe was I was in elementary school and they

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds viral.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, they read it to the class.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And so what Taile Poe does is shows up and scratches on your wind your windows.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And think of like a nine tails.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So Taile Poe has tails.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And if you get a hold of one of these these tails, then he gets really pissed off.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And then he comes back and just basically tries to murder you.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_05]: So.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: He's often often visually presented as sort of a feline.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_04]: So they read this to you in grade school.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they were.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I was probably in first or second grade.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, OK.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So I go home and I'm terrified.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I tell my parents about Taile Poe and like they just jump on the bandwagon.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh, yeah.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a real thing.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Like what?

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Are you kidding?

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_02]: This is not real.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's real.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So it was presented, therefore, at that moment and in perpetuity, maybe just to mess with

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: me.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But as fact like that this thing existed.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_05]: No, thank you.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Terrifying.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Terrifying.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Scratches on your windows at night.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_02]: We had a pine tree.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It was right outside my bedroom when I was a kid.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And in the wind would brush against the window pane when I was trying to sleep sometimes

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_02]: and I would swear to God that like Taile Poe was right there scratching on my windows.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_02]: So so it's horror to me for sure.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, you know, you've got Rondell running around with his his big cleaver.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's basically an Appalachian Arthurian take.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're not familiar with it.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: OK.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm not.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not familiar with Eric Pound.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: He I mean, I I'm familiar with some of his work, but yeah, I'm not.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't read Hillbilly, so.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I love it.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely check it out up there at the top all time for me.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_04]: So awesome.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I feel like that's a nice segue into one of the ones that's on the top of my list,

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_04]: which is Harrow County, which is Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It's from Dark Horse Comics.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_04]: And I, I read I got from the Brandy 100 library, the local library near me, the library editions, which were are fantastic.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_04]: A ton of stuff in them there.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they're absolutely gorgeous books, but, you know, it's it's another kind of set in the south.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, Emmy, it lives in, uh, you know, her her seemingly quiet little town filled with supernatural critters and paints and all kinds of different, different, different things, which is.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, yeah, it, it really, it, it, it develops slow, kind of slowly, um, in terms of like the, the overarching, I guess, mythology of it.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_04]: But there's another group called the family.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, Emmy has a best friend, her niece, and she's kind of in training at some point to be like a good witch.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And then there's the tale of like Hester Beck, who was like a witch that kind of tormented this town in the past.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't want to get too much into the weeds of it, but it's just a fantastic comic.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_04]: I absolutely love it.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and also I've recently played, they made off the page games, made a Harrow County board game.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, that Dan Nixon, who's, you know, handle some of the tabletop reviews for comic book Yeti, him and I have played it.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And I, I really love it.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, you, you, somebody is Emmy and somebody else is the family and you basically, you know, are kind of battling it out on a, on a board.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but it's, it's pretty fun mechanics, but yeah, Harrow County is one of my favorites and kind of, uh, that makes sounds like it may a good double feature hillbilly and Harrow County.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, absolutely would.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm supposed to interview Tyler about the, so the library editions are out, but I don't know if this is an omnibus.

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it is.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's a big, big collecting the entire thing in, in one volume that's going to drop.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: So I just started rereading it, uh, like two nights ago.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So fantastic series.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I absolutely love it.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_04]: All right, Bobby, let's see, hit, hit us with your first one.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_04]: What do you got?

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, I went with an easy one.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I did, um, deceased.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_06]: So, uh, that's nice.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I personally collected the horror movie covers.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_06]: So I have them hung up in my basement or in my bedroom actually, because the Tom Taylor signed each of them.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but it's pretty simple of your, um, just your heroes and your villains turning into zombies.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's pretty much all that, that it is.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And it continues from there to turn into, you can collect things like, um, dead planet, war of the undead gods, a good day to die, unkillables and hope at world's end.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_06]: So you can read the regular six that it comes with, or you can continue to constantly have fun things, scare you at night.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So these are up in your bedroom?

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_06]: My wife was nice enough when I filled the wall in the basement with comics to let me put really nice ones up in the bedroom.

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_06]: So when you first walk in, they're like on either side when you walk in.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_02]: You scored.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: That's amazing.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, uh, flash number one of five is a CGC.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's hung up there.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Jimmy got me a, uh, Hulk that's signed by Jason Aaron, I think.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's some, that's some good ones up there.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_04]: I really liked deceased.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't read any of the other stuff because they kind of created their own.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I think like deceased DC created their own like deceased universe.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_04]: But I read the original six and the, um, the, I really liked all the, the, the, the, like horror movie covers that they did.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, because that, well, I guess because they did an it one, right?

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's the Damien or somebody is the, as the kid with the balloon.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And you see, uh, Joker through the balloon.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's pretty cool.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And then they did a wonder woman one the second time around.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and they did an Elm street nightmare on Elm street with poison Ivy or Batgirl.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Possibly.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Did the original six have the arc with the creeper in it and death stroke?

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause that's the one I've read.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I don't remember.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Death, death strokes.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Definitely a character like a somewhat of a, a big character in, Oh yeah.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_04]: In deceased.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: The one I read, I love, I love the creeper.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_02]: So I just, that's the thing that I remember that stands out to me is the creeper was in

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_02]: it.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, that's a good one.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I really, I really liked this.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I like, I like Tom Taylor and I, he, he, he wrote all of those.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_06]: And the art is phenomenal though.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_02]: That's definitely a good one.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I will take the next one and I'm going with infidel because who doesn't love a haunted

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_02]: house story?

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and this is a haunted house story for the 21st century.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I really love the perspective from an American Muslim woman, you know, and the idea

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: that these xenophobic entities that are in this building are basically being, they're, they're fed by that.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So it was, I thought it was just absolutely amazing.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It's truly frightening.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's like the, I think the best haunted house take I've seen in comics.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So I absolutely love that.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: That book.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really good.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Love haunted houses.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Have you read it or?

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I haven't.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, I haven't read it.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm, I'm, I feel like I thought this would be a bit more for the listeners, but I'm like

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_04]: taking notes over here.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, all right, I got to read hillbilly.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Got to read infidel.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, it was porn sack.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so it was his first big introduction, um, kind of on the back end, you know, being

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_02]: the vertigo editor and everything like that.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So that was his first big foray.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And Aaron Campbell is the artist on it.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's, oh, wow.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really good.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, fantastic.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I love that.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_04]: I like a good haunted house tale.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, my next one though, uh, which anyone who's heard me talk about horror comics before,

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_04]: this will probably be no surprise, but my next one is, is witches, which I absolutely

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_04]: love.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Scott Snyder and, uh, Jock is, uh, handles the artwork in it.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, it's through, uh, it's an image comics basically tells the story of the Rook

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_04]: family and they, their daughter sailor, uh, has some issues in her school with a bully.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_04]: The bully kind of disappears and people blame sailors.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So they moved to, to, uh, I think it's Litchfield, New Hampshire.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_04]: And what they don't know is that the, the woods nearby have witches, um, and people pledge

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_04]: someone else, I guess, usually a child, um, to these witches and the witches grant them

