22 Panels Comic Book Podcast Episode 167 One Piece

Episode 166 - Jan 19, 2025
One Piece
1. News of Note
2. New Comic Series
3. 3 Amazing New Book
4. Great Responsibility - One Piece
5. 3 Books We Hope Will Be Spectacular

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Tyler Johnson: All right. Hey? Everyone welcome back to 22 panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and of course, elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and across the interwebs from me is Tad, hey, Ted? I've got a question for you. Do you do that when you do your interviews, and I'm not.

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Tad Eggleston: I I I don't normally do it, but.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: But I think I randomly did it on one recently.

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Tyler Johnson: Did you cause I did.

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Tyler Johnson: I rarely listen to how you start out the show. I usually just gotcha.

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Tyler Johnson: You know what I mean to watch the.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: All that kind of stuff. I should do that.

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Tad Eggleston: No, I don't think that I do very often, but I do feel like it was the heavy Metal Book Club that came out for whatever reason.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, the December 78 one, I think. Maybe that's the one I just put up.

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Tad Eggleston: Right, right, right, so.

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Tyler Johnson: Nice! Alright well.

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Tad Eggleston: I don't know threp as well as you.

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Tyler Johnson: I just get a little hyper when we start the show. I'm like, Oh, my God, I gotta say something

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Tyler Johnson: yeah. Diamond, I see? Is in trouble. Huh?

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, they've been in trouble for a while, but they filed bankruptcy this week, so, like all bets, are off in terms of

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Tad Eggleston: what comes next.

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Tyler Johnson: Right, I mean, is this, most of the stores, shutting their doors.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, they're they're for sale.

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Tad Eggleston: So they are. Oh, I didn't know that.

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Tad Eggleston: It's I mean, that's how bankruptcy normally works. So it kind of depends on who buys them.

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Tad Eggleston: You know, cause they'll have their their

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Tad Eggleston: sounds like they've got a line of credit that that might mean that they can just restructure.

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, what exactly it's going to look like is still very much in the air.

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Tad Eggleston: But most of the stores I know that that haven't already

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Tad Eggleston: started ordering anything they can order from people that aren't diamond have started ordering anything they can order from people who aren't diamond image image announced that they'll no longer wholesale through them.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: Diamond is making it out to be that like, that's only for this week. And like we're working on it.

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Tad Eggleston: image hasn't actually given any real indication that they're working on it.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Vault has announced that that they will

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Tad Eggleston: distribute direct to retailers as well as through the other channels that they already distribute through. But if retailers want to set up

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Tad Eggleston: accounts to distribute direct to them, they will.

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Tad Eggleston: Okay.

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Tyler Johnson: Is anybody going with Lunar?

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Tad Eggleston: I mean lots of I mean, lunar's been the only way to get DC. For a while, so you know, more and more, and and most shops have had very little trouble with lunar.

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Tad Eggleston: So

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, lunar orders are getting upped. Prh. Orders are getting upped. Because marvel is is through prh. Now, marvel also had a wholesale contract through Diamond, so you could still go to Diamond. But you didn't have to go to Diamond right?

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Tad Eggleston: so I mean, really off the top of my head. The only 2 publishers

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Tad Eggleston: with any sort of footprint whatsoever that you can only get through diamond are dynamite and distillery.

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Tad Eggleston: but distillery has enough of mail order operation already that I'm pretty certain that if Diamond falls through they'll

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Tad Eggleston: be able to pivot to either direct, to direct, to store, or or another distributor pretty easily.

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Tad Eggleston: I don't know. Dynamite's set up well enough.

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Tad Eggleston: There's been a lot of talk about things being

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Tad Eggleston: lot of hyperbole about how it's going to hurt the small publishers most.

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Tad Eggleston: I don't know if that's actually true.

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Tad Eggleston: It feels like the we've had small publishers that we didn't really see through Diamond already pop up through

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Tad Eggleston: lunar. So I don't really understand why there would be

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Tad Eggleston: anybody who's previously at Diamond that couldn't transition to Lunar or other places.

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Tad Eggleston: I always forget his name, but the guy who runs icv. 2,

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Tad Eggleston: and who used to run capital city, had set up a

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Tad Eggleston: already set up kind of a small press exchange

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Tad Eggleston: where you can do all your ordering in one place, even though they get shipped from different places.

