Free Comic Book Day 2018 Live Coverage

Hi, this is Kyle Higgins and you're listening

to the Geek Patch Radio Network. Hey, this is

Thompson Thaller, creator of Long Distance, and

you are listening to The Pullback. Alright everyone,

it's free comic book day 2018, The Pullback episode

306 is all about free comic book day. I'm of

course TF2 and Mike. I'm going to be live at

Jay's Comics in Grayslake, Illinois. You'll hear

that bit here in a moment. It is the first time

the pull bag has done a live on location recording.

It went fairly well, I would say. I enjoy doing

it. I don't know how often I'll be doing it because

I don't know how often I'm actually going to

be out of the house since everyone that listens

to this podcast should pretty much know I hate

leaving my house because I love my house. It's

literally the best house in the entire world.

No one has a better house than my wife and I.

So free comic book day What titles did you grab

for the free comic book day selections? What

did you purchase from your local comic shop to

help support them? These are questions that I

want to know answers from so please comment on

this post and let me know What you got what your

swag was and all of that and how excited you

were for free comic book day this year After

the Jay's Comics in Grayslake, Illinois live

segment, Eduardo will be joining me to talk about

the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day issue and

the Transformers Unicron Free Comic Book Day

issue. So, please enjoy, and I'm gonna throw

it over to myself because I'm live at Jay's Comics.

We are live here at Jay's Comics in Grayslake,

Illinois. This is TFU and Mike from The Pull

Bag. I'm here with owner Jay. Say hello, sir.

Hello. How are you today? Good. How are yourself?

Also here with Jimmy, the promotions dude. Hello.

How's it going? It's going. Sometimes I wish

it would stop. So when did you open the store?

How long have you been into comics? Any of that

kind of stuff? This store has been here since

1991. I've been in the comics since I was about

five because my dad was into it when I was a

child. Okay. What was the first comic you ever

read? Amazing Spider -Man. Amazing Fantasy 15?

No, no, no. Spider -Man, no. Okay. Can you believe

they're reaching 800 issues at this point? It's

crazy. It's nuts. It's absolutely nuts. It helps

when they put it out every two weeks. So when

did you decide that hey, I want to start a comic

store I want to get into What was it like back

then, the store here? Was it always here at this

location that we're at now? Yes, we moved in

the current location two years ago. And free

comic book day, you guys have a really good turnout.

Yes we do, it gets bigger every year. I don't

know why any of these other businesses are here,

at least today. Like, why are they open? Like,

clothes, people. Come on. Don't worry about being

good neighbors. The only thing that needs to

stay open is the pizza place. Yeah, well, people

need to get their clothes clean as well. What

about you, Jimmy? What have you been reading,

or what got you into comics? G .I. Joe, actually.

Oh, really? That was my gateway drug into comics,

and then from there went to X -Men. Ah. Huh.

Expanded ever since. Yeah. I haven't been able

to get into Marvel or DC, and the only thing

I'm reading from DC right now is Batman Beyond

Rebirth. It's too much. Between the two of them,

there's just too much going on in both of them.

reboot every X number of years, months, days,

whatever. Well, I'd like to keep the fans interested,

you know, change up the game a little bit. Plus

they want the cheddar. Fans change over the years,

readers change over the years, so things are

gonna keep progressing or else it's gonna stagnate.

Yeah, absolutely. We understand it. Absolutely.

So what do you guys get going on for free comic

book day usually? Is there a usual thing? Does

it change every year? We try to change it up

all the time. Today we have our first ever sidewalk

sale, quarter books, dollar books. We've got

buy two get one free, graphic novels, ominous

as absolutes. We have 10 % off new comic books

that are on the new racks. Toys are 10 % off.

We have some discounted t -shirts for $9 .99.

You got the radio station here too. The radio

station just pulls up 95 Little Rock. BBQ Productions

is here serving food. Awesome, awesome. First

time for them, second time for Will Rock. Awesome,

very cool, very cool. Yeah, I mean, it's always,

Free Comic Day has always been a thing of, oh,

come out, have some fun, get some free comics.

And I've always said, and I know other people

say this as well, it's like, even though the

comics are free, you should still buy one or

two things to help support the shop, because

shops don't just... get free comics. We do not.

We do pay for them. Yes, absolutely. If you're

getting five free comics once a year, the least

you can do is buy a trade or whatever. Just buy

something from the store. We have something for

everybody. Yeah, absolutely. It's an amazing

store you guys have put together. Thank you.

Just absolutely love it. It's just super fun.

So if anyone wants to come out to Jay's Comics...

Address? 34185 North US Highway 45 Third Lake,

Illinois 60030 Awesome! Yep, you can find them

on Facebook, on Twitter, and I'll give all that

information out in a little bit or unless you

want to give it out now if you know what's on

top of your head. Jay's Comics IL believe okay

on Twitter and also on Facebook and Instagram

okay cool awesome well thank you so much just

call us up 847 -223 -8711 we'll be here until

8 o 'clock tonight absolutely 8 to 8 for free

comic book day here May 5th 2018 this is TF2

and Mike and I will send it back probably to

myself for other free comic book stuff in this

episode Thank you so much to Jay from Jay's comics

here in Illinois I am back folks and joining

me is Eduardo from Let's be reals and other things

around the web. You've heard him on tooncast

and things like that with me Talking spider -man

and x -men cartoons and all that and we're here

to talk about two of the free comic book day

issues we're gonna start with something that

is new to me because It's too British just too

British if it's not faulty towers are rising

damp. I don't care, but I tried is the 2018 Doctor

Who Free comic book day issue. Hello, sir. How

was your free comic book day? Oh? busy busy busy

Went ended up going to two different comic shops

First off I got to give you know the the comic

shop where I did like the bulk of my free comic

book day stuff is Omega frog in Sparks, Nevada.

