IDW Publishing’s M.A.S.K. – Mobile Armored Strike Kommand – Riding V.E.N.O.M.’s Trail!

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Hi, this is Christy Marks, the writer of Gem

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and the Holograms and Beast Wars, and you’re

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listening to Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, it’s

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Jesse Rass here, and you’ve made the great escape

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into comics by jumping inside the pull bag today.

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Illusion is the ultimate weapon. You’ve just

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jumped inside the pull bag. This is episode 585.

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We’ve got just a few more episodes until the

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landmark 600th episode of this podcast, folks.

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I am, of course, TF2 and Mike, and I’m coming

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to you live, kind of, sort of, not really, since

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this is always recorded, but this is episode

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585, and I am pulling a switcheroo. This is going

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to be the IDW Publishing Mask episode that Jesse

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Early, a .k .a. Matrix Prime, from another comic

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review. That’s his podcast. We recorded this

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as episode 586. Originally, this was going to

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be Skybound Entertainment Transformers Volume

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2 Transport to Oblivion. But Steve Megatron and

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I haven’t been able to record that just yet.

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So instead of waiting and instead of waiting

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for episode 586 and getting the mask episode.

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Because as of this recording, Skybound Entertainment

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has released mask number one. You are going to

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be getting on that release day, even though it’ll

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be backdated and yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

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This will be episode 585, and this is going to

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be our coverage of the IDW publishing story for

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mask mobile armored strike command. This is the

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full trade. This is my conversation with Jesse

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Early where we review the IDW publishing story

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for Mask written by Brandon Easton. So please

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enjoy. Originally this was going to be episode

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586. It is now 585. Mask is 31 years old at this

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point. The cartoon debuted in 1985. It only had

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75 episodes. If you want to go back in the cartoon

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vaults here on the Geekcast Radio Network, you

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can check out a podcast called Masked Mayhem

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with my buddy Optimus Solo, where we discussed

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all 75 episodes of Mask, actually. I think Optimus

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Solo tapped out after the first season, and my

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other buddy, Tim Silvers, helped me finish out

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the racing season, which is those last ten episodes.

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But anyway, folks, please enjoy the Pull Bags

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episode 585, Mask, from IDW Publishing. And now,

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on with the show! Are you ready for more? Let’s

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go! Alright, you good to go? As good as I’m going

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to be. It’ll be painless, I promise. It’ll be

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painless. Hey, look, I’m doing all the work this

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time. You have just jumped inside the pull bag.

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I am TF2 and Mike, and today’s featured guest

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is none other than Jesse from another comic review.

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Hey, it’s been a while since we had Jesse on

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the show, folks. You said 2023? 2024, technically,

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you had your podcast approach over on Studio

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2009. Just a couple years. Yeah, a couple years.

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We’re fast approaching your three -year anniversary

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of your own podcast, June 16th of this year.

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You think you got this comics thing down? I don’t

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know if I got it down, but I’ve certainly been

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reading far more comics than what I imagined

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that was going to be. And it’s not just the Energon

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Universe stuff, which is what we’ve been covering,

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but I’ve been reading other stuff as well. So

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that’s kind of actually surprised me quite a

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bit. Well, that’s good. That just means in a

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couple of years or so, you can jump back inside

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the pull bag with me and go through the 30 questions

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all about reading comics. So same premise as

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the podcast approach. just 30 questions about

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comics. But today, folks, leading up to the stuff

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with the Energon universe that’s currently going

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on, we’re going to head back to the IDW publishing

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vault and make sure our spectrums are ready because

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illusion is the ultimate weapon. That’s right.

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Even though Skybound already released their free

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comic book day issue for 2026, which gave us

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our first taste of their version of Mobile Armored

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Strike Command, their full launch is June 3rd.

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I thought it would be awesome that we unleashed

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some of our own mass mayhem. Right here on the

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Geekcast Radio Network and discuss the IDW series

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ahead of the Skybound launch. Oh, yeah. Also,

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this episode will be a double bill on the pull

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bag and the old school mask cartoon review show

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that Optimus Solo and I did way back in the day

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in 2011. I can’t believe it was 2011 that we

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did Masked Mayhem. For those that may not remember,

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and for those that do remember, Masked Mayhem

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was us reviewing all 75 episodes of Mask from

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1985. And honestly, really, you only need to

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watch the first season. It’s 65 episodes, because

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65 was syndication in the olden days. Those last

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10 episodes was deemed, the second season of

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the show was deemed the racing season. It’s not

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that good. Heck, Optimus Solo tapped out. I had

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to bring in a ringer. I had to bring in my buddy,

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Tune Master Tim, to finish out the show with

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me. But this comic from IDW, wowzers. Oh, boy.

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But first, the creative team for this. This whole

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series was written by Brandon Easton. You’ve

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probably heard his name before. I don’t have

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all of his credits in front of me. I actually

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just have the title, the creative page from the

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trade paperback in front of me. But he has written

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multiple other things. I believe he’s written

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some Transformers stuff. I’ll talk more about

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him later. In this trade for revolution, the

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art was done by Tony Vargas. The colors were

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done by Jordi Esquen. I’m sorry, Jordi, if I

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butchered your name. Letters were done by Chris

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Mowry. Tony Vargas basically did most of the

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art. Issue three was Juan Samu. Colors in the

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entire thing were done by Jordi. That’s awesome.

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Drew Moss did the art on issue 10, 6, 7, 8, 9,

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and 10. Mask. I had never read this. In the IDW

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publishing landscape, when it comes to the Hasbro

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stuff, I stuck with Transformers, and that’s

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all I had read. read gi joe when it crossed over

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with transformers i’ve read several gi joe trades

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and we’ve covered several of the gi joe trades

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on the podcast but i don’t know i just never

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got around to doing this until the next company

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that got the license was like hey guess what

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we’re gonna do this and i’m like oh crap well

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let’s go back in time uh so there are 12 issues

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in this trade. You got the one through 10 for

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the main series. We got the revolution one shot

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and the annual, uh, from 2017. Now I normally

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don’t do this. I am, I like it when it’s being

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used as a tool to accomplish a goal, but I loathe

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AI in general as a general thing. And you people

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are going to hear this way later, but today kind

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of proves my point. Somebody on the internet

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decided to put out a 44th anniversary Knight

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Rider Hot Wheels image. There is no 44th anniversary

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Knight Rider Hot Wheels thing. It’s not happening.

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There is no car coming out from Hot Wheels. celebrating

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the 44th anniversary of Knight Rider, they would

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never do that. They would just never do that.

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So that’s what I don’t like about artificial

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intelligence, is when people use it for misinformation.

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Now, if you’re going to use it as a tool and

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to do good things with it, fine, great. For the

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preparation of this record, because we weren’t

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sure if we were going to sit here for what we

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normally sit here for. My buddy Joe and I will

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sit here through this trade or any trade. Our

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Turtles coverage is two and a half to three hours

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long. And I know I can hear in my headphones

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Jesse rolling his eyes. Yes, his eye rolls are

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audible, folks. Trust me, I can hear it. I was

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actually laughing. Okay, well, same difference.

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You know, he’ll ask me, who listens to two and

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a half hour, three hour podcasts besides you?

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There is an art form to long form podcasting.

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And it just depends because for me personally,

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even if I wasn’t just a hermit homebody who hates

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leaving his house and doesn’t like interacting

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with people out in the room, I love going outside.

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I love going out and sitting on my little patio

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out here, or I love taking a walk or actually

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being out in nature. It’s just too people -y

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outside. I don’t like being around crowds. I

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don’t like being around people in general. Specific

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people, more than fine. Absolutely. But if you

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get me in a crowd, more than five people. including

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myself, I’m done. I it’s too much stimulation

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for me. So that’s why I don’t like that kind

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of stuff. But the long form podcast for me, it’s

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like, Oh, it’s a three hour tour. It’s a three

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hour podcast. I can listen to the foot like I

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can listen to the first hour now and I can take

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a break and come back to it later. Or I can find

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a good stopping point. Or if they have ad breaks.

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Or if they have whatever. It is what it is. But

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we are going to try to condense this as best

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we can. And in that vein, I did something that

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I never would normally do on any of my podcasts

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that I produce. Hell has frozen over. Yes, because

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I prefer… actual intelligence to artificial

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intelligence, but here we are. And even though

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this note says, I wanted to see what this would

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say or would come up with for this. And I said,

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I was not going to read this, but I am actually

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going to read this. The Google AI summary for

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this trade. It breaks down each section of the

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thing. So for the Revolution One -Shot summary

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origin and setup, Miles Mayhem runs Project Spectrum,

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a government -funded trading program using OR

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-13 technology derived from Cybertronian Transformers

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to create advanced masks, vehicles, the Tern

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Mayhem, a war -hardened soldier, yadda yadda

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yadda yadda yadda. Venom’s Creation, Mayhem Secretly

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Handpicks Trainees, Vanessa Warfield, Sly Rax,

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and Bruno Shepard. And then it breaks down Masks

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1 through 10, Issues 1 through 10, and the 2016

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-2017 run. And it breaks all of this down. Now,

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I’m clearly glossing over this, and one of your

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biggest fears in even doing this with me is…

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It’s going to spoil my entire Transformers run

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because it crosses over with Transformers and

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G .I. Joe. Where this is in that, I think there’s,

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I said this to you off air, I’ll say it to you

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on air. There’s enough here where there’s, like,

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you don’t, because there’s, it’s just the mask

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revolution one shot. i think you’ll be okay it’s

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not it’s so far flung in the past at this point

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and you haven’t gotten to that future yes go

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ahead so i’ve i did read the entire thing right

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last time i had not read the entire thing right

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between yesterday and today i was able to finish

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reading i was like halfway through i think when

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we talked last uh but yeah i was able to finish

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it so my Maybe when I was talking to you, I explained

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it wrong. I wasn’t worried about being spoiled

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with the IDW Transformers stuff. Because I think

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that stuff, where there’s robots in disguise

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and more than just the eye, that doesn’t play

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into this at all. I think what I had previously

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read… assuming this takes place around the

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same time, was an IDW series, and then I just

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quit reading it after a while. My concern was,

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and I didn’t really enjoy that, so that must

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have been, I think, the one that ties into this,

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maybe. My concern wasn’t being spoiled by the

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IDW stuff. My concern, again, I think I probably

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used the wrong terminology here. My concern was

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kind of being, because all of this is going to

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be within the shared universe, within the Energon

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universe. No! No, no, no. I know this isn’t.

