Funny Book Forensics 414 Skeets No!

[00:00:06] Speaker A: It's what happens when I delegate your tasks to me. [00:00:09] Speaker B: My tasks to you? [00:00:11] Speaker A: What? [00:00:11] Speaker B: What do you mean? Yes. [00:00:12] Speaker A: Well, for a long time, your job was to hit the button. Yes. And. And then I took over button hitting. [00:00:18] Speaker B: Yes. [00:00:18] Speaker A: You took. I failed to hit button. [00:00:20] Speaker B: You failed to hit button. And then here we are doing it again. Don't tell them. Don't tell them we're doing it again. [00:00:31] Speaker A: He ruined the much better Computo got us. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Oh, computer got us again, everyone. Damn it. Compute. Oh, this is the second time. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Peter's a motherfucker. [00:00:44] Speaker B: Maybe not the second time. [00:00:45] Speaker A: We just got demonetized again already. No, people like the podcast. [00:00:49] Speaker B: People like the words. [00:00:51] Speaker A: No, but we get demonetized if I. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Put the beer burper on it, then maybe. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Maybe we should go to Patreon. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Oh. And get all the Patrice. Yeah, yeah. And then. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:01:09] Speaker B: And then when people patronize us. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The patronizers. [00:01:17] Speaker B: The Patriots. [00:01:18] Speaker A: That's our new fan base. The Patronizers. [00:01:20] Speaker B: We're going to start up. We're going to become Patrice. And then we want people to patronize us. And then basically, because of all the patronization and your love for the pod, then. [00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah, to patronize us. Please just give us $2. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, you'll give us $2, and then. [00:01:43] Speaker A: We'Ll let you patronize us all the time. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's. It's just the. It's the right thing to do. I mean, it's. [00:01:52] Speaker A: No. Like, I had to read this Booster Gold comic twice, and the more I read these Booster Gold comics, the more I get ideas about how to promote and advertise the podcast. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Oh, because Booster Gold. Yeah, because, I mean, he's an effective advertiser. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Well, definitely. I mean, he is. He might be the most effective advertiser, if you think about it, in the entire world. I mean, he went from zero to hero in, like, we don't even know. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Exactly. We don't even know. And that's the best thing about Booster Gold's plan. He is. He's like that meme. People hate me because of this one. This. This one secret. And the secret is we don't know, and we'll never. He hate me. Huh? [00:02:35] Speaker A: What do you remember? He Hate Me. [00:02:37] Speaker B: He Hate Me. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah. He was like a guy in the xfl. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Yeah, his name was He Hate Me. [00:02:46] Speaker B: He Hate Me. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Remember back. Back in the xfl where they were rebels and. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, back in. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah, so they could have cool names. No, not that xfl. I'm talking about the original xfl. [00:03:01] Speaker B: The original xfl. [00:03:02] Speaker A: I don't care about the new xfl. It's trash. [00:03:05] Speaker B: But we had the Dragons, Dan. [00:03:08] Speaker A: The Sea Dragons. The. [00:03:11] Speaker B: I don't know. Were they the Sea Dragons? Seattle Dragons? I don't know. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah, the Sea Dragons. It was amazing. Like, that was the best Chinese food on South Hill. [00:03:19] Speaker B: Oh, man. Sea Dragon. Yeah. [00:03:21] Speaker A: And then it became something else. Right. And they changed, but they kept the same logo. [00:03:27] Speaker B: Which. Which honestly. Okay, for. [00:03:29] Speaker A: I don't think we ever stopped calling it the Sea Dragon. [00:03:32] Speaker B: Well, if you know what key means in some languages it means shit, so. [00:03:40] Speaker A: House of Key. [00:03:40] Speaker B: The House of Shit. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Well, I thought the Sea Dragon was a better name then and I was correct. [00:03:46] Speaker B: You were correct. I'll just jump down the street and go to the poor boy, get myself a sandwich from my buddy's parents. [00:03:54] Speaker A: I think all those places have closed though. [00:03:56] Speaker B: Oh yeah, no, I think they've all gone the way of the dodo. [00:04:00] Speaker A: There is one red door Chinese restaurant still open in Lakewood. Oh, okay. Well, in the. Yes. There's also Tacoma Szechuan, which claims they're the only non Korean run Chinese restaurant. So there are. But it is not a traditional. That's a hot pot. Like. Yeah, so it's not the. It's not the traditional American. That's what I'm saying. Like. Yeah, you know the glowing red. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Oh yeah, you're glowing red. Sweet sour sauce and yeah, you're all the. All the things that are totally not good for you and probably like if I, as soon as I start eating the food, have to go to the doctor. [00:04:44] Speaker A: But they do lay out the. This Chinese restaurant which I'm blanking on their name, so I should. I actually do like it. I think it's really great. They have the. They do give you the barbecue pork with the seeds and the mustard right away. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Oh, right away. [00:04:58] Speaker A: So classic. Yeah, I mean, just lay it out there for me. Chomp it down, give it to you. I don't know how we got on this topic. I don't know what we talked about last time. We talked about a lot of things. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. [00:05:11] Speaker A: That we don't talk about them again. [00:05:12] Speaker B: It's, you know, it's better that we start fresh and just do this all over again as if it never happened. Never happened. Never happened. Never happened. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Well, I think Metropolis probably has a lot of good Chinese restaurants back in 1986. 85. [00:05:28] Speaker B: You know, if I had ever learned anything from pop music from the 90s. [00:05:36] Speaker A: That. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:41] Speaker A: Well, and what I've learned today because of the day we're recording this on. When the status quo is challenged. Donald Trump endorses Andrew Cuomo. [00:05:54] Speaker B: It is. It's a weird. It's a weird world. It's a weird world. [00:06:02] Speaker A: Fuck both of them. I I For the record, I I yeah, I and if you don't agree with that messaging, I mean, you can keep listening us for the entertainment, for. [00:06:11] Speaker B: The entertainment factor, because I mean, honestly, that's what you're listening for. If you're, if, I mean, if you're picking up other nuggets of human, human generalities and goodness, then good for you. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Well, and just be on the ride because you're going to get a lot of Ronald Reagan in this comic book in a few issues, so. [00:06:28] Speaker B: Ooh, doggy. I mean, honestly, you want to talk about some good, like, some good times? [00:06:38] Speaker A: Well, your writing partner had some things to say about the former vice president too, so. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw. Yeah, yeah. I mean, so, so I didn't even. [00:06:50] Speaker A: Let him get cold first. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Didn't even let him get cold. I mean, he's down there, he's in doom, you know. What are you gonna do? [00:07:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fair. Well, anyway, it is important to bring up the military industrial complex here because we have blackrock back on the COVID Or should I say Teal Rock? [00:07:11] Speaker B: Black Guard. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Oh, BlackRock. [00:07:15] Speaker B: Black Rock. [00:07:16] Speaker A: That's a. I mean, BlackRock spends the money on that. [00:07:19] Speaker B: BlackRock spends the money on Black Gu. Well, see where I go, they're similar but different. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Well, and we've got the Mind Dancer. [00:07:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Spider Shark. [00:07:34] Speaker A: You know, I think, like, what's, I think most disappointing about the two on the COVID and the coloring is that definitely like one, like part of Mind Dancer's costume should have matched Black Guard's hair. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Oh, for sure. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:52] Speaker B: No, that would have been, that would have. That would have popped. Like it would have popped. [00:07:56] Speaker A: And in a three color system, we have three different purples on the COVID. [00:08:01] Speaker B: It is a lot of different. There's a lot of different colors. And honestly, I lost Booster goals leg and I thought it was like Black Guard's leg. [00:08:10] Speaker A: That's creepy. And what is Black Guard doing to Booster Gold right there? [00:08:13] Speaker B: I don't know. He's putting him in a. Is he got him in a kind of. [00:08:17] Speaker A: It's that full nelson. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a full nelson on him. [00:08:20] Speaker A: Some people call it the master lock. [00:08:22] Speaker B: The master lock. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Chris Masters. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Oh, man, he's. [00:08:27] Speaker A: Remember that guy? Chris Masters. Yeah, the master lock. Some people would Call this a challenge. There was plenty of wrestlers that abused the full nelson. I believe I could put you in the full nelson and hold you there for a long time if I wanted to. Probably. [00:08:40] Speaker B: You probably could. You got arms like an oak tree. I. I'd probably be stuck. [00:08:46] Speaker A: You would be stuck. So I'm also very unflexible, so I'd never be able to untangle my arms. Once I got you there, put me in it. And then I'd be completely stuck. [00:08:56] Speaker B: I'd be like, okay, this sucks. Okay, Gordian knot. [00:09:00] Speaker A: There's also another problem on the COVID What's that? Your favorite character is smoking out of his butt. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Are you sure that's not. It is his butt. [00:09:10] Speaker A: It says, before Skeets is destroyed. I'm pretty sure it's Skeets. [00:09:13] Speaker B: Nike's Skeets. [00:09:15] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure that's his butt. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Why is. [00:09:18] Speaker A: If Skeets has a butt. [00:09:20] Speaker B: If Skeets has a butt, his butt is smoking, people. [00:09:24] Speaker A: I think it's very smoking. It's like Nightwing's butt right now. Smoking. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Smoking. His butt. [00:09:31] Speaker A: Smoking. Okay. [00:09:32] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, Yeah. [00:09:36] Speaker A: I mean, well, yeah, it's. A lot has changed in a week. I've been watching a bunch of queer baiting television. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:44] Speaker A: There's a new show called Boots On. [00:09:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I've heard of that. You know what's funny about that is I. The concept of it. I realized that the. That when we were in high school. I don't know if you knew my buddy Sam, but he was trying to get me to. He was trying to get me to enlist with him in a buddy system. System. And the more and more I think about it, after checking out that show, it was to go into the Marines. [00:10:15] Speaker A: That would have been. You would have been a great Marine. [00:10:17] Speaker B: I. No, you were. [00:10:21] Speaker A: You were really big on doing what people tell you to do. [00:10:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:24] Speaker A: No, you're big on shaving your head. [00:10:27] Speaker B: I think. I think my dad, my uncles, and my grandfather would have been very upset considering that was not the. The course of the Smith Crane film. [00:10:39] Speaker A: You were supposed to become a lawyer or a doctor, I believe. [00:10:41] Speaker B: No, no, no. If I was going to join the military, I was supposed to be in the Air Force. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Well, that too. Yeah. I'm just saying, like, I do. I do love it. Like, I have a big shout out to my podcast colleague and friend Greg here. Greg has gone the non traditional route of making money in a lot of ways and the traditional route at the same time. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:11:03] Speaker A: Has way more money than me. And I love this fact because. I love this fact because you did it the right way. I am going to tie this into the podcast here. Not the Booster Gold way. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Well, that's true. I didn't do it the Booster Gold way. I wish I did. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Greg has done this through earning money at work, through having a great family, and through working on his side projects. [00:11:28] Speaker B: And getting hit by a city bus. [00:11:30] Speaker A: At the same time. And getting hit by a city bus. [00:11:33] Speaker B: It was amazing. I mean, you. You go from making, like, four figures to eight figures instantly. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that was. [00:11:42] Speaker B: That was part of it, but I know it wasn't part of it. People did not get hit by a bus. [00:11:47] Speaker A: It was a compliment. But here, the reason I'm saying this is because. Be like Greg. Don't be like Booster Gold. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker A: That's. We're gonna find out why here in a second. Be like Greg. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Don't be like Teal Guard. [00:12:02] Speaker B: Tealgard Blackguard. [00:12:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Maybe be like My Mind Dancer. [00:12:08] Speaker B: I know. I mean, we don't know too much about her. [00:12:13] Speaker A: She knows too much about any of these people. We don't know. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. We don't know too much about any of them. [00:12:18] Speaker A: It's issue two, and we really don't know anything. [00:12:20] Speaker B: And if Skeets is about to get destroyed, we got to find out what's going on with him because, well, Skeets. [00:12:25] Speaker A: Buddy, I flipped to the. I flipped to the first page. We're going to find out, okay? Because. Are you ready? This is Cindy Miles, WGBS News, reporting live from STAR Labs just outside Metropolis, where we attacked just minutes ago by unidentified superpowered woman, who then took STAR satellite guidance system from Booster Gold. Gold has recovered the system earlier in the day after it had been stolen from the lab by the treacherous Teal Guard. It is now known that the two thefts are linked. One amazing element of the story is the failure of Metropolis's newest superhero, Booster Gold, who was soundly defeated by the woman while offering very little resistance. Even now, a full five minutes after her departure, an obviously weakened hero struggles to regain his composure. Let's see if we can move in closer for an interview. Yeah, I don't like that lady. [00:13:21] Speaker B: You don't like her because she's saying it like it is and just putting it out there that Booster Gold got his. Took us turned around. [00:13:29] Speaker A: It seems a little slanted. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if it bleeds, it leads, Dan. [00:13:36] Speaker A: And there you go. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Have you seen the news lately? [00:13:41] Speaker A: I don't watch, I guess compared to the news is a mild. No, I don't watch the news either. I watch, I have good news sources. One like, look folks, listen, it is election day that we're recording this on now. It's going to come out like a week after election day. But like, or the Saturday after election day. But you know, be informed humans, you know, read the Associated Press. Pick a. I'm going to start cussing again. I lost my flight ring. I got so upset. [00:14:08] Speaker B: Oh my God. [00:14:09] Speaker A: I got so upset I dropped my flight ring. [00:14:11] Speaker B: And then he was just going to fizzle out. He wasn't. [00:14:14] Speaker A: Well, you know, read the associate. I'm going to make a suggestion to everybody, okay. There's this thing, you do it with comics. It's called reading. [00:14:22] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Perhaps you should read shit instead of have people tell you about it. [00:14:28] Speaker B: I get my news from memes. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. And then engage with people, right, about what you read. Or, or if you really want to watch network news, watch the Daily show each, every day. [00:14:41] Speaker B: That's not a bad choice either. I mean I, I, I, I tend to just like watch that first five minutes of the late night show. Oh yeah, it was a joke. I don't watch. I don't, I can't stay up that late, man. [00:14:56] Speaker A: I also like, I mean we're gonna just watch South Park. [00:15:01] Speaker B: I mean if you really want as. [00:15:02] Speaker A: Much as I don't want like those guys to get canceled or anything. Stephen Colbert sucks. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Now we're shame. [00:15:13] Speaker A: I loved Stephen Colbert. I think he's like, he was the Colbert Report. Yeah, Was amazing. And look, Stephen Colbert, you can suck all the way to the bank, right? Like go make the money. So I want everybody in the audience to be clear, make this very clear. I do not dislike Stephen Colbert. In fact, I love Stephen Colbert and I want Stephen Colbert to make all of the money possible. Make it all. Get all of the money. Take all of the money. Take it home. Juliet's mad about the money. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Like, it's, she's angry. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Take, take, take the money. Just like Booster Gold. Take it and go home. Right? [00:15:55] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:15:56] Speaker A: But at the same time his quality has gone down. [00:16:03] Speaker B: Well, I, I would say that might also be due to being a slightly bit muted by outside sources. A bit. [00:16:14] Speaker A: I think it was a bit, it's gone down for a long time. I mean it's, it's, it's not new. Oh. [00:16:19] Speaker B: I mean you take somebody and you put them, you take them from Comedy Central and put them on network TV in there. Everything kind of changes. [00:16:30] Speaker A: And I. [00:16:31] Speaker B: And for those not seeing the video, I'm. I. I am doing the downward slant from Right. [00:16:36] Speaker A: But like, it's still. It's still to say it's not as entertaining as it used to be. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, go back to 20. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Why did we get on late night television? [00:16:45] Speaker B: Because I made a joke about getting my news from late night television in south park. [00:16:49] Speaker A: And. [00:16:49] Speaker B: And memes. And here we are. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Okay, well. And Booster Gold's getting roasted by the news. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Yeah, he's getting roasted by the news. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Okay, so by the way, folks, I have two dogs here today. If you hear barking, I apologize. Juliet is here with her best friend, Toa, the Husky mix. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Yes, Toa. [00:17:09] Speaker A: And she needed a playdate. And then we decided to do a podcast right in the middle of her play date. How inconsiderate of us. [00:17:15] Speaker B: We are terrible, terrible humans. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Well, anyway, how could we? Well, Booster Gold doesn't have any comments at this time because he is knocked down on the ground. [00:17:27] Speaker B: But he gets back up again. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Comes in, he gets back up again because he's never gonna keep him down now. [00:17:33] Speaker B: He's got a whiskey drink. He's got a lager drink. [00:17:37] Speaker A: I thought he had a vodka drink. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Oh, a vodka drink. He's got a lager drink. It's been a while since I listened to the Chimboramba. [00:17:44] Speaker A: It reminds me of the Good Times. [00:17:46] Speaker B: I don't like that song as much as I like some of the best albums. [00:17:52] Speaker A: You're the only person in the world that listened to the entire Chumbawamba album. [00:17:56] Speaker B: It's actually got some real good bangers, Dan. You should check it out. I'll get you a copy. I'll get you. I'll burn you a disc, Dan. [00:18:05] Speaker A: I'm sad to admit that I used to own it, so I know you don't need to burn me a disc. [00:18:09] Speaker B: I got it. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Well, anyway, did I give you my CDs? No. Yeah, because you all didn't want my CDs when I wanted to sell them. We don't want cities. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Now you want CDs now we want them all. [00:18:22] Speaker A: That's the Retro Emporium in Kent, Washington, where they can't make up their mind about all The MXP X CDs they carry in stock at the Retro Emporium. The Cat's Retro Emporium on Meeker Street. Go say hi to Anne and pick up your MXP Exceedy. If you buy a copy of Corsa Absolute Zeros Camp Launchpad Greg will come in as Squatch. O man, And I mean. Oh, no. [00:18:43] Speaker B: Oh, you let the cat out of the bag. All the children. All the children will know. They thought that he was a real person. [00:18:51] Speaker A: What did I just do? [00:18:53] Speaker B: Oh, Dan. [00:18:55] Speaker A: What? What? I've. I've. Well, doctor, help. Dr. Clyburn. Remember the Star Labs lady? [00:19:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:19:03] Speaker A: Dr. Clyburn was yelling at Booster Gold last episode because he brought back the thing and it was supposed to be top secret and all that. Well, anyway, she rescues him from the media, takes him away, but not before some bald looking asshole. Oh, yeah, because all bald guys are assholes. Yeah. Did I tell you about my Halloween costume? [00:19:24] Speaker B: Yes, you. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Well, it was awesome. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Yeah, you were. You were that one guy from that one movie that was just out, right? [00:19:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I dressed up in dress shirt and a wool coat and slacks and dress shoes and talk to everyone about how the alien menace from the stars shouldn't be able to destroy America. Yeah. [00:19:48] Speaker B: Oh, that guy. [00:19:51] Speaker A: I know. The big Red S. We can do it ourselves. [00:19:54] Speaker B: And did you yell out a bunch of like, command codes? Command keys to people? [00:19:58] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I didn't need to do that. I didn't need to do that business. Okay, all right, we can do it. We were out of bars. We could do it the subtle way. Lex would know not to do that in that setting. Okay, it's fine. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Take anybody back into the pocket universe and put them in a glass case. [00:20:18] Speaker A: No, no, we didn't need to do that this time. Okay, but it's okay. No, if I was going to do that, I would definitely employ the doors from Peacemaker instead. I think that was a much more fun way. Oh, fair to go. Beat up Nazis. So anyway, another media guy keys is Booster. Sam Carlson of Metropolis Today being a hyped up fake superhero. And Booster hangs his head and Skeets and Dr. Clyburn take him back in and get away. Then we get back to his agent. Do you remember his agent's name? I don't remember. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Is it Dirk for Gold Star Inc? Oh, yeah, Dirk Jackass. That's his name, right? [00:21:08] Speaker B: Rick Rich. Rich, Dirk. It's Dirk Richardson or something like that. [00:21:15] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. We had it. We had a. We had a character in the campaign that kept rolling ones and it was a thief, so we kept calling him Dirk, Dagger Dropper, Dags Dropper. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:21:26] Speaker A: That was. But, yeah. Well, anyway, we see Mind Dancer heading back to the park dressed up like a Charlotte's hornet. Yeah. She shows us her powers by making a couple think she's just an old woman. And she walks into a monument. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Oh, she doesn't live in a shoe. Okay. [00:21:49] Speaker A: She walks into a monument. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:21:50] Speaker A: I don't. With the guidance system. And she goes down. And then we get. We get all sorts of things going on. Okay. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Diamond. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Oh, we get. We get it. We get an exclamation. Yeah, we get diamond face. Now does diamond face. Is this like a fits with the Captain America? [00:22:11] Speaker B: It's kind of. Yeah, it's kind of like the diamond. [00:22:14] Speaker A: What was her. Diamond back. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Diamondback. Yeah. Yeah, It's. Yeah, maybe so. I don't know. It's. He's. He's got an interesting costume and masks. [00:22:24] Speaker A: I know I've seen this costume before, but I don't know who this is. [00:22:28] Speaker B: It's interesting. And then he's got some big metal dude behind him. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Well, we do get. We do get other dudes. We get some monologuing from the narrator. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:22:39] Speaker A: People call her Mind Dancer. And as the grav beam brings her down hundreds of feet below the park surface, she is satisfied as usual. She has accomplished her task. The satellite guidance system is now property of her current employer, the 1000. [00:22:57] Speaker B: The 1000. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Any good mercenary? She doesn't worry about why they want the device. Her only concern is that they get it. Now, I do remember a 100 in Metropolis. I don't remember a 1000. So I've read some of the original Black Lightning comics. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:14] Speaker A: And there was a 100 there that black Lightning was going against. They were like a gang. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:20] Speaker A: And then. I'm gonna cheat because we did some research on this last time and we found out originally. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Back in Lois Lane, around the time of the other Jimmy Olsen comics we were reading, there was a 10. And I guess the 10 became 100, and then the 100 became 1,000. [00:23:34] Speaker B: They're all part of Intergang. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, they're like an offshoot. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Kind of an offshoot. Like a. Like inter gangs. Inter Gang of intergangers. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Right. And we remember Intergang from our Jimmy Olsen books. Right. Now, do you remember who was the head of Inner Gang? [00:23:51] Speaker B: The big. The big cheese was the guy that was running the TV station. [00:23:57] Speaker A: The big cheese. Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Bruno Manheim. Do you remember that? Yeah. [00:24:03] Speaker B: He's got a great album out. [00:24:06] Speaker A: But there was also some dark side showing up there, too. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Dark side. [00:24:11] Speaker A: And then Morgan Edge, too, don't forget. [00:24:12] Speaker B: Yeah, Morgan Edge. That's. That's a. Yeah, the. And that. Yeah. [00:24:17] Speaker A: But we don't see any of them right now. No, we Just see. Well, anyway. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Oh, maybe Morgan edges inside that costume. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Double. Double diamond face. Oh, this guy's a. His face is a slot machine. [00:24:31] Speaker B: Oh, that would be cool. [00:24:33] Speaker A: And then he pays out double diamonds. Yeah. Oh, I have a guest. I have a guest here. Oh, that's Mr. Toa. Hi, Mr. Toa. [00:24:42] Speaker B: Hi, Toa. [00:24:44] Speaker A: If you're not on video, you're missing, like, adorableness right now. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it is pretty adorable. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Okay, get down, Mr. Toa. All right, so, Blackguard. Yeah, this is. Oh, oh, oh, it's a. It's all happening. You're going to have to talk for a second because you have to talk about Diamond Face here. [00:25:02] Speaker B: Oh, Diamond Face. He's like. He's all like. Oh, hey, most impressive mind Dancer. You have done well. And you. And you handled Booster Gold even better than expected. We are so impressed. In fact, we have another job for you. [00:25:27] Speaker A: All right, but until we can find out about that other job, we flip and we get to Gold Star Inc. And there's Trixie. [00:25:35] Speaker B: Trixie. [00:25:36] Speaker A: And she's like, booster. Skeets, you're back. Yay. [00:25:40] Speaker B: Me and the cat miss you so much. [00:25:43] Speaker A: If you were going to compare Trixie to Bulma. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Huh? [00:25:48] Speaker A: From Dragon Ball Z. Okay, which one of them has more agency? [00:25:53] Speaker B: Bulma. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Okay, strong take there. We'll see how that holds up over the series here. [00:26:01] Speaker B: I mean, at least so far in the first. In the. In the issue. The issue that we read. And then this issue so far in the. In the two pages we've gotten. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Well, anyway, the cats are back. Skeets is not a big fan of the cats. [00:26:20] Speaker B: No, not so much. I think the cat wants to go away. [00:26:23] Speaker A: Cat. Trixie lets Booster know she hasn't been able to contact the Justice League. Booster. Like, I'm such a loser. I don't get to talk to the Justice League. She's like, you're not a loser. And then Dirk Asshole shows up and he's, like, accusing Booster of totally fucking up, which he kind of did, but not really because he was ambushed by somebody with better powers than him. [00:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:47] Speaker A: And then. Oh, it's Dirk Davis. Yeah. Ddc. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Double dicky. [00:26:53] Speaker A: Double dicky. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Double dicky. [00:26:55] Speaker A: You just said double D. And I went straight for the double dicking. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Double dicking. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Well, let's not explore that. So the we get into this. You know, I was thinking about this the other day. One Mr. To is back again, and I think we need. It's been a couple years since we talked to Tracy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like three years. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Maybe it has Been a minute, but. [00:27:21] Speaker A: I feel like if Funny Book Friends takes off, we need to invite tracy back. Because 1. When we did that debate, we were set up to lose by your co author. [00:27:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we were set up to lose, but we didn't lose everyone. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Like, we had the already in the ring jobber set up in wrestling. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. People hated us when we walked in. [00:27:45] Speaker A: Like the trumpets were going off and like we threw a bottle of water. [00:27:51] Speaker B: As a joke and then the bottle cap popped off and it turned into a fountain and it went everywhere. It was horrible. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Yeah, and that's because we had basically Dirk slash Mike as our manager. [00:28:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:28:06] Speaker A: Putting us in that situation. [00:28:07] Speaker B: But then we had Tracy, who. Who. Who shows up from parts unknown. Well, Omaha and parts unknown Omaha. [00:28:19] Speaker A: I mean, there are parts of Omaha that deserve to be parts unknown. Like that restaurant we went to. But that's a different story for a different day. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Wait, which restaurant? [00:28:28] Speaker A: The one we just walked out of. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Oh, that. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that one. Yeah, that was. That was a terrible experience. We will not talk more about that. [00:28:38] Speaker A: But yeah, like folks, we had not ordered anything when we walked out. [00:28:43] Speaker B: To be clear, it was a walk in and have a bad experience before even having any experience. [00:28:51] Speaker A: And then we just did the loop. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. [00:28:54] Speaker A: I won't even say what restaurant it was. [00:28:56] Speaker B: But then we. [00:28:56] Speaker A: That restaurant was treating us like Dirk Davis is treating Booster. [00:29:00] Speaker B: Then we had a great experience at another restaurant. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Fantastic. [00:29:04] Speaker B: It was great. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Well, Booster sulking around. Yeah. And Skeets is trying to cheer Booster up. Like, I've checked my historical data banks and the people we encountered today, and Blackguard's role in history is small, so nothing bad's gonna happen. The woman though, that we encountered, the psychic, her record as an extremely dangerous villain is well documented. I do think that it's important to note that Blackguard was played in Suicide Squad by one Pete Davidson. Murdered right away. [00:29:40] Speaker B: Done. Good. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Just to, just to put an exclamation point on Dan Jurgens prediction here, that Blackguard would be a small part of history. Now, I do think it's funny that as the author and artist of his own book, the very first villain he introduces, he says is garbage. [00:30:00] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he's a jobber. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I just kind of think though, if you're starting a brand new book and you're going to introduce a villain and you're going to put them on the COVID of books and things like that, perhaps you'd want them to be like a long term rival. Or something like that, or have some sort of introduction to that rival. I guess that's what we're getting with the 1000. [00:30:19] Speaker B: But maybe Blackguard isn't that. But maybe Mind Dancer or Diamond Face is. Blackguard is merely just a tool for them to use against Booster Gold. Dan Blackguard is like. He is an amalgamation of whiplash and a proto cable. He is everything you want in a bad guy. [00:30:46] Speaker A: He is. [00:30:47] Speaker B: But he doesn't deliver because he's a jobber. [00:30:51] Speaker A: I would argue he's like an amalgamation of everything you don't want in a bad guy. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I think we're gonna get. It's gonna prove so much more as the book goes on, but. Yeah. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Well, we flip the page and it's 3am and I must be lonely. [00:31:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:31:12] Speaker A: And I wish something Dixie Hooray. Somebody seeing Dixieland walking through New York, I guess they ought to get shanked. They deserve to be robbed. If you're seeing Dixieland going through Metropolis slash New York City, you deserve to be robbed. Like, who are you? Who sings Dixieland anyway? [00:31:33] Speaker B: I don't know. Some drunk dude. [00:31:37] Speaker A: Maybe we should ask friend of the podcast, Jason. If people walk around the Carolinas singing Dixieland. [00:31:45] Speaker B: I don't, I don't. I don't know. It might be a further south thing. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Look away. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Well, anyway, something happens there. There's smoke, there's punches, and it's like a rose came in to save the city. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:32:12] Speaker A: That's your hint? [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:14] Speaker A: That is your hint. [00:32:15] Speaker B: My hint. My hint. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Yep. You don't know who that character is? [00:32:19] Speaker B: We don't know. We don't. [00:32:20] Speaker A: I don't know. No, I do. I know. Only because I've read they don't tell you in the comic, but I know who the character. [00:32:26] Speaker B: But he read more. [00:32:28] Speaker A: He. He. He. Because I've read Metropolis, Superman and stuff. [00:32:32] Speaker B: And Ben, the comic historian has delved deeper into the pages of comic book stories. There is. [00:32:38] Speaker A: There is a lot I. I will say. Like, he. I will say Jurgens is planting the story in Metropolis, which I do appreciate. Right. Like, yeah, there is some world building happening. There's some character building, but if you're going to use Metropolis, you should probably actually use Metropolis. So, so far, I like the reference there. I like the reference, I guess back to the. The 10, 100. I don't. I think the. I mean, honestly, like, no offense to anyone, execution kind of sucks right now, but I like what's happening. Right. Okay. Like, it's not like, so far that this story is blowing us away. It's. [00:33:17] Speaker B: It's getting you from point A to point B from book one through book two into now. [00:33:23] Speaker A: I really like the next page. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Next page is Classic Booster at his classic Booster. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Booster is filming a cereal commercial. It looks like kicks, but he calls it Flakies. [00:33:38] Speaker B: Flakies. Delicious. [00:33:41] Speaker A: Now, do you think it's like the mega food Kicks. Oh. Or is this the Kicks Kicks? [00:33:49] Speaker B: My assumption is, is that it is going to. It's because it's making a commercial. It's trying to be that branded cereal, but it's totally the. The Western family. Bottom row. You got to walk on your knees in the bag. Cereal just poured in a box and put, like, you know, at the time, they're probably putting, like, a 299 price tag on it and saying it's like, it's the good stuff, but it probably tastes like garbage. [00:34:24] Speaker A: How do you think it compares to Kellogg's Pep, the only cereal. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:34:28] Speaker A: That brings you Superman, the radio show. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Remember, if it was Pep, I think we would all be, like, just growing muscles and, and feeling good and, and. [00:34:41] Speaker A: We recovered some Pep a long time. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Ago and, and having, like, good bowel movements because it's, like, super, like, super peppy. Super peppy. I, I, I'm pretty sure after Booster's probably eaten so many bowls of this cereal, he's probably gonna have a super bowel movement, too. [00:34:59] Speaker A: So many, so many bowls of Pep or Flakies. Do you know in what episode we covered Superman versus the kkk? [00:35:09] Speaker B: I don't know the episode number, but I know it was, like, roughly two and a half years ago. [00:35:15] Speaker A: Longer. [00:35:15] Speaker B: Longer. Like three years ago. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. October 28th, 2020. Wow. [00:35:23] Speaker B: Okay. Wow. It was, like, five, six years ago. Five years ago. [00:35:29] Speaker A: This podcast has been going for a long time. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Wow, people, we have been. We've been doing this for a little while. [00:35:35] Speaker A: That was on episode 253. If you want to go back and listen to us talk about old Superman and Old time radio and Superman versus the Clan of the Fiery Cross. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Oh, hey, we need Superman again. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Maybe it was the Clan of the Fiery Cross, and then it was Intergang, and then it was the 10, the 100, and the 1,000. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Okay. Interesting. It's just kind of. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Well, it was possible. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Maybe they're, they're just. [00:36:06] Speaker A: They're. [00:36:07] Speaker B: They're spreading out and doing whatever they do to take control of the city and move forward. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Being terrible. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. We're missing an episode. [00:36:21] Speaker B: Missing an episode. [00:36:24] Speaker A: We're missing our first issue Of Prez. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:36:29] Speaker A: I have to go find that and re upload it. Well, anyway, people, you don't even know. [00:36:33] Speaker B: What you're missing if you haven't listened to that. And considering it's election day, Prez is important. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Well, if you want to go back and log all our episodes. If. If one of our listeners wants to go back and log all our episodes, I'll put them in a spreadsheet. I'll. I'll use that spreadsheet to do things. [00:36:51] Speaker B: And then you could get something super cool. I think Dan would supply you with. [00:36:58] Speaker A: And I'd supply you with a T shirt, probably. [00:37:01] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Let's do that. I don't have any T shirts left, so I'll have to have it made. But I'll supply you with the T shirt. That's. Yeah, I can do that. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Just like the ones you see us. Well, we're not wearing T shirts right now. We're wearing sweatshirts. So you're not getting a sweatshirt, but you're getting a T shirt. [00:37:15] Speaker A: A T shirt. It'll say it'll be the very same. [00:37:18] Speaker B: Same, same, same logo. Like the. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Maybe I'll make Heather Gray's T shirts this time. [00:37:23] Speaker B: Oh, dangs. Yeah, that'd be cool. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Look at. Look at me getting adventurous. Look at me getting adventurous. Like Booster Gold. I'm thinking about. I told you, my brain is on marketing. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Marketing. Like Booster. [00:37:36] Speaker A: How do we market this thing? Look, we were talking about past podcasts. Yeah. We haven't even talked about Nathan Fillion. [00:37:43] Speaker B: I know. Not yet. But we. Oh, my gosh. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Because. Because I forgot. I. You know, in. In the podcast at computer took. I got a present for Greg. He did. [00:37:54] Speaker B: Everybody, it is my very own Nathan Fillion doll. [00:37:59] Speaker A: Yeah, his official Guy Gardner Green Lantern. But it doesn't say Guy Gardner. [00:38:04] Speaker B: What does it say? [00:38:05] Speaker A: And. And it also. It just says Green Lantern, which that's not. [00:38:10] Speaker B: He's not my Green Lantern. He's just. [00:38:12] Speaker A: And it's not my Green Lantern. I don't read those damn comic books the kids read because it's not my Green Lantern. [00:38:19] Speaker B: Well, I. I don't. I don't. I don't like a jerk Guy Gardner. [00:38:26] Speaker A: Look what happened. I just brought in the Toxic fandom. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Right at ya. Yeah, I know. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Well, not the Toxic Gardener. Yeah, look, we got. And you also get, if you're present, one arm. An arm that is a part of a Superman robot. Oh, okay. [00:38:42] Speaker B: I was gonna say Guy Gardner's armed and dangerous. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Yeah, look, look, if you buy all of these, you get the parts. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, collect all the parts and. [00:38:54] Speaker B: Then pull it out of the package and build myself a Superman robot. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah, you could. And see, the problem is, like, as I was sharing with you before, I used to have a problem. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:08] Speaker A: Yeah. When I was a kid, I really wanted Transformers. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:39:11] Speaker A: Have a lot of money. And so I got, like, the fire engine guy, because he was left over on the shelf. Somebody got me the fire engine guy once. I don't know what the fire engine guy's name is. Like, do you. I don't know. [00:39:25] Speaker B: No, I don't. I don't know. And. [00:39:28] Speaker A: And then I got three, four of the Destructicons, because those were the cheapest and people got them for me. But I never got number five and number six. So I had the head, the body, one arm and one leg. [00:39:43] Speaker B: You couldn't make Devastator. [00:39:45] Speaker A: Correct. I. He just kind of toppled. [00:39:49] Speaker B: He was devastated. You were devastated. Because he couldn't. [00:39:53] Speaker A: But I would have. Devastator fight. Yeah. The. The fire truck Green. The fire truck Green Lantern. The fire truck Transformer. [00:40:00] Speaker B: The fire truck Green Lantern. Whoa. Man, talk about getting your toys all jumbled up. [00:40:06] Speaker A: I love it. [00:40:07] Speaker B: I see. That's the kind of thing that I would do because I didn't have, like, I would. I would get all my toys together and I'd be like, yay. Okay, GoBots, who are we fighting today? [00:40:18] Speaker A: What is the Fire Truck Transformers name? I don't know. [00:40:21] Speaker B: I had Gobots. [00:40:23] Speaker A: You had gobots because you went to Kmart. [00:40:25] Speaker B: Yes, and then I had. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Well, as you should. Kmart used to be close to the Spider's Web. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, it was. And I had. Swap Meet Starlight Swap. Meet. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Starlight Swap and Shop. Let's get it right here. [00:40:42] Speaker B: Yes. Sorry. Starlight Swap Shop. What was it? The Voltron. So it wasn't really Voltron, but it looked like Voltron. It was a bunch of lions. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Well. Well, what's not a bunch of lions is the media here. Yeah. [00:41:03] Speaker B: We flip the page and, oh, they're lying, all right. They're lying about Booster Gold. [00:41:09] Speaker A: And Dirk's talking some Booster Gold up. [00:41:13] Speaker B: As they're talking some Booster Gold down. [00:41:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's more a Booster excitement. And then Booster hears some noise and he goes, wowzers, somebody's breaking out of the big home. Oh, the big home is like. You mean big house, Booster. Now, do you like it better when Booster girl. Or when Skeets calls Booster sir, or when he calls him Booster? [00:41:41] Speaker B: You know, it's Kind of it, I think, like, I like it when he calls. I like it when there's like that, that friendliness. You know, it's like, hey, Booster. But then also it's like, sir is kind of like, you know, when they're, like, in public, you know. Yeah, but you know that, you know, when he's like, hey, Booster. They're pals or buddies. They're, you know, there's that, that, that relationship. Their family man. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Well, Teal Guard and Mind Dancer break through a wall. [00:42:18] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. [00:42:21] Speaker A: And now, what was really disappointing about Suicide Squad movie is that Pete Davidson just got, like, white hair. But he should have had hair like this. [00:42:29] Speaker B: He should have had that big, shocking lock of hair. [00:42:35] Speaker A: That. Well, honestly, Pete Davidson is just too weak for that. [00:42:38] Speaker B: He's not big. I mean, he's tall, but he would. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Have had to hold up. He would have had to hold up that hair. That would have been rough. [00:42:46] Speaker B: I don't think his neck could do it. [00:42:47] Speaker A: He would have had to whiplash that hair around and. [00:42:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think he could do it. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Dangerous. [00:42:52] Speaker B: It would have been dangerous. I don't. I don't. He's. He's tall, but he's not like. Yeah, he's just not. He's not built for it. [00:43:01] Speaker A: Well, we get back to. [00:43:02] Speaker B: If you were going to. If you were going to. If you're going to recast. If you're going to recast, who would you put. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Like, of Black Guard. [00:43:12] Speaker B: As Black Guard. [00:43:15] Speaker A: As a Black Guard. Who would I recast as Black Guard? It's a good question. Let's see. Well, I mean, they made it Pete Davidson so they could kill him right away because everybody hates Pete Davidson. Right. So with that said, it would not be Nathan Fillion. He dies. Remember, he was the character we won't say the name of because it was an analog of another character created by a terrible person. [00:43:48] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. [00:43:50] Speaker A: So we don't want to talk about that. Still. Still disappointed that they did that in the movie. Let's see. Who is a big doofusy actor that we'd want to see murdered right away? I mean, that's the real answer. Oh, no, no, no, no. Not even that. I want to see murdered. I know who would be who? Patrick Warburton. [00:44:17] Speaker B: Oh, see, that's a good. That. That would be. [00:44:20] Speaker A: That. [00:44:20] Speaker B: That's a good fit. That's a good fit. Okay. [00:44:22] Speaker A: He would go out the most entertaining way possible. [00:44:25] Speaker B: See? Okay, I could see that. I. I like that. I like that. I would say my choice. Josh Jamil. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Okay. I think he. [00:44:35] Speaker B: I think he would be a fun. A fun black guard. I think he could play up the. The kind of character that blackguard is and do. Do the. The kind of goofiness but still have that. That. That big, you know, like, you know, the size and stuff like that. And I think he would do the hair and stuff. [00:44:58] Speaker A: Now, what if they just threw Josh Brolin in there just for just. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Just. Just. Just to do the whole, like, protocavel that. I would die. I would just be like. [00:45:09] Speaker A: That would have been epic. [00:45:10] Speaker B: That would have been epic. Okay. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Oh. [00:45:15] Speaker B: What? [00:45:16] Speaker A: Well. What? [00:45:17] Speaker B: What? [00:45:18] Speaker A: Well, I was just thinking if Samwise Gamgee. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Like, you would have to have him in 50 first dates shape. [00:45:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:31] Speaker B: I mean, I love myself some Sean Astin, but I would say Sean Astin that we know and love from Stranger Things is. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Probably doesn't work. [00:45:42] Speaker B: Well. [00:45:46] Speaker A: No, he'd be one of these characters here in Booster Gold. On the next page, he might be Myron. [00:45:54] Speaker B: Okay. [00:45:54] Speaker A: We flipped a page. We're back in the building with the piano and everything. These are the people that stole Booster Gold's hair, right? Or fingerprints. Or fingerprints. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Fingerprints. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Would have been smarter to take his hair. [00:46:06] Speaker B: That would have been smarter to get some hair. Lift the DNA, find out who is Booster. Run him through 23andMe. [00:46:15] Speaker A: Well, we know that he has a. [00:46:16] Speaker B: Flight ring, but they don't know. They don't know what that means. [00:46:21] Speaker A: I do. [00:46:22] Speaker B: Well, you do, but they don't. They just don't know. [00:46:25] Speaker A: This guy is like. They don't have, like, your very own flight ring. Yeah. [00:46:32] Speaker B: They don't. They don't have. They don't have 23andMe at this time. They don't have Meta AI. They don't have. [00:46:38] Speaker A: Why do I keep showing people that flight rings are very, like, Squatcher Man, Flight rings are very rare. Why? [00:46:43] Speaker B: They're very rare. [00:46:43] Speaker A: Giving away my. All my secrets today. [00:46:45] Speaker B: People are gonna know, Dan. People are gonna know. [00:46:48] Speaker A: You know I went out on Halloween dressed as Lex Luthor. [00:46:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Wearing a yellow lantern ring, a green lantern ring, and a flight ring. [00:46:55] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:46:55] Speaker A: And I lost my green lantern ring. [00:46:58] Speaker B: Oh, damn. [00:46:59] Speaker A: Somewhere, I think in the Uber on the way home. That's the most disappointing thing. I just made it the whole night. [00:47:04] Speaker B: You made it the whole night. And then somebody else is gonna pick it up and they're gonna. [00:47:08] Speaker A: Well, you know how fidgety I get. I probably just threw it right off my hands like a big doofus. Oh, I was so sad. But I was walking around going, I defeated your. I defeated your friend. I defeated your friends from the future. [00:47:24] Speaker B: Oh, you're a bad man. [00:47:27] Speaker A: But if you didn't know. But I can't wear the Green Lantern ring to show you like, it's. Yeah, yeah. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Because you lost it. [00:47:33] Speaker A: It's highly disappointing. [00:47:35] Speaker B: You know who picked it up? Some guy from the future. [00:47:41] Speaker A: You also know that two people went with me to dinner on Halloween. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:47:45] Speaker A: I bought my own dinner. What? That is, actually, I bought everyone's dinner. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Well, that's generous, Dan. You're generous. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Right, but that's a day that people are supposed to buy me things. That's true. [00:48:02] Speaker B: They are and they didn't. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Weird. No. Well, we get back to Gold Star. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Inc. Gold Star, Inc. And there are. [00:48:10] Speaker A: All sorts of crazy characters running around. The cats are freaking out. Trixie is on the phone trying to talk to the governor. Everybody yelling at her. She's like, enough. She gives everybody a number, makes them draw it. And some goofy guy with a red costume thing that looks like the saddest cosplay ever gets talk first. And everybody else is mad. [00:48:34] Speaker B: I want to dress up like that guy. [00:48:35] Speaker A: Now we should both dress up like that guy and go to a show or something. [00:48:40] Speaker B: Hey, everybody, do you know who I am? [00:48:43] Speaker A: I'm the guy who got number one. [00:48:46] Speaker B: I'm number one. [00:48:49] Speaker A: It is number one. Well, anyway, we get. We get a panel at the bottom of Ray. Trixie is praying for help. And we get a big, scary, smiley black Guard who is clearly either on a lot of caffeine, a lot of Met. I don't know what's going on with that. Like, what the fuck? [00:49:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's looking. He's looking pretty scary. He's looking. [00:49:12] Speaker A: He's looking maniacal. [00:49:13] Speaker B: He's looking like the kind of guy that you don't want to run into. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Well, Booster Gold blasts him with his repulsor. I mean, his energy raise. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah, his energy rays. [00:49:27] Speaker A: But, yeah, don't want to. Don't call him repulsor rays, God's sake. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Oh, no. Evans. No. [00:49:33] Speaker A: But he taps his arm. And anyway, he blasts him. Everybody's getting all this on film. Blackguard turns from teal to orange because he gets so hot. He's hot. [00:49:45] Speaker B: Meanwhile, Dirk's yelling dynamite. [00:49:50] Speaker A: Meanwhile. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Batman and the outsiders. Number 31. Merry Christmas, Emily Briggs. You're now looker. The start of a beloved character. Yeah. Vampire. Yeah. Swamp thing. Number 46. Truth Behind American Gothic Revealed. All right. And this guest star lading crisis tie in who's who number 13L is for Legion, Heroes, villains, headquarters substitutes and many more. [00:50:28] Speaker B: Okay. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Warlord number 103. Good God. It's been going on for 103 issues. By 1985, I don't think Mr. Grell was drawing it anymore. [00:50:41] Speaker B: Probably not now. [00:50:43] Speaker A: I think he was off doing Jon Sable, right? [00:50:47] Speaker B: I think so. [00:50:48] Speaker A: I think at that time. New teen Titans number 18. Yeah, this is the prestige format. Nightwing and Jericho return to Earth. But does that spell an end to the team? [00:51:01] Speaker B: Oh no. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Infinity Inc. Number 24, Johnny Thunder joins the Star Spangled Kid. An all out action crisis tie in crisis tie ins going around. Looks like Booster was never in the crisis. He was post crisis. [00:51:18] Speaker B: Post crisis. Booster Gold. [00:51:20] Speaker A: Yeah. He pre toasts and he's post crisis. [00:51:23] Speaker B: He pre toasted these post crisis. Yeah, because you know, that's how Booster rolls. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Well, anyway, Blackguard, Booster go at it. Yeah. Booster punches Blackguard a whole bunch of. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Times after he capes off, he's like cape surf. Not for me. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Yeah, the cape. The cape's gone. I don't think. Does the cape ever come back? [00:51:45] Speaker B: I don't know. Booster's like, yeah, no, I don't need this thing. [00:51:49] Speaker A: I don't remember the cape ever in jla. [00:51:52] Speaker B: He's like, eh, capes are cool. But you know, it's like. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Well anyway, Dick, I mean Dirk Davis is happy. He's pleasantly surprised. [00:52:05] Speaker B: I mean because he fold. He folds Black Guard up like a, like a, like a lawn chair. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And well anyway, let's see my. Now he's going after a mind dancer. Mm, Mind answer. Knows she's in trouble. I'm not sure why she just didn't use her superior powers on Booster Gold again. It's not like he's the smartest or the sharpest knife in the drawer. [00:52:31] Speaker B: He doesn't know that though. [00:52:33] Speaker A: I mean we're. Well anyway, Skeets is blasting on her, trying to distract her. She can't get to. I guess, I mean I guess if she has sort of like illusion powers, it does make sense that she'd go after somebody who wasn't expecting the power to come at her at them. Right, because that. So she blasts a guard in a tower of the prison. He's got a gun. He's going to start shooting at some dragons. He fires away. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Wait, you're saying that he imagined dragons? Oh my God. Oh, people. Whoa. Is that. [00:53:11] Speaker A: And where we get it from? Sure. Imagine I imagined the dragons. Imagined the dragons from here. [00:53:21] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. From Booster Gold number two. [00:53:26] Speaker A: Okay, well we get an. We Get a the letter page with more of the history of how Booster Gold was created. Wait. He and I want you to know. [00:53:35] Speaker B: But Skeets on the bottom. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Wait, we'll get to Skeets in a second. Oh, Skeets got shot. Yeah. [00:53:44] Speaker B: Skeets exploded. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Continue. Next issue. Oh, is that the part you wanted me to cover before going to the letter page? [00:53:52] Speaker B: Yeah, like that. [00:53:58] Speaker A: Oh, is that all? [00:54:00] Speaker B: That's all. Is that all is all. There's a giant explosion and Skeets blows up. [00:54:05] Speaker A: Dude, you didn't want me to skip Skeets getting hit with a gun? [00:54:09] Speaker B: The guy shot Skeets. [00:54:12] Speaker A: Yeah. What are you gonna do? [00:54:13] Speaker B: And you can't shoot Skeets. Yeah, I mean. I mean, I guess you can shoot skeet. [00:54:24] Speaker A: That's. [00:54:25] Speaker B: I mean, skeet shooting. It's skeet shooting, but, I mean, that's too literal. [00:54:32] Speaker A: Well, Jurgens, they did it. Well, anyway, yeah, so we made it, and we get a whole more history. If you're reading these, by the way, grab the books. Number one is expensive. Every other book is not. Like the first appearance is expensive, but you can get every other book in the dollar bin. So grab them, read them along with us. I'll just say that this is fun because, Greg, I think there was something that happened here in the letter page that you would have loved, and I can't believe you didn't get in on this. [00:55:06] Speaker B: What is. What is it? [00:55:08] Speaker A: Well, they have a name. The letter column contest. [00:55:11] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. A contest about naming this whole entire letter column about Booster Gold. [00:55:16] Speaker A: We need a title for the letter column, and we're giving you a chance to come up with it. First prize is a page of original Booster Gold art signed by one Dan Jurgens. [00:55:29] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:55:30] Speaker A: And one Mike decarlon. [00:55:31] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Second prize might even be better than. First prize is an autographed batch of sketches to an issue of Booster Gold. [00:55:40] Speaker B: That's better than the first prize. [00:55:44] Speaker A: That's arguably better. I do to pay. These are page sketches I do to pace the story before enlarging them for the final drawing. Your entries have been have to be postmarked by January 30, 1986. [00:55:57] Speaker B: I'm getting a time machine. I'm going back in time, Dan. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Well, I understand there's a hero in this book that can probably. [00:56:05] Speaker B: I. I don't want any spoilers, Dan. I don't want to know anything about Mind Dancer. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Next month. Yeah. What happened to Skeets? Next week we tell you. Oh, goal number three. [00:56:25] Speaker B: What? [00:56:26] Speaker A: We would have had to wait till next month, but since it's not 1986, we have all the comics now. [00:56:35] Speaker B: Yay. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Amazing how that works. [00:56:36] Speaker B: It is amazing. [00:56:37] Speaker A: It's the future. [00:56:38] Speaker B: It's the. [00:56:38] Speaker A: And the past and the past of the future and the future's past. The future's past and the future, Present, past. [00:56:46] Speaker B: The Moody Blues are so great. [00:56:48] Speaker A: And the Destiny's Child. [00:56:51] Speaker B: The Destiny's Child, the first. Their first album. Pretty good. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was really nice. And I like the fact that they are all, like, friends and stuff like that. And then as they separated and parted ways and started to do their own thing, you could kind of see where the fracture started in the second album. But let me say, what if you. [00:57:13] Speaker A: Had a Destiny Child Moody Blues matchup. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Oh, wait, okay. Where you're just taking Destiny Child vocals and putting it over Moody Blues rhythms or taking Moody Blues vocals and putting them over the. The beats of Destiny's Child. [00:57:35] Speaker A: That's a good question. Or both. [00:57:37] Speaker B: A little mix of both. A little. A Little Beastles action where you had the Beastie Boys and the Beatles going together to give you a little of this. A little column a little column B. [00:57:53] Speaker A: I think. Let's let the listeners decide if you have an opinion on whether or not which one of those scenarios we want to do, just let us know in the notes. Give us a response on. You know, you can talk. Did you know you can talk to us on Facebook? Yeah. [00:58:06] Speaker B: And if you're a mashup DJ and you can make that happen, I would love to hear your rendition. [00:58:10] Speaker A: I'd love to hear it. Yeah, you could. You could send it to us on. [00:58:13] Speaker B: Instagram, call it Moody Child. [00:58:15] Speaker A: You can still talk to us on X because for some reason we're still there. Good Lord, just keep posting shit there. I'm sorry. It. We. We've been doing it for, like, six years. Like, we're on Blue Sky. Yeah. You can find us there. You just look up Funny Book four and six. You'll find us. And I mean, also, like, you could just message me at Dan at Funnybook Forensics, all one word Funny Book Forensics. Like, you know, cutting stuff up with words. And you could give us that mashup. So we look forward to it. Yeah. I mean, I'm loving this Booster Gold so far, but I'm going to be honest, it's not a great story yet. [00:58:58] Speaker B: It's not a great story yet. Yet. But it's getting there. It's building. It's like when you start right now. [00:59:05] Speaker A: They'Re proving Travis right. [00:59:07] Speaker B: It's Dan. It's like when you get a box of Lego and you're opening it up, and it's just a bunch of pieces in bags, and you have to open those bags to get those pieces out. It's not like you can open all those bags and put them on a table and make a thing. I mean, you can if you really want to. That's very adventurous. But you have to start with bag one and then move to bag two, and then bag three, and by the end of the whole entire thing, you have a really cool thing. And that's where we're at right now now. And I'm pretty sure the listeners can agree right now, we're in the building phases and stages of this Booster Gold saga and experience, and they are coming along with us on this journey as we build with Dan Jurgens and decarlo and make this what it is for us and them. [00:59:59] Speaker A: I can tell you one thing. If I don't take these dogs for a walk, I. I think they're gonna go mad. So we're gonna wrap this up. They are adorable. And we got Juliet and Juliet's best friend. We've got Greg. We've got MxPx CDs. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Oh, God. [01:00:16] Speaker A: We've got more Booster Gold. We've got the Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington, which we've already told you. Go there to find the record room. New and improved. [01:00:25] Speaker B: It is. [01:00:26] Speaker A: You'll recall that the last time Greg was on here, Greg and I carried shit around the store. And now there's more records. [01:00:33] Speaker B: And people really enjoyed the record room that Dan and I put together for Ann a few weeks back. They have come in and they said, wow, this place looks amazing. And I said. I was like. My friend Dan and I, we did all this for you. [01:00:49] Speaker A: Just think when I was walking around the store in a tank top, they would have thought it looked even more amazing. So they should have been there for that. And on top of that, also friend Travis, who was on here with me for a very special episode last time, talking about the Power Pack TV pilot, which was. Well, it was a very special episode. And he has a Kickstarter. He has a Kickstarter that we've been advertising with him coming out soon. Alex Poon. Albert Poon. Why do I keep saying Alex? I said it. Last time we recorded, I said Alex, too. It's Alex Rain. Albert. Albert Poons. [01:01:37] Speaker B: Albert Nemesis. [01:01:39] Speaker A: Alex Rain. The Return. No, wait. God. Okay, let's try that again. Okay. Albert Poons Pune. Albert Pune. Nemesis. The return of Alex Rain. Yes. Kickstarter link on our podcast. [01:01:58] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Everybody check it out. [01:02:01] Speaker A: Link hit button. Get notified. [01:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah, do check it out. [01:02:07] Speaker A: I'm an advertiser. I told you. Marketing Booster Gold. Marketing. Marketing Dan. [01:02:13] Speaker B: Marketing Dan doing the thing. [01:02:15] Speaker A: You know who else. You know who else can take care of you if you fuck up your marketing? [01:02:20] Speaker B: Who's that? [01:02:21] Speaker A: Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul. [01:02:22] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. It's true. He can. [01:02:25] Speaker A: He can. If you fuck up your marketing, you say something stupid, somebody sues you, he probably won't represent you if you have a problem at work. And let's say. I don't know, let's say a major company is just doing indiscriminate layoffs and you think you were laid off unjustly. I mean, that's definitely not happening in society right now. Not at all. Well, if you think you have a case where you were discriminated against in Washington State or California. What? He's California now, too? He. Yes, he's California, too. He's everywhere. You can reach out to Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul. Just reach out to. You can reach out to Night Legal on Facebook, or you can reach out to. You can reach out to him. The gym as well, through certified martial arts, or you could just go see him on 27th and Jackson in University Place, slash Tacoma, Washington. So, yeah. And if you want to get in touch with Paul, just reach out to us. We'll put you in touch with Paul because, yeah, he'll take. He'll help you out. Even writes wills sometimes. [01:03:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. He helped me and my family out, so. [01:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And so. And he's a good dude. And he can choke out your opposition lawyer, so they can't say anything. I mean, that's how Paul wins all his cases, right? That guy challenges them. He. They. They have a throwdown. It's like gladiator style, and, you know, they're done. [01:03:45] Speaker B: I don't know if that's technically appropriate. [01:03:49] Speaker A: No, that's technically how the court system works these days. Is it? Well, yeah. What happens is your lawyer goes in with. Against the other lawyer, and then the president comes in and is like, my lawyer's better than your lawyer? And I'm like, no, my lawyer is better than your lawyer. And then President Camacho comes in, kicks the shit out of President Trump. [01:04:09] Speaker B: Oh. [01:04:10] Speaker A: And then after President Camacho comes in, you need the Supreme Court to come in. And when the Supreme Court comes in, the person you need in that Supreme Court is Jiu Jitsu Lawyer Paul. [01:04:23] Speaker B: Okay. [01:04:24] Speaker A: Gonna choke out Camacho. No matter how big that guy is, he's got him. [01:04:29] Speaker B: What if he's in the dildozer? [01:04:32] Speaker A: No, he's not in the dildozer. [01:04:34] Speaker B: Okay. [01:04:34] Speaker A: He would not be in the dildozer. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's better than whatever crashed through the wall and killed everyone, but. Okay. Is that Nacho Supreme? [01:04:46] Speaker B: Nacho Supreme. I think so. [01:04:49] Speaker A: That's the guy's name, I think. Yeah. [01:04:52] Speaker B: Camacho. Nacho Supreme. [01:04:54] Speaker A: Nacho Supreme. It's. God, that movie came true. It's. It's so sad. Anyway, yeah. Anything else for advertising today? I think that's. Oh, well, I did Camp Launch Pad already. [01:05:10] Speaker B: Yeah, you did, you did. And I think this. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Oh, Greg is gonna be actually Grit City come out on Saturday. The. Something like, I don't know, be there on the 15th. The 4th. Yeah. So you'll be there on the 15th. I will not. I will be on an airplane flying back from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I am so sorry, Greg. I'm so sorry, fans. I will not be there. But Greg will be there. [01:05:36] Speaker B: I'll be there. Come see me. [01:05:39] Speaker A: But I do promise that at some point, Greg and I are going to go to some comic shows, maybe in Bellingham. [01:05:44] Speaker B: Oh, that'd be cool. [01:05:48] Speaker A: We just have to prepare and do things. And we are now back in sync, so we can actually prepare and do things. And I actually making some changes, so it might free up my schedule a little bit to do a few more of these local shows. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Right. [01:06:04] Speaker A: And Greg and I can do that together. And then. Yeah, that'll be fun. So we'll try to. Yeah, we'll try to figure out if you are. If you are a local comic book show promoter and you would like our podcast to be at your show. [01:06:22] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [01:06:23] Speaker A: Reach out to me at Dan at Legion. What did I say? At Dan at Legion. No, you could do it there, too. Danybookforensics.com you can also do it at dan@legionventures llc.com as well. You can reach me at a lot of places, but those two places. You could also contact me, Facebook, whatever. And Greg and I will get there and we will do this hilarity at your show and. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we'll do. We'll do live show at your show like we've done at other shows. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Dragging in the audience. Yeah, I will drag in the audience. I will get Jiu Jitsu lawyer pal to drag in the audience. We. I will. I will literally use my tree trunk arms to drag in the audience members one at a time, make sure they. [01:07:09] Speaker B: Listen or at least have a good time. [01:07:14] Speaker A: They will listen. They will have a good time. Yeah. Choice. Yeah. I will put them in the full nelson. I will. I will do it all. [01:07:21] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, people, you're getting an experience. And that's, That's. You can't. [01:07:27] Speaker A: You can't. [01:07:28] Speaker B: You can't put a price on that. [01:07:30] Speaker A: In fact, that's what I've seen people say about our podcast. It is an experience. That's why I've heard that it's a. [01:07:35] Speaker B: It's a funny. The funny Book forensics experience. [01:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, on that note, we are going to go. I've got to walk some puppy dogs outside. Greg has to go and help the great Ann recover from a day at the store. And we are recording in a couple of days, so we can make sure we have a podcast out while I'm on vacation. And so we'll do some wibbly wobbly timey wimey, but we'll do Booster Gold number three. So you know this one. You heard us. The next weekend, go see Greg. But then the next day after you see Greg, you could listen to Booster Gold, episode three. [01:08:11] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, people. [01:08:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So come back and this is funny book forensics Greg and I say goodbye. Goodbye, Greg. Goodbye, Dan. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Stop the podcast. See, it was recording.