And it was great. I mean, just the whole setup

managed to get everything that I wanted to. For

me, Transformers Unicron and Doctor Who were

actually like the top two. It's like, no matter

what happens, I gotta get those issues, and well,

I got it. Also went to Comic Kingdom in Reno.

Mainly because my wife Patricia found out about

the Labyrinth comic and we managed to find two

issues at Omega Frog and we found like the missing

issue at Comic Kingdom so now she has all three

issues to date and you know she really wanted

to find that so you know we found it and yeah

also you know just because because hey you know

why not just put a little cherry on the sundae

You know, we'd had to slip into Target and they

were having a huge DVD Blu -ray sale and I find

finally I finally picked up Iron Giant, you know

That was one of those was one of my favorite

movies and it's one of those that I've never

really actually just pulled the trigger and bought

a copy because it always shows up on TV and finally

did and I Expect that pretty soon. I'll be sitting

down watching it and then crying my eyes out

man -style at the Superbad. You know the scene?

Oh yeah. Yeah. Heck, I've said it before like

online and stuff like that, I dare you. I dare

you to watch that scene and not just start crying

like a baby. You can. Yeah, you can. And if you

don't, I'm sorry, you have no soul. Exactly.

Your soul is. Well, you can't not cry at that

scene because that's essentially Dominic Toretto

as Superman. is fast and the furious superman

robots he's got nitrous oxide in him not to mention

i mean that's that's uh... you know you got uh...

john mahogany the the late john mahogany from

fraser as a as a general yeah where's the robot

mansley uh... now i assume you did not because

i hope nobody does this but Free comic book day

is a celebration for all of us that read comics,

that are fans of comics and everything else,

folks. And as I said earlier in the clip with

Jay from Jay's Comics, these shop owners don't

get these books for free. They offer them for

free to us, but I assume you all purchased a

bunch of stuff. Because that's the thing, like,

yeah, you get five free comics or whatever, buy

one or two things, even if they're just like...

Funko pops or if they're single issues that you

don't have or something that you're missing or

whatever I assume you all purchased stuff as

well, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah That's what like

that's why I you know, that's why we bought the

the labyrinth comics You know, that was our you

know, that was our thing You know, I mean that's

you know Omega frog opened up like about Little

little over a year ago or so and you know, it's

it's been a it's a great little shop and We do

you know, we do like to support it Absolutely,

and I bought I bought I think I think when they

opened up I bought I bought like a couple of

things from them I bought Green Arrow rebirth

volume two from them I also bought I believe

it's volumes three and four of secret warriors

Hmm. Very cool. And I also bought a couple of

issues of the Hasbro handbook from them. Oh,

cool. Very cool. Yeah, for me on free comic book

day, I grabbed... Though I'm not a big fan, and

I understand why they have to do this, but I'm

not a big fan of Marvel and... What's the other

one? Marvel and Star Wars. The Marvel and Star

Wars Funko pops, they get arou - Funko gets around

it, being able to make them by making them bobble

heads. And... not a fan of that at all. like

i understand that there's a way to work around

the license and all that but i'm not a fan of

that still because we just saw avengers infinity

war i had to get iron spider i almost got Thanos

but Thanos um... he demanded silence and he was

sold out uh... uh... it's so funny i'll i'll

by the time this goes live folks on on geekcastradio

.com i will have had uh... pictures put up I

actually took pictures at the event at Jay's

Comics and they actually had a Thanos out there.

This dude's costume was amazing. The gauntlet

with the stones was awesome. His whole face was

great. And one of the guys promoting their sidewalk

sale was like, if anyone wants a picture with

Thanos, please come see Thanos. He's lonely.