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I’m saying all of the properties within the Energon

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universe, right? They’re all going to come together.

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And Mask is obviously going to play a part into

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that. My concern was that it’s going to give

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me these preconceived notions of what we’re going

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to see going into the Energon universe version

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of Mask. I got you. I got you. Okay, I get it.

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I get it. I didn’t want it to ruin that experience

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for me. No, I don’t think that’s good. No, see

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that. See, for me, like that never affects me

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because I understand that this is this writer,

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this creator’s version of it. And this is his,

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this is Brandon’s stamp on it. This is his story.

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Whatever Mr. Waters is going to create is going

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to be. his and skybound’s story with it and i

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don’t think they’re going to take too much from

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this i think they’re hoping that but i know i

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don’t know i don’t personally like with the crow

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for example like i’ve never read the comic but

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i love the first crow movie and it’s like like

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that’s that to me is like perfection in terms

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of that story Again, I have not read the comics,

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so maybe the comic is better. I don’t know, but

00:16:47.350 –> 00:16:49.429
I’ve only watched the movie. Right. And then

00:16:49.429 –> 00:16:52.350
I take that and I compare it with any other crow

00:16:52.350 –> 00:16:54.649
thing that comes out. Right. Including the new

00:16:54.649 –> 00:16:56.850
one that happened a couple of years ago. It’s

00:16:56.850 –> 00:16:59.409
like I’m taking that first thing because I enjoyed

00:16:59.409 –> 00:17:01.990
it so much and I compare everything else to it.

00:17:02.389 –> 00:17:04.289
Like that’s what I kind of didn’t want to do

00:17:04.289 –> 00:17:06.750
going into the Energon universe version of the

00:17:06.750 –> 00:17:09.109
mask where it’s like, if I enjoyed this. Yeah.

00:17:09.150 –> 00:17:11.980
Well, now I’m only going to be let down. by what

00:17:11.980 –> 00:17:13.759
I’m going to see in the Energon universe, or

00:17:13.759 –> 00:17:16.740
maybe it’ll be far superior to what I read here.

00:17:16.880 –> 00:17:18.880
Like that was my, my biggest concern. So now

00:17:18.880 –> 00:17:21.500
it’s like, am I going in sullied now? I don’t

00:17:21.500 –> 00:17:25.319
know because I, I don’t think so. Okay. I don’t

00:17:25.319 –> 00:17:30.940
think you are. I had highs and lows as this progressed.

00:17:32.220 –> 00:17:37.599
At first I didn’t like, so where I was coming

00:17:37.599 –> 00:17:41.049
from with this, Because I started reading it

00:17:41.049 –> 00:17:44.009
before free. I was late to free comic book day,

00:17:44.130 –> 00:17:47.009
which is why you find people don’t hear me on

00:17:47.009 –> 00:17:49.569
the free comic book day episode of another comic

00:17:49.569 –> 00:17:53.289
review. I was very late to that, unfortunately.

00:17:54.369 –> 00:17:58.769
But so where I come from with this is like, oh.

00:17:59.980 –> 00:18:03.799
I’m thinking animated series. I’m thinking 1985.

00:18:04.420 –> 00:18:08.200
I’m thinking I am not thinking Scott and T -Bob.

00:18:08.339 –> 00:18:12.440
Thank God. That stupid scooter and that damn

00:18:12.440 –> 00:18:17.299
kid are not in this. Thank God. Matt’s kid and

00:18:17.299 –> 00:18:21.579
his damn scooter are not in this. And I’ll show

00:18:21.579 –> 00:18:24.079
you. I’m sure you’ve seen videos of that. If

00:18:24.079 –> 00:18:27.470
you haven’t, I’ll show you later. It’s one of

00:18:27.470 –> 00:18:30.309
those things where I come from growing up with

00:18:30.309 –> 00:18:33.210
the cartoon. And because it’s an 80s cartoon,

00:18:33.529 –> 00:18:37.250
what do all 80s cartoons have? They have to have

00:18:37.250 –> 00:18:42.089
the sidekick. And every side, Transformers had

00:18:42.089 –> 00:18:48.549
Spike to a general, I guess, team -up thing.

00:18:48.690 –> 00:18:53.250
Bumblebee was Spike’s, or technically Spike was

00:18:53.250 –> 00:18:56.940
Bumblebee’s sidekick. You know, you have to have

00:18:56.940 –> 00:19:00.920
a sidekick. Thundercats had Snarf and other cartoons

00:19:00.920 –> 00:19:04.960
had whatever. Well, in Mask, Scott, who is Matt’s

00:19:04.960 –> 00:19:09.539
son, is the sidekick. And then Scott has his

00:19:09.539 –> 00:19:15.720
little scooter, T -Bob. And the most annoying

00:19:15.720 –> 00:19:22.500
thing about that show, even though we can curse

00:19:22.500 –> 00:19:27.410
on here, I just… decided to do that uh i just

00:19:27.410 –> 00:19:32.450
so that’s where i was coming from walking into

00:19:32.450 –> 00:19:36.170
any any anytime anyone says mask to me even though

00:19:36.170 –> 00:19:39.509
i love you know the the vehicle transformations

00:19:39.509 –> 00:19:42.849
i love the team assembly i love all that i love

00:19:42.849 –> 00:19:44.809
the music of the car or the original cartoon

00:19:44.809 –> 00:19:48.289
series so that’s where i was coming from and

00:19:48.289 –> 00:19:51.890
thank god scott ain’t here t -bob ain’t here

00:19:53.130 –> 00:19:57.049
But where also I was coming from is I was one

00:19:57.049 –> 00:20:01.349
of the only kids I knew. I had every single toy.

00:20:01.690 –> 00:20:05.069
I had the Boulder Hill play set. I had all the

00:20:05.069 –> 00:20:11.849
cars. I had Rhino. My Rhino didn’t explode. Spoilers,

00:20:11.849 –> 00:20:14.650
even though this book was published way back

00:20:14.650 –> 00:20:20.289
years and years ago at this point. So Rhino…

00:20:21.099 –> 00:20:25.799
I would say Rhino was my favorite. Not because

00:20:25.799 –> 00:20:28.880
it’s just kind of like a Optimus Prime knockoff,

00:20:28.920 –> 00:20:33.119
even though it isn’t. But that was my favorite.

00:20:33.220 –> 00:20:35.980
So as I was going through this, I was like, oh,

00:20:36.160 –> 00:20:41.400
wait, where’s Rhino? What’s going on? Why is

00:20:41.400 –> 00:20:46.440
the team different? And Julio Lopez? didn’t even

00:20:46.440 –> 00:20:48.980
remember Julio, like literally after we do the

00:20:48.980 –> 00:20:51.680
recording, not literally right after, but I’m

00:20:51.680 –> 00:20:53.579
going to have to go back and watch the first

00:20:53.579 –> 00:20:56.200
season of mask to remember Julio in the show.

00:20:56.240 –> 00:20:59.660
Because as I was reading this, I’m like, I don’t

00:20:59.660 –> 00:21:04.400
remember Julio at all. So yeah, that’s, that’s

00:21:04.400 –> 00:21:07.660
where I was coming from. And I knew how I operate.

00:21:07.779 –> 00:21:11.440
Like I was not going to let this, this, I view

00:21:11.440 –> 00:21:15.900
it as its own thing and whatever Dan. And Dan

00:21:15.900 –> 00:21:18.420
Waters, as the writer in the new series, and

00:21:18.420 –> 00:21:20.619
Pai Par as the artist, whatever they’re doing,

00:21:20.779 –> 00:21:23.420
whatever they’re doing and what they’ve told

00:21:23.420 –> 00:21:29.400
us so far, I’m so ready for that and just cannot

00:21:29.400 –> 00:21:34.019
wait. So whatever the Energon universe is doing

00:21:34.019 –> 00:21:40.759
right now, it’s doing it on all cylinders. But,

00:21:40.799 –> 00:21:44.200
yeah, getting into this, I don’t even know where

00:21:44.200 –> 00:21:46.400
we want to start. But, like, we already said,

00:21:46.460 –> 00:21:50.000
kind of, like, it’s your standard thing where

00:21:50.000 –> 00:21:55.980
Miles, you know, betrays Matt and ends up starting

00:21:55.980 –> 00:21:59.240
his own team. And it’s your standard. I don’t

00:21:59.240 –> 00:22:04.299
want to say standard, but it is. It’s the standard

00:22:04.299 –> 00:22:09.519
masks. Like, there cannot be any different way.

