22 Panels Comic Book Podcast Episode 161 Snotgirl Returns

Episode 160 - Dec 8th, 2024
Thanksgiving
1. News of Note
2. New Comic Series
3. 3 Amazing New Book
4. Great Responsibility - Snotgirl
5. 3 Books We Hope Will Be Spectacular

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Tyler Johnson: Hey, everyone welcome back to 22 panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. This raspy voice is Tyler, and across the interwebs from me.

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Tad Eggleston: It was a slightly raspy, slightly raspy, slightly less raspy voice.

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Tad Eggleston: slightly rest, las be voice something like that

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Tad Eggleston: something like that. It's fitting that when when we decide that we're going to talk about snot girl, that we both

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Tad Eggleston: have way too much snot in our systems.

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Tad Eggleston: But yeah, we did it to ourselves.

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Tyler Johnson: How you know.

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Tad Eggleston: We did it ourselves. That's all I can say.

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Tyler Johnson: Well, we oppose ourselves to children every day.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Well, I just meant like we tempted fate by deciding. Do snot, girl, this week in the heart of cold and flu season.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah, that makes more sense.

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Tad Eggleston: Gonna gonna cover. Snot girl. Let's kick your allergies into gear.

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Tyler Johnson: My face was so like, had so much pressure behind it. My eyes were watering earlier.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Anywho?

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Tad Eggleston: Hopefully, I just got on New allergy meds. So it's not as bad as it could be. But yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: I knew that the temperature had risen before. I even saw that the temperature had risen.

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Tad Eggleston: just like I know when the temperature drops, before I even see that it drops, because my head goes.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, really.

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Tad Eggleston: Wasn't that a nice noise for everybody?

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: We got to get the Ferris Buell blur Midi cartridge.

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Tyler Johnson: Yup!

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Tad Eggleston: The beginning.

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Tyler Johnson: We should, anyway, but.

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Tad Eggleston: We do have some cool, comic news this week.

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Tad Eggleston: First, st Jeff Lemire announced that he's publishing a memoir

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Tad Eggleston: through Dark Horse, 1,000 or 10,000 ink stains, a memoir, essays, and

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Tad Eggleston: the document the creation of his books.

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Tad Eggleston: from his earliest self-published, never before published. Mini comics to Essex county, sweet tooth, black hammer, minor iacona, everything in between.

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Tad Eggleston: In addition to the essays of each project in my personal life at the time book also features never.

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Tad Eggleston: Scene, developmental artwork, rare and unpublished comics and in-depth process material.

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Tad Eggleston: So 10,000 Inc. States, 25 years of making comics is coming to print for the 1st time through dark horse books.

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Tad Eggleston: On July 15, th 2025.

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Tyler Johnson: I will definitely be buying that.

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Tad Eggleston: Yes, yes, and actually, you know, it's going to be a well 208 pages 9 by 12 hardcover.

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Tad Eggleston: and will retail for 49, 99. So you know, it's packed with stuff that they're

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Tad Eggleston: putting that price tag on it.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: 9 by 12 is pretty big, too.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's like a coffee table book.

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Tad Eggleston: Right right next. Nice piece of news. If you happen to be in the Toronto area next Saturday.

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Tad Eggleston: from 10 am. To 5 pm.

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Tad Eggleston: At the the raid offices, and there weren't rare.

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Tad Eggleston: What is it

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Tad Eggleston: trying to trying to get the the details of

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Tad Eggleston: raid? Is the comics, raid, gallery and cafe 1720. Queen Street raid is the the comics studio.

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Tad Eggleston: That Ramon Perez is part of Chip. Sidarsky was one of the the original founders, and and he was the one that came up with with doing this.

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Tad Eggleston: Comics creators get given lots of comp copies of their stuff.

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Tad Eggleston: sometimes more than they know what to do with.

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Tad Eggleston: So they're having a free con, where they will be

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Tad Eggleston: selling at at low price their comp copies and creator signings.

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Tad Eggleston: and maybe some sketches and whatnot with Vida, Ayala.

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Tad Eggleston: Mike Delmondo, Ray Fox, Jason Liu Ryan, North, Ramon, Perez, Marcus Toe, Chip Zdarsky and Jim Zub, all all at the

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Tad Eggleston: the raid, gallery and cafe

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Tad Eggleston: comic signing and sketching free admission from 10 Am. To 5 Pm. On Sunday, which just just sounds cool.