I'm like, well of course he's lonely. He destroyed

the universe or at least half of it anyway. Yeah,

well, that's what happens, you know, that's what

happens when you're a guy like Thanos and you

decide to make a snap decision So I got Iron

Spidey because I just love I haven't even seen

I'm only halfway through spider -man homecoming

I haven't even seen the whole damn movie, but

I just love Tom Holland as Peter Parker and Spidey

and Seeing the Iron Spider suit in action in

a movie is just super amazing absolutely love

it So I had to get Iron Spidey for Funko Pop

and I got which is surprising. I didn't realize

it would be there I got a villain from my 66

Batgirl. I got Penguin from the Batman 66 Funko

Pop series. Oh, nice. Yeah, so I can actually

reenact that whole episode where he tried to

marry Barbara Gordon. Yeah, so. But yes, we're

here to talk about free comics from Free Comic

Day, and as I said, we're starting with Doctor

Who. You are a Whovian, I am not. Just I just

can't there's too much when Doctor Who was on

Netflix the 2005 series was on Netflix I tried

watching several episodes what I tried to do

was I tried watching the first episode from Two

or three of the season so I started with season

one season two season three I just could not

follow along. I just could not, and I've just

not had any interest in this. But I figure, hey,

it's free Kamihote, I'll give it a try. I don't

know. Well, okay, I will say this. If you do

want to try and get into Doctor Who, because

we're dealing with something that has 55 years

worth of continuity and stories and whatnot,

The best thing I would say for a newbie is yeah

start with the 2005 you know series season You

know the one with Christopher Eccleston and kind

of work your way through Another another way

you could do it is you could also kind of start

with the the second season the first You know

the first stuff with David Tennant Probably I

would say probably start off with the episode

new earth because in in the in that case you

have a fresh start that you can go through because

there are places where it'll be a little tough

to kind of get into because you'll have you'll

have some continuity you know um looking through

well going through the free comic book day issue

uh i would say that fortunately i'd say two out

of the three stories you don't need that you

know you could probably get into If you're not

that familiar with like all the you know with

like all the the backstory and stuff like I would

say the seventh doctor story and the 11th are

a little easier to get into the The first story

the opening story with you know, the the one

catch a falling star Yeah with well kind of nominally

with the tenth doctor because like the narrator

Gabby has been you know, the doctor's companion

that's a little tougher only i mean the good

the good thing is it kind of provides an overview

of at least her adventures with the doctor but

the ending the ending where she runs into the

twelfth doctor might be a little difficult if

you're not familiar with the idea of the doctor

being able to change the space and everything

okay now if i'm correct me if i'm wrong tenth

was tenant right yes 11th is Oh God not Capaldi.

He was 12th 11th was Matt Smith. Yes, okay. Yeah,

okay What I wanted out of after I went and read

this because I read this quite literally before

we hit record on this episode folks like I needed

10 extra minutes to get through this. Catch the

Falling Star, as we're looking at it, I just

have the first two pages open where it has the

title and it has Gabby's narration throughout

the whole thing. I am legally blind. I've said

this before. I have 2200 vision. Even if I had

my glasses updated to what they should be now,

I would only have 2060 vision. I still had issues

read, and this is not about the story. It's about

how the comic is presented. I had severe issues

reading the narration bubbles because of the

kind of cursive with the background, and I just...

I got it, but at the same point, by the time

I got to like... the end of the second page I'm

like okay I don't care about this chick and it's

not her fault that I don't care about her because

it's the it's the way the comic is made it's

it's the way the narration bubbles are done with

like it's not cursive but it kind of looks like

it wants to be a little thing I don't know Yeah,

what I was hoping out of this and they kind of

give it to us at the end and we'll talk about

that later What I wanted this to be was hey,

it's 2018 Hey, guess what's coming later this

year the 13th doctor like that's what I wanted

out of this I wanted something that was new and

fresh to me and I guess this technically is new

and fresh obviously but like like you said fresh

start with either the first season of the 2005

series the Christopher Eccleton series or you

know the the the second season or whatever the

tent the the tenant season or whatever um but

that's what i was really hoping out of this free

comic book day issue was not three separate stories

from three sec this is like people telling me

oh watch rose watch uh blink and watch whatever

so i watched rose i didn't care for rose because

i hate that companion Whoever that you know and

blink was okay, but I don't know so that's why

I say folks That's why Eduardo is here because

he can actually you know be the positive voice

of reinforcement here Well, I'm kind of the negative

Nancy over here So anything else we want to say

about falling star about Gabby's story like you

said it's basically just her adventures with

her recollections of adventures with the doctor

Yeah it well also i mean if you're well if you

are if you're a fan of if you've been a fan of

doctor who especially from like the classic era

up till now there's even a couple of little there's

even a couple of there's like one or two things

um like for example on the second page when you

have kind of like this image of i guess all these

monsters that they've run into uh the one that's

kind of in the center You know, this guy that

looks like he has this Egyptian -style black

mask. That's a classic villain named Sutec. He's

kind of like an evil alien who posed as like

a Greek god. And he's a villain that showed up

in probably one of the best classic series adventures,

and that's The Fourth Doctor, it's called Pyramid

of Mars. And I know that... I know in recent

years, he's kind of had a stage to come back

because he showed up for some adventures with

the Tenth Doctor. In fact, I have the trade paperbacks

for both. I have two trade paperbacks that have

Sutec versus the Tenth Doctor. You got the Cybermen.

One of them is shown almost bottom right. the

bald -headed alien -looking thing that's a centaur

and so you know you've got some classic villains

I mean I think also weeping angels in there you

know that's the statue that's covering its face

so you know if you're a fan at least those things

are there and you know you got some nice nods

and yeah it's interesting because I know that

the the end of catch a falling star kind of matches

up with In a recent issue of the the tenth doctor

comic like I think it it it's You know, it's

not expanding but also kind of doing, you know

redoing that scene You know and it kind of it

makes me wonder is This yeah are like for example

that in the 12th doctors comic is he now gonna

be traveling with Gabby? You know, there's Gabby

jumped doctors Yeah, because as soon as I see

this ending here, Doctor, you, I told you, if

you ever fell, I'd catch you. All I can think

of is that old 80s song, Catch a Falling Star.

Oh, God. Actually, that line, it has me thinking

of another 80s classic, and actually one of my

favorite songs, which is Time After Time by Cyndi

Lauper. That too. Because remember, one of the

lines that gets that she keeps saying in the

refrain is, if you fall, I will catch you. Yep.

So the Armageddon Gambit. This villain here in

the opening looks like a cross between a Power

Rangers villain and something out of Star Trek.