00:22:11.640 –> 00:22:16.200
That, apparently, that Venom and Mask and everything

00:22:16.200 –> 00:22:21.200
gets started. Like, apparently there just isn’t.

00:22:21.660 –> 00:22:24.180
That’s the formula. Go with the formula. It’s

00:22:24.180 –> 00:22:27.500
kind of like Cybertronians are from Cybertron.

00:22:27.880 –> 00:22:32.960
I can’t be from anywhere else. I guess, you know?

00:22:33.759 –> 00:22:43.099
Like, so, yeah. But no, as the, and I, I never

00:22:43.099 –> 00:22:45.480
got into the whole revolution and then first

00:22:45.480 –> 00:22:48.519
strike after that, I never got into the ID. Like

00:22:48.519 –> 00:22:51.660
when IDW started doing those crossovers, I was

00:22:51.660 –> 00:22:55.920
like, okay, I don’t even honestly remember reading

00:22:55.920 –> 00:23:00.019
any of the other revolution stuff. Yes. I can

00:23:00.019 –> 00:23:03.440
tell you my experience with mask. prior to this

00:23:03.440 –> 00:23:07.980
and my only experience with mask has been what

00:23:07.980 –> 00:23:11.000
we’ve seen inside of the energon universe so

00:23:11.000 –> 00:23:14.900
i was born in 81 so obviously a child through

00:23:14.900 –> 00:23:18.240
the 80s but i don’t recall i don’t recall anything

00:23:18.240 –> 00:23:21.980
about mask at all i did not read comics as a

00:23:21.980 –> 00:23:25.319
kid i mean not until the 90s i really only got

00:23:25.319 –> 00:23:27.799
into uh superman during the death of superman

00:23:27.799 –> 00:23:30.420
the death of rebirth of superman rather Death

00:23:30.420 –> 00:23:33.539
and Return of Superman. There we go. But yeah,

00:23:33.640 –> 00:23:35.460
I don’t remember any comics. I don’t remember

00:23:35.460 –> 00:23:39.460
the cartoon. It was just a cartoon as far as

00:23:39.460 –> 00:23:42.740
I remember. It was no comics in the 80s? No,

00:23:42.920 –> 00:23:47.119
no. I remember the toys insofar as I remember

00:23:47.119 –> 00:23:51.660
the ads for the toys. But I don’t recall ever

00:23:51.660 –> 00:23:54.539
seeing them in the store as a kid. like in the

00:23:54.539 –> 00:23:57.220
toy aisles like i just do not recall this at

00:23:57.220 –> 00:24:00.160
all which is odd because i was very much into

00:24:00.160 –> 00:24:02.619
transformers i was very much into knight rider

00:24:02.619 –> 00:24:04.700
it seems like this would be like right up my

00:24:04.700 –> 00:24:07.119
alley but i just did not get into it at all just

00:24:07.119 –> 00:24:11.819
passed me by completely oh man you’d love the

00:24:11.819 –> 00:24:15.420
toys so my only experience uh with mask like

00:24:15.420 –> 00:24:17.519
i said is what we’ve seen in the energon universe

00:24:17.519 –> 00:24:20.500
so far and then obviously reading the straight

00:24:20.500 –> 00:24:23.289
paperback here reading this yeah So what were

00:24:23.289 –> 00:24:26.630
your thoughts on this? Like, I really don’t want

00:24:26.630 –> 00:24:30.210
to have to say, I mean, I do a high level here.

00:24:30.269 –> 00:24:33.170
What are you looking for? Cause I can tell you

00:24:33.170 –> 00:24:38.950
high level. I hated it. Oh no. Absolutely hated

00:24:38.950 –> 00:24:42.150
it. And I think it’s unfair to say that. And

00:24:42.150 –> 00:24:44.759
I’m going to tell you why. okay go ahead the

00:24:44.759 –> 00:24:46.740
the trade that we have here right i’m looking

00:24:46.740 –> 00:24:48.700
at the i don’t know what page this is inside

00:24:48.700 –> 00:24:51.700
of the trade it’s uh page five i guess so 306

00:24:51.700 –> 00:24:54.319
according to the thing i’ve got here okay um

00:24:54.319 –> 00:24:57.140
it’s got uh it’s got everything listed out here

00:24:57.140 –> 00:25:01.039
right so there are uh 12 issues in here you you

00:25:01.039 –> 00:25:04.200
said revolution issue one two three four five

00:25:04.200 –> 00:25:08.880
annual 2017 then issues six through ten yep and

00:25:08.880 –> 00:25:14.529
uh as i was reading this It became clear, especially

00:25:14.529 –> 00:25:18.309
once we got to… There’s a point in the story,

00:25:18.470 –> 00:25:20.309
and I don’t remember which issue this is. This

00:25:20.309 –> 00:25:22.549
is about where I stopped the first time and said,

00:25:22.609 –> 00:25:23.910
I don’t know if I’m going to read the rest of

00:25:23.910 –> 00:25:27.069
this. So it’s probably issue five, issue six,

00:25:27.170 –> 00:25:28.529
or the annual. I don’t know. I don’t remember.

00:25:28.849 –> 00:25:31.650
But there’s effectively a spot in the story where

00:25:31.650 –> 00:25:36.589
we get to… The masked characters are now interacting

00:25:36.589 –> 00:25:39.690
with a couple of the G .I. Joe characters. Yep.

00:25:40.079 –> 00:25:42.339
right so there’s scarlet and i think there is

00:25:42.339 –> 00:25:47.859
an what’s the guy’s name is um oh i know who

00:25:47.859 –> 00:25:50.380
you’re what’s his name night uh night stalker

00:25:50.380 –> 00:25:53.299
night stalker i think so night stalker i think

00:25:53.299 –> 00:25:56.819
those are the only two joes we see yeah and i

00:25:56.819 –> 00:25:59.299
was like oh they’re talking about they don’t

00:25:59.299 –> 00:26:01.599
specifically say the word transformers but they’re

00:26:01.599 –> 00:26:04.400
talking about cybertronians Yeah, they specifically

00:26:04.400 –> 00:26:07.279
say Cybertronians, yeah. And we see the two Joe

00:26:07.279 –> 00:26:10.240
characters, and I’m like, oh man, this is where

00:26:10.240 –> 00:26:12.299
I was like, oh, this is going to spoil me, and

00:26:12.299 –> 00:26:14.420
again, not the story, but spoil me for enjoying

00:26:14.420 –> 00:26:17.640
Mask in the Energon universe, because eventually

00:26:17.640 –> 00:26:19.480
all those properties are going to come together,

00:26:19.660 –> 00:26:21.220
and I think we’re going to get that announcement

00:26:21.220 –> 00:26:26.650
at Comic -Con, by the way. But I feel like, like,

00:26:26.869 –> 00:26:28.630
all right, this is going to spoil my enjoyment

00:26:28.630 –> 00:26:30.349
of the Energon universe stuff. So I’m going to

00:26:30.349 –> 00:26:31.730
stop. And that’s where I told you I’m not going

00:26:31.730 –> 00:26:36.329
to read anymore. Yeah. Up to that point. I feel

00:26:36.329 –> 00:26:39.390
like the story was very cohesive. When we kick

00:26:39.390 –> 00:26:42.069
off with Revolution, based on my remembrance

00:26:42.069 –> 00:26:44.269
here, like I didn’t take notes here. Yeah. With

00:26:44.269 –> 00:26:47.230
my remembrance of this, I feel like it started

00:26:47.230 –> 00:26:49.710
the story off really well. And it actually started

00:26:49.710 –> 00:26:51.630
kind of in the future and then went backwards

00:26:51.630 –> 00:26:53.930
to kind of tell the story. Generally speaking,

00:26:54.190 –> 00:26:57.349
any time that’s used as like a storytelling device,

00:26:57.650 –> 00:27:00.990
I hate it, especially in TV shows. But it seemed

00:27:00.990 –> 00:27:04.289
to work okay here. One of the things they touched

00:27:04.289 –> 00:27:08.210
on where Matt was talking about, we’ll explain

00:27:08.210 –> 00:27:12.890
why like mask is, or sorry, why, Oh, what’s the

00:27:12.890 –> 00:27:16.269
case stand for a command? Like my command starts

00:27:16.269 –> 00:27:20.230
with the letter K. Well, yeah, I was looking

00:27:20.230 –> 00:27:23.829
for that and I saw it nowhere in the comic. It’s

00:27:23.829 –> 00:27:26.470
a joke. Yeah, it’s a joke. Okay. So that pissed

00:27:26.470 –> 00:27:28.710
me off, but it seemed like up until that point,

00:27:28.750 –> 00:27:32.099
like the story was very, It was very cohesive.

00:27:32.460 –> 00:27:36.400
It was easy to understand, easy to follow. And

00:27:36.400 –> 00:27:39.279
once we got past that point, I felt like the

00:27:39.279 –> 00:27:41.299
story was all over the place. That’s where it’s

00:27:41.299 –> 00:27:45.099
almost like I feel the story or this trade didn’t

00:27:45.099 –> 00:27:47.440
capture every bit of the story that it needed

00:27:47.440 –> 00:27:51.299
to for me to enjoy the entire thing. Because

00:27:51.299 –> 00:27:53.240
I didn’t realize going into this that this was

00:27:53.240 –> 00:27:56.019
a shared universe inside of IDW, which clearly

00:27:56.019 –> 00:27:58.539
it is, right? There’s GI Joe involved. Yeah,

00:27:58.539 –> 00:28:03.539
GI Joe. I feel like we’re missing out on some

00:28:03.539 –> 00:28:05.759
of the math stuff that occurred in those issues

00:28:05.759 –> 00:28:08.259
that we don’t have here. Like by the time we

00:28:08.259 –> 00:28:13.799
get to the end in Zartan shows up and this monster

00:28:13.799 –> 00:28:16.339
comes out of the, out of the earth, out of the

00:28:16.339 –> 00:28:19.059
mountain Mount St. Helen. Yeah. I’m like, what

00:28:19.059 –> 00:28:21.119
the hell is any of this? How does any of this

00:28:21.119 –> 00:28:23.059
have to do with anything I just read previously?