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Tad Eggleston: and makes me wish that I had a passport so I could drive up to Toronto next weekend, but

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Tad Eggleston: I don't think I can get one in a week.

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Tad Eggleston: You need one to get to Canada. You need one to get to Canada now.

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Tyler Johnson: Video.

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Tad Eggleston: So one of these days I need to fix my lack of passport.

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Tad Eggleston: And up.

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Tyler Johnson: I don't have one.

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Tad Eggleston: And other news, and I'm not gonna go through like all of the details details. But what?

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Tad Eggleston: When I was looking for news, I noticed that in the last week bleeding cool has reported 10 different.

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Tad Eggleston: and they look like all Ya.

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Tad Eggleston: Graphic novels getting 1,000 100,000 print runs or larger.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, wow!

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Tad Eggleston: Which is another sign that the whole demise of comics may be

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Tad Eggleston: overstated because lemonade war from Jacqueline Davies and Karen de la Vega, Pizza and Taco, the best Christmas ever from

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Tad Eggleston: Stephen Shoskin, Earl Stein's goosebumps Haunted Mask from Maddie Gonzalez, Magic Treehouse, Sunset of the Sabretooth by Mary Pope, Osborne Jenny, Laird Kelly, Matthews and Nicole Matthews Warriors. The prophecies begin Volume 2 from Aaron Hunter, Natalie Rice and Sarah Goder Babysitters, Club, Mallory and the Trouble with Twins from Anna Martin, adapted by Arlene Koprah.

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Tad Eggleston: Spy, Ski School, by Stuart Gibbs and Anjan Sakaar

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Tad Eggleston: Kirby's Lessons for Falling in Love by Laura Gao Besties Prank war by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Cannino, and Sarah K. Turner

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Tad Eggleston: and I survived the great molasses. Flood graphic novel, 1919, by Karen de la Vega

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Tad Eggleston: you know, when I was telling my wife. This she's like, is that good? And my answer is, you know, the best selling floppy comics

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Tad Eggleston: It was a really big deal that that what absolute batman, I think, had a hundred 1,000 print run

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Tad Eggleston: So yeah, the fact that we have 10 graphic novels going to print in the coming months

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Tad Eggleston: Is really a good sign

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Tad Eggleston: for the industry and the fact that there are young people who read comics. They're just, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: not necessarily reading superheroes or going to comic shops.

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Tad Eggleston: Which, more than anything is probably assigned to comic shops that they need to.

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Tad Eggleston: consider what they carry a little bit more carefully if they wanna.

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Tad Eggleston: In their customer, base.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: Because because there's definitely a market there.

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Tad Eggleston: So let's talk some new to order.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, all right.

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Tyler Johnson: Let's see from the world of minor threats. Welcome twilight number one.

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Tad Eggleston: Twilight.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh!

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Tad Eggleston: Well up to the top in the blue.

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Tad Eggleston: I know, cause that's that's cause. Previews likes to like.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: Condense things.

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Tyler Johnson: Welcome to Twilight, by Patton, Oswald and Matt. Fraction, Jordan Bloom and Art. By Michael Allred, and cover art by Scott Hampton.

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Tyler Johnson: Twilight City may be home to the minor.

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Tad Eggleston: Hampton.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep. Twilight City may be home to the minor threats, but they're not the only down on their luck. Super villains and heroes struggling to find their way.

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Tyler Johnson: Comic book superstars, Matt Fraction and Mike Allred reunite to tell a twisted Noir tale about fame, dames.

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Tyler Johnson: and Hamanak Homodulus.

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Tad Eggleston: Homunculus faced.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Mobsters in minor threats. Welcome to twilight.

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Tyler Johnson: Benjamin Bronkowitz is a washed up bird winged actor

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Tyler Johnson: who is not a superhero, but he once played one on TV. Now Brock spends his time on the superhero convention circuit, trying to cash in on his fleeting fame, drinking away his problems as he fades into obscurity. But a chance encounter with a mysterious woman empowers Brock to fight for a life he once thought was over. Can Brock learn to fly again, or will his vices and the ruthless gangsters on his tail clip his wings for good? This will be in shops. March 12.th

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Tad Eggleston: I love the cover where the guy with the wings is riding a segway.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, and he's got the light on his head.

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Tad Eggleston: With with, yeah, with a, with a, with a headlamp.