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Tad Eggleston: it's gonna be an interesting story for 2025.

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Tyler Johnson: For sure.

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Tad Eggleston: But I don't know if I'm as gloom and doom about the overall state of the industry because of it

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Tad Eggleston: as as some mostly old school comic shop owners are.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Well, I'm just getting. It's really getting tough on Wednesdays not having comics, because now I don't go to the comic shop till Friday.

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Tad Eggleston: No, I get it, I get it. And that's

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Tad Eggleston: that's 1 of the reasons that I'm not worried about. It is like

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Tad Eggleston: stores have already started finding other ways to get as many books as they can, because Diamond hasn't been shipping on time for a while. Now.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: And so we'll see.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, we'll see.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, my!

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Tad Eggleston: The the next one is just because I get to talk about this in in a way that that

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Tad Eggleston: a I can say it's excellent, because I read my my advanced reader

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Tad Eggleston: copy. That's 1 of the reasons that I didn't read as much one piece as I could have this week. B. Paul Karasic, who's the

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Tad Eggleston: the cartoonist that was in charge of the adaptation, keeps popping up in different ways. On this podcast because he wrote how to write, how to read Nancy, which was was one of the things I read, and one of the things that came up a fair amount during our Nancy, podcast he wrote

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Tad Eggleston: the ride together, which is the book that Britt and I will be talking about tomorrow, morning

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Tad Eggleston: on the podcast

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Tad Eggleston: And he had already helped adapt the 1st of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy City of glass with David Mazzicelli, which

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Tad Eggleston: Mark Pratt and I talked about during a pulp water. So Paul Karasic has has popped up in many different ways on this podcast so when I saw that he was finishing.

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Tad Eggleston: Paul Ostersch.

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Tad Eggleston: kind of postmodern Noir, New York trilogy. I was very excited, and I applied for advanced reader copy, and I got it, and therefore I've gotten to to read Lorenzo Matati's ghosts, and and Karasic himself's

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Tad Eggleston: What was the name of the 3rd story? Give me a second

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Tad Eggleston: I really like the 3rd story, but I don't remember the name of it right now. You know how that works sometimes.

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Tyler Johnson: I do. Yeah, I do that all the time.

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Tad Eggleston: sure! The one time it opens to the last page.

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Tad Eggleston: The locked room was the name of the last story. They're kinda

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Tad Eggleston: I don't know how to. I mean I don't know my literary terms well enough, so some people who know what postmodern

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Tad Eggleston: means probably already know what I'm talking about

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Tad Eggleston: But but for somebody who doesn't know the specific language of literary criticism.

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Tad Eggleston: I think what I'd say is, they're like mystery by way of like

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Tad Eggleston: Picasso, or Day, or Picasso during his his abstract period, or David Lynch, only not as dark as Lynch, and not as silly as Picasso

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Tad Eggleston: does that make sense.

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Tyler Johnson: I do. Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: You know we're we're.

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Tad Eggleston: There's almost as much examination of language and

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Tad Eggleston: thought as there is mystery mystery, but it's kind of set up in a Noirish style.

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Tad Eggleston: The City of Glass has a lot of a lot of Don Quixote in it.

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Tyler Johnson: That's cool.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: And yeah, so I, yeah, I really enjoyed this. Read this week and am really excited that in April Pantheon will be releasing the whole trilogy together.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's awesome. I have to pick that up.

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Tad Eggleston: You will! No, this is totally your time, I mean city of glass was already a book that I totally would recommend to you, and ironically.

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Tyler Johnson: Sounds, like.

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Tad Eggleston: Had just given, or I guess I didn't give it to him because we were at the bookstore together. I just recommended and and and had a friend that I'd met for like

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Tad Eggleston: our post Christmas get together! And we wound up at a bookstore, and I saw it, and I put it in his hands, and it went home with him. So.

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Tyler Johnson: So that's all right.

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Tad Eggleston: Before this I had. I had put city of glass in a good friend's hands, and said, Hey, you should read this.

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Tyler Johnson: I'm in my brain now.

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Tad Eggleston: So!

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Tad Eggleston: Oh!

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Tyler Johnson: Nice.

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Tad Eggleston: So yeah. And then in

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Tad Eggleston: not as pleasant news that I don't really want to dwell on at the moment

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Tad Eggleston: trump 2.0 starts tomorrow.