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_04]: a boon.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and it, it, it, that's kind of like the, I guess the underlying like premise of it.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I think it's absolutely terrifying.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and it's, I've heard Scott Snyder talk about it before that it was, he's kind of putting,

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_04]: he kind of put all of his anxiety about fatherhood into this, into this comic.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I read it the first time, not knowing that.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And I read it again after I had read that, that interview with him and it kind of really

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_04]: gives it a different perspective considering I probably read it the first time shortly after

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I had first become a father.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and, uh, I think the dad is, is Charlie in it.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, a lot about Charlie and sailors relationship, especially where the comic goes.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_04]: So if you haven't read which is like, I can't recommend it enough.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_04]: It's absolutely wonderful.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And also, um, they've Scott's talked about it on social media, but there it's going, I

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_04]: think they've already wrapped the writing for season one.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I think they greenlit season two.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be an animated series on Amazon.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, so if, uh, you know, so check that, I don't know what it's when the first episodes

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_04]: are going to drop, but, um, yeah, read the comic and then you'll get to watch the show too.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Witches.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't do that.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Fuck that.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: That, that, that I've got a true confession here.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_02]: That is the one comic book that I've picked up and I've gotten in and they have the witch

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_02]: in the tree.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, nah, I'm fuck this.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm out.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm done.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Can't do it.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I put it down and everybody says, you'll love this.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_02]: It's so good.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, yeah, but I want to sleep that night whenever I read it.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if it was because it's probably similar, similar timeframe with my son and seeing

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_02]: stuff and just being a dad and anything that channels that I'm like, yeah, not, I want to

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_02]: be entertained.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And I know I love horror, but no, not doing it.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not watching that.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_04]: What if they gave the witch like a name, like a, like, like a British candy or pastry?

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Cause that's what Tally post sounds like.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Like something you would get it.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Like what if they called it like a, it's not witches.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a jammy Dodger.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I love that.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I could, I could, I could get into a jammy Dodger.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Name of name, name of an actual British cookier, I guess biscuit.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: But, uh, I don't know.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Jammy Dodger sounds like something that would drop really soon, uh, in a political rally

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_02]: about now.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just, I don't know.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It just has that ring to it.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, all right, Bobby, what'd he got?

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_06]: What's your next one?

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_06]: That's a good segue.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Cause mine's also going to be a TV show, but I have something is killing children.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a series by James Tinian.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_06]: We know, but what's your comic?

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Pause for laughter.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_06]: And then, uh, so tidied and then I can't pronounce it, but anyway, boom studios, um, since September

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_06]: 2019, I'm still laughing, Jimmy.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_06]: You're funny.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_06]: It's about a serious woman named Erica slaughter who arrives in archers peak to reveal the terrifying

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_06]: creatures are behind the children going missing.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Something is killing children spun off with a house of slaughter and the comics world.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_06]: And is also going to be an upcoming American horror television series made for Netflix.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder how long that's going to take before it's out.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm surprised that the series is like, there, there aren't, there are not that many long

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_04]: running like creator own series, you know?

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_04]: But I mean, I, I want to say that something is killing the children is I think close to issue

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_04]: 40 if maybe, maybe already at 40.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's like, you know, kind of unheard of.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_04]: It really is.

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Like there aren't many, there aren't many like non big two books that get that kind of run.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_06]: You pick up every issue for me.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So should know what they're on by now.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Was it that you were trying to, to get out because I screwed that up.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So don't feel bad.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_02]: The artist.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I couldn't pronounce the last name.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_02]: I was there.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_02]: The last name.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Worth or Della Dara.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_06]: You got it.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_02]: But Tate had to correct me on the pronunciation of that.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I love something is killing the children.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I'm actually planning on going, uh, with the, the green mask, uh, for Halloween.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, nice.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully at some point they'll actually delve more into the dragon slayers.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's it.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I wish, I wish I had gotten that mask.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_06]: That would be my COVID mask.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Like to wear that, the original black one with the white teeth.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Yup.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Yup.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_04]: I also really think like, I, I like the convention in comics now to give comics like

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_04]: longer names.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I do enjoy that.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Like something is killing the children.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, they're, we only find them when they're dead.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, the things I love that.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I'd also like with when you only have like 22 pages, maybe 23 to tell a story.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And like, there's like two pages that are just the title.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Like in every issue.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just black, big white lettering.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Something is killing the children.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what it is, but I'm like, I'm like, this is silly.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_04]: And then, and then like a couple issues in, I'm like, I just, I love it.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what it is.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Like there's a couple of breath you're about to take before you get into the bad

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_04]: stuff.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_06]: There's a couple of comics and I don't want to mention them because I have a feeling

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_06]: they're going to be on people's list, but they always leave you wanting more.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_06]: There's maybe four things of dialogue per page, a little bit of action, but just enough.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And then it's like, it's like draws it out, but it's like, oh my gosh, once you finish

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_06]: that comic, you want to read the very next issue.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Like they just should have come up with a better acronym.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause I'm sure the kids in the shop are just like, Hey, have you got the new sick?

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Whatever, or however you say that.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, that's way too complicated.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's take a quick break.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_02]: After a string of unexplained disappearances in the Southern parts of the United States,

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_02]: retired detective Clint searches for his white trash brother while searching for him.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_02]: He ends up being abducted by aliens.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_02]: He is now in the arena for big guns, stupid rednecks, an intergalactic cables,

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_02]: newest hit show, which puts him and the other humans in laser gun gladiatorial combat.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And his brother is the reigning champion with 27 kills.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the premise for a new book from band of Barnes, big guns, stupid rednecks.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I got a chance to see an advanced preview of this book and being from the South, honestly,

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I was a bit skeptical going in, but they won me over and nothing is more powerful than an initially

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_02]: skeptic convert in my book. In Jimmy's words, big guns, stupid rednecks is many things, but it isn't subtle.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It tells you exactly what it is upfront.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Then it delivers with a great premise, fantastic art and a whole mess of fun.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I had a great time reading big guns, stupid rednecks and what I thought was going to be an indictment of redneck culture

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_02]: quickly showed it was actually a love letter, a family mystery, brother pitted against brother,

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_02]: aliens fighting for profit and a big arena. This truly has it all.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Issue one is out already, but you can still pick up a copy on the band of Barnes website

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_02]: and current issues are available via your previews or lunar order form, or just ask your LCS.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't miss it. Let's get back to the show.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_02]: So next one should come as no surprise, given my background in photography, but dark room.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, I don't know if either of you were fans of the old, uh, Friday the 13th television series.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. Which had almost nothing to do with the movie franchise.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Right, right. But it was all cursed objects. And I love the idea of cursed objects, you know,

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: especially a cursed camera, you know, and, and that you have a, an undeveloped photo with the face of

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_02]: quote, true evil, like whatever that is, you know, threatening to wipe out New York city.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And you've got like werewolves and secret societies and the cursed objects.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just bonkers. So I know they're working right now on the second, uh, book of that.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, I know some people who love singles, that maybe it's a kind of a bummer, but I mean, I, as somebody who, who buys mostly graphic novels, like I, I absolutely love having the full thing, you know, in my hands at, at one time to just pour through it.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So, but yeah, yeah, absolutely. Dark room is, is one of my favorites. Amazing.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Nice. Awesome.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_04]: It sounds like, yeah, I don't know. I haven't read that. I haven't read that either.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_04]: So I have, I have three on Byron's list that I got to go.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm making this expensive.