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Tyler Johnson: Yup, and he's got huge angel wings.

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Tad Eggleston: Okay.

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Tyler Johnson: That's great!

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Tad Eggleston: Godzilla, heist from Van Jensen and Kelsey. Ramsey. What if you could

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Tad Eggleston: predict when and where Godzilla would appear? What if he knew the perfect opportunity to pull off the heist of the century.

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Tad Eggleston: Hai is a young man who knows 2 things, a Heist needs a good distraction, and there's no distraction like Godzilla. So when Hai discovers Godzilla responds to specific energy signals, he can send into the atmosphere. He creates the perfect opportunity to stage high profile, Heists in the middle of Godzilla attacks, but these Heists put hai on the radar of some very dangerous men.

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Tad Eggleston: men who want high to work for them to pull off the most dangerous job the world has ever seen

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Tad Eggleston: from Idw in stores February 19, th

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Tad Eggleston: and because Idw is all over the Godzilla right now, we also have Godzilla versus America.

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Tad Eggleston: number one Godzilla versus Chicago.

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Tad Eggleston: Godzilla is coming to America, and its 1st stop, Chicago, which is kind of funny, because if Godzilla's coming to America, you'd think that, like his 1st

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Tad Eggleston: stop would be La or Portland. You know something on the West Coast, you know that he come across the ocean. I'm really curious as to how his 1st stop winds up being in the middle of America, and I really hope that they don't leave that unexplored.

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Tyler Johnson: That's really.

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Tad Eggleston: You know.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, it makes more sense to have

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Tad Eggleston: Chicago be the second or 3rd stop.

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Tad Eggleston: But I'm happy that his 1st stop because it's my town. Godzilla is coming to America and his 1st stop, Chicago join a star-studded crew of Chicago comics, creators through 4 epic stories across

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Tad Eggleston: the Windy City. The L. Train experiences its worst delays. Yet Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event and a new Chicago-pays superhero reaches the end of her rope. The issue features a superstar lineup of creators, including Tim Seeley, Mike Costa and Ryan Brown, Carolyn Cash, and Ezra Clayton Daniels join us at the start of a new anthology series that follows Godzilla across the United States in shops.

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Tyler Johnson: That's awesome.

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Tad Eggleston: February 26, th 2025.

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Tyler Johnson: It looks like that we go from like.

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Tad Eggleston: We got Tim Seeley and Ryan

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Tad Eggleston: and Brown and Mike Costa like your your mainstream guys. And then Carolyn Cash and Ezra Clayton Daniels were much more indie comic scene.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, like they got a real nice mix of talent. There.

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Tyler Johnson: All right. Mine is a long, lonesome grave

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Tyler Johnson: from Justin Jordan and Chris Sheehan

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Tyler Johnson: Eisner and Harvey, award-nominated writer, Justin Jordan.

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Tyler Johnson: and Number one bestselling artist, Chris Sheehan, throw a brass knuckled gut, punch of revenge, horror torn from the forgotten corners of Appalachia, where the magic and murder go hand, in hand. Harley Creed is a bad man. He used to be worse, a violent ex-con with a string of brutal crimes in his past. He only wants one thing when he finally walks free from prison, to leave Briar Falls.

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Tyler Johnson: West Virginia behind and disappear forever. But Harley's hometown has a strange new way of swallowing people whole call it a consequence of low, level

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Tyler Johnson: folk magic that has permeated its darker corners for generations.

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Tyler Johnson: and now that Harley has returned, pent up vengeance for his past crimes is about to come roaring back. Somebody has put a hex on him, and Harley has, 7 days before he dies in twisted, screaming agony

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Tyler Johnson: to reverse it. Harley must find and kill his unseen enemy before their curse

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Tyler Johnson: can't reap its terrible end. But in Briar Falls there's no shortage of suspects, and Harley is coming for them all.

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Tyler Johnson: If it if can't have pace, at least he can have revision.

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Tad Eggleston: I think it's if he can't have peace.

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Tyler Johnson: He can't have peace, at least he can have revenge

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Tyler Johnson: in shops. February 20 or February 12.th Excuse me.

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Tad Eggleston: May press.

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Tad Eggleston: and some graphic novels from fantagraphics underground. Kafka's manuscript by Jason Novak, with a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Franz Masrill and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself. Jason Novak's short, graphic novel, Kafka's manuscript begins at the author's deathbed where he entrusts his friend Max broad with the task of destroying his unpublished papers.