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Tad Eggleston: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: And I guess the big thing that I'm gonna like throw out there because everybody nobody understands what it is, and everybody thinks that it's a plaything, and it really isn't.

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Tad Eggleston: We hit the debt ceiling on Tuesday.

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Tad Eggleston: The debt ceiling is not about borrowing more money.

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Tad Eggleston: The debt ceiling is not about spending more money. The debt ceiling is about

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Tad Eggleston: paying the bills we already have.

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Tad Eggleston: The debt ceiling is about the full faith and credit of the United States, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: but certain certain disingenuous people have loved to

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Tad Eggleston: make it out that oh, we can't raise the debt ceiling because we need to get spending under control. Blah, blah blah

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Tad Eggleston: that's the equivalent of saying we need to get spending under control. So we're not going to pay the electricity bill.

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Tad Eggleston: We need to get spending under control. So we're not going to pay our water bill.

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Tad Eggleston: We need to get spending under control. So we're not going to pay our credit card bills.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: This is one of the few places where

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Tad Eggleston: what happens to people and what happens to government is actually kind of so similar

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Tad Eggleston: right as a human being. If if you don't

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Tad Eggleston: pay your bills, people won't lend you money

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Tad Eggleston: as a government. If you don't pay your bills.

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Tad Eggleston: people won't lend you money. If people won't lend you money, they also stop believing in your currency because they have to worry, that you're just going to print it

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Tad Eggleston: to pay money, which is the wrong way. Wrong kind of inflation.

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Tyler Johnson: Exactly.

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Tad Eggleston: Right now the Us. Currency is like

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Tad Eggleston: the standard currency for world trade.

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Tad Eggleston: The Us. Is the standard for full faith and credit.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: But if we ever let the I mean

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Tad Eggleston: the 1st time there was that huge fight over the debt ceiling God! 10 years ago I remember reading an article about it to my at the time, like 8 month old

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Tad Eggleston: and the whole family laughing, that I was talking so seriously, I'm like, no, this needs to sink in now.

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Tad Eggleston: Stock market crashed by 10 percentage points one day, just because they were still talking about not

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Tad Eggleston: increasing the debt limit.

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Tad Eggleston: There are people who seriously worry about the possibility that even prolonged discussions about not raising the debt limit could do irreparable harm to the global economic system.

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Tad Eggleston: And the day after inauguration, with, if full right wing, Congress.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: We need to raise it.

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Tad Eggleston: It seems like trump has figured this out because he actually wanted the Last Budget Bill to include a a

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Tad Eggleston: permanent elimination of the debt ceiling, but he couldn't get that past his own party, because so many of the people in Congress have drunk the Kool-aid, and don't understand what it is.

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Tad Eggleston: So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens on Tuesday.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean as much as I love comics as much as I want all of this to be about comics. There are certain things that will make it so that we don't get many comics anymore.

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Tyler Johnson: I know.

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Tad Eggleston: Global economic collapse is one of them.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, for that matter, trump tariffs is one of them. Most of our comics are printed in Canada and China

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Tad Eggleston: in large part, because at this point there just aren't us printers to print them at.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: You know, it's not like we can just decide to move our business back to the United States.

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Tyler Johnson: Well, I'll try.

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Tad Eggleston: Nobody, to move it, to.

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Tyler Johnson: No.

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Tad Eggleston: Need to move it to.

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

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Tyler Johnson: My room. That I mean is cold, so I'm shivering.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that's that's why I got my my Chewbacca snuggie on.

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Tyler Johnson: That's where I got my! I got my superman, Hoodie on, but it's just not warm enough.

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Tad Eggleston: There from mad cave, studios, blade, forger, number one from Roy and Inaki Miranda.

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Tad Eggleston: The discovery of Corum, a never seen before. Energy source led to a bloody War World War for its control. After years of destruction the lords of the lands agreed to negotiate a ceasefire for lasting peace. The Blade Forgers Treaty was born. From that meeting. This treaty established that the mining of Corum would be centralized through one government led by a neutral emperor.

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Tad Eggleston: the Emperor would have to be a blade forger or mystical swordsman, and claim the title in a tournament called The Tournament of the 5 Rings. Every 5 years. Blade. Forgers from every corner of the Empire would fight for the possibility of becoming the new Emperor. A young blade forger named Owada, challenges the Emperor in the name of the forsaken people.