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_02]: To make it expensive.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, now, now, now, now's where we should mention, uh, that it will have links in the show notes.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And if you, you, you click on to the Amazon links to buy any of these books, you can be, you can help out the cryptic creator corner.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And everything we do.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, nice shirt, Bob.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Bob's, uh, Bob's wearing his comic book.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_06]: He's represented my brother, Jimmy, that got me the shirt.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_06]: So thank you, Jimmy.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_06]: You're my number one fan.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'm your number one fan.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how it goes.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Both are true.

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, fans.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_04]: My next one, uh, is the plot, uh, vault comic series written by Tim Daniel, Michael, Maurice, Josh Hickson on art.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and yeah, I just absolutely fell in love with, uh, with this series.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, there's, there's two volumes of it, uh, two trades that, that you can get.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_04]: It's set in 1974 in Maine.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_04]: So it already has some kind of like Stephen King vibes.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Cause everything's in Maine with, uh, with King's work.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but basically chase Blaine, his estranged brother, they don't have a great relationship.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_04]: His brother dies oddly.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, it's, it's very atmospheric.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it's very much about like legacy and generational trauma at the heart of it.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but there, there is a bog monster too.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_04]: So it's, it's not just, you know, it's not just all heady, heady concepts, but, um, yeah, I, I just fell in love with the plot.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, and it found it very, very disturbing.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, there's a quote in it that's repeated a couple of times throughout that is pretty important, which has always stuck with me, which is, uh, in order to receive first, you must give.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And that kind of plays a, an, an important role in, in talking about this, this family, but yeah, the, uh, artwork's absolutely incredible.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_04]: And I just really love that story.

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm a huge fan of Michael Morisi anyway.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, and Tim Daniel as well.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_04]: And I just think they really crushed it on that vault series.

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_04]: When did that come out?

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Because I missed that one somehow.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I want to, I can look it up.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I want to say one.

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_04]: One E 18.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I'm that's, I would, I, that's when I would, I would say right around there.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to look to see how the, the, the first volume of the trade came out February 26 of 2020.

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Can't imagine what was going on right around then that you would have missed it.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Fair.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_06]: All right, Bobby, you're next.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I, I don't think I should read my next one.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, I realize I have a problem now because if you do mine back to back anyway, mine's called kill your darlings.

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_06]: So eight year old.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Nothing.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Nothing.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_07]: I just, eight year old Rose loves that.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_07]: It's got a good acronym.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: It's kid.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Eight year old Rose loves nothing more than to play pretend in a magical land of her own creation.

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_06]: To her, that world is as real as our own from our fluffy friends to the terrible evil that lurks at the center of it all.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_06]: And one night, the line between fantasy and reality will disappear.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_06]: And ancient hunger will feed again.

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And Rose will be pulled into a gruesome saga that began centuries before her birth.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_06]: The writers are, uh, Ethan S Parker and Griffin Sheridan.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And the art team was Bob Quinn and John J Hill.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And they did an amazing job.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I had, I had Griffin and Ethan and Bob on the podcast, uh, twice.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, I, I just, I just love kill your darlings.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I mean, I, it's, there's the, the story is very interesting.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_04]: There's some familiar elements of it.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_04]: A little, a little, little like wizard of Oz kind of element, like Alice in Wonderland ask.

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, yeah, but yeah, unbelievably dark.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and especially the inhabitants of like the fantasy world are very like cute and, and cuddly and fuzzy and terrible, terrible things happen to them.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_08]: Terrible.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_08]: Like so bad.

[00:29:21] I know.

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I, I mean, because they've been around comics for a while, but I think this is, was like, they're not Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob Quinn's done a ton of stuff, but for Ethan and Griffin, I think this, they worked on this series for like a few years.

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and this was like, I think their first big, you know, big published work.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, yeah, I thought they crushed it.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_04]: It's like eight issues and it's phenomenal.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. I agree, Bobby. That's a great one.

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it is.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I think Bob's working on X factor right now.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, is he really?

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_02]: If I'm not mistaken.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And I didn't know if you've seen the announcement, but, um, I know that the two writers just announced another book that they have coming out.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So, oh no.

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll have to check that out.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Get them on.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, great one though.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_04]: I love to kill your darling.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Kill your darlings.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's take that again.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_04]: We just cut here and kill your darlings.

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_04]: I can speak good words.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_04]: All right, Byron.

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's your turn.

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_04]: You're up.

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_04]: What do you got?

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Easy one.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Dark ride, which I think is like the purest horror book that I have on my list.

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I mean, who doesn't love a, a, basically a, a devil's theme park, right?

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Devil land.

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so it's a horror themed amusement park that is the, the feature for a family drama with two kids and their dad and legacy that's involved and taking over this.

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And it is just all kinds of creepy.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's, it's the perfect pairing that I didn't know that I needed, you know, was this a theme park and Satan.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So I think it's just amazing.

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I was a huge fan of Joshua Williamson anyways, since, uh, since nail biter, which is really what he wrote.

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_02]: They got me absolutely hooked.

[00:31:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and I think it's just so, so creepy to have these, what appear to be little cuddly things.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Only they're super demonic, like running around all the time and awful, awful things happening to people who visit the park.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Who willingly want to be.

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you met Bob's children?

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Fun times.

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, yeah, I read, I read volume one and I thought it was great.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I gotta, I gotta read.

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I think volumes two and three are out now.

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_04]: They finished it up.

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that's done at three.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_04]: I liked volume one a lot.

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_04]: So that was a good pick.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Great.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Have you read that one, Bobby?

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_06]: No.

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I live.

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all you have to say.

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, for my next one is a somewhat of a newer series, but I really liked it.

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and kind of continuing on with the, the, the satanic theme, the devil that wears my face.

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, made cave studios, David Peppos, Alex Cormac lettered, uh, by Justin Birch.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I think it's six issues and it's set in 1740.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and then, uh, uh, to, uh, to, uh, to perform an exorcism.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and, and things go terribly, terribly wrong for father Vieri.

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, it was first kind of build or, or pitched as, um, I think the exorcist meets, uh, face off.

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, so, you know, uh, essentially father Vieri goes to perform this exorcism.

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_04]: He gets trapped in the body of the guy.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_04]: He was trying to get the demon out of.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And then the, the demon, um, takes over father Vieri's body.

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And who is now, uh, you know, a Catholic priest, who's very close to the Pope and the higher ups at the Vatican.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And nothing good happens.

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Tell you that, but, but it's, it's, I think it's great.

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I think, I mean, I'm a huge, huge, uh, Alex Cormac fan.

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I love, I mean, the three books that he's done, um, with, uh, Rich Dweck and Justin Birch are all phenomenal, which one of them is, is, is next on my list when I, uh, it's my turn to come around again.

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, the devil that wears my face.