Yeah, so this is the Seventh Doctor, right? Yep,

Sylvester McCoy, which, you know, for those who

aren't, like, classic series people, Sylvester

McCoy, actually, he was in The Hobbit. He was

Radagast the Brown. Okay, alright. So, you know,

you got a little, got a little, you know, crossing,

crossing the streams there, as far as geekdom.

That and he, uh... You know give him a monocle

of a purple hat and a longer nose he could essentially

be the penguin from Batman 66 Because of the

umbrella So this story basically has them him

and his companion ace coming aboard this ship

How do you want to talk about this because again

Okay I'll have to edit part of this because you

kind of cut out there for a second So it has

them coming aboard this alien ship to stop them

from taking over the world or destroying time

and space and whatever Yeah, I mean I would say

that whatever whatever it is that they were planning

on doing their You know their they stopped it

Yeah, he's like uh, but why you could have destroyed

us because everyone deserves a second chance

I wouldn't waste it if I were you Yeah, well,

that's the well. That's the that's the doctor.

You know the doc Most most incarnations of the

doctor with like a couple of exceptions Yeah,

he's not about destroying his enemies. You know

he's about well. I got to stop you And you know

he he can be he can be merciful at times Like

I said there there are a couple of times where

he has no choice, but You know, that's the thing.

He has no choice and it's like he doesn't enjoy

doing it So in this particular case, it's the

doctor being the doctor and like no ice ice.

All I had to do was stop you And by the way a

little a little aside actually since you know

since we're talking about the I was actually

at uh... the gallifrey one convention in l .a.

back in february and the seventh year of the

actor for the seven doctors of us mccoy and sophie

aldridge who played ace they were at the convention

they were like a special guest that's awesome

by the way they're both and by the way they're

both wonderful people they're both very sweet

uh... you know great uh... you know just great

uh... great people to talk to uh... you know

and just and it's like and I actually it was

this the the story this this story in free comic

book day actually acts as sort of a Frequel to

a Seventh Doctor miniseries that's coming out

And I and I found out about it at Gallifrey one

You know that was kind of a you know it was the

fact that the convention was going on That's

when Titan comics decided to say oh and by the

way You know, oh, you know, the the Seventh Doctor,

you know, the Seventh Doctor himself, the Vicious

McQuay is at Gallifrey 1. Oh, and by the way,

Seventh Doctor miniseries. It's kind of it's

funny because the artist Christopher Jones is

somebody who goes to the Gallifrey 1 a lot. And

I had met him the year, you know, last year at

last year's galley. He actually has worked on

the Young Justice comic for DC. And he was one

of those that was pushing. for the return of

young justice and he's pushing like okay the

comic is coming you know the cartoon is coming

back hey dc i can work on the comic yeah no you

know um but yeah i i ran into him like the opening

you know the opening night festivities and he

didn't he kept his mouth shut like i didn't find

out until the next day and i went online and

i saw the announcement for the seventh doctor

so i kind of like Jokingly teased him and I was

like you didn't tell me about this. You know,

you didn't say anything last night He's like

I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it, man So, I

mean I gotta I gotta give I gotta give props

to Christopher Jones, you know, he's not he's

not Tom Holland, you know He knew about this.

He kept his mouth shut, you know good for him

Good for good for him No need to hand off a fake

script Exactly. Yeah So then the final story

is Midnight Feast with the Twelfth Doctor. Uh,

Eleventh. Oh. Wait. Matt Smith. Oh, that's right.

Whoops. Eleventh. Okay then. Yeah. Matt Smith.

Um. It's okay. He's gonna get a midnight snack

at first and then... Let me end up in you know

this bar that you know Lone Star and barf should

be at For diner or whatever And I just can't

get into these things man, I don't know what

it is but Well, that's the well it's you know

it again, this is one of those this is one of

those that This is one of those and You know,

this is one of those things that like much like

the seventh doctors, you know, I think the seventh

doctor story and this story They're the ones

that I thought you really don't need that much,

you know, like you don't need to worry about

huge backstory This is just a fun little, you

know, it's a fun little thing. It does hearken

back though to Matt Smith's first episode because,

you know, Matt Smith's first episode he had just

regenerated and he's talking about being hungry

and, you know, he's talking about talking about

being hungry and he runs into young Amy Pond.

just goes through the kitchen trying to just

make all this food to find out you know exactly

what he you know what he wants to eat so you

know he just he goes through toast with butter

he throws it out doesn't want beans doesn't want

apples finally settles on fish fingers with custard

and it's kind of funny that he has fish fingers

and custard here and it's like nope still hungry

and just ends up going through a lot more food

Which it looks I don't know Kind of looks it

doesn't look like he has quite the The the issue

with that he did before but it's kind of funny

that we have this all over again And this ends

with well that story ends the the actual comic

ends with you know Reader's guide of the Doctor

Who stuff from Titan comics. You turn the page,

and it's the new 13th Doctor coming. Adventure

begins this fall. Yep. See, I know it's not much.