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Tad Eggleston: Broad refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka's literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism

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Tad Eggleston: is a survey of Kafka's paranoid landscape in Kinnis kinetoscopic, monochrome.

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Tad Eggleston: As a master of deadpan satire. Kafka was as eloquent

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Tad Eggleston: with both words, as he was with what was left unsaid. Kafka's cartoonist.

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Tad Eggleston: Jason Novak seizes upon the unsaid to comment on Kafka's afterlife, exploring in a new way what countless books about Kafka have previously attempted to explore with words. Every epoch has its conundrums, but the qualities that unite our age with Kafka's are a reminder

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Tad Eggleston: that some characteristics of the culture are perennial. What better way to capture Kafka's enduring but evasive voice than with a pantomime?

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Tad Eggleston: This book is wordless with pages only on the recto

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Tad Eggleston: for the press preview. I removed the blank verso pages.

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Tyler Johnson: Hmm!

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Tyler Johnson: That's a cool cover.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. In shops. February 19.th

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's awesome.

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Tyler Johnson: All right.

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Tyler Johnson: Let's see if I can read this one any better.

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Tyler Johnson: Silver Lake trade paperback from John Zur Platon and Andrea Moody.

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Tyler Johnson: This is Caleb Barnett, a young half native American from the Pacific Northwest, who has volunteered to join the army during the 1st Great War, and finds himself on the front lines of Belgium in 1917.

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Tyler Johnson: Here he not only learns how to fight, but also discovers that an amulet made of silver from a sacred lake has imbued him with power of his spirit animal the black bear.

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Tyler Johnson: As the war intensifies no man, land becomes more than a blood-soaked battleground. It becomes Kano's hunting ground as he transforms into a hybrid predator unlike any the world has ever seen. This is going to be in shops. February 12.th

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Tad Eggleston: Image, comics.

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Tyler Johnson: From image. Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: Yep, that's some

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Tad Eggleston: collections. First, st we have Babs from Garth, Ennis, and Jason Burrows, a savage sword and sorcery parody from the co-creators of preacher. The boys and marvels get fury.

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Tad Eggleston: meet Babs, a barbarian thief, and bury the world's worst enchanted sword. Together they travel the fantastic landscape of wizards, dragons, demons, and castles looking to steal treasure. Their plans are interrupted by the arrival of a band of very white knights who exploit and defied the townsfolk. Babs wasn't looking for a fight, but she's never found a bad situation. She couldn't make 100 times worse

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Tad Eggleston: in shops. April 16th from ahoy! Comics, and my God! Has this been good?

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Tyler Johnson: Also featuring additional prints and drawings from the author's archives goes like this is a tantalizing sampler of one of the most brilliant cartoonists working today. This will be in shops. March 25, th and, Tad, I am going to go grab a tissue. I'll be right back.

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Tad Eggleston: Van der Graft's underground brings us Murderburg by Carol lay murder, Berg, sick.

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Tad Eggleston: batman. Dark age from Mark Russell and Mike Allred meet Bruce Wayne, Gotham's favorite delinquent son, shaped by a city in turmoil, set against the backdrop of actual historical events. Gotham City comes alive, filled with the iconic characters who've loved and hated Batman over the years like you've never seen them before. Mark Russell and Mike Allred return to give audiences a look at Batman as a figure in American history.

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Tad Eggleston: the final installment of the horizon. Experiment finders, keepers, comic powerhouse. Vida Ayala and superstar artist, skylar patridge reunite for a new type of action-adventure tale following the Puerto Rican reverse Indiana Jones a Thief Stealing from Museums to return artifacts

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Tad Eggleston: Lucky devils number one from Charles Sewell and Ryan Brown. Good omens meets curse words in this new series from the duo behind the smash hit 8 billion genies. The Lucky Devils is a tale of 2 rebellious demons who decide to start a revolution in hell and the 2 ordinary twenty-something humans they're going to manipulate to do it. A cheeky, satirical look at good and evil. The lucky devils explores Faustian bargains and Temptation in a Rip roaring, hilarious new way.

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Tyler Johnson: and for my 3rd pick, Tyler is a bum, and his comic shop didn't get their books on time.