[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_04]: I just thought it was, I just thought it was great.

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Someone who went to, you know, was an altar boy and 16 years of Catholic school.

[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, yeah, I, I just, all that, all of that mythology, I eat the, the 1740 setting I thought was interesting and just kind of terrifying.

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, just this idea that there is a demon inhabiting your body and you're, you know, watching them do everything you were trapped in someone, someone else.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And you can't really do anything about it.

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, yeah, it's, it's pretty gross at times.

[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_04]: It's, uh, yeah, uh, highly recommend.

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I need to pick up the trade of that.

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Mad cave sent the first issue and I read that and I really enjoyed it.

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And it was super dark, like not just, okay, dark content, but the visually, it was really, really dark.

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those things that I've gone back.

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And when mad cave had the, um, their talent search and I was looking at options to take a shot at coloring something that one actually scared me.

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, that, that is a style that I don't think I could pull off.

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, because it's just so heavily shadowed.

[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so yeah.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's Alex doing the art and coloring.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_02]: That makes a lot of sense.

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause if you already designed your shadows with the intent to color it a certain way, it would make it a lot easier for sure.

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a, that's a really good one.

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, all right, Bobby, what do you got?

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, all right.

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_06]: This is my last one.

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_06]: So I, but, and then you guys can go back and forth cause mine it's a double.

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So this is, uh, from my favorite or current favorite, um, band ice nine kills.

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_06]: This is inked in blood one and two.

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_06]: So two finally came out.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_06]: It was long awaited.

[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_06]: It felt like a whole year I waited for it.

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, so tying in the events of ice nine kills next cinematic album, the silver scream inked in blood follows a bullied teen.

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Super fan.

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Who's convinced that her favorite front man could never have committed the grotesque crimes for which he's now standing trial.

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_06]: But when a well-intentioned show of support backfires, the super fan finds herself locked in a life or death battle against the copycat killer.

[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Whose depravity makes your favorite slasher film seem tame by comparison.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_06]: That's the first one.

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, you want to jump right into the second one?

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, no, go ahead.

[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_03]: And then I have a couple of questions for you, but go ahead.

[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_04]: What's yeah.

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_06]: What's what's inked in blood to about everybody loves a sequel, uh, picks up the bloody trail left by the debut graphic novel from ice nine kills.

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Following the shocking events of the first installment, Heather Thompson and her mother relocated to idyllic, uh, marsh scotch, Massachusetts.

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Anybody in hopes of building a new life, but the pair can't escape the past as a new series of murders unfold with Spencer Charnis.

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_06]: That's the lead singer.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_06]: That's the lead singer.

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I sign kills once again, a prime suspect.

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, so this was actually crafted by, uh, Spencer himself.

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, did the story with a frequent collaborator, Ryan J. Downey, a longtime journalist.

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_06]: The interior art was by Georgia Sposito and Nino Camerata with cover art by Mike Cordata.

[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of it rhymes.

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_04]: So I wanted to ask, uh, so this was, I think published by Z, is it Z two comics?

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that right?

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And just the first one was written by Steven Fox.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Sorry about that.

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I should know that.

[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Make sure.

[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Got that in.

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Steve's been on the podcast with Byron a couple of times.

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Like six times and he's going to be back in December.

[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_04]: So I think Steve and Spencer wrote the first one.

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And then I think Ryan, Danny and Spencer wrote inked in blood too.

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah.

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_04]: So how did you first hear about, I mean, I'm assuming you heard about the band first

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_04]: and then found out about the comic, but how did you first kind of get into ice nine kills

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_04]: and what, how, how would you describe their style of music?

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's clearly country, right?

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a very folk, uh, bluegrass.

[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_06]: There's a, no, it's a guy at work, uh, Frank Melfi.

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_06]: He listens to a lot of bands.

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_06]: There's some, uh, death metal and some screaming and some singing.

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I like the bands that sing more.

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And, um, so he started playing ice nine kills and I was like, I can get into that.

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_06]: And he's like, you gotta watch the video.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And Spencer comes out and it's a show.

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Like it's what we're doing right now.

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's horror.

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Like he has a different mask and get up.

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a Freddie, Jason, like everything.

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And every song that they do kind of is based, not based off of film, but that's kind of like

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_06]: where he pulls the stuff from.

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And then it's, he does his own video and everything.

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's, it's amazing.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, when we were on one of our road trips, uh, speaking of horror, we had to, we, we had to fly down to Florida to pick up our uncle's ashes and drive them back in less than 48 hours.

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That was fun.

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but I remember at one point I was asking Bob about ice nine kills and he's like, Oh, I'll put some on for you.

[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_04]: And then I meet as soon as he did, I immediately drove into a ditch.

[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Just just that was it.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_04]: That was it.

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, true story.

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I'm kidding.

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_04]: It's, uh, it's just, it's not for me.

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you like it though.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Love it.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So is it, is it like Pantera esque sort of?

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, sure.

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_02]: He's going with that.

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that the guy from a Thundercats?

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_02]: No, that actually that guy is, is gone.

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's Panthro.

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_02]: That's Panthro.

[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_02]: This reminds me of an actual horror show that I witnessed.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, do either of you know who Gigi Allen is?

[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_02]: You okay.

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_02]: You know who he is, Bobby?

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know anybody.

[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_02]: So Gigi Allen was like a shock rocker of the nth degree.

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Like it just, nobody went as, as far as, as Gigi Allen.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So his band was Gigi Allen and the murder junkies.

[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And he promised committed, I guess that he was going to commit suicide on stage.

[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and then he had a, he was, I don't know if he's got sick or there was an overdose.

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember the story, but, um, anyway, he died before he could commit suicide on stage.

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but I was at a show with my buddy, Tommy and Lars Ulrich of Metallica, uh, a Gigi Allen show.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And the guy comes out, he's got combat boots and like a black thong on.

[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And the crowd was not excited enough at his presence that night.

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So what he did, because they weren't moshing hard enough, was he proceeded to shove the microphone up his ass and then swing it around like he was at a rodeo.

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So it was, it was the best thing.

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's swinging out in this massive arc and you just see the crowd partying and everybody trying to push back and push back and just back.

[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So they don't get hit by a microphone.

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the most metal thing.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Horror wise I have ever personally witnessed.

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you don't know Gigi Allen, now you do.

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_03]: So your stories make me sad.

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I was going to use that as like a pitch for the Patreon for the kind of stories I'm telling.

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it back.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, no, I, I think it's great.

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's great.

[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but, uh, and then save the reenactments though, for your only fans.

[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Please.

[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_08]: Ice Nine Kills is not like that.

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_08]: So.

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, I actually, I did like, I, I did like some of it that Bobby was playing.

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Have you heard of Bloody Wood or know who they are?

[00:42:08] [SPEAKER_02]: No.

[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God.

[00:42:10] [SPEAKER_02]: So this is my, my, my metal band of interest right now.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So, um, they're Indian and it is a mix of like folk, Indian music and, and metal.

[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So if that sounds like it might be up your alley, check out Bloody Wood.

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They got a new song that just dropped, I think last Friday.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Amazing stuff.