It's basically just a teaser. It's kind of something

like if this was a Marvel movie, this would be

like the end credits teaser, where it's just

the TARDIS shows up and she pops out and it's

like, the 13th Doctor will return. Mean yeah,

I could see I could see why You know some people

would want more, but at the same time She's you

know at the same time Her adventures are being

filmed as we speak right you know there's a lot

of it's being kept under wraps and You know if

Titan were to do like a full book. You know like

a three page story in here How would they be

able to do it without? spoiling something about

what's being filmed so this is kind of just this

is a one -page way of celebrating the the 13th

you know the coming of the 13th doctor and just

saying hey we're you know we here at Titan comics

we're jumping in on this too you know we are

gonna be doing her adventures so you know it's

like if you let you know if you're if you enjoy

what's good what's on you know what's on TV then

You know, you'll know you'll be happy to know

that the comics are gonna be doing the same thing.

Yeah, absolutely Yeah, and by the way, the the

guy who wrote Midnight Feast George Mann. Mm

-hmm has actually done Yeah, he's also written

a couple of Doctor Who novels or two He's he

did a great one called engines of war which featured

the war doctor The doctor that was the doctor

that was played by John Hurt in the 50th anniversary

special Really awesome book. I mean, I'd highly

recommend it. Very cool. Very cool Yeah, that

is very awesome Oh boy, okay, so yeah my adventures

into Doctor Who still elude me because I still

can't I like the stories. They're great stories.

They're great little mini stories for a free

comic book day issue. Is it going to make me

go out and get some of the Doctor Who comics

from Titan? Sadly, no, but I don't know maybe

it appeals to other people. I don't know what

it is. I just I just can't wrap my brain around

Doctor Who right now. Well, it's you know what

I will I will say that it is Doctor Who it's

see like with With a lot of British productions,

whether it's humor like Monty Python, Benny Hill,

Faulty Towers, adventure like Doctor Who, or

even just Shakespearean stuff. There's some British

fiction. It's one of those things where you either

get into it, you find a way, you get into it,

or you can't. I mean it's nothing it's there's

nothing wrong with either thing you know if you're

not you're not too weird if you're into the British

stuff you're not you know and you haven't sinned

if you're you know if you're not enjoying it

it's you know you just have to have the right

mind I don't know I don't know some people would

have said that I've sinned by now by not enjoying

it there's there's some people out there that

would say that to me look I kind of look I okay

Would love it if you became a hoovian, you know

Because there's some there's awesome stories

in there and even some fun cheese because if

you look at the classic series and you look at

You know you look at some of the production value

There's some unintentional comedy in there, but

you know if you can't get into it you can't get

into it I mean, I'm not you know I'm not gonna

strap you to a chair and prop open your eyes

clockwork orange style until you love it Yeah,

I will I will say this though if you want to

try if you want to do one more try When the 13th

Doctor comes in, she also has a new showrunner.

It was the same guy who was responsible for the

series Broadchurch. They're talking about the

series being kind of almost a fresh start, new

Doctor, new showrunner, the logo actually is

brand new. So if you want to give it like another

shot, Uh, you know, I'd say, yeah, when, um,

if you have, uh, if you have BBC America, give

it a try, you know, give it a try. You never

know. You know, this might be the, this might

be the gateway that you're finally like, okay,

I'm sold. It might be. I don't know. I have summoned

you here for a purpose. We also have Transformers

Unicron number zero from IDW. Now, I assume you

are a Transformers fan since you are here. Have

you been keeping up with this stuff? Yeah, I've

been keeping up. So you've been reading for the

last 12 years? Yeah, I mean, there's some stuff

that I still have to check out. I never read

the Bumblebee miniseries that came out years

ago. You know, there's some... I think, uh, there's

some things here and there that I've never really,

like, sat down and give a serious read, but I've

been following it. Like, I know what's going

on. I know, you know... I would say that I really,

like, did a deep dive after Dark Cybertron. Mm

-hmm. Actually, not... Well, no, not Dark Cy...

Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not Dark Cybertron.

Uh... I really... Well, I started to get deeper

once, um... Once they did once they split off

into robots in disguise and more than meets the

eye That's when I really started to pay attention

and then I Well, yeah, that would be the very

beginning of the universe. It would be 12 -13

years ago, the very beginning of the universe.

Because once you read Death of Optimus Prime,

you can either go on the Lost Light with More

Than Meets the Eye, or stay on Cybertron with

the politics with robots in disguise. And then

that all led up to Dark Cybertron, which was

the big event, and then Combiner Wars, and all

of that. So... Yep, yep, yep. Just wanted to

make sure you were... And by the way, beautiful

cover. Yes. Really awesome cover. I gotta admit,

this is one of those things that, you know, you

read it, and then if you have the Transformers

soundtrack, you punch up Unicron's theme. Yep.

Absolutely. Don't tell me you didn't do that.

Don't tell me you didn't do that. Of course I

did that. Of course I did that. By the way, you

know that the, have you seen a picture of the

full cover? Uh, yeah. because it was yeah the

the white bar that they do for for free comic

book day they cut off um like behind the white

bar is starscream and um rc but they cut them

off so all you get is optimus bumblebee and wind

blade looking up at unicron yeah um i did want

to ask you what do you think of unicron's uh

comic book look it's okay I mean this this cover

was done by Sarah Peter d 'Orche I assume that's

how you say her name I could be wrong And we

are friends on Facebook, so I guess I should

know that but I like her design for Unicron I

think it's cool. I think it's interesting obviously

the design is gonna be different on the interior

because Alex Milne is the artist on the interior

But the cover I like it. It's it's ominous. It's

you know yeah Yeah, and I like Unicron's design,

because it's an interesting... You still recognize

it as Unicron, but I like kind of the whole techno

-organic nature of it. You know, especially because

it shows off the idea that this is, you know,

he's something that consumes and absorbs worlds.