00:28:23.440 –> 00:28:25.440
It’s like, it just seems like totally out of

00:28:25.440 –> 00:28:28.819
the blue. I don’t know like where those plot

00:28:28.819 –> 00:28:31.440
points came from. or why they were highlighted

00:28:31.440 –> 00:28:33.519
here. Because if you read, like I said, if you

00:28:33.519 –> 00:28:35.859
read the first initial issues and then you read

00:28:35.859 –> 00:28:38.079
the end of this, it’s like, it seems like two

00:28:38.079 –> 00:28:40.900
completely different series, even though it’s

00:28:40.900 –> 00:28:43.759
written by the same person, which confused me.

00:28:43.799 –> 00:28:45.980
So the only thing I could, I could think of is

00:28:45.980 –> 00:28:48.599
there are pieces of this story that are missing

00:28:48.599 –> 00:28:50.779
because they’re in these other properties, which

00:28:50.779 –> 00:28:55.099
we don’t have here in this trade. Yeah, it’s

00:28:55.099 –> 00:29:00.950
yeah. And I, I don’t blame that on Mr. Easton.

00:29:01.190 –> 00:29:04.970
That’s not his fault. That’s IDW’s fault because

00:29:04.970 –> 00:29:12.769
clearly. Yeah. And like, so. I mean, the way

00:29:12.769 –> 00:29:15.970
this started was there right there down in, I

00:29:15.970 –> 00:29:18.329
think it’s Miami. Is that right? They’re down

00:29:18.329 –> 00:29:20.309
in Miami. Like that whole, if they would have

00:29:20.309 –> 00:29:22.589
just stayed there and like carried out whatever

00:29:22.589 –> 00:29:24.670
missions they’re doing, this would have been

00:29:24.670 –> 00:29:27.650
like it. completely awesome series like i would

00:29:27.650 –> 00:29:29.670
have i would have gone back and reread this numerous

00:29:29.670 –> 00:29:32.869
times because it almost felt like uh i don’t

00:29:32.869 –> 00:29:35.750
know like a modern day -ish like miami vice type

00:29:35.750 –> 00:29:38.069
thing where they’ve got this whole group of characters

00:29:38.069 –> 00:29:40.230
except in this case these characters have some

00:29:40.230 –> 00:29:43.769
semi quasi powers because of their masks and

00:29:43.769 –> 00:29:46.309
they’ve got these souped up uh souped up vehicles

00:29:46.309 –> 00:29:48.670
and everything but it was sort of like it was

00:29:48.670 –> 00:29:50.750
sort of like i’m gonna say quote -unquote based

00:29:50.750 –> 00:29:53.319
in reality even though it’s like reality with

00:29:53.319 –> 00:29:56.140
future sci -fi at least that made sense but by

00:29:56.140 –> 00:29:57.980
the time we got to the end and we got these monsters

00:29:57.980 –> 00:30:01.059
crawling out of the uh the earth and we’ve got

00:30:01.059 –> 00:30:03.440
all these zartan clones and i have i still have

00:30:03.440 –> 00:30:06.960
no idea what they are yeah that was like so off

00:30:06.960 –> 00:30:09.500
the wall it’s not even funny yeah that was a

00:30:09.500 –> 00:30:15.019
little like because literally so i was trying

00:30:15.019 –> 00:30:19.660
my best i am quote -unquote facebook friends

00:30:19.660 –> 00:30:25.289
with mr easton Uh, never have I reached out to

00:30:25.289 –> 00:30:29.950
the man up until preparation for this. I didn’t

00:30:29.950 –> 00:30:32.450
get any responses, which is fine. I understand

00:30:32.450 –> 00:30:34.470
the man’s busy. He doesn’t want to be bothered.

00:30:34.529 –> 00:30:39.109
That’s fine. But I genuinely asked him some genuine

00:30:39.109 –> 00:30:41.849
questions in order to prepare for this. And I

00:30:41.849 –> 00:30:44.670
made a comment. I was like, Oh, cool. Sean Berger.

00:30:45.369 –> 00:30:51.000
Cool. Nice. Love that reference. And then. yeah

00:30:51.000 –> 00:30:54.740
it went to hell and a hell in a hell basket like

00:30:54.740 –> 00:31:02.039
what the like okay the hat that took a to quote

00:31:02.039 –> 00:31:05.779
bugs it took a really sharp turn left turn in

00:31:05.779 –> 00:31:09.059
albuquerque because yikes dude i didn’t say this

00:31:09.059 –> 00:31:12.039
to him obviously but like yeah that was a little

00:31:12.039 –> 00:31:17.400
much and what gets me is that, yes, I know technically

00:31:17.400 –> 00:31:21.579
in a trade paperback, usually you have usually

00:31:21.579 –> 00:31:35.480
you have 12 issues in a trade. However, why is

00:31:35.480 –> 00:31:40.779
the first strike issue not in here? That’s what

00:31:40.779 –> 00:31:45.839
I want to know. Like, That would have made it

00:31:45.839 –> 00:31:49.519
so much… That would have been the missing piece,

00:31:49.740 –> 00:31:56.319
I think. Maybe. Because… I don’t know. At the

00:31:56.319 –> 00:32:01.599
end of this… Just to go straight… No, straight

00:32:01.599 –> 00:32:06.839
to the end. I don’t know. But going to the end

00:32:06.839 –> 00:32:11.859
of this trade… The one thing I like, the only

00:32:11.859 –> 00:32:15.480
thing I liked about the ending to this is Tracker

00:32:15.480 –> 00:32:18.900
saying, next time I’m going to do it smarter.

00:32:19.099 –> 00:32:21.400
I’m going to do it better. I’m going to build

00:32:21.400 –> 00:32:24.880
a better team or whatever it is that he says.

00:32:26.019 –> 00:32:30.559
Like, that’s the only thing I like. I didn’t

00:32:30.559 –> 00:32:32.819
like that either, because then it’s like, did.

00:32:33.559 –> 00:32:35.079
And this, I guess this is a question I’m asking

00:32:35.079 –> 00:32:37.200
you. I didn’t look this up prior. Like, does

00:32:37.200 –> 00:32:39.220
the story continue after this? Like, is there

00:32:39.220 –> 00:32:43.720
more? This is it. Like literally. So the trade,

00:32:43.759 –> 00:32:50.099
so the, the trade that I originally, so I wanted

00:32:50.099 –> 00:32:54.500
to find everything. And when I looked up, cause

00:32:54.500 –> 00:32:57.980
originally I looked it up on the TF wiki, which

00:32:57.980 –> 00:33:02.089
is what I’m on right now. And it originally was

00:33:02.089 –> 00:33:05.470
published in two volumes, which is the first

00:33:05.470 –> 00:33:09.849
five or six issues, and then the second half,

00:33:10.109 –> 00:33:13.349
whatever. And then they did a full, which is

00:33:13.349 –> 00:33:17.210
this version of the trade. And I thought, okay,

00:33:17.289 –> 00:33:19.130
that means they’re going to give us everything,

00:33:19.329 –> 00:33:22.210
right? Right? Thinking they were going to put

00:33:22.210 –> 00:33:26.220
the first strike issue in. They didn’t. which

00:33:26.220 –> 00:33:28.660
is fine. It’s their publishing company. They

00:33:28.660 –> 00:33:30.539
can do whatever the hell they want to as far

00:33:30.539 –> 00:33:35.940
as collected editions, whatever. But yeah, no,

00:33:36.099 –> 00:33:39.640
there is no more mask after this. It was, it

00:33:39.640 –> 00:33:43.180
was done. Cause I’m looking at mask force .com

00:33:43.180 –> 00:33:45.839
for example, and they have like the IDW stuff

00:33:45.839 –> 00:33:49.619
on here and they have IDW revolution zero zero,

00:33:49.720 –> 00:33:52.579
which is that what you’re talking about is this

00:33:52.579 –> 00:33:56.109
is like the prelude to, to the mass comic. Yeah,

00:33:56.230 –> 00:33:59.269
which… Revolution Prelude, sorry. Yeah, Revolution

00:33:59.269 –> 00:34:02.829
Prelude, which is in a remote military base,

00:34:02.890 –> 00:34:06.490
Miles Manheim observes Matt Tracker, Gloria Baker,

00:34:06.849 –> 00:34:10.389
Julio Lopez. That has to be this, right? Here,

00:34:10.469 –> 00:34:15.070
hold on, let me pull this up. Ooh! Technical

00:34:15.070 –> 00:34:18.369
difficulties. Let’s move on, shall we? Now back

00:34:18.369 –> 00:34:21.750
to Mask and Venom. Okay, so the trade that we

00:34:21.750 –> 00:34:24.409
have is Mask, Mobile Armored Strike Command,

00:34:24.670 –> 00:34:28.570
riding Venom’s trail. This was published in 2018.