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Tad Eggleston: But this is where I have to remind you that you have a global comics subscription. Okay? So you could have read

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Tad Eggleston: so I won't go too deep into it. What's furthest place from here, number 20 from Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler boss at Image. This series just continues to delight me. There are a lot of other good books this week, and I decided to throw it into my 3 spots, just because I don't think I've thrown it into my

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. Zoro, Usopp and Sanji, have you gotten through their fight?

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Tad Eggleston: But he's he's put it on a good show, and and I

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Tyler Johnson: To hit like 500.

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Tad Eggleston: To to like on the, you know, since I've got all of those days off to like get up in the morning and read an entire volume, which is what 6 or 8 chapters something like that.

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Tyler Johnson: Same.

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Tad Eggleston: I I remembered all of the slice of life stuff

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Tyler Johnson: I guess.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I forgot that right off at the beginning. That girl

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Tyler Johnson: I forgot about that whole mystery.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Well, and then they throw, they throw

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Tad Eggleston: and she winds up in a coma.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: And then

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Tad Eggleston: But mostly it's just about, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: So I think the thing I compare it the most to is.

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Tad Eggleston: it's like a modern strangers in Paradise.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I could see that.

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Tad Eggleston: You know, because strangers in Paradise primarily was just a story of of

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Tad Eggleston: who had a lot more going on than initially.

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Tad Eggleston: He met the eye, and you know.

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Tyler Johnson: Sometimes there were hints of it, and sometimes you'd find out a lot of it. So.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I think that's the best

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Tad Eggleston: best connection. I like the color. I like the different characters. And.

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Tyler Johnson: Color a lot. I said, Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, in in the Love and Rockets Book Club this week we were talking about how Jaime

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Tad Eggleston: manages to maintain the body type of each of his characters, and have such a

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Tad Eggleston: wide range of different body types the uses between characters, you know. Some artists, like all of their characters, have the same bodies, and or they have trouble

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Tad Eggleston: maintaining different positions and still having it clear what body it is, that sort of thing. And the 11 rockets we read this week was was a lot of wrestling, and and therefore we really noticed that no, he's really maintaining the shapes of the bodies, etc.

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Tad Eggleston: And I think I think that's another real strength. That's

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Tad Eggleston: this book is you've got a lot of different body types. Most of them.

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Tyler Johnson: Yup!

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Tad Eggleston: The model influencer type, but also a couple more normal ones.

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Tad Eggleston: And and they really managed to to maintain consistency

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, I agree, yeah, 100%.

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Tad Eggleston: Pacing.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: You know.

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Tyler Johnson: How do you think this compares to

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Tyler Johnson: Bridley O'malley's other works, you know, like.

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Tad Eggleston: I think I honestly like it better than Scott pilgrim.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: I think seconds might still be my favorite of his.

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Tad Eggleston: And what was his 1st book?

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Tad Eggleston: I always forget the name of it, but I liked it a lot.

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Tad Eggleston: No, he's only a year older than me.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, really.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, 1979.

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Tyler Johnson: Well, anyway, snack girl is

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Tyler Johnson: amazing. You just gotta get out and read it.

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Tad Eggleston: Lost at sea is the one that I was trying to think of lost at sea. I also enjoyed

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Tad Eggleston: quite a bit.

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Tad Eggleston: I love Scott Pilgrim, but I feel like in a lot of ways it holds up the least.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty shaded.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, and just once you've read it, it just doesn't. I don't feel like I'm

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Tad Eggleston: getting as much out of it on further reads.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Whereas the other ones I enjoy the the rereads so.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, that's just me.

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Tad Eggleston: That's just me.

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Tad Eggleston: There are a lot of things I'm like

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Tad Eggleston: Scott Pilgrim, too. So I mean, it's not not not a.

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Tyler Johnson: But I agree.

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Tad Eggleston: The automatic.

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Tyler Johnson: Seconds is definitely awesome.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so.

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Tyler Johnson: Cool.

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Tad Eggleston: Alright!

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Tyler Johnson: Well, I wish I had more more to offer, but I'm I'm fading. I am not.

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Tad Eggleston: You're you're fading, so we should probably jump into our books that we hope will be spectacular.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah,

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Tad Eggleston: I'll start out with. The one I know is spectacular because it it was a a

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Tad Eggleston: one of the early kindle, original or comixology originals, and even won awards a few years ago for best Digital comics. Marley's Ghost, based on a Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Harvey Kurtzman, Gideon Kenzel Josh O'neill and Shannon Wheeler from ablaze.