So, you know, just all the patchiness of it,

you know, it just... It really sells the idea,

like the basic idea behind Unicron for the IDW

universe. yeah absolutely and did you know i

mean we're and by the way we're talking about

uh you know keeping up with the comics but it

seems as though the comics can't keep up can't

keep up themselves because in this story we have

a couple of spoilers okay you know in case you

haven't noticed because yes yeah i i'll i'll

say this right now i've kept up with up to the

point that they relaunched in the lost light

optimus prime i have not read any lost lighter

optimus prime at this very moment. I want to.

I'm going to be doing that for the show later

this year. We're going to have a very, very giant

Autobotly August on the pull bag later this year.

We did Autobotly April and Autobotly August last

year to cover stuff. Autobotly is a term one

of our co -hosts came up with years ago on my

Transformers Generation 1 podcast. Basically,

the scene in one of the Season 4... One of the

season three, season four episodes of Transformers

Generation 1, where Skylinx looks like he's shitting

out all the guns out of his backside. My buddy,

Pecan Corn Michael, he's like, that's not very

Autobotly. And it's just kind of stuck after

all these years. So made that into a thing. So

yeah, I have not read all of this is kind of

new to me I kind of follow along because John

Barber is on writing Alex Milne is on art Colors

done by Sebastian Chang So John I know John's

writing and I know his style. So I I think people

can keep up with this Okay. Yes, there are gonna

be some spoilers, but if you've not been reading

it, then you should be fine but what I love about

this is First of all the title of the story our

darkest like they can't even do the full line

obviously you know I love John's Captions for

the titles for the characters RC full of trepidation

wrong the space Knight Optimus Prime Autobot

narrator Bumblebee full of heart because you

know Bumblebee's alive again folks in case you

didn't know yeah Well, here's the thing. This

is what's a little bit of a spoiler. If you've

been following Optimus Prime and you've been

following the set on Cybertron stories, like

Till All Are One, it was revealed that Bumblebee

did not die in Dark Cybertron. It seems like

he got shifted to another dimension. It started

with Starscream. kind of having what appeared

to be Bumblebee's ghost whispering in his shoulders,

but then there was more, there were other indications

that, okay, maybe this is not what, you know,

maybe things are not what they seem. You know,

maybe there's, maybe there's more than this to

meets the eye, so to speak. And then finally

there was a, I think it was the Transformers

annual that showed Bumblebee is in fact alive.

What's a bit of a spoiler is that he's come back

to, like, the universe. Mm -hmm, you know there

and in fact at the end of the book, you know,

there's kind of a little You know, okay. This

is the story so far leading up to this and again

it actually spoiled Stuff because at the point

at the point where the Optimus Prime comic is

It's in the middle of the revelations regarding

shockwave and onyx prime Like the last the last

issue that came out was Optimus Prime being shoved

by a shockwave slash onyx into a portal which

Now we see is supposed to lead to him running

into bumblebee and then and then the two of them

like coming back out into the into the universe

Also, I mean we have like in the middle of the

comic we have a moment where they're they're

flying through I guess it's the surface of unicorn

and they see you know, they see dead, you know,

they see dead Cybertronians and you can see Cliffjumper.

I'm guessing that what was supposed to happen

is there's an issue of Optimus Prime or an issue

of one of the comics where you have the... Well,

basically what you have is you have the... They

mention that the planet Velocitron, which is

one of the Cybertronian colony worlds, that it

disappeared so I'm guessing we're going to have

an issue where it disappears and you know that's

where we get the death of Cliffjumper and one

of the the corpse that's to our left is Override

who's the leader of the colony and then you have

like a nice little easter egg because you have

a hot shot as he appears in the Cybertron cartoon

Although we know that's not Hotshot because the

main IDW universe version of Hotshot is on another

planet, at least for now. Because we don't know

if Unicron is going to have lunch on it. Yeah,

Unicron is always going to have lunch on it.

You know what I want to see? I want to see Transformers

Marvel crossover series. Unicron versus Galactus,

who can eat more? Oh, jeez. Cosmic Hot Dog Eating

Contest with Unicron and Galactus. And you know

what has to happen, right? What? It has to be

George Takei voicing both characters, superhero

squad style. I'm hungry. Oh my, that was a good

lunch. A planet? Yeah, exactly. A planet of battle

beasts? A planet of beetle borgs? Ew, disgusting.