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Tad Eggleston: This is the story of what happens next in stores. March 5.th

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Tyler Johnson: That looks real.

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Tad Eggleston: Again mad Cave studios.

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Tyler Johnson: All right. This is defiant from Chuck, Austin and Patrick O'leaf, New Distillery Science Fiction debut from Chuck, Austin and prolific Marvel and DC. Artist, Patrick O'leaf. On his final mission. Sandusky returns to the stars to reclaim his son Devin's body and uncover the truth surrounding his son's death. Let's see here light years from home among a cascade of twisted metal, Sandusky finds Devin, his body entombed, the remains of his ship.

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Tyler Johnson: the defiant, lost in a massive battle with the that sparked an intergalactic war. But nothing is what it seems. As Sandusky digs deeper, he and his allies are drawn into a galaxy spanning mystery, one that holds secrets far darker and more complex than anticipated. Can you scroll a little bit for me so I can see the rest of it all right.

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Tad Eggleston: March 12.th

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. In stores. March 12.th

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Tad Eggleston: But I'm just distillery. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Peacemaker presents the Vigilante Eagle Eagle. Double feature.

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Tad Eggleston: They give peace a bad name. DC. Studios. James Gunn steps in as story consultant for 5 issues of insane

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Tad Eggleston: grillics.

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Tad Eggleston: Calamity. When 2 fan favorite characters share the spotlight and equal page, count the Vigilante story starts when peacemaker has disappeared. It's up to

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Tad Eggleston: Adrian Chase, the Vigilante and peacemaker's bestest friend, to find him the new crime. Bosses of Evergreen must pay blood will be spilled. Oh, wait! You say peacemaker is just on vacation. Oh, don't tell Adrian

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Tyler Johnson: all right. Red Sonia attacks Mars from Jay Stevens and Art, by Fran Strucken, due master of Horror comics. Jay Stevens and Red Sonia artist Fran Strucken stirs some adventure and dark comedy into a cauldron of ancient Hiborian terrors. While serving out a life debt. Red sonja uncovers a sinister prophecy of cosmic foulness from beyond the stars, and must trek from the deserts of South

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Tyler Johnson: Hycunia all the way to the northern shores of the Viliette Sea, to face down the insidious invaders of Mars, serpentmen, undead Martians, gender swapping ape, men, men of Morlocks, Martian pirates, angry, ancient gods, an owl with a human face. Don't miss this retro sci-fi fantasy epic that is sure to take you places you didn't imagine were possible.

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Tyler Johnson: And then art by Ergon Gundas, the team of Christopher Preece and Ergon Gundas returns as the long night begins. Vampirella's infant son, stolen by her evil twin. Dracolina has finally been returned to her. But Vampy does not know. The baby has been bonded with him, and lost, and alone begins spiraling into post-mortem depression. A mysterious.

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Tyler Johnson: that's way different. A mysterious figure named Cicero arrives, claiming to be Vampirella's infant son somehow transported 40 plus years back from a dark future wherein vampirella, consumed by bitterness, has become the witch of Ash Thorn, a ruthless matriarch responsible for a nuclear holocaust. Having finally rescued her baby from Draculina, Cicero begs Vampirilla

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Tyler Johnson: There was a time when everyone had access to magic until a dispute for power attracted a demon from another world who destroyed everything or so legend has it. However, there is another very different apocryphal version, according to which a hero carrying a sword came to the kingdom to guide and protect its people. But who was that hero? And what became of him.

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Tyler Johnson: Why is the queen now the only person capable of using magic? Attracted by all these enigmas of the past, Aenea, princess of the kingdom, and heir to the throne by imposition, will try to find out the truth of these magical fables, now that she has just found a mysterious sword. This is going to be in shops. May 7th out from one press.

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Tad Eggleston: Last Sunday her Eisner award nominated all ages tale about the need for free time in the midst of our busy, everyday lives.

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Tad Eggleston: Nina lives in a dusty town, haunted by the 6 angry wolves of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Each day brings never ending choice and drudgery. Legend speaks of a 7th day to rest Sunday, but everybody knows an evil witch stole it and keeps it locked away. When Nina finally says, enough is enough. She sets out on an ambitious quest

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Tyler Johnson: All right. Foothold. Rigsby, Wisconsin, rigged from SE. Case, Rigsby, Wisconsin, 2,002 is just another nowhere town. But Bethany has finally found some stability here, far from the baleful, watching eyes of her oppressively disapproving mother.