00:34:29.710 –> 00:34:34.369
This is those two trades put together. All right,

00:34:34.389 –> 00:34:37.269
where are we? Where do we want to be? You were

00:34:37.269 –> 00:34:38.610
talking about the ending, and I was talking about

00:34:38.610 –> 00:34:43.550
how I didn’t like that either. Yeah, I… There’s

00:34:43.550 –> 00:34:45.710
a whole bunch of this comic that I do enjoy.

00:34:45.809 –> 00:34:49.369
Like I said, effectively the whole first half

00:34:49.369 –> 00:34:52.070
of this, I really enjoy. There are some very

00:34:52.070 –> 00:34:55.489
stupid moments in here. One of them, for example,

00:34:55.690 –> 00:35:04.550
is Matt is attacking Miles. And just for no reason

00:35:04.550 –> 00:35:07.969
at all, all of a sudden, and I realize after

00:35:07.969 –> 00:35:10.130
the fact that, I mean, they explain this, it

00:35:10.130 –> 00:35:14.730
ends up being a hologram. yes but his mom just

00:35:14.730 –> 00:35:18.309
shows up for no reason at all yeah yeah that

00:35:18.309 –> 00:35:22.690
was it’s like what how does that even make sense

00:35:22.690 –> 00:35:27.889
in any uh in any part of this story in any way

00:35:27.889 –> 00:35:31.030
at all it doesn’t so it’s like i i don’t know

00:35:31.030 –> 00:35:35.530
that was a little yeah some of the it’s not i

00:35:35.530 –> 00:35:37.690
don’t even think it’s jumps in logic i think

00:35:37.690 –> 00:35:41.159
it’s the way that I don’t think it’s the way

00:35:41.159 –> 00:35:43.079
that we’re even reading it. I just think it’s

00:35:43.079 –> 00:35:50.079
the way that it’s… Oh, no, man. When I read

00:35:50.079 –> 00:35:53.559
this, and I’ve only read it once, I skimmed through

00:35:53.559 –> 00:35:58.679
it before the record just to do a refresher.

00:35:58.940 –> 00:36:09.429
I enjoyed… I want to say… 70 -30? I enjoyed

00:36:09.429 –> 00:36:13.170
it 70 % of the time, and I had problems with

00:36:13.170 –> 00:36:18.750
it 30 % of the time. For this being, I want to

00:36:18.750 –> 00:36:22.090
say, the first time I’ve read Brandon Easton

00:36:22.090 –> 00:36:26.670
as a comic book writer, I liked it for the most

00:36:26.670 –> 00:36:31.449
part. But there are still things in here where

00:36:31.449 –> 00:36:35.039
it’s like, yeah, I don’t know. I think for me,

00:36:35.059 –> 00:36:38.380
what I want to know more and see more with his

00:36:38.380 –> 00:36:41.719
writing is that I want to see more about the

00:36:41.719 –> 00:36:45.920
people as they’re dealing with their masks and

00:36:45.920 –> 00:36:51.059
their vehicles. I’m stuck on the rhino thing,

00:36:51.239 –> 00:36:57.480
the rhino telemetry and telepathy and how you

00:36:57.480 –> 00:37:00.659
have to have two, but one can also do it, kind

00:37:00.659 –> 00:37:04.179
of, sort of, but not really. How dare you blow

00:37:04.179 –> 00:37:07.980
up my favorite truck in mask history and blah,

00:37:08.039 –> 00:37:15.380
blah, blah. Because, yeah. But, I mean, yeah,

00:37:15.420 –> 00:37:19.500
no. I liked it overall for the most part. It’s

00:37:19.500 –> 00:37:23.840
not a comic I’m going to read again. It’s not

00:37:23.840 –> 00:37:27.400
a reread for me. But having the experience now.

00:37:29.099 –> 00:37:31.239
It makes me want to, like I said at the beginning

00:37:31.239 –> 00:37:32.980
of the podcast, it makes me want to go back and

00:37:32.980 –> 00:37:37.199
watch the old episodes of the cartoon. I mean,

00:37:38.360 –> 00:37:41.039
I already had hype for the Energon Universe version.

00:37:41.079 –> 00:37:43.820
It makes me even more interested to see what

00:37:43.820 –> 00:37:50.440
Dan Waters is going to do with the Energon Universe

00:37:50.440 –> 00:37:53.199
version and the multiple interviews I’ve heard

00:37:53.199 –> 00:37:57.639
from him. Along with Piper and just hearing how

00:37:57.639 –> 00:38:01.239
excited they are about the Energon universe version

00:38:01.239 –> 00:38:06.619
of mask. I’m very excited to see what they do.

00:38:07.079 –> 00:38:09.900
Well, I think, I think I’m probably, you said

00:38:09.900 –> 00:38:12.239
you’re about 70, 30. I think I’m about 50, 50.

00:38:13.039 –> 00:38:16.179
And again, if we break it down, like first half

00:38:16.179 –> 00:38:20.539
of this, and it’s probably where the 50, 50 is

00:38:20.539 –> 00:38:23.000
going to come into play. I feel like once we

00:38:23.000 –> 00:38:26.869
hit the midway point, uh i mean even even before

00:38:26.869 –> 00:38:29.329
we hit the midway point um well no i take that

00:38:29.329 –> 00:38:31.349
back let me let me go to the very front here

00:38:31.349 –> 00:38:34.610
uh yeah so once we hit the midway point we effectively

00:38:34.610 –> 00:38:38.670
switch uh artists as well right yeah we don’t

00:38:38.670 –> 00:38:41.849
get tony vargas anymore uh he does uh revolution

00:38:41.849 –> 00:38:46.280
issue one two four and five he bails out for

00:38:46.280 –> 00:38:48.840
issue three for some reason but we get him effectively

00:38:48.840 –> 00:38:52.219
for the first entire half and i love the artwork

00:38:52.219 –> 00:38:54.760
the artwork when he was doing it was fantastic

00:38:54.760 –> 00:38:59.000
i thought uh later in the the the rest of this

00:38:59.000 –> 00:39:02.639
book i would say it’s a mixed bag but the first

00:39:02.639 –> 00:39:04.780
half of this book i really really enjoyed the

00:39:04.780 –> 00:39:08.239
art i think as far as the writing goes this is

00:39:08.239 –> 00:39:12.559
like when you compare with what easton does versus

00:39:12.559 –> 00:39:15.460
with Again, I’ve only read his stuff inside the

00:39:15.460 –> 00:39:17.699
Energon universe. When you compare it with what

00:39:17.699 –> 00:39:20.219
Kirkman has been doing, I think it’s like night

00:39:20.219 –> 00:39:23.659
and day difference. When you open this up, there’s

00:39:23.659 –> 00:39:28.780
just so much text on each page. The art is doing

00:39:28.780 –> 00:39:31.480
a great job at visually storytelling, but then

00:39:31.480 –> 00:39:34.519
there’s a lot of spoken word happening here as

00:39:34.519 –> 00:39:37.679
well. When you compare it with stuff that Kirkman

00:39:37.679 –> 00:39:41.119
does, that’s not really the case. I guess I would

00:39:41.119 –> 00:39:44.579
even say most of the energon universe comics

00:39:44.579 –> 00:39:46.739
right there’s not a whole lot that’s going on

00:39:46.739 –> 00:39:50.159
in these word bowls no and what is there right

00:39:50.159 –> 00:39:54.280
there isn’t a whole lot of word bubbles to see

00:39:54.280 –> 00:39:56.619
it packed on here it’s not as packed as what

00:39:56.619 –> 00:39:59.260
it is with like more than meets the eye and robots

00:39:59.260 –> 00:40:04.320
in disguise okay but okay okay okay hang on really

00:40:04.320 –> 00:40:09.900
different people hang on a second here robots

00:40:09.900 –> 00:40:14.039
in disguise are more than meets the eye are essentially

00:40:14.039 –> 00:40:19.659
you said novels right they’re they’re like novels

00:40:19.659 –> 00:40:26.500
slash stage plays with visual accents around

00:40:26.500 –> 00:40:31.159
them all right i mean that’s that’s fair but

00:40:31.159 –> 00:40:32.980
here like i’m saying like there’s a lot of text

00:40:32.980 –> 00:40:34.780
on here which i think is good because there’s

00:40:34.780 –> 00:40:37.260
a lot of story here on these pages it’s just

00:40:37.260 –> 00:40:39.920
once we hit that midway mark i don’t know what

00:40:39.920 –> 00:40:43.489
the hell happens But in my opinion, the story

00:40:43.489 –> 00:40:45.670
just goes completely off the rails. And I had

00:40:45.670 –> 00:40:48.070
a hard time following it. That’s where it’s like,

00:40:48.150 –> 00:40:51.150
I don’t know if other mask pieces were introduced

00:40:51.150 –> 00:40:54.349
in G .I. Joe inside of Transformers. And it’s

00:40:54.349 –> 00:40:56.789
just not included here. Again, I don’t know that

00:40:56.789 –> 00:40:59.130
it’s the fault of the writing. As you mentioned,

00:40:59.230 –> 00:41:02.730
it’s the fault of IDW for not including those

00:41:02.730 –> 00:41:04.829
bits here because we’re losing out on part of

00:41:04.829 –> 00:41:07.769
the story. And because of that, it’s hard to

00:41:07.769 –> 00:41:09.769
understand what’s going on. But I think the first

00:41:09.769 –> 00:41:12.780
half. It’s very easy for me to follow. And then,

00:41:12.800 –> 00:41:14.500
like I said, I don’t know if they started having

00:41:14.500 –> 00:41:16.639
more crossover when the second half happened

00:41:16.639 –> 00:41:19.440
here, but for me personally, I had a hard time

00:41:19.440 –> 00:41:22.300
following the story. Yeah. A couple of other

00:41:22.300 –> 00:41:25.340
things that I disliked throughout this. I don’t,

00:41:25.340 –> 00:41:27.099
I don’t know that I get a sense from reading

00:41:27.099 –> 00:41:29.380
this, which is funny because this was the introduction

00:41:29.380 –> 00:41:34.539
of mask, like why we have these masks at all.