But I like those VR troopers, those are good

people. Interesting revelation here that the

planet that ROM is based off of was actually

a Cybertronian colony world. That's one of those

things that when I started reading the issue

and I saw ROM I'm like, oh! Okay, so it's not

just the transformers dealing with this and then

you had the reveal and I'm like, oh oh Okay,

well played John Barber well played IDW, you

know another way to kind of link things together

And once again, I think I've said this before

I think I said this in episode 304 of the podcast

Super congratulations to John Barber now editor

-in -chief at IDW. Oh, yeah, no I congratulated

him on Twitter Yeah, I'm gonna be interested

to see what you know what comes out under his

you know under his watch I do see there's one

there's one thing about transformers unicorn

that I'm wondering because by all accounts this

is going to be this is it this is going to be

the grand finance yeah it's the end of the universe

it's yes the end of the last twelve years of

continuity who knows what they're gonna do next

uh... james roberts who writes more than meets

the eye basically said it's been it is set on

twitter and i'm paraphrasing to have a tweet

for me basically said thank you everyone it's

been a great run something something something

i forget what he says but basically james roberts

confirms that he's not coming back to whatever

they relaunch the transformer stuff into yeah

yeah I mean it's yeah I kind of it yeah Roberts

is not coming back I don't know if John Barber

is gonna write anything with his new giant assume

he will still write stuff I don't know it's it's

all up in the air and that's a good thing because

I mean okay yeah it's not necessarily a good

thing that James is done but you know James has

had look James had almost fifteen years of writing

the story that he wants to write and that he

wants you know basically will uh... more than

it's the i slash lost light basically never really

got touched by any of the uh... it didn't didn't

get touched by any of like the crossovers of

the big events yet to touch the dark side which

are obviously but like the combiner wars that

was kind of inconsequential kind of a thing uh...

but they had basically they did they did have

like uh... combine awards there was a There was

kind of a connection, but... Oh, there is. No,

no, no. There is, but what I'm saying is, like,

all of the event things came out of, like, robots

in disguise. Anything that Hasbro might have

said to John Barber or IDW in general, like,

hey, we have this new toy. Can you feature it

as a character in the book? Or can you do this

storyline? Can you create this? Can you craft

a story around this thing? It's all happened

in robots in disguise. Lost Light, more than

meets the eye, slash Lost Light, has pretty much

been... the journey of Rodimus and co and finding

the Knights of Cybertron and all of their side

adventures that they like there hasn't been to

my knowledge I don't know about lost light right

off the bat because like I said I haven't really

read anything past the first issue at this point

but I know we went through like last year we

went through all the rest of the volumes of more

than meets the eye in trade and you don't see

any just random characters to show up because

hey new toy so you know most the most i've seen

the most i've seen as far as lost light is concerned

uh... is that you know they'd be like uh... what

they may do is for example when combiner wars

happen you know that that introduced defense

or so there was like a moment where you know

the protect the box and Mirage because Mirage

is part of a combiner that got introduced where

like they had to go to Cybertron so it's basically

like them grabbing a shuttle and everybody else

saying like okay we'll see you later so it's

just like sending them off so they can link up

and you know just stuff yeah they were he was

able to do his own story didn't have to worry

about Hasbro mandating I mean you did have characters

come in but it wasn't just because buy the toy

you know It'll be I'll be curious to see how

lost light Wraps up and ties into unicorn because

yeah the way the story is now It's like how do

they how did you know it's? It's kind of like

okay. I'll I want to see how exactly they you

know they link up with everybody else because

they're really you know it's really far out now

and You actually have like Different you have

like at least two or three different groups of

people out there, right? And I think my biggest

I think my biggest spoiler for not currently

reading lost light or more than meets or optimus

prime is When optimus said when ROM was like

Soundwave says operation extrication nearly two

-thirds of the living population including Animals

escape destruction. We must do better next time

rums like what do you mean next time? Perhaps

the leader of Cybertron is better suited to explain

if you please wind blade I'm like wait what when

did wind blade become the leader of like that

was the biggest spoilery thing for me cuz like

I said I haven't really been reading it There

was well there was at one point there was like

you had lost light you had lost light which chronicle

Yeah, the adventures of the lost light uh...

you know brought brought inside of things that

optimus prime which was optimus on earth with

his group and then you know the book called to

all are one which right the third which is the

wind blade it was everything on cyber trot right

i remember reading that partially of the uh...

yet well that that basically that ended with

uh... an election on cyber tron with wind blade

winning and uh... well it it's kind of one of

those things i mean you had the the prophecy

that supposedly marked uh... star scream is the

chosen one yeah night cyber tron and it's one

of those things were to quote uh... will be one

can obi what was you know what what i said was

true from a certain point of view you exactly

uh... he did unite cyber tron just not The way

that you you know not in the way that you'd think

prophecies like this would go Mm -hmm like you

Cybertron did end up uniting Just not you know

he did he did bring people together It's just

the way the way that he did is a bit was a bit

more a bit more Starscream than a bit more Starscream

than you know chosen hero type Yeah, he's no

hot rod No. I think in his head, he would want

to be Hot Rod. But in reality, it's like, no,

you're not Hot Rod, dude. You're not going to

open the Matrix and everybody's going to side

with you as the leader of Cybertron. Sorry. Apologies.

It's not going to happen that way. So as as this

is going on we're coming up on the end of this

because this this free comic book day issue is

It's a full book, but the story is only eight

pages out of the book and You know We have the

whole wind blade thing explaining it at the end

of that panel We have optimus saying in addition

to the rest of our world's earth is in danger

I have dragged the humans into mortal danger

three billion Elonians died today okay, optimus

prime can give the bobbins a Narration to you

know because as soon as I read that I'm like

many bobbins died to bring us this information

Okay, then The last panel for the story is on

Eucharist, one of the Cybertronian colonies,

the quote -unquote Beast Wars colony. And basically,

everybody dies because Unicron, I hunger. I love

the panel of... I've always loved pictures of

Optimus and Soundwave, like G1 classic style.

I know Soundwave is a Decepticon, yada yada yada,

but I've always loved that. The end is coming,

Transformers Unicron, July 2018. So in the rest

of the issue, we'll talk about our final feelings

on the story in a moment. The rest of the issue,

you have a letter from David Mariette. who is

the editor, I believe. Could be wrong. Off the

top of my head. And then for the first time in

print, the announcement image shown at San Diego

Comic -Con 2017 by Sarah Peter Dorochet of Unicron,

Cybertron, and Earth. Yep. God, I love that picture.

