Funny Book Forensics 373 I Hate This Guy

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We recorded this podcast before Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. And I make a couple of jokes about Florida in the podcast. In no way were they directed at Florida after the hurricane or in light of the hurricanes coming into Florida. While I still don't ever want to live in Florida, we want to reach out to our friends there. And if you want to support the cleanup efforts and help the victims of the hurricanes, you can obviously support the American Red Cross, Americares rebuilding together, direct relief, the Florida Disaster Fund, United Way of Florida, and several other organizations. We stand with our fans and friends in Florida, and, you know, sometimes I make jokes and, uh, they happen, you know, to be recorded before something bad happens. And so, in no way do we want you to think these jokes were directed at any of our friends in Florida before the hurricane. Thanks. Okay. I said we wouldn't talk about D d on the podcast, and we were not. [00:01:07] Speaker B: We will not. [00:01:07] Speaker A: But, like, yeah, well, we are, because somebody rolled a one and this guy ended up back in the freaking comic book, man. [00:01:15] Speaker B: Are we talking about our favorite lantern? Oh, my lantern. [00:01:21] Speaker A: I hate this guy. I hate guy Yardner. Like, I'm just. I'm sorry. I should feel more sympathetic. He got hit by a bus, you know, like, it came. [00:01:31] Speaker B: It happened special. Green. [00:01:34] Speaker A: Do you know, I didn't think about this in his last appearance in the human target. We are, by the way, on the human target number six. We've covered one through five on the previous three podcasts. If you're looking for those three podcasts, that'd be 300 7371 and 372 here on funny book forensics. [00:01:50] Speaker B: But I'm bump. [00:01:54] Speaker A: There we go. And Guy Gardner's back. He. I didn't think about this, but remember the scene where he was driving the Green Lantern car and chance tricked him into getting hit by a bus? [00:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Yes. [00:02:06] Speaker B: That's. [00:02:07] Speaker A: That was well played. Tom King. [00:02:10] Speaker B: Well, that's. That's ruthless. That is so dirty. [00:02:15] Speaker A: And if Greg. And if Greg Smallwood did that with the art and Tom King didn't even think of it, if Tom King's directions were just like, hey, get hit, you know he's going to drive. And then Greg Smallwood, good on you or good on both? Good on the creative team. I don't know who exactly thought of it, but good on the creative team. [00:02:31] Speaker B: That is just run over by a large vehicle and just smashed up. Real good. Like, homage. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a tie back. Well, maybe that should have knocked him silly and knocked him silly. [00:02:44] Speaker B: Knocked him five ways to Saturday. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, we did talk about. On that podcast that was two podcasts ago, about how maybe joking about concussions today is the best thing since we figured out in the. When Giffen and Damattis did it. Maybe. Okay, but maybe. [00:03:04] Speaker B: I mean, I've watched enough, like, true crime shows to know that, like, head injuries lead to other things. Or at least that's what they say. What? [00:03:14] Speaker A: It's not so good. Yeah, head injuries. What? Yeah, I've had a few, I think. [00:03:19] Speaker B: Yeah. What? Yeah. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Now we're joking about head injuries. The things we said we wouldn't joke about. [00:03:27] Speaker B: I've had them, too. I was sitting there thinking I heard, like, a thing about a. About car accidents, and I was like, oh, yeah, no, I've still had residual things since car accident with my mom, like, ten years ago. But anyways, point being, yes, they're there. [00:03:47] Speaker A: Well, this is funny book forensics, and I can't even, like, transition. I was gonna try. I'm trying to transition off of head injuries, and it's not working. Like, I don't know. Yeah, we're stuck. Well, the good news. If you go to project Dash nerd.com right now, you don't learn about anything about something except something called the 41234. [00:04:13] Speaker B: If you want something more, you're not going to find it there. It's all on the floor. The four. That's right. On Kickstarter. It's a book about four individuals who have something that you want, and you're going to get it on Kickstarter. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Okay, well, thank you for that great explanation of the book. You can also go to Kickstarter and find all about what Greg said, among other things. [00:04:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:42] Speaker A: There you go, Iggy. We expect to be paid for that beautiful advertisement right there. And now that we've learned all about the four in great detail, back it on Kickstarter. [00:04:55] Speaker B: Go do it. [00:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. It's. [00:04:56] Speaker B: It. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Help keep us. Help keep us on project. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Really? Great. I actually can't wait to. To clear our. Clear our dance card and be able to talk about the four. What? Huh? [00:05:13] Speaker A: Exactly. No, we don't talk about things. [00:05:18] Speaker B: We're not gonna read the four and then talk about it. [00:05:20] Speaker A: We haven't even talked about Starlight seven yet. [00:05:23] Speaker B: It's hiding. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's hiding. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Bag over here. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:32] Speaker B: I heard my Cody over here hiding in the bag. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Well, why don't I have my copy? [00:05:38] Speaker B: You don't have your copy yet. [00:05:42] Speaker A: But I should have my copy. [00:05:43] Speaker B: You didn't go to the printer with Travis and get a copy. [00:05:47] Speaker A: Okay, first off, I'm very disappointed, by the way, because the book lists people that backed the book every issue, but I'm not listening. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Not listed that backed it every issue from day one. Did you. Did you use a different name? [00:06:02] Speaker A: Because I backed it as me, and then I backed it as funny book forensics. And whoever decided to make the list. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Didn'T put you down because you kept changing your name or. [00:06:15] Speaker A: But Orlando. Funny. [00:06:17] Speaker B: But you yourself were called out and thanked on the actual thank you, everybody. These are the 20 people on the hot thank you list. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Well, yes, that's fine. And just like most honorifics, I deserve both of them. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Well, I am sorry, but, you know, you change your name midstream and, you know, it got everybody. [00:06:42] Speaker A: I didn't change my name. I still backed as me. I just asked that funny book forensics be listed in the book. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Whoever was writing up the. [00:06:53] Speaker A: I was promoting your podcast in your book. [00:06:57] Speaker B: I I wasn't making the list. [00:07:02] Speaker A: Well, no one was checking. [00:07:03] Speaker B: I was checking the other list and made sure that. That Travis was being super nice. [00:07:15] Speaker A: Like, I just imagined Travis being super nice, and then I started laughing. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Travis. Okay, I will tell you this. Here's the funny thing. And this is, like, this is funny for Dan and I and maybe, like, a handful of other people. So city. [00:07:32] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:07:35] Speaker A: I. [00:07:35] Speaker B: So at Rose city, Travis is sitting there waiting, waiting patiently, like a child on Christmas morning, to open a present, to sit there and to talk to me. Cause I'm talking to Henry. Dan knows Henry. We've known Henry for. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Henry and I are engaged in a conversation that's, like, you know, it's a Henry and Greg conversation that. That could take place anywhere and last for eons. And Henry and I, we've known each other for a long time. So we're just sitting there talking, and Travis is like, you can't. Nobody can see my face, but I'm making, like, a very, like, just a gleeful waiting, waiting face. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Greg. [00:08:14] Speaker B: Just waiting. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Greg is, like, looking up while kind of grinning like a little kid waiting to open. [00:08:20] Speaker B: The irony is, Travis has met Henry and hung out with Henry, and we've all gone to Henry's movie premiere for his I, his Seattle international film festival film that he did. And Travis and I went to an event with Henry a couple times, you know, to do some stuff with Henry. So Travis and Henry are friends. They know each other, but Travis is so patient and calm. Like, it was the opposite of, hey, Travis. It was quite humorous. And then as soon as Henry was like, all right. Well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna jam out. See you later. I was like, are you ready, Travis? Travis. Like, I've been waiting to talk for 15 minutes. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right. In fact, as long as we're on the topic of Travis and Greg, I sent you a group message with a young director named Ben Bashin and said to follow up later. So I'm following up live on the podcast. Live on the podcast. [00:09:30] Speaker B: And nobody will get back message. [00:09:32] Speaker A: But I'm not done yet because Ben is a young director and he's done a few other things and worked on projects. But he directed a short called Pickles. And I highly recommend if you can get to a film festival and see the short. It is fantastic. It is not what you expect. It sounds like it would be funny based on the title. It's not, but it is a. No, it is not funny. Do you issue five starlight? [00:10:00] Speaker B: No, it's issue five of Starlight, buddy. Oh, no. Oh. As soon as you said that, I transported to a different place, and I was. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Yeah. So, well, that movie will transport you to a different place. But it is fantastic. And it's been running out to a bunch of film festivals. In fact, I got to see Ben and in Renton at the. Whatever, Seattle something film festival, and I fed him and his sister a whole bunch of dozone. [00:10:30] Speaker B: It sounds weird, dude. But afterwards, if for those who don't know what Dozone is, Dozone. It sounds like you're giving them dozone. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Oh, well, it's a dumpling house, and it's fantastic, but highly recommend it. If you're in anywhere in the Seattle region, Seattle, Bellevue region, go to dozone. [00:10:46] Speaker B: It just sounds like you gave him. [00:10:48] Speaker A: I don't know why it sounded like. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Giving him some dozone, man. We were all feeling weird. [00:10:54] Speaker A: Yeah. But it was fantastic. I don't think it's his directorial debut, but it was a fantastic, fantastic short film. And he's working on other things. And also just. Travis, since you don't listen to this, but I know you might connect with this guy because he might be helpful to you, so. Or you can facilitate this, Greg. But anyway. Ben Vashin. Yeah, look him up. He's. It's. He's been. This is kind of his dream, and he's. He's following it. So we like that on the dreams. And we should probably get into something here on the podcast that nobody dreams about. Reading guy Gardner books about Guy Gardner. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Oh, man. The green. [00:11:42] Speaker A: We hate this guy. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Green poop. [00:11:46] Speaker A: Well, the last time we saw Grey Gardner. He was being pseudo abusive and trying to beat up christopher chance. Cause he was dating ice, and we liked that a lot. And it reminded us of some antics he used to do back in the nineties that we didn't really like, either. Yeah. And then we also discussed how guy has transformed over time, and they've given him maybe a backstory of, like, maybe being in a pseudo abusive home or emotionally abusive home. I mean, we could just get to the backstory. We could have just kept the backstory that it was hit by a bus and it changed his personality, which, after he came out of a coma, which would be an adequate backstory. But I just, like. I still get. I mean, with guy Gardner, I still get a little bit of the Gail Simone, you know, women in refrigerators vibe with this guy, or the whole even. Or maybe the ant man vibe, our ant man giant man vibe of hitting women, like, right on the edge of. Yeah. [00:12:49] Speaker B: He's like. He's. He's, like, a step away from doing that. And it's like, I don't like you, dude. I don't like you. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And, well, and it's like, hank Pym can be a mate, you know, big part of ant man movies, so we can watch that away. It's okay. No, no. Yeah. It's really. [00:13:09] Speaker B: If, you know, you know, I kind. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Of, you know, meme and with Hank. Yeah. One with Hank Pym. Right. It's like they kept using the character. It's like when you go that way with a character, I think you should really consider whether or not you ever want to use that character again, because they're. [00:13:29] Speaker B: They have a wash over them that makes them kind of. Kind of filthy. Unclean. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Forever. Not okay. Yeah. It's like. I mean, even if you want to forgive the character, theoretically or something like that, is that somebody's life you want to read about? [00:13:50] Speaker B: Not so much. [00:13:53] Speaker A: And. Yeah. And just so now, they have tried. They have done a lot of things with Guy Gardner. I mean, Jeff Johns did a lot with Gardner and. Why am I blanking? I'll remember in a few minutes. But Colin Bunn, I think, did some of the stuff with him, too. I mean, Colin Bunn, fantastic author. Right. [00:14:14] Speaker B: He's a stand up guy. [00:14:18] Speaker A: I think that people have tried to do some creative things with him, and I think they had to. Right. You have to make the character a little bit more. Give it more dimensions than it had in the past. Tom King, however, as we talked about last time, seemed to be taking the character back to a two dimensional character, back to how Giffen and Damattis were using the character. Right. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I think why Tom might be doing that is so that you don't feel a lot of connection to this character in the sense, like, you know, you're. You're just reading this character as he is, as Tom sees him or saw him, and puts him on the page so that you're like, all right, cool. This is a dirt. This is. This is a jerk of a guy. This is. This guy. This guy is a jerk. I don't want to see him as more than that. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Well, if we're doing film noir, he's almost like the mob. Heavy, in a sense, coming in. And we just came off an issue where we have a character that was above reproach through most of his tenure in DC comics. But then 15 years ago, they started to change that with the martian manhunter being manipulated in a sexual relationship with fire. Right. And we've got two femme fatales almost now, right? We're not sure about ice yet, but we think we are, and then we're pretty sure about fire. But we just found out that fire financed booster gold's bagel chain by manipulating martian manhunter into getting the money from Ted cord. So it's like a big mystery. We know that there's a signature on things, and that booster went back in time, so they were able to trace that signature on things. But also the poison they got for Lex Luthor was from out of space, so we still know it's one of the Justice League international that did it. At least one. We're not exactly sure who, but we're building this whole mystery as Christopher chance, the human target, tries to figure out who killed him, who did it, who done it. And we know he's dead. Cause we saw that he was dead on the first three pages of the book, so at least we think he's a luck. It is a comic book. We'll find out. You haven't read to the end, and I'm getting there. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Dan, don't. Don't be spoiling it for the listeners. [00:16:42] Speaker A: You gotta. The listeners have had time to read. [00:16:44] Speaker B: They don't need to know that I haven't read it. Anyway, why are you gotta. Why are you spilling that? Why are you spilling that tea? [00:16:53] Speaker A: Well, because it's just like when I spilled tea on the podcast. Did you know Mandy Patakin is gonna be, like, performing at the paramount? [00:17:00] Speaker B: No, April, what's he. What's he doing? [00:17:05] Speaker A: I think he's gonna sing, but I figured you should let Ann know that. And the owner of the retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:17:15] Speaker A: I feel like you would want to know this. Well, anyway. [00:17:22] Speaker B: I don't. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Do you have six fingers? [00:17:24] Speaker B: I'm safe. That's good. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah, you're safe. So he's not coming to your house. So the. Well, we flip in and we get a. We get advertisements for the Shadow war Batman, which I didn't read. So we're gonna move on there. Though I do really like Joshua Williamson. Maybe I should have read that. Anyway. Okay. [00:17:47] Speaker B: I'm just sitting here thinking to myself, like, with the announcement that. That they've cast a Hal Jordan with. What can I think of the. [00:18:04] Speaker A: They cast a guy Gardner. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Cast a guy Gardner, but they also cast a Hal Jordan for. With. Shoot, I can't think of his name now. He's from Friday night lights. Probably, like, I don't know. No, he was football player or a coach. [00:18:25] Speaker A: So he's gonna be old Hal Jordan. [00:18:27] Speaker B: And I was thinking to myself, when I saw the picture of him, I was like, dude, he would. He would be good as. As Christopher Chance. But then I was sitting there thinking to myself, you know who else would be a good Christopher chance? Ron Livingston. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Who? Interesting. Interesting. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Sorry, put that in your. [00:18:48] Speaker A: Well, like, even, like, so no shade on Ryan Reynolds or anything, but back when the first Green Lantern movie came out, Christopher Maloney did the voice for Green Lantern in the animated. And then I was like, why didn't they just have him play Green Lantern? Because he was still coming off law and order SVU. Right. Still hot. And could have carried the movie. You didn't need a Ryan Reynolds look to the character. Right. And since the movie didn't work out so well, we know that now, that could have been the terrible writing, using multiple villains, and just overall not understanding Green Lantern. But besides that, besides those things and a bad director and everything else that that movie suffered from, additionally, like, having Hal be a little bit older, I always thought would have been a better approach. [00:19:48] Speaker B: Kyle Chandler is the actor. Sorry. [00:19:53] Speaker A: I see. Yes. [00:19:54] Speaker B: In the lantern series. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Well, Kyle Chandler is going to let you know that football and Jesus will make everything okay. [00:20:03] Speaker B: I don't know. Did he do that in the show? Houston? [00:20:10] Speaker A: I. I didn't see. You're actually. Actually. Do you want another plug here? I feel like we're gonna have another plug here. You go ahead and flip to the first page. And I'm gonna flip to the first page. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Christopher Chance, you asterisk idiot. Yes. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Asterisk idiot. We still can't say the f word in here, even though. Yeah, they just got out of bed. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Yeah. You're gonna. You're gonna tell me something. But yes, you know, it's. It's this whole entire exchange with. With Ice and him, you know, about going to talk to talk about fire. You know, it's this whole thing. Yeah. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I found my plug. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Do you want to do it before we get into the story? Well, this might be a competitor to the retro Emporium, so maybe I shouldn't pop them up on the podcast, but one of my former students, Sarah Straub Snow, owns a store in Murray, Kentucky called Fanspired. And the reason I brought Sarah up is because she used to take Madden football and name all of the players on her team after the players on Friday night lights. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Oh, that's funny. [00:21:39] Speaker A: But you can also go to thefanspired.com or visit her store on 109th south fourth Street in Murray, Kentucky. And in addition to getting all. All sorts of cool superhero stuff, like cups and pops and all that, she has all sorts of sports stuff, too. [00:21:58] Speaker B: And all the retro emporium traffic to Kentucky. Dan. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Well, I am Kent to Kentucky. Her store might have been made. Her store might have been made for me. Cause it's like. [00:22:10] Speaker B: But you just picked up a bunch of mariner stuff. I'm just joking. [00:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Like, honestly, I think it's awesome that there's other stores out there that have different things for different people of different likings and things that are out there. That's awesome. Fanspired in Kentucky. The fanspire in Kentucky. [00:22:33] Speaker A: And Christopher chance probably wouldn't go, but he likes baseball. Yeah, but ice is just basically. Would you say ice is just going off about Christopher Chance investigating? [00:22:44] Speaker B: Not happy. And for ice, who's usually pretty cool, she's pretty hot about it. [00:22:53] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe she's not so sweet. [00:22:56] Speaker B: I see. Not nice. Ice is freaking on fire. [00:23:03] Speaker A: Well, then we get to the next page, and by the way, it's this cool blue wash with the orange window. So we're back to the really cool thing Smallwood does with the window shades. And chance is facing against the camera, I guess, facing toward the wall, but we get, like, the orange background and we get the little summary. Right. Six days ago, someone tried to poison me. Now he has to find someone. It turns out guy Gardner recently discovered Lex Luthor's killer ice a few years back. So we're getting the summary. By the way, I mentioned before that I love these summaries because this book was published as a graphic novel, but it did come out monthly. So when you have a book with a really complex plot and you're reading it from month to month, or in my case, sometimes not month to month, because your books get stacked up or you get a whole bunch of books at once. This is actually really cool. Right? Like, I like these. You. You don't. I don't think you like the summaries as much as I like the summaries. [00:23:59] Speaker B: When they're, like you said, when they're kind of needed. Necessary in a sense. But if it's, like, if it's coming out, like, in a pretty consistent way, or if it's not, if. If it's being put out in a manner that it doesn't, if it's a. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Very simple book, it doesn't necessarily need it. [00:24:16] Speaker B: It's not called for. It messes up the flow of the story by eating up too much page. [00:24:25] Speaker A: But we get one whole page dedicated to it and basically summarizing. He's gotten close to ice. We know that one of the heroes tried to kill Lex Luthor, at least one. And we learned that fire is having an affair with the martian manhunter, which is weird, because the martian manhunter's weakness is fire. Right? Get it? Yes, we. And chacos. Not choco. Choc. Yeah, chocos. But not the shoes. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Not the shoes. Are choco shoes. [00:24:56] Speaker A: No, he doesn't. He's his weaknesses. Toe straps. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker A: The dog chewed my chocos. To one of the dogs. Not. Not my dog. The other dog chewed the strap in half, which makes them useless. If he chewed the. If he chewed the soul probably could have been okay. [00:25:21] Speaker B: But anyway, dog didn't want your soul. [00:25:23] Speaker A: We're back. We're back to the next page. And isis like, fuck you. This is just kind of like a one page of summary and three pages of ice. Fuck you. Fuck you. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Slamming doors, coughing yeah, it's a rough. [00:25:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:42] Speaker B: It'S a lot of rough. [00:25:44] Speaker A: And he finally says, ice, what do you want? Me? He starts coughing, and she's like, no. And then he leaves. [00:25:53] Speaker B: She leaves, and then she left with the chinese food. It's turns into, like, a bare naked lady song. [00:26:06] Speaker A: Wow. Damn. And we get another one of the really cool credits pages where the fortune cookie says, chapter six. It were a delicate stratagem. It were a delicate stratagem. I'm not going to analyze that for grammar. Written by Tom King, artist Greg Smallwood, letterer Clayton Cowles, editor Ben Abernathy, and cover by variant cover, he was having a succulent chinese meal, but that we're not reading. Yeah, and we're reminded that the human target was created by Len Wein and Carmen Infantino, two people that have never done anything in comics. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Right underneath the soy sauce packet. [00:26:51] Speaker A: Well, we flip the page again, and the phone is ringing, and he picks it up and says, 1 second. And we just hear chant saying, yeah, fine. All right, I'm coming over. Thank you. And he's like, too much whiskey. And 4 hours later, I get up. He's sad. Ice went away, apparently. He's like, I can still smell her perfume. He's fallen for ice. Anything. Yeah. Even though he thinks she might have murdered? [00:27:22] Speaker B: Potentially, maybe. I mean, ice may not be nice. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Oh, we don't know. We know fire is on fire. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Fire's a liar. [00:27:33] Speaker A: There's a lot of affairs going on. [00:27:35] Speaker B: Affairs. A lot of stuff's up in the air. In the air up there. [00:27:40] Speaker A: You better be care. Stop the rhyming because the demon will appear. [00:27:43] Speaker B: The demon. [00:27:45] Speaker A: Let's. Yeah. Why are you rhyming? We don't want no yes entry. We don't need Jason blood to show up. We've already got. Yeah, that's. We've got enough of a story going on. We don't need entering showing up. Geez, be careful. You. You don't know what you. You rhyme in the DC universe. You invoke certain things. [00:28:08] Speaker B: Stop the rhyming. And he means it. [00:28:13] Speaker A: Well, anyway, how we get back to doctor midnight. We get back to stop it. We get back to doctor midnight. Longtime member of the Justice League of America. [00:28:32] Speaker B: So long. [00:28:34] Speaker A: Been there forever. Yeah. And he says, how you feeling? And chance is annoyed. That's why I have to come all the way down here. It's just to get the results of some water on you, man. [00:28:48] Speaker B: He feels he wants to be friends. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, Doctor Van Knight's kind of annoyed. [00:28:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:56] Speaker A: And as he should be. Do you want me to tell you what I see? He's like, no. And he's like, Christopher, listen, I know it hurts, doesn't it? All through you. I'm sorry. It probably feels like you're a balloon waiting to pop. He's like, I'm fine. Anyway, we get to the next page, and we find that the water sample you brought me in, the bread, it wasn't easy to extract time particles, but what I got matches the poison in your system. It's a one to one signature, unique. So you found your poison, you find your killer. He's like, I got a hunch. I think I got enough time to play it out. Just a couple of days. And he's like, there are other ways to go, doctor. Midnight's like, there are other ways to go through this, you know, besides revenge and drink and chances like there are. And midnight's like, you know, he said it before. It's easy to miss. Dismiss this. I could take you to church with me. That's gonna. I feel like. I feel like he's gonna say, sure. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Put hands on him. [00:30:06] Speaker A: He thinks for a minute. Yeah, he thinks for a minute. He's like, after mom passed, when I was still pretty little, strangers gave me books on God and heaven and all that. And I remember I read them one Sunday morning and I asked my dad what religion we were. Jewish, Christian, Muslim. And he said he wasn't the type to tell someone else what to believe. It was up to me. But whatever. I decided he'd take me right now and go do some worshiping. And chances pats doctor middaugh on the shoulder and said, jesus Christ, doc, you're the best. And then dad said, or we could stay home and watch the game. And we know what decision likely happened based on this interaction. Yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker B: I mean, it's game night. They sat down and watched a game. Of course. Game day, game day, game night, whatever. What's the difference? [00:30:57] Speaker A: Do you watch the footballs now? The foosballs? [00:31:02] Speaker B: No, they watch Parcheesi being played on tv. National tv. Everybody watches our cheesy being played. Dan, don't you love to watch Parcheesi? The. It's the nation's game. [00:31:15] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know that I like to play parties. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Should. Oh my gosh. Let's set it up and go. [00:31:26] Speaker A: That's what we need at the. At the retro emporium. Bunko night is Bunko night with the tables. [00:31:32] Speaker B: I want to play Farkle. I like some want to play Farkle. You want to come down and play some farkle? [00:31:42] Speaker A: Sure, why not? Not tonight. Well, it's noisy for a podcast and people can't see. We don't have video yet set up. Even though you're in a cool location. [00:31:51] Speaker B: This is an awesome location. Location. [00:31:55] Speaker A: I've got like, a big table with a gracious. [00:31:58] Speaker B: You're about to do an alien autopsy and you've got. [00:32:01] Speaker A: That'd be awesome. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Actually, no, not wouldn't be cool. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Well, anyway, not that we're getting distracted by the book. Anything like we ever do, but he. He plans his rest of his day after visiting. He's gonna go touch base with Luigi forget. He's gonna take care of whatever's been sitting around. You know, there's no Mario, just Luigi. That's why they're losing. And he's gotta go talk to his princess peach. He's. He does some basic surveillance of ice. This is gonna go well. He shows up at Ice's house. I don't know. Now, I can't imagine this going well, but he knocks on the door, and he says he's gonna get ready to continue to find his killer, except then he ends up on a polar bear rug with ice. [00:33:00] Speaker B: That. That doesn't. That. Well, I guess, you know, he got somewhere. [00:33:10] Speaker A: I mean, it's. [00:33:11] Speaker B: It's game day. Bases are loaded. [00:33:16] Speaker A: And then a bunch of. A bunch of noise starts happening, and they wake up, and ice is like, I think we froze the pipes. Must. Must have gotten cold, got chilly in there. And they try to ease the. The pipes, and, uh, they have to go order out. So chance starts to get redressed. It's kind of like pre toasting. It's redress. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Oh, pre toasting. Like your bagels? Oh, man. The best bagels are pretty toasted. Let me tell you. Let me tell you, if you haven't had a pre toasted bagel with a smeareen, you're missing out. First, you get your bagel that's pre toasted. Then you re toast the pre toasted bagel that's toasted. Toasted. Once again, smear on, put em back together. Delish. [00:34:08] Speaker A: So you're taking a toasted bagel and you're retoasting. [00:34:10] Speaker B: He can't even just let it go. He just has to keep it. [00:34:13] Speaker A: Nope, I can't. I can't let it go. There's no such thing. It's the joke in the book that there's no pre toasting. Like, why do you keep trying to pre toast? There's no pre toast. There's only retoast. You can't pre toast. [00:34:25] Speaker B: I want somebody to go pre toast to retoast. [00:34:29] Speaker A: What? You're toasting the bagel before it gets cooked. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Let it cook. [00:34:34] Speaker A: So you're toasting the dough before it gets boiled? [00:34:37] Speaker B: No, you're boiling it and then toasting it after you cut it, putting it back together. [00:34:43] Speaker A: So that's exactly. [00:34:44] Speaker B: That's just toasting again. Pre toasting. [00:34:49] Speaker A: No, there's no such thing as pre toasting. [00:34:51] Speaker B: Listeners, let us know what you think. [00:34:54] Speaker A: I'll give you a retoasting. [00:34:55] Speaker B: Who is winning here? [00:34:56] Speaker A: And if you agree with Greg, you're wrong. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Who's wrong with Greg? Raise a hand. That's one. [00:35:03] Speaker A: It makes it simple. Most people. Most people. And so, yeah, the. Everybody's gonna side with you. Nobody ever sides with me. Now, the. I mean, hey, hey, guys, go on social media and decide if you side with Greg or Dan. Do you like the funny guy that makes good jokes and is entertaining and writes cool comic books, or do you like the angry man who reviews comic books online? Let us know at Funnybook forensics on Facebook or Twitter. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Do you like the guy. That's right. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Let us know if you like the funny guy or you like the angry guy. [00:35:39] Speaker B: And then it's like they don't know what to say because they don't know who's right or who's wrong. [00:35:48] Speaker A: What I've usually found is they like the guy who's wrong. [00:35:51] Speaker B: But I'm. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Well, we'll know in, like, weeks whether that's true or not. Well, anyway, so I took it to a dark place. A dark place. A big, orange, dark place. [00:36:10] Speaker B: Now put me back on the sun again. [00:36:12] Speaker A: It's a scary place. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, just, you know, watch out in Florida. Scary place. That big orange ball hits it and turns it into a sauna every day. I'm not sure why anybody want to. Well, never let me lose all the Florida listeners now, not sure why anybody want to live in Florida, but, you. [00:36:33] Speaker B: Know, people do, listeners. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Oh, that's good. I'm sorry. Your state is a swamp. In fact, the football field for your main football team is called the swamp. And there are alligators that will murder you and snakes that will eat you alive and manatees. And we really don't know why there are manatees in the world at all. Like, they're. Like. They look like dead puppies in the water. But it's their deaths. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:05] Speaker A: The manatees, they. The lure things. How come the alligators don't eat the manatees? [00:37:09] Speaker B: They should. I mean, alligators taste so good, though. [00:37:15] Speaker A: They're scary. And they will eat the manatees or the alligators. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, but that's why they're so delicious. [00:37:23] Speaker A: No. Can you imagine if manatees had alligator teeth? Now, that would be one scary animal. [00:37:29] Speaker B: I mean, I don't like going in open water. I would definitely not go in open water. Oh, look it. [00:37:35] Speaker A: Look at me. I'm so. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no. [00:37:41] Speaker A: That'S. That's kind of terrifying. Somebody should. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Artist friends out there, please draw us a manatee with a lot of teeth fighting a hippo. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Alligator teeth. A manatee with alligator teeth. What would that be called? Like a manatee with an alligator mouth? [00:37:58] Speaker B: A malagator, manta gator. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Mantigator. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Now come up with a name and let us know. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Manigator. Mana man. A manigator. Sounds like a gay bar like that. If I came back, if I came back from, like, Europe and said I hung out at the manigator in Paris, you would have been like, oh, that sounds like a good place to have a phone. [00:38:23] Speaker B: All right. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the man, the drinks. Fantastic. It adds all sorts of things. Yeah, it's definitely. [00:38:29] Speaker B: I don't know. I mean, the music was good. The drinks were good. Yeah. Okay, cool. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Especially in Paris. To the manigator. Yeah, the manigator. So maybe that's not a good name for an animal. [00:38:44] Speaker B: You definitely don't want teeth on the manigator. [00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah. You don't want teeth at the manigator. That's correct. That's. Manigator is a no. We banned the mannequin. [00:38:57] Speaker B: We banned the teeth on the manicator. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Ban teeth at the mandator. Yeah, that's. That's a toothless zone. Yeah, no teeth x. Oh, my God. Now, artist friends, go ahead and draw us the Ghostbusters sign with a two. [00:39:14] Speaker B: On the manigator bar. [00:39:20] Speaker A: It's good thing we have artist friends that can render all this for us. [00:39:23] Speaker B: We wish to have this because, you know, I mean, Dan. [00:39:25] Speaker A: Dan wishes the manigator. I don't know. I don't know what the art for this episode is going to look like. [00:39:32] Speaker B: All of a sudden. All of a sudden a new bar opens up in Kent. It's called the manigator. [00:39:39] Speaker A: The manigator. I don't think you could really have the manigator in Kent. I think the regulations are against the manigator. [00:39:45] Speaker B: No, well, I mean, Nashville is in Kenta. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Well, I didn't say you couldn't have a gable. You can't really have the no teeth. [00:40:00] Speaker B: 0000. I get what you're saying. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Listeners, I'm sorry if children are listening. Just like Uncle Roger says, half the. [00:40:17] Speaker B: Population can't let me out of. They couldn't go to the manigator. [00:40:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, back to the story. A hammer is coming in. Yes, to the building. A big green hammer. [00:40:28] Speaker B: Hammer. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Not, not the kind of hammer you'd find at the manigator, but definitely a hammer. It's. [00:40:35] Speaker B: I'm just dying over here, dude. See, you're funny, Dan. [00:40:41] Speaker A: I don't know about that. So we had a. We had the manigator and I mean, the hammer comes through, and Guy Gardner has pinned Christopher Chan. Sounds like the mannequin with his hammer. Yeah, it's, uh. It is, again, not. Not legal in Kent, Washington, but maybe Kent, United Kingdom. So could be a welcome to the man to Gator. Well, guard. I love this scene, actually. Cause Gardner looks like he's like a foot shorter than he does. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Man, he looks so tiny. [00:41:19] Speaker A: He looks like an angry child. [00:41:20] Speaker B: He's got that red hair, the angry elf face. He's just like, I'm so mad you're with my girlfriend. [00:41:28] Speaker A: He does have an angry elf. [00:41:29] Speaker B: That's not your girlfriend, dude. [00:41:34] Speaker A: And, well, he starts to take out chance, and then ice comes through and. And hits him. And then he looks like a beat puppy dog on the next page. Like, why did you hit me? What did I do wrong? And she's like, guy, get the fuck out of my house. We can't say fuck. I keep saying fuck. [00:41:56] Speaker B: I said a lot. Do you put the. Do you put the thing that says. [00:41:59] Speaker A: I don't see it a lot. Actually, the last few podcasts, I really haven't. [00:42:03] Speaker B: I don't have that. [00:42:04] Speaker A: I do. I do label them. I do label them all. [00:42:07] Speaker B: People haven't noticed I lost my sound. [00:42:09] Speaker A: Now we're talking about the sound thing. [00:42:11] Speaker B: I can't bleed with my sound bar. My sound. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Well, that's too bad. I'm so heartbroken. I don't think you need to say we're funny. Enough with that thing this episode, people. [00:42:22] Speaker B: If you miss the sound board, let me know. I'll go get a new one. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Oh, God, here we go. [00:42:31] Speaker B: Drink. [00:42:32] Speaker A: If you liked the sound Bard sound barn board. Ask Greg to go. Sound board. [00:42:38] Speaker B: That's. [00:42:39] Speaker A: That's a character in a sound. [00:42:40] Speaker B: That's a character in a D and. [00:42:41] Speaker A: D. That's in the witcher. [00:42:43] Speaker B: What? The witcher. [00:42:44] Speaker A: That's in the witcher. That's in the witcher. Yeah. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Yes. [00:42:47] Speaker A: Sound bard. [00:42:49] Speaker B: Yes. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Well, anyway, there's, like, a demon in the D and D game that has that sound board and, like, uses it all the time. Yeah, that's one of your games. Well, Guy Gardner looks up after he gets told to get out, and he's like, come on, baby. Do you know what this fucking did to me? Do you know what I had to do to this? Is this. I hate this. I just want to tell you, like, this dialogue. I despise this. So if Tom King is trying to get me to hate Guy Gardner, it's guys. [00:43:19] Speaker B: Poisonous. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah, well, also, it's just like, now he's playing the victim. Like, did you know what you did to me when you rejected me? I get to go off and buy a gun and, like, go shoot up a school or something. Like, I fucking hate this. Like, I will say this. Like, I took it dark after all the humor, and I a little bit apologize, but I really don't like this. Right? Like, I think it's now. And now I'm really torn, right? Because, as the story goes, I feel like it's. It's. It's good writing for what they do, but it almost feels like a step too far. Cause it's like you said, he keeps the guy Gardner character teeters on the edge, and that's what I see right now. I see this guy going up and shooting a concert. Cause his girlfriend broke up with him. Right? The way the dialogues look and the facial expressions. [00:44:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, the way that they make this version of Guy Gardner out in this book, in this series, he is the quintessential dude that pulls that kind of stuff. He's the. He's that guy. He's the dude that does that kind of thing or drives his car into a Saturday market and blames everybody else. [00:44:38] Speaker A: And that's what. And. Yeah, and that's what I. That's why I think I sort of feel really uncomfortable with the character. Right. [00:44:45] Speaker B: And you should. [00:44:46] Speaker A: And now even here, too, as he, like, tries to beat up chance, right? And now ice is standing up and saying, did I say let's have a talk? And he's like, baby, honey, you got to listen to. Oh, my God. Okay. [00:45:02] Speaker B: He's a gas. [00:45:03] Speaker A: I'm just letting everybody in the world now. I'm just letting everybody in the world now, too. Like, unless it's a very intimate situation, do not call a woman honeydehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. Ever. Ever. [00:45:16] Speaker B: I know. [00:45:17] Speaker A: Ever. Don't know. [00:45:20] Speaker B: You're, like, the most demeaning I know. No, dude, I get it. It's like. I. [00:45:26] Speaker A: It. No, but it literally makes me, like. [00:45:28] Speaker B: Bur. No, when. When dudes come into the shop, and they're like. Like, I'd say, like, dudes when. When older gentlemen come into the shop and they're talking to Ann or Kayla, and it's just like, they say that, honey, sweetie. And it's like I could see them just die inside, and they're like, yes. [00:45:50] Speaker A: And it's like, hey, owner of the store that I'm gonna call. [00:45:54] Speaker B: And then I just. I grab them and redirect them, like, away if I'm there, because it's like, I know that your intent is this, but, boy, oh, boy, you're. [00:46:09] Speaker A: But it's been used as demeaning forever, right? Like, this is like, you know, you're sitting. This is like the men sitting at a diner and saying, honey, can you refill my coffee? It's. You know, it's. It's been used toward, like, a, quote unquote lower, different class or other to otherwise people. Right. It's just. I don't. Anyway, language. I studied it. It bugs me. This one bugs me a lot. [00:46:34] Speaker B: This guy. [00:46:35] Speaker A: It's one. I don't need dirt, honey. Sweetie. And especially the way it's said. Right. [00:46:46] Speaker B: The intent here, definitely demeaning. And he's not meaning it in a sweet way. [00:46:55] Speaker A: One, he's mansplaining, too. He's got to tell her that this guy is poisonous. You and me are important. And then ice is again, like, get the fuck out of my house. Now. We get a really cool six panel grid where they're having the. Continued the conversation, and he's like, that's enough, baby. Isn't it? And she's like, rah. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Like, she's done. [00:47:18] Speaker A: And then he starts trying to the baby, honey. And saying, I'm a big boy. You don't want to mess with me. And she says, oh, guy, my poor one. You still have no idea how little you are. He tries to hit her. This is where I start to get really frustrated with the character in this book. And chance starts to go for a gun as Gardner starts to use the ring on ice. And he shoots the. The gun again. And guy easily blocks it. He hits chance with his ring with a big, like, ball and chain. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. Mace. It's a morning glory. [00:48:02] Speaker A: That's what that is, right? Mace? Yeah. [00:48:04] Speaker B: I believe a morning star. Morning star. [00:48:08] Speaker A: I think it's a morning star. I think a morning glory is a different kind of thing. That might be at the man gator. [00:48:16] Speaker B: So I was at the man gator, and I had this new drink called. [00:48:19] Speaker A: The morning glory mangator. Yeah. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Never believe what it had inside. [00:48:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that side. Yeah. Wow. You wake up to that one. So it's a. Gardner is. Anyway. Gardner's. Then he does, like, rage in his eyes. And then ice starts to freeze. [00:48:39] Speaker B: His eyes go from rage, just really cold. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's trying to talk to her, and he just keeps getting frozen. And. And chance is like, he says the line, and this is the one. He's really uncomfortable with it. His arms on fire, but he says, but I take some comfort in knowing that it'll be over quick enough after what she's done to him. And he punches guy in the face, and guy shatters into icy brain bits. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Oh, it's like he is a million pieces. [00:49:16] Speaker A: His face does. Yeah. And. And the adrenaline drains the poison fills the void left behind after the incident. He says, I'm dying, but at least I'm not alone. Because now they're together. Because they've murdered someone together. [00:49:33] Speaker B: Killed guy gardener. [00:49:36] Speaker A: In self defense. Yeah. [00:49:37] Speaker B: Fair. Yeah. Presumably. [00:49:39] Speaker A: Presumably they. [00:49:40] Speaker B: They literally knocked his block off. [00:49:44] Speaker A: It always is interesting with superheroes, though, right? Is anything in self defense? Because, like, ice could have used her powers to neutralize him, I presume. [00:49:52] Speaker B: And chance didn't have to punch him in the face once he was frozen. He could have just like. [00:49:58] Speaker A: Well, I think you may already be dead before he gets punched in the face. I feel like the face punch is cathartic. I mean, she's already frozen. [00:50:05] Speaker B: I mean, do you think he would have thawed out? [00:50:09] Speaker A: Well, when I saw Bernie and Jack Black put that poor lady in the refrigerator. Yeah, or in the freezer after shooting her, I think she was dead, but. [00:50:18] Speaker B: She might have been dead. She might have died of the shock. [00:50:21] Speaker A: And if you haven't seen that movie, you should really watch it. Yeah. And if you listeners haven't seen the. [00:50:28] Speaker B: Movie, he's a nice guy. He's just a nice guy that, like, wants to help out the old lady. [00:50:35] Speaker A: For a while, but they apologize to each other here on the page in the book. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And then we get this really creepy ass page. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Oh. [00:50:52] Speaker A: Where the blood brain bits are melting, and. [00:50:57] Speaker B: And then they all kind of form back together again. [00:50:59] Speaker A: We get chances dialogue. Yeah, let me read chances dialogue here, because I know we're trying not to read the whole book, but this one's important. He's like, she freezes the wound, stops the herd, and she gets a med kit she has left from her justice League days and patches me up the whole time. We don't say much, just a few. Move your hand this way. That feels fine. Thank you. It's not until sometime later that we start talking about guy. And then we both know it's too late. The right thing to do would be to have called in some superheroes as soon as we were able, told them what happened and see if there's anything they could do. Heroes are in the business of miracles. You never know. Of course, then there'd be some questions. Could I have stopped this? She's a superhero, too. She had her own miracles. Surely there's some way to calm guy down without killing him. Surely you could have done something to help chance before you know it. With enough of these questions, self defense becomes murder. So when she finally calms and finally asks me the big question, I know what she really is asking. And I ask, do you think anybody knew Guy was here? Is it going to be all right? Okay, so now we know Ice intended to kill Guy Gardner. Sneaky, I think. Now do we know why? Or do we know that it was planned? I don't know. But she clearly wants him to stay dead. [00:52:31] Speaker B: She wanted Guy gone for a while. Out of the picture, excommunicatable. [00:52:40] Speaker A: And chance discloses that Jon Stewart has shared. That guy turns off his ring locator, so how convenient. Seems like a Macguffin, but okay. [00:52:53] Speaker B: Guide. Macguffin. Guy, guffin guy Guffin guy Gardner, Guffin. [00:53:02] Speaker A: And. Yeah, and we're here. So now we are. They're just sitting with each other, pondering what they're gonna do next, and they creepily go upstairs to bed. [00:53:15] Speaker B: I. [00:53:19] Speaker A: I mean, I guess that's what you do after you murder somebody. [00:53:21] Speaker B: Why not? [00:53:26] Speaker A: Well, anyway, now we get him riding in the car, leaving, and he says, sometimes later, I'm back on the road. I'm thinking of all the men I've done in some of them I stabbed, some I shot, some I got down with my bare hands. All of them had families and desires and ambition, and I'd really like to say that each stands out. But if I'm honest, they blend together somehow. Wow. All of those crooked faces and clenched teeth. But this latest one, this guy, in the end, I think I'll remember him. Well, we get back to the office with Luigi and he's like, where you been? And he's like, went to the doctor, then ran a lead, not a lot of nothing. And he's like, doctor, are you okay? And he's like, I'm getting there. Holds up his whiskey in the flask, and Luigi's pointing out, ah, you got there a lot faster with her. And he's like, her? He's like, realizing he knows that Luigi's figured out the relationship. And he's like, you know me, boss, when a woman. When some women you can't say no to. We got the whole femme fatale thing back. And now it says, twelve days. That's all I get to find who murdered me. And I just spent today fighting, drinking, screwing and killing. And it looks and he gets up to his office and we have a woman there smoking and says, hello, christopher, it's nice to see you. It's been a long time. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Uh oh. [00:55:05] Speaker A: And then he says, I'm a fucking idiot. To be continued. Yeah, I think, I think we're gonna stop with this one because the next up is tails of the human target. [00:55:22] Speaker B: Human target? I didn't know that human target had tails. How many tails does he have? [00:55:29] Speaker A: As many as the male. [00:55:31] Speaker B: That's a lot. That's more than a sonic. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Wow. [00:55:41] Speaker B: The video game. Yeah, yeah. [00:55:45] Speaker A: Not the restaurant. [00:55:46] Speaker B: The restaurant's different thing. [00:55:48] Speaker A: Well, my brain went there because I'm a big fan of the video game. [00:55:53] Speaker B: My brain immediately like sonic and tails and knuckles too. [00:55:58] Speaker A: Well, originally when we started this adventure into the human target we told you we were going to cover two issues of podcast. Sometimes that doesn't really work because these stories are really in depth and hard to explain. Now the last one was, this one was a little bit easier to explain. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they killed Meaty at the same time. [00:56:19] Speaker A: But I don't want to jump into the interlude issue which is the tales. [00:56:23] Speaker B: Of the, I think, and it's a lot of, there's going to be a lot of things to discuss and pull apart because each one of those things is a standalone little mini story within one bigger issue. [00:56:38] Speaker A: Which ties to the stories we've seen so far. To give you a little background on the characters where Tom King was taking. [00:56:43] Speaker B: Us, let us understand them and the human target, Christopher chance, do a little dance. [00:56:51] Speaker A: So we are going to put a pause on this one and we will cover tales of the human target next time. But I feel like we've talked about a whole bunch of stuff already. Do you? I assume you want to plug a book that's. [00:57:09] Speaker B: Destroyed. Well, I thought we were going to plug your new book called Danny Gator. So it's where. [00:57:15] Speaker A: No, there's no book called Danny Gator. That book is like that book was that book, that movie or book was shown with midnight Cowboy in the seventies. You can't do that again. [00:57:30] Speaker B: Danny Gator. [00:57:31] Speaker A: No, that's, that's, that's not. Okay. You didn't even. [00:57:34] Speaker B: The midnight cowboy. [00:57:35] Speaker A: Yeah, so. Or you're diving. Or you're diving past it. [00:57:40] Speaker B: No. So yeah, no, we're, we'll pitch the absolute Zeros camp launch pad. That is the steam reading challenge. [00:57:52] Speaker A: Steam challenge. [00:57:54] Speaker B: Pick no stem. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Not stem. Added art for those who like science, technology, art, engineering, math. [00:58:06] Speaker B: Yes. All those things. [00:58:09] Speaker A: You know who's good at steam power? Girl? Yeah. She owned her own company, and she's really smart. [00:58:18] Speaker B: I. [00:58:18] Speaker A: And it was a technology company. She's good at art. I'm sure. I mean. [00:58:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:58:24] Speaker A: You've seen her costumes. They show a lot of artistic parts for some. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Out of this world. [00:58:33] Speaker A: She is out of this world. She's from Krypton on Earth. [00:58:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:37] Speaker A: Two. Earth one. Earth, not one. Earth prime. Earth. Earth two. Well, anyway, absolute Zero's camp launchpad on sale everywhere. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Ask your librarian. Pick it up for the steam reading challenge. Lift off with us because we want you to reach for the stars. Yeah. [00:58:59] Speaker A: Well, there you go. And that's a book. [00:59:02] Speaker B: You should. [00:59:02] Speaker A: And you should buy it. [00:59:03] Speaker B: It's fantastic. I'm not just saying that because I wrote it with Mike Tanner, but Gabrielle Gomez did some amazing artwork, and that's what makes it so great. [00:59:15] Speaker A: Well, that's cool. Okay, so there we go. There we go. That's it? [00:59:21] Speaker B: That's all you need to know. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. Well, I mean, I think we. We plugged everything. We did not mention jiu jitsu lawyer. [00:59:28] Speaker B: Why did you not mention jujitsu lawyer Paul Boudreaux on the podcast, Dan? [00:59:34] Speaker A: I mean, mostly because we didn't. He didn't refer anything bad to us, and nothing bad happened, so we didn't need to bring up lawyers or fighting. [00:59:45] Speaker B: But. [00:59:46] Speaker A: But if perhaps Christopher chance and I'm. [00:59:50] Speaker B: Murdering somebody in their living room. [00:59:54] Speaker A: And if they did need a good lawyer who could also tap out the. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Other lawyer, jujitsu lawyer Paul. [00:59:58] Speaker A: They could find jujitsu lawyer Paul Boudreau on 27th and Bridgeport way slash Jackson Avenue. [01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:05] Speaker A: In Tacoma. [01:00:06] Speaker B: And just like better call Saul, he's next to a nail salon. [01:00:11] Speaker A: He is next to a nail salon. But better policy. Better call Saul. Better call Saul. Better call. [01:00:16] Speaker B: Better call Saul. [01:00:17] Speaker A: Better call Saul has a room behind the nail salon. Jujitsu lawyer Paul has his own business. Where his office, where he works on the law, is behind the jiu jitsu. Jitsu gymnast. [01:00:36] Speaker B: I can say words, and behind that place is this new place opening. [01:00:41] Speaker A: But that is not where he meets. [01:00:42] Speaker B: With clients he doesn't meet. [01:00:43] Speaker A: So now, if you want to meet him on the mats, he's happy to host you there. He also would happily meet you in his law office. But you could contact him and find out late night legal. If you want to reach out to him at Gmail late. Late tonight. Legal. [01:01:00] Speaker B: It's where I get all my legal work done. [01:01:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it is no joke. But. [01:01:14] Speaker B: He'S the. He's the tall king of the little people. How could I not? [01:01:19] Speaker A: That is true. All right, so with that said, I guess we should wrap up this fine episode of Funny book forensics. And I'm gonna press a button to find out if I'm happy or sad. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Why are you sad? [01:01:29] Speaker A: Sad. But I had a happy podcast, so everything is good. [01:01:33] Speaker B: But we are happy because we're gonna go to the Manticore. [01:01:37] Speaker A: We can't wait. We can't tell you why I'm sad. Because this will be released. Not in time. Not the Manticore. No, we're not going to the Manticore. That's a whole different kind of thing. And I. And if I'm going to the manigator, it's not with you. Yeah. So I'm just letting you know, if I'm going to the mannequator, it's not with you. And on that note, that's a fine ending to this episode of Funny book forensics. So on that, I'm Dan. That's Greg, and we'll see you next time.