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Tyler Johnson: Jody and Eric are welcoming new friends, and even Anna seems to seems happy to make her feel at home, despite hints of issues even bigger than hers, amid the placid, scenic, small town beauty, the teens of Rigsby are roiling with struggles over what might come next, where to turn and what's standing in their way. And when Bethany and Anna decide to go to the homecoming dance together the thread starts to unravel from iron circus comics. This is out March 5, th I think.

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Tad Eggleston: After a rocky attempt at living in London with his partner, Lawrence finds himself single, broke, and back home in Compton, with his mom and great aunt, moping from bed to kitchen table and back to bed again, with long layovers on the front porch to sit and watch the world pass them by.

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Tad Eggleston: Everything had been so good a degree. An animation. Internship paid, music, gigs, the perfect girl! How the heck! Did Lawrence get knocked so far down

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Tyler Johnson: When his commander slays one of the native inhabitants only family Thorello rebels against his troop to save the child. The quest for the City of Gold turns into a manhunt. The pair flee through the jungle, seeking sanctuary from the onslaught of the Spanish soldiers at their heels, but deep in that jungle, in the heart of the ancient city rest monstrous warriors, waiting for a vengeful summons. This is out from Dark Horse, and will be in shops. May 21.st

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Tad Eggleston: and Usagi Yojimbo. 10,000 plums, number 1. 1 of the Shogun samurai strongmen, becomes immediately suspicious when Usagi, Yukichi and Jen are found wandering in a huge field of the shogun's prized plum field plum trees, with a series of strange events gripping the local village with fear. Can their appearance be a mere coincidence in stores. March 5, th

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Tad Eggleston: Sancha and Blanco. Sancha yearns for freedom. Her brother Blanco cannot comprehend. Its 1st 2 issues of the canine fairy tale are available from

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Tad Eggleston: Yep, and I think we're gonna I think we will soon learn a lot more about Nico Robin.

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Tad Eggleston: Okay. So so the thing that we just learned and why I expect the next flashback sequence to be a Nico robin one is that, apparently because she's capable of using this big weapon.

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Tad Eggleston: Life, you know, just just continuing to breathe, makes you an outlaw.

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Tad Eggleston: Of of course, you're gonna like.

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Tyler Johnson: Rebel.

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Tad Eggleston: Well rebel and and wind up with interesting morals and interesting allegiances and

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Tad Eggleston: So I'm really curious to see how he's going to handle that, because he's really handled most of the backstories really, in cool ways.

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Tad Eggleston: Right. And I mean he was gonna do that, anyway. But now it's like it's easy to convince the crew.

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Tyler Johnson: And it feels like once you're in his little

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Tyler Johnson: One of the guys.

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Tad Eggleston: Right well, and and that's usopp.

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Tad Eggleston: You know who's now the sniper King.

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Tyler Johnson: It is. Yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: True, that could be.

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Tyler Johnson: Sure I can see that.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: You know.

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Tad Eggleston: and not just like having morals and ethics, but like digging into what they mean and why we do them

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I mean, it's gotta be entertaining. It's manga, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, it doesn't have to be. You could, I mean, manga does all sorts of stuff dude.

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Tyler Johnson: I know. I know it's all over the place.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: Exactly.

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Tad Eggleston: That's what it is. I mean, there's some big questions that are raised by this and explored by this

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Tad Eggleston: and at some point it is probably even worth

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Tad Eggleston: like a real dissection where we try to figure that out. But I I don't have the energy to go back yet. Okay,

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Tad Eggleston: Feel like I feel like like a year after the race. We'll look back and we'll like big questions raised by one piece and and where, and how, and.

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Tyler Johnson: They should.

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Tad Eggleston: Start taking notes. Now, one piece notes crazy.

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Tad Eggleston: Because again, I you know, I mean, that's the craziest thing about one piece to me so far is like we're joking a lot about how long it is and how much of a task it sometimes is to read it all, etcetera. I can see wanting to read it again.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, wow!

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Tyler Johnson: I don't think I will.

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Tad Eggleston: There is so much layered in here

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Tad Eggleston: Probably not at the same breakneck pace.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that sort of thing I could see wanting to book club it a volume at a time

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Tad Eggleston: to really flesh out.