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Tad Eggleston: if you like me, love a Christmas carol. This is a fantastic addition to

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Tad Eggleston: the many adaptations and many forms that it's had.

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Tad Eggleston: If you don't already love a Christmas carol. It's just a fantastic comic. Harvey Kurtzman was a genius, and he did like the layouts and the concept and whatnot years ago, and just never got to finish it. And Gideon Kendall, Josh O'neill and Shannon Wheeler took over

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Tad Eggleston: years later.

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Tyler Johnson: Alright!

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Tad Eggleston: Just just amazing.

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Tad Eggleston: I'll also point out that this is the

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Tad Eggleston: the month that the or the week that the one hand and the 6 Fingers collection

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Tad Eggleston: comes out. So anybody who skipped that in single issue. Here's your chance.

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Tad Eggleston: But what I'm looking forward to most this week is the return of Elsa Chartier.

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Tad Eggleston: with James Tinion the 4th on the city beneath her feet, number one from distillery

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Tad Eggleston: Fml. Number 2 from Kelly, Sudaconic, and David Lopez, a dark horse, and then distillery has an anthology comic of Christmas tales from a all-star cast of various distillery, and and other creators called through the boughs that I am very much looking forward to

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Tad Eggleston: How about you, Tyler?

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Tyler Johnson: I'm really looking forward.

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Tad Eggleston: It's good to hear.

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Tyler Johnson: Minor accountant number 4,

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Tad Eggleston: Absolutely.

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Tyler Johnson: Jeff Lemire's, Jeff Lemire's ongoing series, and then Batman, dark patterns from Dan Waters and Hayden. Sherman looks amazing.

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Tyler Johnson: and then doll tall parts of lovesick tale number one from Luanna Vecchio, from image.

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Tad Eggleston: Awesome image. Yeah. And and I am hoping that Tyler gets better enough, that he manages to read 3 comic books this week, so that.

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Tyler Johnson: At least.

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Tad Eggleston: So that we have our 3 amazing books next week, the way we're supposed to, because you know how much it messes with my head when we don't work in threes.

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Tyler Johnson: I I apologize. I just.

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Tad Eggleston: So let me.

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Tyler Johnson: You know what I'll put in one that I was gonna read.

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Tad Eggleston: That's cut. We haven't bought yet.

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Tad Eggleston: No, I like it better, is Tyler's a bum, and only read 2 comics this week.

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Tad Eggleston: But you can say what your 3rd read would be.

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Tad Eggleston: what what would your 3rd read be.

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Tyler Johnson: I'll do that.

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Tad Eggleston: No, I mean.

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Tyler Johnson: Asking, now.

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Tad Eggleston: Your 3rd repeat like, when you can get comics. What's the 1st going to read.

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Tyler Johnson: I gotta get my photo. I gotta check.

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Tad Eggleston: Ow.

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Tyler Johnson: I don't know. Off the top of my head.

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Tad Eggleston: Don't know off the top of your head.

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Tyler Johnson: Free.

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Tad Eggleston: University of.

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Tyler Johnson: 5.

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Tyler Johnson: He.

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Tad Eggleston: No.

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Tyler Johnson: Don't believe that's it.

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Tyler Johnson: No.

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Tad Eggleston: Absolute Superman, number 2.

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Tyler Johnson: Oddly pedestrian life of Christopher Chaos, number 14.

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Tad Eggleston: It's way wordier than it should be.

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Tyler Johnson: That is a good one, that one might be. It.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, but issues 13 and 14 have been way wordier than they should be.

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Tyler Johnson: I agree. Yeah, it's it.

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Tyler Johnson: Christopher Chaos is kind of running its course for me.

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Tad Eggleston: I think it could come back. It's it's it's got interesting stuff going on. But like they've been doing more telling than showing in the last couple of issues.

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Tad Eggleston: And yeah, and they need to. They need to get their their balance back.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I agree.

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Tyler Johnson: Alright, guys, I apologize for my voice and for not feeling well and.

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Tad Eggleston: You know I have to apologize for not feeling well, and your voice is your voice. Whatever.

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Tyler Johnson: Whatever.

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Tyler Johnson: Alright.

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Tyler Johnson: So, guys, we appreciate you listening and we'll catch you after the next page later.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.