00:41:35.050 –> 00:41:37.869
Why we have these vehicles at all. Like, why

00:41:37.869 –> 00:41:41.570
are they a thing? Why did miles mayhem put this

00:41:41.570 –> 00:41:44.150
team together only to say, Oh my bad. I’m out.

00:41:44.250 –> 00:41:46.469
Peace out. And I’m putting together my own group.

00:41:46.530 –> 00:41:48.389
It’s like, but you were just putting together

00:41:48.389 –> 00:41:50.590
the mass group. Now you’re leaving it and you’re

00:41:50.590 –> 00:41:53.210
putting together the venom group. I didn’t understand

00:41:53.210 –> 00:41:57.449
why that happened. Okay. But that’s the thing

00:41:57.449 –> 00:42:04.789
though. He, let me try to, it’s, Following formula

00:42:04.789 –> 00:42:12.530
from the show, he’s essentially traitoring. He’s…

00:42:12.530 –> 00:42:17.190
Give me a valid reason as to why you’re doing

00:42:17.190 –> 00:42:18.809
it. Like, that’s not even stated here. I get

00:42:18.809 –> 00:42:21.309
it that, right, this is like a throwback to,

00:42:21.369 –> 00:42:23.869
oh, a good versus bad. We need a good guy and

00:42:23.869 –> 00:42:26.429
a bad guy version of this. But, like, it’s not

00:42:26.429 –> 00:42:28.570
explained why he just, like, gives up the mask

00:42:28.570 –> 00:42:30.510
group and is like, ha ha ha, I’m going off to

00:42:30.510 –> 00:42:34.730
make Venom. It just sort of happens. And like,

00:42:34.789 –> 00:42:37.110
I didn’t, I didn’t follow that. Like at least

00:42:37.110 –> 00:42:38.929
within the Energon universe that we’ve seen so

00:42:38.929 –> 00:42:42.710
far, like we see, we haven’t seen miles really

00:42:42.710 –> 00:42:45.170
do anything with the mass. I still don’t understand.

00:42:45.190 –> 00:42:47.670
Again, I have no background on mask. I don’t

00:42:47.670 –> 00:42:50.429
know why these masks are created. I don’t know

00:42:50.429 –> 00:42:53.710
why they have to tie in with the vehicles. I

00:42:53.710 –> 00:42:55.250
don’t, I don’t understand any of that. There’s

00:42:55.250 –> 00:42:57.349
no background, no backstory at any of that here.

00:42:58.510 –> 00:43:01.360
I’m hoping. in the energon universe we get some

00:43:01.360 –> 00:43:03.760
of that but here in idw from what we’ve read

00:43:03.760 –> 00:43:06.219
in the here i’ve not seen any of that now maybe

00:43:06.219 –> 00:43:08.880
i should have come into this knowing about mask

00:43:08.880 –> 00:43:11.679
but if this is my first introduction and i don’t

00:43:11.679 –> 00:43:13.760
know any of it it seems like it should be in

00:43:13.760 –> 00:43:19.280
the story yeah but again every everybody’s good

00:43:19.280 –> 00:43:21.280
with what you’ve got pulled up here right now

00:43:21.849 –> 00:43:24.309
I have no idea what the hell this has to do with

00:43:24.309 –> 00:43:26.809
the story at all. I’m like, are we looking at

00:43:26.809 –> 00:43:29.690
street fighter characters here? Like what? Sorry.

00:43:30.070 –> 00:43:34.170
I forgot. I had the screen share still on. Sorry.

00:43:34.590 –> 00:43:37.369
Let me turn that off. No, I mean, that’s fine.

00:43:37.469 –> 00:43:39.230
Like I was, I was reading that. I was trying

00:43:39.230 –> 00:43:44.719
to. I’m trying to find the annual in the thing

00:43:44.719 –> 00:43:48.599
because I wanted to discuss the annual at some

00:43:48.599 –> 00:43:51.619
point. I effectively just read through that portion

00:43:51.619 –> 00:43:54.059
and I just kind of skipped the rest of it because

00:43:54.059 –> 00:43:57.300
I’m like, I have no idea how this has any merit

00:43:57.300 –> 00:43:59.880
to what I’m reading. So it looks like Street

00:43:59.880 –> 00:44:03.119
Fighter. I’m just going to go on by it. There

00:44:03.119 –> 00:44:05.519
we go. No, no, no. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I forgot

00:44:05.519 –> 00:44:09.969
I had the screen share still on. No, I… But

00:44:09.969 –> 00:44:11.489
no, you’re right. But here’s the thing, though.

00:44:12.130 –> 00:44:18.269
One of the things I love in podcasting is I have

00:44:18.269 –> 00:44:21.329
most of the history with Mask. Like I said, grew

00:44:21.329 –> 00:44:24.130
up with the cartoon, had the toys, yada, yada,

00:44:24.130 –> 00:44:26.409
yada. You don’t have any of that history. So

00:44:26.409 –> 00:44:29.889
you’re just walking into this kind of cold. I

00:44:29.889 –> 00:44:32.389
started you out with this to not necessarily

00:44:32.389 –> 00:44:37.829
get you into what we have coming over on. the

00:44:37.829 –> 00:44:39.989
other show with another comic review with the

00:44:39.989 –> 00:44:43.309
Energon universe, but to just kind of, you know,

00:44:43.309 –> 00:44:47.670
see what the previous comic company did with

00:44:47.670 –> 00:44:52.170
the license kind of thing, because I, this is

00:44:52.170 –> 00:44:54.469
my first time ever reading this, even though

00:44:54.469 –> 00:44:57.650
I knew the cartoon and I was already excited.

00:44:57.710 –> 00:44:59.250
Like I said, I’ve already said multiple times

00:44:59.250 –> 00:45:04.409
in this, I was already excited for, for it. There’s

00:45:04.409 –> 00:45:07.550
that end point. That’s what I was looking for.

00:45:08.210 –> 00:45:14.070
But it’s one of those things where I just wanted

00:45:14.070 –> 00:45:17.389
to, like, there’s nothing wrong with somebody,

00:45:17.530 –> 00:45:21.070
something being somebody’s first time for whatever.

00:45:21.250 –> 00:45:25.429
That’s how, like, that’s how the world goes around.

00:45:25.690 –> 00:45:28.190
Everybody has to have a first at some point or

00:45:28.190 –> 00:45:33.750
another. And, you know, I understand you’re worried

00:45:33.750 –> 00:45:38.260
about. having this be the first mask thing, even

00:45:38.260 –> 00:45:40.119
though technically it isn’t the Energon universe

00:45:40.119 –> 00:45:42.500
was because of free comic book day, but like

00:45:42.500 –> 00:45:45.420
reading this versus reading that, I don’t think

00:45:45.420 –> 00:45:48.460
this is going to affect what you read in the

00:45:48.460 –> 00:45:51.460
Energon universe. Cause this is, thankfully they

00:45:51.460 –> 00:45:53.840
didn’t go on to make, I mean, as much as I would

00:45:53.840 –> 00:45:56.880
have been interested to read the story, this

00:45:56.880 –> 00:46:03.639
is the only mask we have. Um, so. you know, for,

00:46:03.840 –> 00:46:11.139
for IDW. And I just needed to get more mask in

00:46:11.139 –> 00:46:14.340
my life. And since it last year was the 80th,

00:46:14.340 –> 00:46:18.920
the 80th, wow. 40th anniversary last year. And

00:46:18.920 –> 00:46:22.400
we’ve got this coming up and all this and all

00:46:22.400 –> 00:46:25.239
that. I wanted to get this, uh, an episode for

00:46:25.239 –> 00:46:29.980
the IDW book, uh, in the books as it were, but

00:46:29.980 –> 00:46:35.309
no, what I was looking for. As you were alluding

00:46:35.309 –> 00:46:39.309
to, I was looking for the story in the 2017 annual

00:46:39.309 –> 00:46:44.510
because the 2017 annual has two stories. It has

00:46:44.510 –> 00:46:51.590
the Death Stone, which is a title reference to

00:46:51.590 –> 00:46:57.050
the very first episode of Mask, and it has Child’s

00:46:57.050 –> 00:47:01.809
Play. Child’s Play, which I thought was Sly’s

00:47:01.809 –> 00:47:06.369
origin, it’s not. It’s Cliff Dagger’s origin.

