Dave and Alex pick their favorite comic book moments of the week!
Alex: Uncanny X-Men #28 (Simone, Vecchio)
Dave: Hidden Springs #1 (Rob Williams, Nil Vendrell Pallach)
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Come on.
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>> Moving on to our next segment.
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>> Listen to you.
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>> Say say that again.
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>> We're going to do our next segment. You
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better shut your mouth. We're moving on
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to the next segment. Stand out.
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>> Kapow.
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>> Moment of the week. our favorite panel
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or page and on deck. Alex, what is this
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bloody body I'm looking at here?
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>> Yeah, I mean, look at this [ __ ] Uh,
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this is art by Luchiano Vetio, which is
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crazy cuz he makes such like light
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beautiful superhero art and then this
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like devastation.
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This is Uncanny X-Men number 28, uh,
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Gail Simone uh, and Vatio. This uh comic
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has really been leaning into horror the
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past like issues. They like had the
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whole monster uh arc with like
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>> uh all the different with was it Lilith?
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It turned out to be Lilith or somebody
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um was controlling all of them. Uh, so
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this is in Grey Milk in Prison, which uh
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X-Men fans have been griping about for
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like a year because it was debuted as
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this like horrific prison camp for
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mutants and then they just like threw a
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bunch of mutants in there and have not
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done anything with it in like months and
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months and months and they've slowly
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been inching towards plot development at
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the prison. So, I was I thought this was
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a great issue. I was excited to read it.
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It would probably be my like number
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three of the week if we uh rated top
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three. Um what you're seeing here is the
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possession of the dead mutant scurvy by
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the psychic mutant perimeter who is the
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evil brother of the anti-mutant bigot
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Karina or Dr. Ellis who runs
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>> who used to be a podcaster
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>> and Scurvy this dead person who this guy
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is inhabiting is the exboyfriend of his
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sister Karina who's in the back of the
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frame. [ __ ] me. Complex as hell.
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>> That's X-Men for you.
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>> What? Yeah. Literally that's
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>> everything in X-Men is like a I'm from
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the future but I'm also your sister and
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I'm also over here.
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>> Exactly. Um, I mean, I thought this
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scene was great. I love when people do
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red uh text bubbles for evil [ __ ]
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Um, he's so like
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>> his name's Oscar, I think. Right.
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>> What
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>> was his isn't his name Oscar? This guy?
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>> Yes. But he was like, "Don't call me
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Oscar anymore. Oscar's dead. Call me
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Perimeter." Um,
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>> who's also Inmate X? The secret guy
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who's behind the prison.
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>> Yes, he's also Inmate X. which is crazy
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that Inmate X isn't anyone from the
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comics for how much they built up Inmate
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X. Like from before the fall of KCOA,
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we've been hearing about Inmate X. Like
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insane that it's just like a naked man.
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Um
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>> he's only naked cuz he took over this
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person's body, right?
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>> Yeah. He's giving like anti-Jesus. Like
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it looks like Jesus on the cross, but
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he's a demon.
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>> The way it drapes, you're so right. I
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didn't
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>> Yeah. It's very like biblical in some
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ways. And you know, Marvel will show
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dead people, but like to show the scene
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before this is this guy like slicing the
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throat of a doctor to death.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Often things are like polybagged if
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they're like this graphic with the
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blood. So, it was pretty pretty [ __ ]
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bloody for just like a run-of-the-mill
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>> X-Men comic. Um,
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>> 100%. Yeah. You know, I also really like
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this because it establishes a great
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dynamic between Perimeter and his sister
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Karina that mirrors Monae St. Craw and
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her brother Marius or Emplate. And Monae
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is a prisoner of Grey Malcin prison is
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going to be a part of this rebellion
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that I'm assuming frees all the mutants
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from Grey Malcin's control. and her
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brother is this evil like soul sucking
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mutant. So, it's an interesting thing
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where Karina, this woman of color who's
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like an anti-mutant psycho, is like
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mirroring the relation sibling
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relationship that Monae has with Mplate,
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which um which I do enjoy.
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>> Interesting. Huh. I wonder if they'll
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unpack that next issue since u Monaet is
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going to be punching this guy in the
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mouth.
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>> Exactly. Monet is going to be a central
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part of it. And you know, Karina only
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became an anti-mutant bigot because her
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brother was a sociopath who tortured her
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her entire childhood and killed their
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parents. So like I'm also like gh how
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dare you Gail for causing me to feel
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empathy towards this like literal like
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prison camp warden. like she
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I probably would also have found a
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hatred towards mutants if this guy did
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this to me. So, it was it was a good
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issue and a a pretty shocking moment.
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>> Do you think he has anything to do with
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the outliers or is that a whole separate
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thing?
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girl. I don't [ __ ] know because he's
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also consider there's also like the
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whole like aven plot
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>> like they revealed that like
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>> Xavier is like like anyone who does mind
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stuff is an I don't
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>> Gambit has wings now too so he's like
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aven.
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>> Yeah,
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>> I guess. So,
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>> uh, my panel favorite page, double page
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splash of the week comes from Hidden
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Springs number one, which we just talked
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about. Kind of opposite vibe. Uh, less
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scary, more well, it's got a kind of
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scariness to it. It's the reveal of our
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baby Kaiju.
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>> Scary.
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>> I think it's the chubbiness of the arms,
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but also the flappiness of his weird
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lips that make him so cute. Although the
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goooness makes it weird and gross. And
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this is the moment where our main
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characters witness the kaiju for the
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first time and are in complete shock and
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awe. And I just think the scope of this
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thing's size across two pages is really
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well done. But also the use of the
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foreground with our main characters in
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the bottom left. By the way, if you
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can't if you're listening to this, you
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have to go to aptcom.com to see it what
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I'm talking about. Uh but the foreground
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in the uh bottom left and then the the
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midground with our monster and then the
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trees in the background. There's just a
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really good composition here. And your
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eye of course wants to go left to right
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and it does uh with this giant cute
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chubby monster.
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>> Yeah, this was a great reveal. He really
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reminds me, especially because of his
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mouth of um Zoidberg from Futurama and
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like possible way.
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>> That's funny. Maybe he's related.
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>> Yeah, cousin.
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>> I think Futurama is coming back, so you
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know, maybe there's some sort of
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>> what
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>> for like the 18th 18th time. That's
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crazy.
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>> Yeah, I I didn't see when, but I saw the
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announcement that it's returning for
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another season.
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>> Nice pick, man.
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>> Come on.
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