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So.

[00:42:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.

[00:42:33] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Jimmy's like, I don't know who any of these were doing, doing.

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_08]: Jimmy's like, I had that incident happened to me yesterday.

[00:42:40] Morning.

[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Bloody Wood.

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_04]: You know what?

[00:42:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Grow up.

[00:42:44] [SPEAKER_07]: I couldn't.

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_07]: I was holding back.

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_07]: You're in your forties.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_04]: You're in your forties.

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, everybody listening is thinking the same thing.

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Show some respect.

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I hate myself.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I don't even know whose turn it is now.

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't either, but I think it's you.

[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go.

[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's you.

[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_02]: So this was a recommendation that I had, uh, for original graphic novel from the first

[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_02]: ice awards we did.

[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's silk Hills, which is amazing.

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_02]: So this is another set surprise surprise in Appalachia.

[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_02]: And you have all these, and this is really all these abandoned mining towns.

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So you have Beth Willis, who's pulled into this mining town from kind of on the behest

[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_02]: of a local, you know, like tycoon sort.

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And she gets wrapped up in all these really weird, surreal things.

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_02]: There's like the drug trade, the local drug trade, uh, psychoactive moth dust, this incredibly

[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_02]: creepy.

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't get it out of my head.

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Deer, uh, that Brian level cooked up.

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And the only thing that I guess it's still relevant in silk Hills is a moth man merchandise.

[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So everybody, that's the only reason anybody comes there.

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So it is just the perfect slice of Appalachian folk weirdness and absolutely love it.

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It's an awesome book.

[00:44:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Nice.

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[00:44:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[00:44:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I haven't read that either.

[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_05]: I'd like Brian, Brian level though, but I guess it's my turn next.

[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, all right.

[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And so, uh, well, I, I kind of already mentioned this a little bit, or at least alluded to it.

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but the next one on my list I would have is sea of sorrows.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_04]: It's rich Dweck, Alex Cormac again.

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_04]: So Alex is showing up twice on my list.

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, and Justin Birch letters it's from IDW.

[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So rich and, and Alex and Justin, um, they have kind of a series of three books.

[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, the first was road of bones.

[00:44:49] [SPEAKER_04]: The second was sea of sorrows.

[00:44:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And the third was breath of shadows.

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Out of those three, sea of sorrows is my favorite.

[00:44:57] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I, uh, I believe it's set in the twenties right after world war one.

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, the, uh, I can't recall in the, in the book, like how it is initially discovered.

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but some folks get together and essentially hire the SS vagabond because they believe that

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_04]: they have found the location of a sunken German U boat, uh, that has gold on it.

[00:45:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and so they are trying to recover the gold and they find a lot more than gold, uh, at the

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_04]: bottom of the ocean.

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, it's got like really twisted kind of murderous mermaids in it.

[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, the crew also kind of turns on each other.

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_04]: It can get, it gets kind of claustrophobic.

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_04]: The, the it's, it's another book that like visually is also very dark in terms of like,

[00:45:52] [SPEAKER_04]: under the water and in like different parts of the ship.

[00:45:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, it, yeah, I just thought it was wonderful and absolutely terrifying.

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And I, uh, a lot about the trauma that all of these characters have kind of gone through

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_04]: after world war one, whether or not they participated in it or just saw things on the sidelines.

[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, that's kind of like in the DNA of it, but also I, if I, I don't like deep water at all.

[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Like I don't, I, I keep, I'm scrolling through social media, like Twitter or Tik TOK and there's

[00:46:28] [SPEAKER_04]: something filming underwater.

[00:46:30] [SPEAKER_04]: It gives me the creeps.

[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I don't like looking at it like nature, nature documentaries above the waters.

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Fine.

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_04]: As soon as they take that camera underwater, I, I, I don't like it.

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Like especially open water or if it's really deep.

[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And there are a couple of pages in sea of sorrows that really get to me because of that.

[00:46:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Fear that, that, that I have the kids think it's hilarious.

[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_04]: They'll like surprise me with showing me like a shark or something underwater.

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I just, I hate even dolphins.

[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't matter like what the animal is.

[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_04]: I just really get creeped out unless it's, you know, by stuff underwater.

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_04]: So sea of sorrows really kind of, um, unnerved me in that way.

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_02]: We need to hit you up with some exposure therapy.

[00:47:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_03]: No, thank you.

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_03]: No, thank you.

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I just, I prepared your, your dislike of deep water.

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And I learned to scuba dive with some friends who were down, um, below Miami and the homestead

[00:47:30] [SPEAKER_02]: area.

[00:47:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And the night before my open water test, we went to go see that Samuel L. Jackson movie

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_02]: with the sharks.

[00:47:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And I cannot remember what that's called.

[00:47:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Deep blue sea.

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Deep blue sea.

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That one.

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_02]: So I should not have done that.

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_02]: That was not a good choice.

[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:47:49] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll admit that.

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_02]: But you, we should help you get over it.

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no, thank you.

[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_06]: In a tank with sharks.

[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Do it.

[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I mean, I can go in the ocean and I've, I've gone snorkeling in like, I mean, not anything

[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_04]: too deep.

[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Probably the deepest was maybe 40 or 50 feet of water.

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, I didn't like it.

[00:48:11] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, there was like a, some type of sunken ship.

[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I knew some dumb dumb who made ever his whole family go to Aruba for a wedding.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, we went snorkeling.

[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Bobby.

[00:48:24] [SPEAKER_04]: That's why I was not changing.

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_06]: I was not giving it away.

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I was pretending like I don't know who you're talking about.

[00:48:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Aruba is great though.

[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_04]: I dove there.

[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, yeah.

[00:48:33] [SPEAKER_04]: So it was like a sunken ship, but we could kind of see.

[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, that I didn't like seeing the outline of it, but I, I snorkeled, but yeah, um, I,

[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm, I'm okay with, with snorkeling for the most part.

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I've gone snorkeling a couple of different places.

[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I've never scooped when scuba diving, but yeah, I did not.

[00:48:53] [SPEAKER_04]: It's more so like visually, like seeing it on a screen, which is odd than actually looking

[00:48:58] [SPEAKER_04]: down into the water.

[00:49:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the wreck that you can see at low tide from the beach in Aruba?

[00:49:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It might be.

[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I've do that at night.

[00:49:10] [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty cool.

[00:49:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I like that, right?

[00:49:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Night.

[00:49:12] [SPEAKER_06]: That's crazy.

[00:49:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Night diving is a weird experience.

[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, um, it takes some getting used to.

[00:49:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We did a drift dive down there in Aruba at night, and that is absolutely surreal because

[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_02]: you don't ever have to kick.

[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You're just kind of floating along at like three or four knots.

[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_02]: It's, and they pick you up at a completely different location than where you start.

[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_02]: So, wow.

[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_06]: See, that's very disorienting.

[00:49:38] [SPEAKER_06]: That's one of the scariest things for me when you're, even when you're snorkeling,

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_06]: once your ears go underwater, like the initial, like all of a sudden you can't hear right.

[00:49:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Like it, it changes like that.