00:47:09.099 –> 00:47:11.940
As he’s pummeled by an opponent, undefeated champion

00:47:11.940 –> 00:47:16.420
Body Bags, rising MMA star Cliff Dagger has a

00:47:16.420 –> 00:47:18.960
flashback to his childhood, remembering when

00:47:18.960 –> 00:47:22.880
he was awoken late one night and beaten by his

00:47:22.880 –> 00:47:25.820
drunken father after he learned that Cliff hadn’t

00:47:25.820 –> 00:47:29.159
fought back against a bully at school. And I

00:47:29.159 –> 00:47:31.440
wanted to discuss this because, first of all,

00:47:31.440 –> 00:47:37.360
folks, bullying is not uh -uh. Nope. Just uh

00:47:37.360 –> 00:47:40.469
-uh. Don’t even do that. I was bullied as a kid

00:47:40.469 –> 00:47:43.409
myself. So bullying must be stopped no matter

00:47:43.409 –> 00:47:47.030
the cost. But I love that they, in the annual,

00:47:47.190 –> 00:47:51.949
they chose to highlight a story like this. And

00:47:51.949 –> 00:47:54.750
I thought that story was, you know, a story for

00:47:54.750 –> 00:47:59.690
standing up for yourself and just do whatever

00:47:59.690 –> 00:48:02.329
you can to stand up for yourself. And that Cliff

00:48:02.329 –> 00:48:05.949
Dagger would eventually go on to become… part

00:48:05.949 –> 00:48:09.429
of Venom’s team and just the way they use the

00:48:09.429 –> 00:48:14.429
character. I thought it was so good. So I, I

00:48:14.429 –> 00:48:17.289
just love that, that, that part of the annual,

00:48:17.449 –> 00:48:22.409
um, the other story is just your standard kind

00:48:22.409 –> 00:48:28.389
of mask story. It’s not, uh, I don’t know. It’s

00:48:28.389 –> 00:48:31.269
just your standard mask story. It’s a way of

00:48:31.269 –> 00:48:35.059
homaging the, debut of the animated series 41

00:48:35.059 –> 00:48:44.780
years ago. Who is your least favorite character

00:48:44.780 –> 00:48:48.519
in all of this? Because I think mine, I think

00:48:48.519 –> 00:48:55.019
mine ended up being Matt tracker. I don’t like

00:48:55.019 –> 00:48:59.300
the characters constantly. I mean, miles specifically

00:48:59.300 –> 00:49:03.559
is like constantly saying like, uh he’s effectively

00:49:03.559 –> 00:49:05.940
like running him down right it’s he’s like you

00:49:05.940 –> 00:49:08.860
don’t have what it takes to be a leader uh he

00:49:08.860 –> 00:49:10.780
calls him out all these numerous times and then

00:49:10.780 –> 00:49:13.139
by the end of the book his own teammates are

00:49:13.139 –> 00:49:14.980
saying the same thing and right and then he even

00:49:14.980 –> 00:49:19.539
walks away from the team It’s very much like

00:49:19.539 –> 00:49:21.619
a struggle of trying to be the leader, right?

00:49:21.659 –> 00:49:24.500
Kind of what we see in Transformers Season 3

00:49:24.500 –> 00:49:29.679
with Rodimus Prime. Wait a minute. Hold on. Full

00:49:29.679 –> 00:49:32.000
dead stop. You are not going to sit here and

00:49:32.000 –> 00:49:34.300
compare Matt Tracker to Rodimus Prime. We’re

00:49:34.300 –> 00:49:39.199
in big trouble. Relax! Enjoy the ride! He’s very,

00:49:39.280 –> 00:49:44.420
very similar, yeah. Stop it! I’m not going to

00:49:44.420 –> 00:49:47.119
learn from any of this. with my current team,

00:49:47.159 –> 00:49:49.380
right? Like, why try to improve myself? I’m just

00:49:49.380 –> 00:49:51.599
going to walk off, and I’m going to start a new

00:49:51.599 –> 00:49:54.559
team. It’s like, okay. Again, I know the story

00:49:54.559 –> 00:49:56.440
ends there, but it’s like, if that’s effectively

00:49:56.440 –> 00:50:00.360
what happens, that’s pretty terrible as a leader.

00:50:00.960 –> 00:50:03.380
Yeah, Rodimus never did that, though, thankfully.

00:50:04.039 –> 00:50:06.320
So at least Rodimus is better than Matt in that

00:50:06.320 –> 00:50:10.039
one aspect. Last big party of the summer, folks!

00:50:10.300 –> 00:50:14.659
Let’s go out with a bang! Yeah, I would not say

00:50:14.659 –> 00:50:24.519
that I like Matt in this. I like Sly, and I like

00:50:24.519 –> 00:50:28.260
Brad. Brad’s always been a cool character to

00:50:28.260 –> 00:50:36.059
me. So that’s one from each side. What about

00:50:36.059 –> 00:50:40.619
you? In terms of a character I liked or didn’t

00:50:40.619 –> 00:50:46.829
like? Yeah, I liked. so i think and i got a thing

00:50:46.829 –> 00:50:48.869
i’m going to talk about why but i also didn’t

00:50:48.869 –> 00:50:51.570
like about this but i think i liked gloria the

00:50:51.570 –> 00:50:56.869
most okay uh i think i think just her interaction

00:50:56.869 –> 00:51:00.010
with matt not just from like the love affair

00:51:00.010 –> 00:51:03.110
aspect of it but um like she’s the one who calls

00:51:03.110 –> 00:51:05.809
him out at by the end of this thing yeah although

00:51:05.809 –> 00:51:09.409
she does kind of like turn turn back on that

00:51:09.409 –> 00:51:12.230
and like hugs him here at the end because effectively

00:51:12.230 –> 00:51:15.769
didn’t die. But, um, I think her interaction

00:51:15.769 –> 00:51:21.090
with Matt and trying to get him to, I don’t know,

00:51:21.150 –> 00:51:25.389
uh, be a better leader, I think was, was good

00:51:25.389 –> 00:51:28.690
to see the, the part that I didn’t like about

00:51:28.690 –> 00:51:34.530
this character. And this is no, uh, this is not

00:51:34.530 –> 00:51:37.010
a negative thing on the writing. This is more

00:51:37.010 –> 00:51:40.750
on the artist. She’s drawn very salaciously in

00:51:40.750 –> 00:51:43.110
the first half here, so I can only imagine it’s

00:51:43.110 –> 00:51:48.190
because of our artist here. What’s his name?

00:51:48.590 –> 00:51:54.630
Because of our artist, Tony. Tony Vargas, I think?

00:51:54.929 –> 00:52:01.670
Yeah. I just kept seeing page after page. I’m

00:52:01.670 –> 00:52:04.969
like, okay, this is definitely drawn for the

00:52:04.969 –> 00:52:10.579
horny teenage boy. because it was like one page

00:52:10.579 –> 00:52:13.099
after the next was like, it was just getting

00:52:13.099 –> 00:52:17.420
worse and worse. Maybe you could say the same

00:52:17.420 –> 00:52:21.940
thing about Vanessa as well, but I think we see

00:52:21.940 –> 00:52:25.119
it more with Gloria, because we effectively see

00:52:25.119 –> 00:52:29.099
more of Gloria. Yeah, that’s true. I’d like to

00:52:29.099 –> 00:52:33.690
see more of Vanessa, actually. But that goes

00:52:33.690 –> 00:52:44.429
back to my childhood. Okay. On the GCRN universal

00:52:44.429 –> 00:52:48.670
ratings scale, the geek meter, we rate zero to

00:52:48.670 –> 00:52:50.650
five with half points. What are you going to

00:52:50.650 –> 00:52:56.929
give? What the hell is this thing called? Oh,

00:52:56.929 –> 00:53:01.130
God. Matt, the mask trade all in one, what are

00:53:01.130 –> 00:53:02.769
you going to give it? Zero to five with half

00:53:02.769 –> 00:53:08.909
points. So again, I think I enjoyed the first

00:53:08.909 –> 00:53:11.929
half of this story. I enjoyed the art and the

00:53:11.929 –> 00:53:14.610
first half of this story. I think the writing

00:53:14.610 –> 00:53:18.789
throughout was good, regardless of the fact that

00:53:18.789 –> 00:53:20.449
I didn’t really like the second half of this

00:53:20.449 –> 00:53:22.369
story, because again, I think we’re missing parts

00:53:22.369 –> 00:53:25.150
of the story. So it didn’t, the story didn’t

00:53:25.150 –> 00:53:28.699
make any sense to me. Or the writer was told,

00:53:28.820 –> 00:53:32.659
hey, we’re going this direction now. Ignore everything

00:53:32.659 –> 00:53:35.400
you did previously. Because again, I think if

00:53:35.400 –> 00:53:37.119
you read the first half of this and the second

00:53:37.119 –> 00:53:39.579
half of this, they do not mesh together story

00:53:39.579 –> 00:53:42.619
-wise at all. It just feels like it almost feels

00:53:42.619 –> 00:53:45.289
like a different writer. Yeah. But I know that

00:53:45.289 –> 00:53:47.110
it’s not. So it’s like, there was a change of

00:53:47.110 –> 00:53:49.269
direction or something there. It’s like, we got

00:53:49.269 –> 00:53:52.469
to work in this story, these story beats because

00:53:52.469 –> 00:53:55.469
of the overall grander story inside of this universe

00:53:55.469 –> 00:53:57.710
of IDW. I don’t know. Cause again, I didn’t read

00:53:57.710 –> 00:54:01.789
IDW. Uh, but with that said, I, I would probably

00:54:01.789 –> 00:54:05.110
give it a three and a half out of five. Yeah.

00:54:05.789 –> 00:54:07.630
Again, I know I said I liked it. It was probably

00:54:07.630 –> 00:54:09.309
about 50, 50, but I think probably three and

00:54:09.309 –> 00:54:13.739
a half out of five. Yeah. I’m. I’m right there

00:54:13.739 –> 00:54:17.820
with you. I think it’s like I said, it’s, I like

00:54:17.820 –> 00:54:23.900
70, 30. There’s like minor nitpick type things.

