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Dave and Chris pick their favorite comic book moment of the week from over a hundred comics read. Those comics include:
Absolute Batman Annual #1 (Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren, Meredith McClaren)
Robowolf #2 (Jake Smith)
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Moving on to our next segment. Standout
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pow
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moment of the week. Our favorite panel
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or page. My god. We're gonna show some
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We should be arrested and thrown in
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about to talk about.
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Chris, what is your favorite panel of
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page of the week?
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Uh, we were just talking about uh the
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absolute Batman uh annual from this year
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this week
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and I wanted to pick my favorite issue.
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Uh, you know, obviously I I grappled
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with the idea of maybe we should show
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the white supremacist getting his elbow
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broken.
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Maybe we should show the white
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supremacist taking the one-winged angel.
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Uh, which is the I didn't know what that
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was.
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That's a one-winged angel, David.
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Look at that.
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Which wrestler does that? Is that a
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wrestler specific wrestlers move?
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Penny Omega.
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Whoa. You got quick with that. Quick.
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Mhm. Uh, and I just love this because
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like at the end of the day, what I think
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that Daniel Warren Johnson does more
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than kind of these big controversial
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images, this extreme violence is like he
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uses his style, he uses his storytelling
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to tell something kind of really uh
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personal and uh intimate. And so like
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what this story basically is is like I
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think Batman
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sees kind of
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what he's capable of,
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what he'd like to do to people, what he
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could easily do to people and no one
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could stop him. Um, and how maybe he
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should sort of rethink that and how
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taking a new approach, having a new
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understanding, being patient, like
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pulling back when he all he wants to do
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is hurt people is a better kind of way
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to honor the the kind of legacy of his
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father who was a man who gave people
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second chances and like believed in
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people and like was a teacher not just
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in his job but like wanted to sort of
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make people better. And I think that
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that's, you know, a lesson that this
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Batman takes to heart. And I just love
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kind of the idea of using the scale of
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this giant machine that he starts using
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as his personal Batmobile. This to me
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feels like
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the smallest,
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most kind of delicate that Batman has
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been in this entire kind of absolute
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Batman
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uh run so far. And I just I just love
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that moment of like showing that for the
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imposing figure that he is, like he's
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still just a dude who's grappling with
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stuff and like
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dealing with trauma, dealing with
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regret, and he's just trying to like
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work through it the best he can. And
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like it's just such a great final image
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of almost like kind of peaceful, almost
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serene in a way given all the kind of
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bloodshed and it just works. It just
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like Yeah, it it took my breath away
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when I saw it and I just I it had to be
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the thing that stood out to me in a
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really really like huge issue.
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Yeah, it's it's a panel that you I just
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you just don't see every day, right? I
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mean,
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so much focus on the the truck. I could
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see an editor
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20 years ago be like, "We need to see
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Batman's logo."
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Yeah. Nope.
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No. Yeah. showing how small he feels in
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this moment is a is a key element of the
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story.
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So so perfect.
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And it's the last page, too.
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Uh my favorite double page splash is
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probably as serious as yours. Um
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absolutely.
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It's for Robo Wolf number two by Jake
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Smith, who you interviewed. Um
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I did.
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This is a ridiculous book. And I gave it
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a nine out of 10. And that's ridiculous
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that I did.
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Yeah.
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This book has people saying stuff like,
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"Why did you do that to me just now?
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That's not what a friend would do." And
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it's just like, "Oh my lord." But as you
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can see in this panel, the art or sorry,
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double page splash. The art is
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stunningly detailed. It's it's very much
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Jake's um style as well. This isn't just
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like conventional comic book art, but
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look at all the things going on. We have
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I mean just look at the sound effect in
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the background here that's zipping by
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because it's it's doing the chainsaw
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sound behind everything adding like
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depth of field to the entire page.
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Meanwhile, there are guts flying and of
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course they're pink. It's it's not red
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so you can
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but it has to be. Yeah,
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it's not quite as violent as it could
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be. Uh look how joyous the girl is in
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the bottom who he's saving. Like it's
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just over the top. The guy has chainsaw
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arms. Like come on.
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But there's I can't imagine how long
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this took him. It must have he must have
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taken him two weeks to draw this thing.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So yeah, uh props to him. This is this
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is quite something. And the whole book
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is is beautifully drawn. There isn't a
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bad panel in there. And the book is
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ridiculous and over the top. You should
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check it out if you like 80s schllock
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action.
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Yeah. when I talked to him, we talked
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about a lot about kind of 80s action
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movies and just kind of like the
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schllockiness of it all. And I think
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that that's that's a thing that like
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really spoke to him kind of
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aesthetically and it's like
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you can have something that looks really
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over the top but that is also kind of
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fun and silly. And so I think he strikes
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a really good balance. And like I this
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is such a great page of like if you want
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to understand this book and how Jake
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kind of approaches comics and the way
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that he views kind of, you know,
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distilling in inspirations and like
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doing something cool. It this is such an
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awesome page.
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