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_06]: That to me is a, is a horror thing right there.

[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Cause I just, I don't know what's going on.

[00:49:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm always looking over my shoulders.

[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I never had a panic moment until I did a deep dive for the first time.

[00:50:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And that, that's a whole nother level of panic inducing because you have to stop, right?

[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to do your decompression stop.

[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm .

[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And so just sitting out and hanging out and suspended and you look up and it's, you can

[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_02]: sort of see the surface, but it's just lighter blue and you look down and it's just sort

[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_02]: of darker blue and you look left and right.

[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just infinite.

[00:50:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's just this weird disorienting space to be in and you have to just hang out

[00:50:33] [SPEAKER_02]: there and you never know what's out there.

[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's, it's pretty creepy.

[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I would like to stop now.

[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I was just going to say, that was too much.

[00:50:43] [SPEAKER_08]: I was going to say, Jimmy, how you make it out with that?

[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_07]: You're a shit therapist, Byron.

[00:50:50] [SPEAKER_07]: That'll be $2,000.

[00:50:52] [SPEAKER_07]: No doubt.

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Betterhelp.com.

[00:50:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, well, I have a couple more.

[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I know where people are probably like these dumb dumbs.

[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_04]: What are they doing?

[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_04]: But I have a couple more of you do Byron.

[00:51:06] [SPEAKER_04]: If, if, if I have a few, I wanted to run through that because I did like a top five

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_04]: and then I did kind of like an honorable mention.

[00:51:15] [SPEAKER_04]: So I'll, I'll run.

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_04]: If you have a few more, I'll run through my list.

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Perfect.

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_04]: You want to do it that way and then you can do a couple more.

[00:51:21] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, a few, I would also definitely recommend Red Fork, Alex Packnadel, Neil Vendrell.

[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that was from TSO.

[00:51:31] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's kind of a little, it starts out a little bit like not really folk horror, but

[00:51:39] [SPEAKER_04]: it's kind of a, like a depressed mining town that has a rampant drug problem and they end

[00:51:47] [SPEAKER_04]: up discovering something else in this mine and it kind of gets into a cosmic horror place

[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_04]: very quickly.

[00:51:54] [SPEAKER_04]: So issues of addiction and, and, um, takes it to a, like I said, a cosmic horror place.

[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, a big fan of Alex Packnadel's writing.

[00:52:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I just thought Red Fork was absolutely tremendous.

[00:52:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but I think if you're a fan of things like, uh, like you mentioned with, with Hillbilly,

[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_04]: um, I think Red Fork will probably be, be right up your alley.

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, another vault book, these savage shores, it's Ram V and Sumit Kumar.

[00:52:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, it's, it talks about like the, the, the Silk Road.

[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's set in this, I want to say the 17 or 18, 1800s.

[00:52:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but it's vampires.

[00:52:32] [SPEAKER_04]: It's like anti-colonial, uh, anti-imperialist, uh, kind of take on it.

[00:52:39] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you, you, you always think you're seeing vampires from like maybe an American or

[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_04]: like British perspective.

[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And, and here, um, you have this very, uh, the Indian perspective on that period in time.

[00:52:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And they, and added vampires to it, but not in like, oh, let's throw vampires into this

[00:52:58] [SPEAKER_04]: story.

[00:52:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Like they, they are, it's very necessary in terms of, uh, the telling of it.

[00:53:02] [SPEAKER_04]: But these savage shores is just absolutely tremendous.

[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, Bitter Root is another one I really like.

[00:53:08] [SPEAKER_04]: That's David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and the art is Sanford green, but it's set during the

[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_04]: 1920s, uh, Harlem Renaissance.

[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's about the Sangari.

[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I hope I'm saying that right.

[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Family.

[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, they, so it's a lot about them and they're kind of a family of monster hunters.

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but also it's, uh, it's, it's very much about the racism of the time too, that this family

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_04]: is, is dealing with.

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, phenomenal book.

[00:53:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely love, uh, Bitter Root.

[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, I also want to shout out, uh, the autumnal.

[00:53:41] [SPEAKER_04]: It's another vault comic, Daniel Krause, Chris Sheehan, uh, Jason Wordy, Jim Campbell lettered

[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_04]: it.

[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_04]: It's set in the quaint little town of comfort notch.

[00:53:51] [SPEAKER_04]: One of those places in new England that folks go to look at the leaves turn.

[00:53:57] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's a, um, cat and her daughter, Sybil go there to kind of, I guess, turn over a new

[00:54:04] [SPEAKER_04]: leaf, uh, pun intended.

[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, yeah, there's a lot of bad stuff happens.

[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, and, uh, it just, it just gets worse and, and worse.

[00:54:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And you'll never look at a leaf this the same way again.

[00:54:19] [SPEAKER_04]: But when you were mentioning Tally Poe, I was thinking about the autumnal.

[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I did not like the end of the autumnal the first time I read it.

[00:54:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Please tell us what happened.

[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Like I really, what'd you say?

[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Please tell us what happened.

[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_04]: So here's how it ended.

[00:54:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I did not like the ending the first time I read it.

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And I really liked all of it up until that point.

[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And I recently went back and reread it and, um, I, I enjoyed it a lot more.

[00:54:48] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just at the time it was a little darker, I think than I wanted it to be.

[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_04]: But once I kind of met the story where it, where it wanted to go and, and didn't have those expectations.

[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Now that I knew where the ending was, I, I really saw what I think the creative team was trying to do.

[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's very disturbing.

[00:55:08] [SPEAKER_04]: So.

[00:55:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Sweet.

[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Those are, those are, yeah, those are some of my, oh, I'm sorry.

[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Why?

[00:55:15] [SPEAKER_04]: One more, um, uh, Gideon Falls image book, Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino.

[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Very creepy starts out.

[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_04]: You think it's kind of like a dark, grisly murder mystery.

[00:55:28] [SPEAKER_04]: You have this guy Norton Sinclair, who is kind of a recluse.

[00:55:33] [SPEAKER_04]: He's, uh, an obsessive, like obsessive compulsive in terms of, you know, uh, definitely has some mental health issues.

[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_04]: He is struggling with, and also the story of a, a priest who, who goes to investigate.

[00:55:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if he is initially tasked with investigating another priest disappearance or a murder.

[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and it kind of tells these two tales side by side, and then just goes into places that, uh, I never expected them to go.

[00:56:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, unbelievably creepy.

[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Sorrentino does some stuff in that comic book that I had never seen before.

[00:56:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it's just absolutely wild.

[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's, it's something that I read as it came out, but I will say it a hundred percent reads differently and is really one of those books that is a much better experience.

[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_04]: If you read it in a trade, it's, it's just absolutely wonderful.

[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_04]: So there we go.

[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Those are, those are mine.

[00:56:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:56:35] [SPEAKER_06]: That's one of those ones that has that little bit, gives you a little bit at a time and it's, it's really good.

[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I found the trade at a used bookstore for the first volume and I was like, oh shit, now I need all of it.

[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_02]: So actually I bought the, the two big hardcover collected and everybody check eBay when you're looking for something.

[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause I found both of the hardcovers together.