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Tyler Johnson: Really dig.

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Tad Eggleston: What's right?

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Tyler Johnson: Can see that.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, we started this as a silly exercise, and I'm seeing enough more in it that it's like, Oh, I don't want to abandon our silly exercise, but but in some ways, because of the silly exercise we're doing. I'm not digging as deep as

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Tad Eggleston: I might if we were doing it differently.

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Tyler Johnson: Correct. But I agree.

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Tad Eggleston: Also don't want to change it. So we devote

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Tad Eggleston: a significant part of every episode to a volume of one piece right now.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, we just wouldn't get done.

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Tad Eggleston: But I could see doing like a monthly book club that lasted.

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Tyler Johnson: Years.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it would. It'd be at least 2 years, probably at least. No, it'd be.

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Tad Eggleston: I think if I do did the Monthly Book Club I'd want to do. They've been re-releasing him as like 3 volume sets, so I think that would be the way I do it. It'd be like 3 volumes per

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Tad Eggleston: week, but they've got like a hundred of the 3 volume.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's a lot.

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Tad Eggleston: Versions.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, so.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, funny!

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Tad Eggleston: But.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh!

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Tad Eggleston: It's been a fun ride. I'm looking forward to more.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, I am shivering, sorry.

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Tad Eggleston: More next week.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, we're gonna be doing one piece a little more in depth next week

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: We'll see.

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Tad Eggleston: Hopefully. Either Nico Robin will be back, or we'll know a lot more about her.

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Tyler Johnson: Exactly. Yup.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so.

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Tyler Johnson: What are 3 books you hope will be spectacular next week, Ted.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, I had to cheat again because Tom King's got 2 books coming out.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: But Spencer, Ackerman.

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Tad Eggleston: Javier, Pena, and Rod Reese. Take my top spot with Iron man number 4, which has just been ridiculous.

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Tad Eggleston: Can't believe I had to cheat, and I still have all Marvel and DC books. But you know, it also looks like it's it's also it's kind of a light week. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Number 2 is where I cheat because I have both wonder. Woman number 17 and Black Canary. Best of the best number 3 by Tom King Danielson Perry on Wonder Woman, Ryan Sook on Black Canary.

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Tad Eggleston: And that's the only reason that Kelly Thompson is 3, rd because, having 2 books, including the Wonder woman that I love

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Tad Eggleston: allowed Tom to to slide in front of absolute wonder. Woman number 4 from Kelly, Thompson and Hayden Sherman.

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Tad Eggleston: We also have collections for Astra Book.

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Tad Eggleston: Esther City, Mentor, book number 6, and Backtrack, by Brian Jones and Jake Elphick, which is a

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Tad Eggleston: want to say it's a 10 or 12 issue.

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Tad Eggleston: Like time, travel, road, race series from

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Tad Eggleston: I just loved when it came out.

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Tad Eggleston: it would definitely be a worthwhile thing to to read together at some point.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay, that sounds awesome. I would do it.

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Tad Eggleston: Them.

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Tyler Johnson: All right my number one is Black Hammer, spiral city number 3 from Jeff Lemire and Teddy Christianson from Dark Horse. I'm really looking forward to where Inspector Insector is going on this next one. Yeah, he's he's my favorite.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. He's cool.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Epitas from the abyss continues to kill it with Number 7 coming up from Jordan, Thomas and Colin Bunn and Chris Condon and Andrea, Sorrentino and Valeria, Berzo and Andrea Moody and then.

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Tad Eggleston: Condon.

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Tyler Johnson: Did I forget one.

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Tad Eggleston: No, I said more. Condon.

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Tyler Johnson: More content. Oh, I

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Tyler Johnson: and then the Patchwork Girl of Oz is awesome. I love the story so I'm really.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's 1 of my favorite Oz books. So I'm looking forward to the comic, too.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, this is from Otis Frampton, from image.

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Tyler Johnson: yeah, I like the artwork. The cover looked really cool. I like the Patchwork Girl. I read my daughter these odd stories, and we'd really get into them together, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, cool!

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, that's a hundred 67 weekly episodes in the book. Right?

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Tad Eggleston: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: Take us out.

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Tyler Johnson: Sure. Alright, guys, thanks for listening, and we will catch you after the next page.

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Tyler Johnson: Later.