00:54:24.039 –> 00:54:28.460
And for those that may need a reminder on what

00:54:28.460 –> 00:54:33.210
three and a half. Is on the Geek Meter for GCRN

00:54:33.210 –> 00:54:36.869
rating scale. It is good. It’s a mixed bag, but

00:54:36.869 –> 00:54:39.869
the good stuff outweighs the bad. There might

00:54:39.869 –> 00:54:44.570
be one amazing element or lots of fun moments

00:54:44.570 –> 00:54:48.650
that make the flaws easier to swallow. They are

00:54:48.650 –> 00:54:52.289
not deal breakers, but they do hold it back.

00:54:53.610 –> 00:54:56.449
Well, maybe I’ll dump it down to a three. Okay.

00:54:56.550 –> 00:54:58.889
Three and a half is there. Three is average.

00:54:59.909 –> 00:55:03.690
It’s not bad. It’s not amazing either. For me,

00:55:03.710 –> 00:55:06.269
it would be an easy four if the second half of

00:55:06.269 –> 00:55:09.329
this story matched the first half. Yeah. Like

00:55:09.329 –> 00:55:14.030
I said earlier, that 30 % for me is basically

00:55:14.030 –> 00:55:18.909
Sean Berger turns into a giant. whatever the

00:55:18.909 –> 00:55:22.769
hell that was weird as hell that and then like

00:55:22.769 –> 00:55:25.750
you said the zartan shows up and zartan’s clones

00:55:25.750 –> 00:55:28.230
and all of this and it’s like and i don’t the

00:55:28.230 –> 00:55:32.630
clones yeah and i don’t mind like mask and gi

00:55:32.630 –> 00:55:36.750
joe working together hand in hand or foot and

00:55:36.750 –> 00:55:39.920
foot or Vehicle in vehicle, that’s fine. I actually

00:55:39.920 –> 00:55:43.679
loved Scarlet working with Mask. That was cool

00:55:43.679 –> 00:55:47.599
as hell to me. That was part of my 70 % was seeing

00:55:47.599 –> 00:55:51.639
Scarlet with them because I’m like, ooh, I can

00:55:51.639 –> 00:55:55.480
now see Kelly Thompson writing a new Scarlet

00:55:55.480 –> 00:55:59.659
miniseries featuring Scarlet and Gloria against

00:55:59.659 –> 00:56:05.519
Vanessa and somebody. Oh, God. Scarlet and Gloria

00:56:05.519 –> 00:56:09.820
versus Vanessa and Baroness. Mask Gia. Oh, God,

00:56:09.960 –> 00:56:13.519
Kelly. Kelly Thompson, I can hear it in my head.

00:56:14.280 –> 00:56:21.000
I know it’ll never happen. Anyway, you’re giving

00:56:21.000 –> 00:56:23.760
it a three. I’m giving it a three and a half.

00:56:23.960 –> 00:56:27.239
Like I said, my 70 % kind of outweighs my 30

00:56:27.239 –> 00:56:31.659
% of the bad stuff. I still enjoyed it overall.

00:56:32.969 –> 00:56:35.610
Anytime I can walk away from reading a comic

00:56:35.610 –> 00:56:40.409
feeling good and not feeling like, Oh my God,

00:56:40.469 –> 00:56:44.469
why did I read that? That’s a, that’s a good

00:56:44.469 –> 00:56:48.050
comic reading adventure for me. Yeah. It was

00:56:48.050 –> 00:56:50.190
more along the lines of what did I just read?

00:56:50.309 –> 00:56:53.849
Yeah. Why did I read this? Yeah, exactly. But

00:56:53.849 –> 00:56:56.429
again, that’s the second half. The first half

00:56:56.429 –> 00:57:02.920
I think is certainly more, uh, more on par with

00:57:02.920 –> 00:57:05.579
what i would be interested in story -wise for

00:57:05.579 –> 00:57:09.960
like an ongoing comic less of the the sci -fi

00:57:09.960 –> 00:57:13.000
stuff we get here at the end which again doesn’t

00:57:13.000 –> 00:57:17.460
make any sense to me so yep yep absolutely all

00:57:17.460 –> 00:57:19.659
right folks we’re gonna send it to a quick ad

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00:57:23.360 –> 00:57:26.139
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00:57:26.139 –> 00:57:34.880
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number 32 of the Energon universe coming out

01:02:44.699 –> 01:02:47.619
actually tomorrow as of this recording. So looking

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forward to that. We’re heading back to Cybertron.

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Some of it has already been leaked online. I’ve

01:02:55.039 –> 01:02:58.659
looked at that. So, yeah, I’m looking forward

01:02:58.659 –> 01:03:00.860
to seeing what’s in store for the rest of the

01:03:00.860 –> 01:03:06.130
issue. I love how he hesitates. I’m not making

01:03:06.130 –> 01:03:08.730
fun of your stutter or anything, but I love the

01:03:08.730 –> 01:03:12.650
hesitation of, I’m kind of looking forward. Maybe,

01:03:12.829 –> 01:03:15.769
I don’t know. I mean, in what I’ve seen that’s

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been leaked so far, the art’s already hit or

01:03:17.969 –> 01:03:20.429
miss for me, so I knew that was going to be the

01:03:20.429 –> 01:03:23.809
case. Oh, no. It’s like, well, am I really looking

01:03:23.809 –> 01:03:28.079
forward to it? I don’t know. We’ll see. You can

01:03:28.079 –> 01:03:30.480
also find me on YouTube. I’m at youtube .com

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slash matrix underscore prime. Yeah, there you

01:03:34.199 –> 01:03:38.440
go, folks. All right. This has been episode 586,

01:03:38.519 –> 01:03:41.400
and you’ll hear all that stuff in the past, folks,

01:03:41.480 –> 01:03:43.039
since I don’t know when this episode’s coming

01:03:43.039 –> 01:03:46.579
out, because I still have to finish editing episode

01:03:46.579 –> 01:03:49.159
581. Tomorrow. It’s coming out tomorrow, right?

01:03:49.340 –> 01:03:53.780
Well, this episode? Yeah. No. This episode’s

01:03:53.780 –> 01:03:56.400
not coming out tomorrow. This episode’s coming

01:03:56.400 –> 01:04:02.099
out in the far -flung future of 2016, or maybe

01:04:02.099 –> 01:04:05.460
it’ll come out 40 years later, or 40 years in

01:04:05.460 –> 01:04:07.719
the past. Yes, release it on the 80th anniversary,

01:04:07.820 –> 01:04:11.019
like you were mentioning. Yeah, no, no, can’t

01:04:11.019 –> 01:04:14.199
do that. By that time, podcasting will just be

01:04:14.199 –> 01:04:16.880
something that we, you know, have a wire stuck

01:04:16.880 –> 01:04:20.679
in our head like the old PS9 commercial. Does

01:04:20.679 –> 01:04:24.400
anybody remember the PS9 commercial? I do, yes.

01:04:24.599 –> 01:04:27.119
Oh, thank God. Thank God I’m not making that

01:04:27.119 –> 01:04:38.920
up. New for 2078. PlayStation 9’s new electronic

01:04:38.920 –> 01:04:41.179
spores tap straight into your adrenal gland.

01:04:45.619 –> 01:04:51.849
PS9 has improved retinal scanning. A mind control

01:04:51.849 –> 01:04:55.449
system. A holographic movie surround vision.

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And telepathic personal music. The ultimate just

01:05:13.869 –> 01:05:18.550
got better. PlayStation 9. Teleport yours today.

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All right, folks, that’s going to do it for us.

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01:06:27.190 –> 01:06:30.750
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01:06:30.750 –> 01:06:34.030
recording for next time. We head back to DC Comics

01:06:34.030 –> 01:06:36.730
where my buddy Dave McElvenny and I discussed

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the five issue, six issue, I think it’s five.

01:06:41.070 –> 01:06:44.670
We discussed Crypto, the last dog of Krypton.

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For now, I am TF2 and Mike with… Jesse, I think.

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You think? You don’t know? You’re supposed to

01:06:51.409 –> 01:06:54.670
know these things, man. As always, make it your

01:06:54.670 –> 01:06:58.449
greatest game of the comics. I thought the festival

01:06:58.449 –> 01:07:01.789
lasted till sunset. It turned out to be a limited

01:07:01.789 –> 01:07:05.369
engagement. You should have seen it, Dad. A king

01:07:05.369 –> 01:07:07.690
cobra followed this floating flute and scared

01:07:07.690 –> 01:07:10.769
everybody. And Scott climbed a rope that went

01:07:10.769 –> 01:07:13.650
straight up in the air. Wait a minute. Floating

01:07:13.650 –> 01:07:17.219
flutes? Running cobras? Alex. Well, not that

01:07:17.219 –> 01:07:20.539
it makes any sense, but a fakie somehow did the

01:07:20.539 –> 01:07:23.420
genuine Indian rope trick. At the same moment,

01:07:23.579 –> 01:07:26.679
a flute went winging through the air, luring

01:07:26.679 –> 01:07:29.380
a cobra from the festival. Then as soon as the

01:07:29.380 –> 01:07:32.119
cobra left, the rope I was climbing went limp.

01:07:32.460 –> 01:07:35.199
Sometimes the eye does not behold the truth.

01:07:35.420 –> 01:07:38.469
I think I can still catch the curtain call. And

01:07:38.469 –> 01:07:41.269
maybe Mr. Subas can help. You’ve just heard the

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