[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_02]: One was a direct market.

[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_02]: The other was not, but I got both of them for 35 bucks.

[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.

[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_05]: So that's pretty good.

[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It was just a comic book shop that was trying to clear out the inventory.

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so absolutely great pickup, but I read those earlier this year in two nights.

[00:57:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I just, I didn't anticipate it.

[00:57:22] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I didn't plan on it, started reading and I was just like hooked.

[00:57:26] [SPEAKER_02]: That is such a good series.

[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing.

[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I agree.

[00:57:31] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Byron, what do you got?

[00:57:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[00:57:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I have blood commandment, which has gone under a lot of people's radar.

[00:57:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So the short version of this, you have a dad who is a vampire, um, trying to escape his past and another vampire.

[00:57:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so he's trying to, it's like a remote, I don't know if it's Alaska or something like that, but some remote wilderness or whatever.

[00:57:53] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's all about a dad trying to escape his past and protect his kids.

[00:57:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's moody and dark and, and, and isolating.

[00:58:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so it's, it's just a really, really good vampire book.

[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, Denizen, I thought was absolutely fantastic.

[00:58:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And the desert has always been one of those environments that I've always found.

[00:58:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I've always been drawn to it, but the, you can do some seriously creepy stuff with a desert environment and Joshua trees themselves are creepy.

[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And then you throw in that book that you're, you have a family and there's this, they're without giving too much away.

[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_02]: You have essentially, uh, they're sucked into a Winnebago of sorts.

[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like a haunted space.

[00:58:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but the visuals in that are absolutely fantastic.

[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, Fatal, which I thought I picked up recently, didn't really realize at first it was horror because I'm not the Brubaker Phillips fan that you are.

[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_02]: But it was amazing.

[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was just, just excellent.

[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_02]: So that, you know, playing off of that trope, very pulpy, you know, with a Lovecraft, uh, kind of element in, in it and thought it was super, super good.

[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, personal favorite moonshine.

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm mad at Azarello for taking that idea, uh, as a Southerner and I needed to be the one to have written, uh, prohibition story about, um, moonshine because my family, uh, were, were moonshiners and involved in, in the moonshine.

[00:59:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, night of the ghoul, which was a recommendation, uh, from Lordo retail himself, uh, just down the road at Acme comics.

[00:59:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, dude, if you haven't picked this up, it's, it's, it's scary.

[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Like really?

[00:59:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That was one of those that really stuck with me.

[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if either of you've read it.

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I haven't read night of the ghoul.

[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Night of the ghoul is, is, is creepy stuff.

[00:59:43] [SPEAKER_02]: It's definitely, if I'm going to, you know, top five scariest comics, uh, which is would be at the top and, you know, ghouls in there, certainly in the top five.

[00:59:51] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:59:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, nocturnals, which is an all time.

[00:59:54] [SPEAKER_02]: One of my favorites, uh, Dan Brereton, I just think stands alone in terms of his artwork.

[01:00:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You see, he's one of those artists, you see his work and you just immediately know it's his.

[01:00:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so the nocturnals is a, is a great series.

[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_02]: You'd have to get that in collected.

[01:00:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause it was originally put out by Malibu.

[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And I couldn't tell you who, who owns it now, but, um, just some really cool original characters.

[01:00:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, the gun, which, which is kind of this zombie gunslinger, you know, before there was gunslinger spawn.

[01:00:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I, I would swear whoever did the character designs for that use the gun, which has a, uh, as a model, but yeah, it's like a scarecrow zombie with a big sombrero hat and you know, two six shooters.

[01:00:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.

[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Super cool.

[01:00:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and then size barriers, the rush.

[01:00:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I don't know if either of you have read that, but.

[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the vault book?

[01:00:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[01:00:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[01:00:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but just a sort of definitely playing off that cosmic stuff.

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a huge Lovecraft fan.

[01:01:01] [SPEAKER_02]: So there's a Lovecraft story, um, that kind of has the same echoes to it, but using, you know, Alaska as a, as a, uh, a landmark in the book.

[01:01:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's, I can't give, if I describe too much, it'll just totally give it away, but like just really creepy stuff going on, playing off of a lack of facial features and one of the characters.

[01:01:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so yeah, definitely the rush is really good.

[01:01:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.

[01:01:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.

[01:01:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Those are great.

[01:01:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[01:01:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Awesome.

[01:01:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[01:01:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I like some of those, but I, um, yeah, I haven't read night of the ghoul and, uh, I didn't finish rush.

[01:01:37] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I had, I read the first issue and I liked it, but I haven't read the rest of the trade.

[01:01:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I, I just wanted to, well, just real quick.

[01:01:45] [SPEAKER_04]: One other thing I wanted to do because after I was, uh, listen, like I made my list and my honorable mentions and then Bobby had sent me his and I felt like, um, we didn't have an enough Cullen bun on it.

[01:01:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I know we had Harrow County, but, uh, my good friend, uh, Cullen bun, uh, who I've shared a beer with, uh, right, Bobby, you know, you know that podcast listeners.

[01:02:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[01:02:13] [SPEAKER_04]: So in any event, um, if, if any, if any listeners, if you've made it this far, bless you.

[01:02:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And, um, uh, if you can't really do any better, I think than someone like, uh, Cullen, when it comes to writing horror.

[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_04]: And I, so I just made a quick list of, I've, I haven't read all of these, but I honestly have read most of them.

[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but, uh, the sixth gun, the damned hell, heim death follows rogue planet.

[01:02:40] [SPEAKER_04]: The last book you'll ever read.

[01:02:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I like that one.

[01:02:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, dark arc.

[01:02:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I, I, I really liked that one too.

[01:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, door to door, night by night, basilisk, bone parish, the empty man, shock shop, parasomnia, cold spots, regression, lucky devil, the unsound, manner black and unearth.

[01:02:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, uh, so, you know, um, if you're not familiar with, you know, Cullen bun's work, or if you're just familiar with his work for like Marvel or, or DC.

[01:03:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Or, uh, uh, the work he's done with like dynamite comics.

[01:03:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, he has done a ton of horror stuff and, uh, I really like all of it.

[01:03:18] [SPEAKER_04]: So I just thought when to throw that in there.

[01:03:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, because it just, he's a very prolific comic book writer and, uh, you know, he's a friend of the podcast.

[01:03:28] [SPEAKER_04]: I am, I want to say that about people now.

[01:03:31] [SPEAKER_05]: That's a great line.

[01:03:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I hear other hosts do it.

[01:03:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I want to do it too.

[01:03:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Cullen bun, friend of the podcast.

[01:03:36] [SPEAKER_04]: You can do that.

[01:03:37] [SPEAKER_04]: You can do that.

[01:03:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He got my close personal friend.

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a brand new book that was announced.

[01:03:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I think today.

[01:03:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?

[01:03:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I sent you an email about it.

[01:03:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.

[01:03:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll check it out.

[01:03:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't, I didn't get a chance to check all my emails yet, but all right, Bobby, is there anything else you wanted to add?

[01:03:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you, I, oh, you might.

[01:03:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah.

