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Dave and Chris pick their favorite comic book moments of the week!
Chris: MegaGhost Volume 2 #2 (Gabe Soria and Gideon Kendall)
Dave: Absolute Superman #19 (Rafa Sandoval) AND
Fantastic Four #10 (Ryan North, Humberto Ramos)
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Moving
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on to our next segment, stand out.
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>> Moment of the week, our favorite panel
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or page. This is where we talk about the
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best moment that we could find. And
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sometimes there's so many we have to
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narrow it down. This week I didn't. And
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>> I I also didn't. You didn't less than
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me. I was better about it than you.
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>> Okay, you win. Are you playing? Are you
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playing that game I talked to you told
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you about with the syllables?
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>> Yes.
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>> Me better, good. You
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>> me good. You bad. Me wonderful.
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>> Uh what was your favorite moment of the
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week?
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>> Uh mine was from Mega Ghost, uh the
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second volume, the second issue that
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just came out this week, uh by the team
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of Gabe Sora and Gideon Kendall. If you
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don't know what Mega Ghost is, it's like
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a young boy has like three ghost friends
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and those ghost friends combine to turn
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into like a giant ghost mech that fights
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what is effectively like horror kaiju
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and that's all you need to know. And
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it's like honestly become one of my
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favorite books just after two issues
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because it's like I classify it with
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Royals as being like just like super
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fun,
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slightly more cartoony
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uh storytelling, but Mega Ghost takes it
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to like
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>> uh the end level and it's just like
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every Saturday morning cartoon
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rolled into its beetleborgs and Power
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Rangers and just all of this stuff
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combined and like this the two uh pages
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that I picked where you see sort of mega
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ghost
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making a an unofficial stake and like
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hurling it into the heart of what is a
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giant vampire beast from space like I
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don't like if you see this and you're
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just like what's this or I don't care
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like I I you I can't reach you like your
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heart is is frozen forever like you
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should look at this and want to
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immediately pick up the book and be
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like, "Oh my god, this is the greatest
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thing ever because it might be." And
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like I just
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like it's so like it's so hokey and
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silly and stupid and like there's just
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so many gimmicks and like everything is
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horror related. Like I think even their
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they they go to like a baseball game at
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some point. I think even like the
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baseball team is like horror related.
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like they just they just nail you in the
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face with it over and over and it's like
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so amazing
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>> on top of just all this like weird
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insane stuff. So So it's like it's at a
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level of I think consistency and
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performance that like is is ungodly and
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like I I can't wait to see what else
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this book does because like this is just
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a second issue and they're fighting like
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space vampires.
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>> Oh wow. Yeah, that's a lot. and also
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defiling a Christmas tree.
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>> Yes. What? Yeah.
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>> If he if he's a robot, why does he have
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like a little flap of cloth on his
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crotch?
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>> Uh he's like three ghosts combined
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together. So I don't I don't know if
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like I mean modesty is still important,
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but like
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>> that's true. That's true. That's true.
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>> I think he's just sort of doing what he
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wants to do because it's three ghosts.
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>> Gotcha.
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>> Used. I love that the he had to get this
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giant log because that's a giant
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monster. He's throwing the spear thing
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into them.
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>> Yeah. Well, you have you kill vampires
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with a steak and you have to kill a
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giant vampire with a giant steak. So,
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>> who has a really tiny waist? I guess
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he's on Osmpic.
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>> It's already hit the vampire community.
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>> Yeah, it's the space vampire community.
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It's inundated with Osmpic.
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>> So, I picked two panels. One's from
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Fantastic 4 number 10, which I was just
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talking about, where Invincible Woman
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rips the flesh off Wolverine and his
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eyes are popping out of his metal skull.
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And then also twisting Deadpool's into
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like knots over here. Uh, and then if
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you look at the bottom, oh, I'm sorry.
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If you're just listening to this, go to
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amput.com, see the art,
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>> do it.
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>> If you're on YouTube, you can see what
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I'm saying. But, um, like I look at this
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mess at the bottom right. like Wolverine
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is not doing well.
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>> Yeah, he's in a real bad stage.
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>> I mean, and she actually says, you know,
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let's see how far we could take this.
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Like how how long will it take before,
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you know, you don't come back.
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Um, but yeah, just it's just really neat
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art here by Humbo where he's really
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stretching the kinetic nature of his
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art. And then I picked this double page
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spread from Oh, absolute superman that's
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out this week. It's interesting like I I
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had a hard time picking it but also not
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picking it because it's using there's a
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lot of space here that's not being used
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like the sky on the right and even over
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here. But the fact that it's giving us a
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cross-sectional of this of the
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skyscraper where Superman is pushing
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Shazam or Black Atom, I guess, through
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this building, and you could see each
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floor being destroyed and then through
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the windows, we see glass spraying out
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of each side. I thought that was really
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cool and an interesting way to showcase
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something we've seen a thousand times in
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superhero comics. On top of that, adding
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the sound effects alongside
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the floors being smashed through is
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quite cool. Then on top of that, at the
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top here, we see this panel that is
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almost got a 3D effect. It's actually
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acting like a magnifying glass to zoom
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in a little on the action. I wonder if
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there was like originally this was all
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just rendered and then they were like,
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"Ah, it's kind of empty over here. Let's
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put another panel and then zoom in on
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the chaos because it doesn't necessarily
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add a lot, but yet it does because it
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draws your eye, right? If you think
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about it, left to right, you go left, up
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through the building, and then down
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through these panels. So, there's a
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really cool um movement going along this
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double page flash, too. So, a lot to
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talk about here. I haven't even talked
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about everything. So, I think that's
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worthy of kapow.
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>> 100%. I love this is like the most empty
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but also the most busy page I think I've
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seen in quite some time. Like
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>> yeah,
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>> it's so I love that contrast. It works
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so well. And like you said, it just
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takes your eye right down to the
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building, which I love.
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>> It's really neat. There's a lot going on
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here and uh a lot to break down in a
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video
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or on a podcast.
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Come on. Woo.
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