Funny Book Forensics 422 Booster Vs. Bots

[00:00:05] Speaker A: That was weird. It went three, two, one. [00:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And then like, what, what, what? [00:00:14] Speaker A: I don't know what's happening. That means there's going to be a lag. That means everything's going to be terrible. It's all going to be awful. It's going to be like. Robots are attacking us. It's insane. [00:00:22] Speaker B: I was gonna say dinosaurs. [00:00:25] Speaker A: Dinosaur robots. [00:00:27] Speaker B: What if they were dinosaur robots? [00:00:29] Speaker A: I don't know. What if they weren't dinosaur robots? [00:00:32] Speaker B: What if they were or were not? What if. Were I. [00:00:37] Speaker A: The Dinobots sucked. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Well, yeah, no, no, Grimlock was cool. The rest of them were that he's a robot dinosaur. [00:00:49] Speaker A: He. Yeah. Why would you time. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Why would you program a dinosaur robot? [00:00:54] Speaker A: Robot? Yeah. To be stupid. [00:00:56] Speaker B: Stupid. Well, I mean, characteristically, he was just being. He has a small brain. [00:01:04] Speaker A: Yeah. It doesn't make any. It literally doesn't make any sense. Like, there's no. There's no logical sense to make the Dinobots now. When I was a little kid, I thought the Dinobots were great. As I aged, I realized the Dinobots were really stupid. I believe I grew out of them. And I don't grow out of a lot of things. I'm a old man that reads that has 17,000 comic books. It's true. Yeah, it's. It's very difficult. Yeah. Well, welcome to 2026, everyone. Whoa. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:01:41] Speaker A: We've made it here. [00:01:42] Speaker B: It's starting out fantastic. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Hey, Greg. Start off the year with a bang. [00:01:47] Speaker B: Hey. Yeah. [00:01:50] Speaker A: I mean, I'll just. If you're watching our shorts, nothing exploded. If you're watching. Well, if you're watching our short videos or you're listening to the whole podcast, you'll know that Greg, a couple podcasts ago talked. Talked about going to a drive in movie and his car breaking. And like, within a week, both of his cars broke. [00:02:10] Speaker B: Yes. And then I had to, like. Like when, you know, it's laundry day, like, you have that. That spare. Spare clothes that you pull out just in. Just in case. I tried to pull out the. The spare spare car that, that, that. That only runs sometimes, and that one didn't work either. And then just like laundry day, I tried to pull out the laundry to do the laundry and, well, gosh darn it, the dryer stopped working too. So now I really need those. Yeah. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's 26. [00:02:38] Speaker B: Yeah. It's been a fun, fun, fun beginning. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Well, I rearranged my office, kind of. Actually, that just meant I put a bunch of comic books away. Yeah. And then just realized more comics. I Needed to put away that don't fit. I realized randomly I have a dust jacket back here. Reading these. Yeah. Because I don't like reading omnibus with the dust jacket on. So I just haven't taken care of that. We'll put that back away. My dog is like, what are you doing? [00:03:12] Speaker B: Why do you have that? [00:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah, why are you making this noise with the dust bracket? What is that? [00:03:17] Speaker B: Why is it crinkly? I don't like it. [00:03:21] Speaker A: So the dog hasn't joined the podcast in a minute. [00:03:24] Speaker B: So now there's a dog. [00:03:27] Speaker A: Yeah. There we go. Juliet is here. It's 2026. She's for now excited because no fireworks are going off at this moment. I'm sure within a couple of minutes some fireworks will go off and she'll be scared again. But she came down to visit because it's the first time she's visited in 18 hours. So hot minute. His fireworks are great. We love them here. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Oh yeah, same at my house. [00:03:54] Speaker A: But welcome to 2026. It's a new year. We have the same old shitty administration. So exciting new year. Always good to start. But yeah, I was cleaning up my shelf back here too and reorganizing it, trying to figure out like which books looked aesthetically pleasing behind me. Not really. I just wanted to add some like junior Braves back here in highlight view. Yeah. And then I found this before we get started. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Oh yeah, that's a good one too. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Except, you know, do you know this book about internment camps has been banned by several libraries and several school districts? [00:04:36] Speaker B: Cuz the truth is just not good to share with the children. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah, apparently. Apparently if you are gay and go to an internment camp, then we don't talk about it. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just not part of history. We don't. Oh yeah, we don't worry about. So yeah. Well, it's because they mentioned the Trump versus Hawaii case and. And we wouldn't want to, you know, disparage our. Our fair leader, fearless leader, fearful leader, junk food leader. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. KFC Big Max. [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean it's fantastic when you think about it. And in here. So welcome to 2026. On that bright note, we're ready to go. We've got George Takei, his books being banned. We've got in 2025. But it's a new year. Maybe they'll get unbanned this year. 2026, the year of the unbanned book. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Anything could happen. [00:05:50] Speaker A: It could. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Starting today. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. You could even get out your good camera and set it up for 2020. [00:05:56] Speaker B: You know, Dan, I was too busy doing other things like fixing a fence that was falling down. [00:06:00] Speaker A: You know, you always have charging your. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Car battery or trying to fix the dryer excuses. I know. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Everything breaking in your house. [00:06:07] Speaker B: I know. Sorry. [00:06:10] Speaker A: I mean, I just. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Just for you, I'm gonna. I'm going to go find a better camera and I'm going to set it up and that camera is going to be an old 360 connect. It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be great. And you're going to get a picture that you're not going to believe. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Like, I have a. I have something to share with you later. Yeah, Yeah. I got this book from Jim Cornet. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Oh, hey. Very nice. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Is that not cool? [00:06:39] Speaker B: It is very nice. [00:06:40] Speaker A: He talks about his heroes and friends. [00:06:42] Speaker B: Ah, very nice. Very nice. [00:06:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. There's all sorts of things to share in 2026. Yeah. You even got to boop. Cats, apparently. I have no idea how that went. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Oh, well, I didn't. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Haven't played it yet. [00:06:58] Speaker B: No, no, we did. We did. I will be honest. The. The rules and then people playing it online and telling you how to play it and then watching actual gameplay, all those things do not. They. The rules say this. The people telling you the rules say this. Which are. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Did you watch people instead of just following the rules? [00:07:20] Speaker B: Because the rules don't make sense when you're trying to play it. So you have to watch people actually play the game. Because if you follow the rules, it doesn't make sense. [00:07:38] Speaker A: I mean, the game is literally just moving cats around a bed. [00:07:41] Speaker B: You would think. But there are certain things that you're supposed to do that don't make sense. And it doesn't tell you unless. Because what. What it tells you to do versus what you need to do are two different things. Because what it says in the rules and then how you're supposed to do it are two different things. [00:08:02] Speaker A: When you get three cats. [00:08:04] Speaker B: No, no. When you get three kittens, you get three cats. Do you put those cats on the bed or do you hold on to those cats and do you put them on the bed later? It doesn't tell you that. It just says you get three cats. But it's like checkers. [00:08:19] Speaker A: The kittens just become cats. [00:08:20] Speaker B: No, they don't. And that's what we found out by watching other people play the game. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Because they're like, well, how do you know these other people know how. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Because there's other. The rules for the game. They've. [00:08:33] Speaker A: They. [00:08:33] Speaker B: They Explain it in further in the rules, but they don't explain it. Like when you're reading through the rules, it doesn't lay it out just like that. So you're like, okay, wait a minute, it just told me to do this, but then it tells me to do this and you have to watch somebody actually play the game because it doesn't make any fucking sense. [00:08:50] Speaker A: Well, before we get into Mr. Gold number 10, which on funny Book Forensics, the podcast you're listening to, where for eight, nine minutes we haven't mentioned anything we're doing except talking about the New Year dryers and, and booping cats and books that are banned and how much we hate the President. What, what was an's thumbs up or thumbs down on booping cats? Thumbs down. [00:09:17] Speaker B: She will have to, she will have to try it again. But right now it was very like. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Honestly, like it was traumatic. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Well, trying to get through and, and, and be and, and like, okay, wait, you don't put up, you get the, you the cats don't, the kittens don't, don't turn into cats. So then you have to put them on the thing. And then if you boop a cat, you can't boop. If you have kittens that boop kittens. You, if you have more kittens on the bed, you can't actually boop any kittens because they don't get booped. You have to move everything that's in this way. [00:09:50] Speaker A: It's. [00:09:50] Speaker B: They boop multi directionally, which makes sense, but you don't get that from. Exactly. It doesn't, doesn't. It's not very clear. [00:09:59] Speaker A: So what if the cats were pre toasted? [00:10:02] Speaker B: Exactly. If the cats were pre toasted, it would make more sense because then you'd have pre toasted cats to put on the bed to boop the other cats or the kittens. But you don't have pre toasted cats. You can't boop the kittens or the other cats without pre toasting. Dan, you need to pre toast. And if you don't have them pre toasted, then how do you play the game? There's no way to play. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Well, I brought pre toasting up because it seems like based on this cover that we're looking at for Booster Gold Number 10, that the diamond guy, the diamond director has pre toasted his robots. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Well, they're about to pre toast Booster. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Well, I know they're not pre. Well, is it pre toasting boost or are they pre toasted robots? Because he says destroy my robots, Booster. And then I can't lose those. Are the robots pre toasted, or is Booster pre toasted, or is the director pre toasted? I think. [00:11:04] Speaker B: I think director's pre toasting the toast. He's gonna toast. He's toasting before he toast with the robots toasted. [00:11:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, you're roasted. [00:11:19] Speaker B: And the director is boasted because he's the mosted. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Are you the demon now? [00:11:25] Speaker B: Chosted. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Ah. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Dan has hosted. Don't you know. You don't know what's happening. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Like. Like most. I have no idea what's happening. I know. I actually worked on this one. Yeah. And so far, it's completely off the rails. [00:11:44] Speaker B: You started it off the rails. [00:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. It's my fault. [00:11:47] Speaker B: Silly question. No, like, no, no. Like, I'm not saying you started the. Like the. The podcast. When we started the podcast, it just, like, went off the rails. Like, I mean, like, the. The podcast, like, did the whole thing where it counted down. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Funny. [00:12:00] Speaker B: And then it's like. And it was like, oh, it's like. [00:12:04] Speaker A: It's like. It's like Booster Gold's mind. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yes. [00:12:08] Speaker A: Broken. [00:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's a beefcake cover. It's nothing but cheesecake right there. Cheesy beefcake. [00:12:16] Speaker A: I don't know. Booster ass. [00:12:18] Speaker B: Yeah, just right there. And the. [00:12:19] Speaker A: And. [00:12:20] Speaker B: And the director's like. [00:12:24] Speaker A: Booster's auditioning for season two of Heated Rivalry. I don't laugh when I watch the show. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:35] Speaker A: I just. [00:12:36] Speaker B: I. Your joke is funny. [00:12:39] Speaker A: I mean, well, it's. It's true. I think he might end up on it. It's possible. [00:12:44] Speaker B: You think so? [00:12:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, there's always room for a superhero on a hockey show. [00:12:52] Speaker B: So is. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Well, I mean, he makes total sense. He. [00:12:55] Speaker B: He's an athlete. He could. [00:12:57] Speaker A: He's already saved a hockey game. Well, actually, he let those hockey players get murdered, didn't he? He did take that back. Yeah. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Well, and then he let some of them try to murder him, and then. Then they got murdered. [00:13:07] Speaker A: They were. They were chilled. No, they weren't chilled. They were twisted. [00:13:11] Speaker B: They were twisted. [00:13:12] Speaker A: They were pre twisted. [00:13:14] Speaker B: They're Twizzlered, but Twizzler. [00:13:17] Speaker A: I guess we should. This is a really cool cover, by the way. I like it. [00:13:20] Speaker B: It is a good cover. [00:13:22] Speaker A: And what I'm gonna say. I was talking before the podcast, of course, and Greg is like, please talk about this on the podcast, because it was a podcast talk, and it is podcast talk. I read issues 10 and 11 in, like, yeah, 35 minutes. And then I was halfway through 12 when Greg messaged me and said, oh, well, I'm ready to start the podcast now because, you know, we were supposed to start at one time, but then Greg couldn't because, like, his fence is falling down or something. And we started the podcast, but we weren't gonna start the podcast. And we did, but I was right in the middle of reading. So then I'm like, I need five minutes. But I didn't get finished. But I was flying through these stories, and I'm just going to say, number one, the Superman story consensus was it wasn't the best. [00:14:02] Speaker B: It was. It was mid. And kids would say, I mean, it was. [00:14:08] Speaker A: But it didn't have me, like, wanting to keep reading Booster Gold because they kind of just kept the plots, like, rolling in the background. And the Legion story. The Legion story, not the best, but at least the Legion story explained, like, the origin of the fight with the 1000. And so, yeah, it had all the whole Metropolis beginning. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Right. [00:14:31] Speaker A: And while I do appreciate the flashback storytelling in the attempt at that, there are in some ways now that I'm reading this sequentially and then, like, seeing the story go, yeah, I almost wish they just would have started with Booster showing up, the Legion showing up, and them doing that fight and then moving the story there, through there. Because in that case, you get the rub from the Legion in the first book. You get Booster. You set up the whole story in the first book. Yeah. We don't have to deal with Blackguard until later. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Oh. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Hindsight'S 20 20. I mean, it's. Yeah, but I. I guess what I'm saying is we've built to this, and I'm liking this now, and it's a much funner book, but there's some things I would have, like, would have sequentially made sense to build up to. And. And we'll see a couple in the book, right. That, that. That are hardly mentioned until we get here. And I think could have been mentioned consistently or we could have had, like, that sort of. Sort of story playing out as we led into this. So let's jump in. And by the way, I. I have no idea what space clusters are, so what the heck? First cover. That's baffled me. I. I don't know what space clusters are. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Space cluster sounds like a delicious candy bar. Like, does literally get 711 with your comic book. I'm getting a space cluster. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Space cluster. [00:16:02] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. [00:16:04] Speaker A: Only if you do it in Randy Savage voices. So. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Oh, come on down and get yourself a space cluster. It's got the nook. [00:16:12] Speaker A: It. [00:16:12] Speaker B: It's got the peanuts. It's got the chocolate. [00:16:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Dig into it. You don't want to snap into it. You want to bite it. [00:16:23] Speaker A: We're being interrupted currently. Oh, what? [00:16:26] Speaker B: By what? [00:16:27] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. People are just showing up at my house. It's things remove. Investment. Dogs are flying. Dogs are barking. It's going crazy. Who knows? Who knows what happens? You know, it's kind of like your house, except I have a fence. [00:16:41] Speaker B: You have. Well, I don't, but my do have. I. [00:16:45] Speaker A: My fence is held up by multiple pieces of plywood because I don't have an hoa. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Ah, see? See mine. I'm gonna get a cool letter because I went and put two by fours to whole Earth. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Space clusters was a DC graphic novel. Lt. Kara Thrace tracks her foe Ethan Wilder to an intergalactic backwater, where she grills his alien girlfriend for clues and eventually hurls her down a trap door. Returning to her vessel and chasing Ethan through uncharted space, she follows him through a black hole into another universe, only to learn she's trans. Been transformed into a living stellar cluster. No. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:17:31] Speaker A: It was written by Arthur Byron, cover, interesting name. And penciled, inked and colored by Alex Nino, and lettered by Todd Klein. It was DC graphic novel number seven. [00:17:49] Speaker B: Sounds like a very interesting book that. Hey. [00:17:55] Speaker A: That we've never heard of. [00:17:57] Speaker B: We never heard of. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Okay, so moving forward, we've got a first page. We've got a. A giant diamond director on the front. For one second, I thought. And he's holding the booster team in his hands, basically. For a second, I thought Jason Redfern was back instead of. Instead of Dirk Jerk's daughter. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:18:25] Speaker A: I was. I was, like, very annoyed because I was like, why is this character coming back? Burn is back. Then I realized it was the daughter. Yeah, it was the. Yeah, it. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Fern. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Well. [00:18:39] Speaker B: And Death grip of the 1000. Death Grip got 1000. Sounds like a band. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, we've got a good name. I was. I was also thinking death curb 1000 does sound like a good band name. I was also thinking we need. Did I mention this on the last podcast when we were talking about the D.C. challenge? We need Ron Randall on this podcast badly. Okay. Because I want to ask him how in the hell he didn't get into the DC Challenge. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Ah. [00:19:14] Speaker A: Relatively new artist for dc. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:17] Speaker A: I feel like he's prime candidate to be in the D.C. challenge. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Probably. I mean. [00:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So. Well, it happens. Well, anyway, we flipped a page, and the city is hot. And the lights are hot. [00:19:35] Speaker B: Lights are hot. The city's hot. Everything's hot. [00:19:38] Speaker A: Everything. It looks like we're reading Nathaniel Dusk again. [00:19:41] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, it does. And that's why it's hot. [00:19:46] Speaker A: And anyway, we have. Is hot. The 1000 gangsters are going after Dirk. They show him a picture of his adorable little daughter holding up a newspaper where Reagan calls for a summit. [00:20:00] Speaker B: It's not. It's not a picture, Dan. [00:20:02] Speaker A: They. [00:20:02] Speaker B: They put a. They put a. A VHS cassette in a. In a. In a. In a TV. [00:20:09] Speaker A: Oh, well, you know, it's one of those little TVs that you hold. Yeah, yeah, those were. They sold those back then because, remember, Booster was using one. Yeah, they. [00:20:18] Speaker B: They. They have the tech in the back of their car. They open up the trunk. It's like one of those crazy deals. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Oh, that. That car probably could power a small city. [00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's nuts. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Well, anyway, the gangsters convince him. He's like, wait, what do I do? How do I get her back? Oh, no. They're trying to get us to feel bad for Dirk. I don't feel bad for him yet because he's a jerk. [00:20:43] Speaker B: I feel bad for him. I feel bad. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Do you feel bad for his daughter, though? Yeah. Well, we get to the next page, and Senator Ballard is being interviewed here. And they're like, well, why'd you let Booster Gold get away with not paying his taxes? Because we're back to IRS showing back up, and you will pay your taxes. Yeah. And. And he's like, well, Booster Gold. Well, I hate him. I hate him. And then we flip the page. I hate him. I hate him some more. I'm gonna break. I hate him. I hate him more. More and more and more. Hate, hate, hate. [00:21:17] Speaker B: I'm gonna poop him because he's a kitten and I'm a cat. And he's gonna. He's gonna go find Booster and boop him. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he goes to basement number four. [00:21:28] Speaker B: Then he finds out that you got. He's only three kittens, and now he's got no cats on the bed. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Well, and while he's off the board because he becomes diamond director on page six. By the way, have you noticed how much easier these books are to read now that they have page numbers. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Is at the bottom of page six. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yes, you're correct. The books are substantially improved since page numbers have appeared. [00:21:55] Speaker B: You know, I mean, they have page numbers. I don't know if they're easy to read or if you just want to read them more because you Enjoy reading the books. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Well, I can reference the page numbers. Page numbers directly correlated with improvement of the Booster Gold storyline. I, you know how I, I, I. [00:22:12] Speaker B: Tell people to find different things in the book. I just tell them, find the panel with, like, Diamond Director. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Well, there's lots of panels with Diamond Director. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Well, not. [00:22:22] Speaker A: His mask is looking less diamondy now. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:22:25] Speaker A: It's very defined. [00:22:26] Speaker B: He looks like Spawn. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Spawn doesn't exist yet. I know. [00:22:31] Speaker B: That's what I'm like. [00:22:32] Speaker A: It's like, crazy. He's got some awesome boots, too. [00:22:37] Speaker B: He does have awesome boots. [00:22:40] Speaker A: His boots have flare. [00:22:41] Speaker B: His boots have the best flare. It's like, man, when they designed this character, they knew what they were doing. They got. They, they. They put it to them. [00:22:53] Speaker A: We get a lot of g. A lot of guffawing here. Yeah, it's. We get a ton of it. It's the director's, like, we've sparred for the better part of a year now. That fool. Claiming victory in each of our battles, but the war will yet be mine. [00:23:21] Speaker B: He takes off in his little rail car. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Under underground. But his base was destroyed. So what is this? I don't know. [00:23:29] Speaker B: I don't know. But it's crazy that he took off all his clothes, like, coming down the. The ladder and stripped out of everything and put his costume. Because it's a pile of clothes on. That top panel is like a pile of his clothes. So he, like, at some point in the middle of the, like, from the page turn, he ripped off all his clothes and changed in the middle of it. [00:23:52] Speaker A: And unlike the COVID we didn't get to see his cake. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he. He is the cake. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Maybe we don't want to see Ballard's cake. Have you ever wanted to see cake in Ballard? [00:24:08] Speaker B: Wait, the. The place or. No. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Have you had cake in Ballard? I've never. I've only been to Ballard, like, three times. Didn't go to Ballard with you once on accident, maybe, like, after a game? [00:24:26] Speaker B: Maybe. [00:24:27] Speaker A: Didn't I drive the wrong way in Seattle? Were you on that? I did that once. I. Hey, I think you were there. [00:24:31] Speaker B: I mean, we've. We've driven around Seattle a number of times. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Well, this is before GPS. I, like, got on Highway 99, right. And went the wrong way and then had to turn around. [00:24:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:24:41] Speaker B: There's a giant statue of Lenin. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, we flipped the page, and Booster and Trixie are driving in the Boostermobile. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Well, yeah. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Looking special. They are having this very kind, warm chat, and it's all friendly and they decide to go eat in a restaurant. And Trixie's like, hey, you have to actually wear grown up clothes in the restaurant, not your uniform. And you have to take your mask off. And then we're going to talk and stuff. And Booster Gold feels really comfortable with all this talking because with his very high intellectual skills and conversational skills, this is going to be a great experience. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Which is like, wait a minute. Are we. Is this a. Are we eating pizza as a, a thing or is this a. I would love the pizza. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Actually, if anybody in the house is listening, I think pizza would be great today. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Nobody's bringing you pizza, Dan. [00:25:47] Speaker A: Maybe not. [00:25:49] Speaker B: I had pizza yesterday. It was delicious. [00:25:52] Speaker A: I did not have pizza yesterday. I had hamburgers. [00:25:54] Speaker B: And the day before. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Well, you eat a lot of pizza. Pizza, so. [00:26:00] Speaker B: I know. Well, they're. They're gluten free little pizza bites that they make. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Sounds terrible. They were good. [00:26:05] Speaker B: They're actually really good. [00:26:06] Speaker A: That sounds terrible. [00:26:08] Speaker B: No, they are delicious. [00:26:10] Speaker A: You know. You know, I just want to toss this out there. Since they are going into a restaurant, you, you know that there are things that are gluten free that you can actually like put together and cook that are healthy, that don't come prepackaged. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Oh, I know, I know. This was a. This was, this was a fun treat, Dan. It's called a treat. It's not something I eat all the time. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Most of the time I'm eating salads. [00:26:34] Speaker B: And other stuff like that. This was salads. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Salads sound terrible. Those are disgusting. Vegetable equals. As Uncle Roger says, vegetables equals sad. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah, well, then I eat a lot of sad. [00:26:51] Speaker A: It is true. You do eat a lot of sad. That's. That's actually factual. So the. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Well, thanks. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it is, it's true. I mean, I have Greg. Greg makes good food. I, I don't want to say he does not make good food. He'd also eat a lot of sad. [00:27:07] Speaker B: I eat a lot of sad. I'm sorry, everybody. [00:27:09] Speaker A: It's true. I eat the sad. [00:27:12] Speaker B: Sad. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Well, speaking of eating sad, it looks like Booster Gold. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Booster doesn't get to eat at all. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Have ended up in a pizza restaurant that looks stunningly like a 1980s Pizza Hut inside. [00:27:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [00:27:28] Speaker A: It's crazy with the, with these crazy lights. Yeah. Somebody went to the drew the inside of it. [00:27:34] Speaker B: They said, hey, we're gonna set them up on a not date in Pizza Hut. They're just. [00:27:40] Speaker A: They are on a date. Well, Booster discloses to Trixie that his name is Michael John Carter. He does now one of the mysteries I don't have because I haven't read all these books and I'm missing this about Booster Gold, where I've read pretty much every other. The funny thing is, I've pretty much read every other Booster Gold appearance except this series, which is the first Booster Gold series, which doesn't make any sense. Right? Because I've read all of the second Booster Gold series and I've read all of Justice League, and I've read, you know, I, I wouldn't say I've grabbed every single Booster Gold, but pretty much I. I haven't read all these. And so I still don't know how Gold Star appears yet. And I. And, and all that. And I know things because you read about them in flashbacks, but I don't know the whole thing. And so I'm anxious to get there. I'm anxious to get there, but I'm not there yet. 1. We're probably only going to go through issue 12. I mean, we could decide to go through issue 24 if we want to. This is a lot of Booster. I think we might want to put a pin in Booster and maybe go back. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Listeners, you tell us what you think. [00:28:50] Speaker A: I'm also finding this. And as much as I bash on this book, I'm finding these a much more compelling read than most of my comics. I'm pulling out of the box right now. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Told you. I told you it's good. [00:29:03] Speaker A: And that's. That's the thing. [00:29:04] Speaker B: It gets better as you go along. It's like when you're eating a salad sometimes and you're like, ah, this is so sad. But then it's like, oh, wait a minute. There's something underneath this. Wait a minute. [00:29:13] Speaker A: So monthly when I get my books. Yeah, yeah, monthly when I get my books. Right now I'm grabbing Feral and I'm reading that immediately. I was reading. I do like reading World's Finest, but now it's wrapped up in that whole DCKO thing kind of. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Huh. [00:29:32] Speaker A: I'm still grabbing that pretty quickly. I was reading Justice League Unlimited right away, but that's all wrapped up in this DCKO thing. I love when they wrap it up and wrap everything into a shitty story that I have to read. And then, you know, now that's less compelling. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Well, I mean that it's less compelling, but it's also. It's also like, hey, we're going to wrap it up in this big old, big old Kaka story for you once you do thing. Because it's real life. [00:30:05] Speaker A: Scott Snyder, who I've complained about a lot, but also said is an extremely nice man. And. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:12] Speaker A: You know, Scott Snyder has the, like, best selling DC book out in like a billion years with Absolute Batman. Right. Like three. Over three million copies now. [00:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Of that book going out, I think the first issue went to like five printings. It's amazing how I. Out of touch and old I am. And you get that at some point. But I. Oh, yeah. Absolute Batman's okay to me. I don't know why. There are parts of it that make me very happy. Like, I love him murdering, like Klansmen and stuff. That's great. The. But the DCKO thing so far. And listener Jason was asking me if I'd read it and I said I would. And so far, so far it's Marvel Contest of Champions, not Secret Wars. Yeah. Yeah. I just. I don't get it. It seems forced, arbitrary. It's like we all got to fight to see who can become Darkseid. I. I don't know. Has a flowing plot line that I can follow. So fair. I think my biggest thing issue with Scott Snyder books is that I am lazy and I can't follow the plot threads. I just need them spelled out for me. And that's my own fault. But again, super nice man. And glad he is continuing to have success and incredibly thankful that a writer at Nick Dragoda. Right. Is drawing the absolute Batman. I believe. It's absolutely phenomenal to me that this. That we have a new writer. Not new team, but we have a writer and artist team. Love Tom King, too. Love a lot of things. Like love a lot of writers and artist groups right now. But I absolutely love Mark Waid. Mark Waid's writing all sorts of stuff. But thrilled to death that we have a writer and artist team so beloved that they sold a book with 3 million copies in 2025. That's crazy. [00:32:25] Speaker B: It is crazy. [00:32:26] Speaker A: It's tremendous. And not just a single issue, mind you. That's the cumulative for the book. But still, that's a crazy amount of books right now. That's a print medium. So I always sound like I'm bashing this man. I. I don't mean to be. [00:32:42] Speaker B: I. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Great. This is fantastic. And this is where I sound like old man. You know, I read these Facebook threads and I'm like, old men, shut up. Read new books. Here's the difference between me and them. I actually read the new books. Yeah. So I can actually talk about them. Yeah. I'm not just going like, I don't read anything new because it's Just trash. Blah, blah. [00:33:07] Speaker B: I don't like anything because. [00:33:08] Speaker A: Good at reading. Well, I mean, we may. I think it might be time for us maybe to read a couple absolute Batman issues. [00:33:18] Speaker B: I mean, if. If you think so. I mean, we can. I have book. I'm not opposed to it, so. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Or maybe it's time for us to read some. And Jason really wants us to read some Godzilla at some point. He also requested Hex since it came last episode. [00:33:40] Speaker B: It's a good movie. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Not the movie, the book. [00:33:44] Speaker B: No, it's a good movie. We gotta watch the movie, Dan. [00:33:46] Speaker A: No, we can. [00:33:47] Speaker B: We could do a review, compare contrast. [00:33:50] Speaker A: I will. I'll tell you what. I'll watch the first 10 minutes of the movie. [00:33:54] Speaker B: No, no, you don't remember why. [00:33:55] Speaker A: I don't like it. And then I'm gonna. [00:33:57] Speaker B: I'll come over, we'll watch the whole thing together. [00:34:01] Speaker A: First off, see, that's a threat. You'll never come over here. I invite. I invite you to come to my house, and I don't even get responses. [00:34:09] Speaker B: I can't. [00:34:09] Speaker A: I can't. [00:34:10] Speaker B: I get. [00:34:11] Speaker A: I. I invite. I invite you. I had no car, the owner of the retro emporium to my house, and I don't even get a response. So now this threat did come over my house and forced me to watch this movie. No, no, people. I don't even get a response. We're talking, like, not even like a. Oh, no, sorry. Just, like, to be fair, I turned my. Like a left on red. You know, I turned my phone off, and now I'm getting threats that Greg's gonna show up and make me watch this movie. I just don't. Oh, you know what? I'll believe it when I see it if. If. If you just randomly shot by my house and turn on Hex, I will go watch it. [00:34:50] Speaker B: Oh, all right. Well, he's invited it to his house. [00:34:54] Speaker A: I have invited it. Well, our restaurant, dinner date, conflict here, which is not really a conflict. They're really opening up. [00:35:01] Speaker B: I mean, just hanging out, having, unfortunately, an explosion friends. [00:35:05] Speaker A: An explosion stops, all of that because that's, you know, we're finally getting some plot movement here with the lovebirds. And an explosion happens. It's in the Graham Center. I don't know why the Graham center is important. Who are they celebrating here? Do you know? Celebrating Famous Cleveland Quarterback Autogram? [00:35:25] Speaker B: No, it's Graham crackers. [00:35:28] Speaker A: I see him. I just. I. I'm at a loss for who the gram is in reference to. [00:35:33] Speaker B: I don't know either, Grandma. [00:35:39] Speaker A: Well, maybe it's in reference to nothing. Anyway, Booster Gold quickly changes his uniform. He mentions floater nets. [00:35:47] Speaker B: So it's a floater net. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I was kind of wondering what that is, too. Is that like. Is that something you drag through the toilet bowl for? [00:35:56] Speaker B: Yeah, for floaters. [00:35:57] Speaker A: When you have so much fiber, get them out. When. [00:36:00] Speaker B: When you got so much fiber, it hangs out floating. Yeah, that's right. It's like they're boating. They just hang out. When you drop them, when you plop them, they just float. Floaters. Floaternet. [00:36:17] Speaker A: You do a terrible job advertising the actual product. Yeah, I know. It catches the floaters. Yeah. You just tell us what a floater is. [00:36:24] Speaker B: I just tell you what a floater is, and then you don't want it anymore, so you gotta get the floater in it to get them out. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Well, Trixie has figured out that maybe Booster Gold isn't of this century. Whoa. [00:36:36] Speaker B: What? [00:36:38] Speaker A: What now? We flip the page and miles away. I'll summer up this page very quickly. The comic book people were run off the road. Remember? Murdered, actually. They were shot. Yeah, they were shot in the head. [00:36:53] Speaker B: In the head. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Moral of the story. Moral of the story. Don't write and draw comics. You will end up shot in the head. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:37:04] Speaker A: And we find out It's a Chrysler 1000 GT. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Oh, no, that's Booster's car. No, it's not. It's a 1000. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Ah. And they think we're sending a message to somebody. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Oh, man, they are sending a message to somebody. [00:37:22] Speaker A: Well, now we get back to the 1000's headquarters and we run into Diamond Director, some henchmen. Henchmen that went and threatened Dirk Jerk Face. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah, Dick Jerk Face in his jerky. Jerk face. [00:37:44] Speaker A: We find out that they are going to kidnap Trixie. [00:37:50] Speaker B: Why? [00:37:51] Speaker A: And we run into. Who is this short guy again? Oh, Dr. Shocker. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Dr. Shocker. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:59] Speaker A: Dr. Shocker has quite the unfortunate name. He does. [00:38:06] Speaker B: He does. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Because, you know, the way he holds his hands. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Because he's. Yeah, because he's. He's throwing it out. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Look at the way he's holding his hand there. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, totally. [00:38:19] Speaker A: He's. [00:38:20] Speaker B: He's ready for the shocking. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's one in the. Yeah. I'm not gonna say it. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Actually, that might be one and two in the. [00:38:35] Speaker B: He's going. He's. [00:38:36] Speaker A: It's a reverse shocker. It's a. [00:38:38] Speaker B: It's a Vulcan shocker. [00:38:40] Speaker A: It's a reverse shocker. [00:38:42] Speaker B: He's doubling. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Oh, he's doubling up. Oh, it's a. Oh, it's. Oh, it's a double shot. I was saying it was a reverse shocker. Because, like, it's a double. Double shocker. He's. [00:38:51] Speaker B: He's like. He's like. Hey, check it. [00:38:56] Speaker A: Wow. Well, page, page, end. Diamond Director, it's time for the war against Booster Gold. We'll get him. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Dr. Shocker. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Well, we flipped the page. We flipped the page on all of that. That was a lot for page 12. Page 12 was fairly inconsequential, but there's. It's a lot of shocking events. So we get to page. We flip the page. Booster's rescued a bunch of people from the burning building, the Graham Center. And then Booster gets shocked. [00:39:38] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. The doctor got it. [00:39:40] Speaker A: No, it's. It's not the Doctor. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Yeah, what's that? [00:39:44] Speaker A: Huh? No, it's a bunch of robot coils. Oh. [00:39:48] Speaker B: Well, they also have the Shocker. They learned it from the doctor. [00:39:54] Speaker A: Yeah, well, it's. The robots come, they start attacking Booster, and he's like, what in blues blazes is happening? Booster is quickly restrained and is getting ready for a leather party. Yeah. He's one Grimor would be proud to attend. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Grim boy. [00:40:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Yes. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Maybe Dr. Shocker and Grimbore. [00:40:23] Speaker A: Dr. Shocker and Grimoire definitely should have a team up. That's what happens when the Shocker teams up with the leather daddy. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:40:35] Speaker A: You have no idea. Well, no idea. I think the problem here with these robots is this robot that's. That's restraining Booster. Yeah, by his wrists and ankles. His problem is he didn't use real leather. [00:40:52] Speaker B: He didn't? [00:40:52] Speaker A: No, no, it's synthetic, Nalga. Synthetic. This is the cheap shit. Yeah. Like, if you were buying this online, these restraints would be like 30 bucks instead of, like 200. You need for the real ones? Not that I've ever looked at pricing. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Not that you've ever checked it out. [00:41:10] Speaker A: So we flip a page here, and Booster turns the table on the restraints, plows into the robots. He stacks them up. He's beating up robots everywhere. He's killing robots. He's using. He's using. [00:41:28] Speaker B: The one that had him restraint is like a. As a mace itself. It's like just throwing that thing around. [00:41:35] Speaker A: But what we get during this fight and the important thing that's happening here is we keep learning throughout this fight that Booster's powers aren't as strong as they used to be. [00:41:46] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:41:48] Speaker A: And Diamond Director is using the robots with Dr. Shocker. Do you think Dr. Shocker and Diamond Director ever get Some alone time. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I'm sure they do. [00:42:02] Speaker A: Fascinating. So the. We were finding out these robots are just a test to test Booster's powers, find out if his powers are going down. Like, what's happening to them. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:20] Speaker A: Well, the robots, like on page 16, the big, big blackguard robot. Yeah, yeah. Because he's actually grayish black. And yeah, if he called him black art, it would actually make sense. [00:42:33] Speaker B: It would make sense. And he's got the harness and everything, and it's like he's. Yeah. [00:42:38] Speaker A: Now, if you're looking on page 16, I'm not sure what's he's. Is that his leg? [00:42:46] Speaker B: I think so. Yeah. He's like, okay, leg around him. [00:42:49] Speaker A: Hooked a leg under him. [00:42:51] Speaker B: Under him. Yeah. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Interesting position for. Well, anyway, that's. We find out the robots are just shouting out that he's losing his power. So it's not very subtle. Trixie is watching, telling Michael to fight back. We flash back to Diamond Director, and Diamond Director's like, the data being relayed to us by the robots confirms my suspicions. Director, this is Dr. Shocker. Booster Gold's powers have been decreasing in intensity since he first appeared. In fact, the rate of energy loss is increasing daily. Excellent, Dr. Shocker. Excellent. Booster takes out some more robots. They're all yelling, malfunction, malfunction, malfunction. Finally takes out the weird green robot. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Kicks the back out of it. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And everybody's, like, doing great. He takes out robots. He goes back down. Dirk Jerkface is like, ah, we get free publicity here. He's beating up robots is great. Yay. [00:43:54] Speaker B: Yay. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Uh, he takes out the last robot. And I love these panel. This like, kind of three panel set. Because he's beating up the robots. But you have Dr. Shocker over there going, the more power Gold uses, the weaker he becomes. Soon Mr. Will have 83% of the power he had when he destroyed the Centennial Park Complex. I can't read. His secret is ours now. Is now ours. I can. I'm dyslexic. I just read that backwards. We can destroy Booster Gold. Oh, well. Booster Gold crashes down to the ground at the robots. Dirk's like, hi, Boosteroo, great job slashing robots and stuff. And Trixie's like, you were wonderful, Mike Booster. [00:44:47] Speaker B: She almost slipped and let out his secret name. [00:44:51] Speaker A: Well, I mean, we all know his secret identity is one comic book co author of one Junior Braves of the Apocalypse. [00:44:59] Speaker B: What? [00:45:04] Speaker A: I read it either earlier. [00:45:06] Speaker B: Oh, you did? [00:45:07] Speaker A: Okay, Tanner. [00:45:09] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh darn it. [00:45:12] Speaker A: How angry would one Mr. Tanner be? If he learned that I was comparing anything in his life to Booster Gold. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Oh, he'd say it's better than being Batman. [00:45:27] Speaker A: Ah. Okay, fair. We agree. All right, so we flip the page. And Trixie's upset because Booster is doing his media thing. She storms off. She tells Dirk Jerkface to take her home. Yeah. Dirk Jerkface is like, awesome. We'll do that. And then magically, the hundred guys that were down talking to Diamond Director have magically appeared here. [00:45:51] Speaker B: What? [00:45:52] Speaker A: Teleport. They kidnap Trixie, beat up Dirk Jerkface, take her away. Tell Dirk Jerk Face his daughter and Trixie are now captured. Unless he plays along. Oh, man. And we get a 2 be continued. [00:46:07] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:46:11] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Dirk Jerk Face has got to get in line. And Boosters got to go find these guys, man. [00:46:22] Speaker A: Bad news. And what we do is we get to the letter page. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Gold exchange time, everybody. [00:46:29] Speaker A: There's a letter from Te Pouncy. There's another famous letter writer, I believe. Wichita, Kansas. Okay. And I'm going to read part of this letter because it's amazing. All right. Are you ready for this? Yeah. What is Booster Gold going to do if any of his equipment breaks down? He doesn't have the background to repair technical devices. Even if he did, how would he fix things like the force shield belt and the gloves and the control bands that are products of alien science? Perhaps Booster should make some friends at STAR Labs, Befriend the Blue Beetle, Sol Lex Luthor, or do something to create a backup plan. Case owners advices should break it all. Sounds picky. I don't mean it to, but I'm sure I caught this stuff. Other readers will, too. How much do I love that somebody is predicting what's going to happen and then just to show how right we are. Yeah, specifically me. Not worried about you being right in this case, but we do. Oh, well, we do have our. Our set out in there, too. [00:47:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? Yeah. [00:47:45] Speaker A: All right, so. And the letter from Norman or from Cheshire, England. Very smart man, by the way. Extremely smart man. This. This guy is. Is incredibly smart. Let me. Let me just show you how smart he is. He says in his letter, for example, booster comes from 500 years in the future, yet he's weapons from the Legion who come a thousand years in the future. I see. That will be appearing in a couple of future issues. So hopefully this anomaly will be resolved. Well, we know because we already read those issues. Also, SK mentions avoid in time. Does this mean in the time storms and the loss of records mentioned in the recent Legion series stories that would have been, by the way, in Legion of superheroes number 17. Not that I know. I see. Yeah. And 15 and 16, I believe, too. That's the Baxter series. That'd be volume three. Anyway, he says, if so, does this have anything to do with John Byrne's version of Superman? In fact, I think you may have produced the first Burn Superman story. Witness the fact that the man of Steel does not recognize allegiant flight ring. Supposedly in burns new Superman stories, Superboy never existed and never met the Legion. I hope all this ties in somehow. And in the response from the editors from Dan Jurgens. In fact, it says a lot of people wanted to know why Superman didn't recognize Booster's flight ring. Norman, you hit the nail on the head for the specific details on Superman and his connections to the lsh. Be sure to watch both books. [00:49:29] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. [00:49:36] Speaker A: How sad. Do you think it made Dan Jurgens to write those sentences a little bit? Probably just a little bit as breaking in, doing art for the Legion. Being a Legion fan drew an amazing wildfire for me. Yes. Fashion. Yeah. Well, makes me sad reading it. Oh, there's another TM Maple letter. You know, somebody should gather all those letters together. The TM Maple, right. And put them in a book. [00:50:08] Speaker B: That's a fantastic idea, Dan. I'm surprised it's never been done or thought of before. [00:50:14] Speaker A: I'm. I'm surprised it hasn't been done too well. That's it. [00:50:19] Speaker B: Someone's gonna steal the idea, Dan. You put it on the podcast, and somebody's gonna do it now. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Somebody should do it. There's a TM Maple letter in the next book, so. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Oh, my God. They're gonna. They're gonna take our idea. [00:50:35] Speaker A: I want to know what this TM Maple butt guy did for, like, a life, you know? Just had this many times or much time to write letters to comics. [00:50:43] Speaker B: Now. That's. Like that. Imagine. That's the movie. That's. That's the whole. That's the book, that's the movie, that's the podcast. That's. That's the whole. The whole thing, Dan. Maybe we need to shift and we need to move into TM Maple cast and find out and just dissect each one of these bits and pieces of TM Maple history and get into the TM Maple mystery and find out what's deep inside. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Yeah, Mabel. [00:51:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:16] Speaker A: Maybe we should ask the Shocker. [00:51:19] Speaker B: Maybe the shocker knows. Dr. Shocker, do you got an answer for me? [00:51:26] Speaker A: Step too far. I'm distracted now. I've I've lost. I got back into this DC graphic novel thing. Oh, geez. DC apparently did seven of these graphic novels. Yeah, the first one was called the Star Raiders in 1983 by Elliot S. Magin and penciled and inked by one Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. Never heard of those guys. [00:51:47] Speaker B: No, never. [00:51:48] Speaker A: There's a letterer here, Tom. Or says. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Tom Warosowski. [00:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah. You've never heard of him? I don't think he does letter do anything in this business. [00:52:03] Speaker B: He. He lettered that book. [00:52:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:07] Speaker B: That's awesome. [00:52:09] Speaker A: And then they have a book called Warlords and it goes downhill with creative talent I've heard of. By Steve Skeets and Dave Wetzel Eats. Ernie Colon does the third one called Medusa's Chain. We've heard of that guy. Jack Kirby does the fourth one called Hunger Dogs. Hunger looks like it has Darkseid in it. [00:52:32] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:52:35] Speaker A: That looks cool. I want this book. Darkseid was presented with a micromark technology that could destroy planet by Isaac, who turned against New Genesis after Metron abandoned him. Blah, blah, blah. That sounds cool. Can I have that for my birthday? Gotta be first. And Joe Priest is the next one by Howard Jakin. Oh, no, he just did the COVID artist. Sorry. Writer Greg Potter and penciler and inker one, Ron Randall. Hey, there you go. The next one, number six, is called Metalzoic by Pat Mills and Kevin o' Neill with Bill Sinkowicz on cover art. Interesting. You know, it's interesting when they won't let the people draw their own covers. And then the last one is a space clusters thing. Yeah. And then that was the last one. So I'm sort of curious about this. I wonder what kind of failed experiment. I mean, it's kind of cool. I guess Marvel was doing the same thing. Right. That's where that. What was the book I bought from Anne that. Why am I drawing a blank right now? Well, anyway, I bought some from Ann. Right. Those graphic novels. But they came out in series, though. They came out like 1, 2, 3, 4. But they were a graphic novel. They were bigger sizes. [00:54:07] Speaker B: Right. [00:54:09] Speaker A: I know. Marvel did a few. I don't know. Well, anyway, it's cool. It happens. Speaking of. Yeah. Because I got the Dave Cockera one because look, right here, I was putting some of my magazines away and there was a Dave Cockram tribute book and an Element Lad drawn by somebody at your store. At Ann's store. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Like, I can't really hanging out there. [00:54:39] Speaker A: You couldn't see it. Well, you'll look at it. Later. And you'll be like, oh, but anyway. Yeah, well, speaking of. Of the Retro Emporium. New Year for the Retro Emporium. Same old Retro Emporium. Except it's never the same old Retro Emporium because Anne redesigns it 10 times a year at least. [00:54:58] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. It's what we were doing today. [00:55:00] Speaker A: What? [00:55:02] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:55:04] Speaker A: So, yeah, you can visit the Retro Emporium in Ann. In Kent, Washington, on Meeker Street. You could also. We haven't even mentioned Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul today. [00:55:16] Speaker B: I know. I thought he was gonna make an appearance when the door opened up. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Oh, it wasn't him. [00:55:21] Speaker B: Oh, it wasn't him. [00:55:22] Speaker A: No, it was a mystery person. [00:55:24] Speaker B: Mystery person? [00:55:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it was my Grinder date, actually. [00:55:27] Speaker B: Oh, okay, cool. [00:55:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I make them wait. [00:55:30] Speaker B: They make them wait. [00:55:33] Speaker A: If I have a Grinder date, it's like, you gotta wait till the podcast is done. Just go upstairs. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Gosters wait. Fair. [00:55:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I'm on Grindr all the time. [00:55:43] Speaker B: All the time. [00:55:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, all the time. It's all my number one hangout. All their pop up ads. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:51] Speaker A: It's good times. You can also, if you need good legal representation, especially after you insult major corporations. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Yes. [00:56:00] Speaker A: You can also hit up Jujitsu lawyer Paul at Night Legal pllc. You can find him online, you can find him on Facebook. You can find him choking people out in tournaments. There's all sorts of things. You know, Jujitsu lawyer Paul recently won a tournament in the Absolute division. Whoa. Do you know what the Absolute division means? Like, is he fighting against Batman? Yeah, pretty much. What? Yeah, it was like, Paul in one bracket against, like, absolute Green Lantern. And then the other bracket was like, absolute Wonder Woman. Absolute Batman. [00:56:35] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:56:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he got to the final. Now, Absolute means it's all weight classes built into one. [00:56:42] Speaker B: Oh, I thought they had to just be like. They either had to. They had to, like, be all abs and it was like, absolute. [00:56:51] Speaker A: Absolute. Yeah. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Salute. So then they had to stop each other. Yeah. You know, Absolute or. And they're like, oh, yeah. And then that's, you know. And then at the end, the winner. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Wins a bottle of Absolute. That would be. That would have been a better win prize than he got. But yeah, that. Anyway, so that was actually. That absolutely kind of sucks. Well, I hate vodka. Sucks. I hate vodka. You love vodka. Sorry, I get the Absolute. Yeah. Yeah. [00:57:25] Speaker B: See? Bring it on. [00:57:27] Speaker A: Well, anyway, need. Need legal representation. Have you had an employer treat you like shit? Contact Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul. He'll put the chokehold on the competition. It's almost like I should do commercials for him. [00:57:41] Speaker B: It's kind of like you are. [00:57:44] Speaker A: And then also, Travis hasn't come up on this podcast at all, which is amazing. What? Someday. Someday. I keep putting the link to it. Someday. Someday, Travis is going to watch a Kickstarter. Yeah. About raining, eventually cyborgs. Yeah. And atmospheric rivers. [00:58:04] Speaker B: It's raining cyborgs. [00:58:07] Speaker A: Hallelujah. [00:58:13] Speaker B: Oh, man. Well, and. [00:58:15] Speaker A: And that's it. So I'll keep putting the link there. When Travis launches it, you'll know. So go to the link, follow it, and then when it launches, you'll know. And next week, we have at least two more Booster Gold issues coming, because we're going to read at least through the first year. So 11 and 12. And next issue, we get a haircut. We get Boostermobile. We follow the mystery, we get more fighting with the 1000. And, yeah, lasagna. No, we do not get lasagna. [00:58:50] Speaker B: We find out he hates Mondays. [00:58:53] Speaker A: The only type of lasagna we are ever gonna get is lasagna throwing in with a slow cooker from the freezer that's got frost on it. Because, you know, if Greg ever brings something to a work lunch, that's what you're going to get. And on that note, that is the end of this episode of Funny Book Forensics. [00:59:16] Speaker B: It was. It was six. [00:59:17] Speaker A: We'll see you next time. [00:59:18] Speaker B: Six lasagnas. [00:59:20] Speaker A: We'll see you next time for Booster Gold number 11. Bye, everyone. Bye. [00:59:31] Speaker B: Oh, man.