[01:03:56] [SPEAKER_06]: When we were at Baltimore, you can swear.

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: It's okay.

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I know, I know, but, uh, we ran in for the, uh, the Goats Flying Press.

[01:04:04] [SPEAKER_06]: There's a comic that I don't think it came out yet.

[01:04:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I've been trying to watch for it.

[01:04:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, Lake Yellowwood Slaughter.

[01:04:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's a cool title.

[01:04:12] [SPEAKER_06]: You know the people that are a part of that?

[01:04:14] [SPEAKER_02]: No idea.

[01:04:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great title.

[01:04:16] [SPEAKER_04]: It is.

[01:04:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[01:04:17] [SPEAKER_04]: It, yeah, Lake, yeah, it's, um, it's Goats Flying Press.

[01:04:21] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Sebastian Gerner, uh, his new, his publishing company.

[01:04:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And Sebastian, I think, is, um, well, hopefully we're trying to work out the date now for Sebastian to come on to talk about Goats Flying Press's, like, 2025 slate of stuff.

[01:04:36] [SPEAKER_04]: But they kick-started or crowdfunded, uh, the, uh, the dead in the, I think it's the dead in the damned.

[01:04:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but yeah, Lake Yellowwood Slaughter is one of the books that they have coming out.

[01:04:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, it's Arbona Guidry, um, Chris O'Halloran, I think, is coloring it.

[01:04:54] [SPEAKER_04]: And Hassan Otsman Elhow is, uh, lettering.

[01:04:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but yeah.

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_06]: When we were there and I saw that cover, that's, that's what I picture Ice Nine Kills shows are like.

[01:05:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And I mean, that, that, that vibe that you get when you see that cover, that's amazing to me.

[01:05:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[01:05:14] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yeah, the, um, yeah, the cover is, is really cool, but it, it, it, it, you know, I don't know.

[01:05:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it says it's an official comic book adaptation.

[01:05:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, so, yeah, it's, I, I'm assuming it's just something that I'm not familiar with, but I believe when Sebastian was talking about it, he said it was, um, kind of like an Italian slasher film.

[01:05:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I, so I, uh, you know, the, the, the cover art, that's what it looks like, you know, with a killer on the front with holding a knife and two, two ladies, you know, the, like the in profile or their, their faces.

[01:05:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you nailed it, Jimmy.

[01:06:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Great job.

[01:06:01] [SPEAKER_06]: And did I do it?

[01:06:02] [SPEAKER_06]: How'd I do?

[01:06:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I close my eyes and I see it.

[01:06:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Leave, leave, leave me alone.

[01:06:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Leave me alone.

[01:06:08] [SPEAKER_08]: If it was food, if you were, you had such a great job with it.

[01:06:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a guy, I, I, I'm looking at it right now.

[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a, uh, there's a gloved hand and a knife and two ladies and then a man with a big ax wearing a yellow rain slicker.

[01:06:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that better?

[01:06:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Perfect.

[01:06:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[01:06:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll put a link into the show notes so everybody knows what I'm talking about.

[01:06:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[01:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: The cover of what you're describing reminds me of a basket full of heads like the Joe Hill.

[01:06:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_04]: So here, this is Alejandro, uh, Arbona.

[01:06:46] [SPEAKER_04]: He, I guess just like two or three weeks ago had tweeted the cover out.

[01:06:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and it, it says, yeah, him and Gavin Guidry colors by Chris O'Halloran.

[01:06:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, the cover art by Suspiria Vilce and logo designed by Dylan Todd.

[01:07:05] [SPEAKER_04]: In 1983, one of Italy's most prolific, uh, giallo directors came to Hollywood to make a slasher movie.

[01:07:12] [SPEAKER_04]: He immediately moved away from the teens and the rustic summer camp setting and into the luxe lakeside homes of the kids' wealthy parents and ended up making an American giallo.

[01:07:20] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if I'm saying that right.

[01:07:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, a sleepaway camp slasher killer.

[01:07:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Here's the kid's yuppie parents planning a child-free summer of sex and booze.

[01:07:29] [SPEAKER_04]: So he goes after them instead.

[01:07:31] [SPEAKER_04]: That was a movie in 1983 and this is the officially licensed comic book adaptation also from 1983.

[01:07:40] Hmm.

[01:07:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Cool.

[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_04]: So there we go.

[01:07:45] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[01:07:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And hopefully we'll all ask Sebastian more about it when he, uh, comes on the podcast.

[01:07:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice.

[01:07:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Nice.

[01:07:51] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.

[01:07:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully we've broken everybody's bank at this point and we'll have the list in the show notes, um, so everybody can pick stuff up if they want to help us out, uh, with the Amazon affiliate.

[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And before we go, we should pitch the Patreon.

[01:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm over there, uh, cryptid creator corner pod, uh, patreon, patreon.com slash cryptid creator corner pod.

[01:08:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm doing a Sunday story segment over there.

[01:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Jimmy, I'm going to put you on the spot, bud.

[01:08:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause what are you, what are you going to give the people?

[01:08:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You got to give the people what they want.

[01:08:23] [SPEAKER_03]: What do they want?

[01:08:24] [SPEAKER_03]: What do the people want?

[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll give them whatever they want.

[01:08:26] [SPEAKER_03]: What do they want from me?

[01:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[01:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: You heard it first folks.

[01:08:29] What do they want?

[01:08:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Just let us know what you want to see.

[01:08:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, you suggested that I should do something like you're telling stories, like not necessarily comics, you know, related.

[01:08:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, which I could definitely do.

[01:08:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I'm just, I don't, I don't know many things.

[01:08:48] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I'm, you know, um, I know.

[01:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I think you should raise sandwiches.

[01:08:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I could do that.

[01:08:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I could talk about some of my favorite sandwiches and I could do, I could do that.

[01:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: We could, we could go and do sandwiches.

[01:09:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Sure.

[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I think people would like that.

[01:09:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[01:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yeah.

[01:09:07] [SPEAKER_04]: So I'll, I'll figure something out, but if anyone has, is listening and has any suggestions as the thing they would, they would like, you know, me to, to, to do, um, it just froze for a second.

[01:09:17] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[01:09:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll, we'll figure it out.

[01:09:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I will find something.

[01:09:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Sounds good.

[01:09:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I would say.

[01:09:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[01:09:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[01:09:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that was the, the Halloween comics recommendations show.

[01:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, for the person that's still here listening to us gab on about it.

[01:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks mom.

[01:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We hope everybody had a good time.

[01:09:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, this is Brian O'Neill and thanks everybody for tuning in to, uh, this very special episode.

[01:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: You want to shout out guys?

[01:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[01:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Bobby.

[01:09:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You got it.

[01:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: You got to shout out to Bobby.

[01:09:51] [SPEAKER_02]: What is over your show?

[01:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to end.

[01:09:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to hit.

[01:09:54] [SPEAKER_03]: My wife keeps, my wife keeps walking in and giving me dirty looks.

[01:09:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[01:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we, we need to wrap up.

[01:09:59] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[01:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you guys for having me.

[01:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks Bobby.

[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Bye.

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