And it has other covers and things like that.

It has a full -page spread of Unicron receiving

the signal decode. Yep, that was from the end

of First Strike. From the end of First Strike.

Yep. Still remember reading that scene, Unicron,

and I'm like, oh, shit. And then you have the

writer's guide to Unicron number zero, and it

has a whole thing by John Barber about the continuity

about leading up to this, which I have not read

this yet, but it's basically that. And then it

read more about, and then it has basically things

that you can read to kind of catch up. It has

two advertisements in the back, one for the Wreckers,

and then one for Transformers Bumblebee, which

is a original graphic novel that's leading up

to the new movie that's coming, Transformers,

by the way. On the back, it has the checklist

for Unicron. I love that they did this. They

took advantage of the back here. So in May, we've

got, obviously, this issue. Special free comic

book day first look at Transformers Unicron number

zero. In July, we'll have Transformers Unicron

number one, the first part of the six -issue

series that will end the universe. Transformers

Unicron number 2, Lost Light 21, the final fate

of the Lost Light crew begins here. Unicron 3

and 4, Lost Light 22, 23, Optimus Prime 22, as

Unicron attacks Optimus Prime's allies on Earth

face the fallout. Optimus Prime 23, this is in

August, and then September, Transformers Unicron

5 and 6, Lost Light 24 and 25, and Optimus Prime

24 and 25. Boy I like that they're ending things

on like oh, you know like issue 25 and stuff

That's but yeah, cuz it always yeah, it's not

a nice round number, but it's a cool odd number

It's a I would say it is a nice round number

I mean 20 getting 25 issues of a comic series

that's that's you know 25 50 75 100 whatever

But it's one of those things where it always

makes me mad when comics end on a really wonky

number Like, end on a ten, end on a five, issue...

It's like, issue, like, okay, take for example,

and I understand why this happened, and I'm not

complaining about it, but, you know, there was

one of the DC Comics Batman Beyond series, I

think it was Batman Beyond 2 .0 or whatever,

ended on issue 16, and I'm like, really, really?

Ended on issue 16? Actually, well, no, see, okay,

if it ends on, okay, for me, it's like I have

a thing about even numbers. mm -hmm you know

I'm like a fan of even numbers so having it end

on like six having it end on an even number or

a five like I'm cool with it's like it ends if

it ends on like issue 51 and I'm like okay that's

weird all DC issues should end on 52 anyway yeah

but but but my point is like I want twenty issues

i want fifteen issues i want you know the five

and zero kind of a thing like i don't want issues

sick and it's fine whatever it is what it is

uh... so yeah uh... transformers unitron folks

bear witness cuz unitron is coming he's here

yep you know it's like uh... that classic line

from the movie For a time I considered sparing

your wretched little planet Cybertron, now you

shall witness its dismemberment! Yep. Yep. Of

course, I kind of wonder if we're gonna have,

like, did you notice Bumblebee kind of did a,

uh, a little, kind of a nod to another classic

line from the, uh, from the movie? Mm -hmm. Because,

you know, we didn't, we didn't have, we didn't

have, excuse the language, shit what are we gonna

do now but we did have you know we did have Bumblebee

kind of doing his own little bit more sanitized

version of that which I picked I picked up on

that like right away Well, Primus, what are we

gonna do now? Well, yeah, because, like, again,

Free Conflict Day, you're catering to kids, and

Bumblebee would not care. Like, that's a human

thing. If Spike was around, I mean, Spike is

around or whatever, but, you know, like... If

he was there, yeah. Yeah, if he was there, I'm

sure he would have said it. But, yeah, that was

a nice little nod. A nice little thing. If cliff

jumper was alive, I would say he and jazz could

have had a scene You know, you know, well, you

know what? It's yeah, he and jazz could never

see but I wouldn't be surprised if You know,

like I said, we're we're kind of coming in on

this from the We're coming in on this kind of

from a little bit of spoiler territory because

we didn't see the the attack on velocitron Right.

So who knows maybe when maybe when the the regular

comics Catch up. Yeah that you know, we'll have

we'll have that scene, you know, we'll have that

scene and then You know, we'll have I mean it

might he might not be able to do it with jazz

But we'll have like an equivalent scene where

he does the you know, we're not getting away

Yeah, or you know they try to or they try to

like get the escape pod going and You know, he

does something like, you know, does the countdown.

Cliffjumper commence countdown. Mm -hmm. And

you know whose voice we'll be hearing that in.

Yeah, yep, yep, yep. The late, the late great...

Casey Kasem. Casey Kasem. See, that's, yeah,

he'll always be my go -to for that. You know,

I'll always hear Casey Kasem. I'll hear... Be

hearing, you know, I hear Peter Cullen for Optimus

Prime Frank Welker for Megatron, you know always

You know Bumblebee Dan Gilves in Yep, I you know,

he's my he's my go -to I think the only you know,

hey Orson Welles is Unicron that I hunger I heard

I mean no offense to no offense to John Noble

who who did Unicron for Transformers time but

yeah Come on. It's it's Orson Welles, man. You

got you got to give that to me, man Yeah, exactly.

Absolutely. Love you and Lord of the Rings love

you and fringe, but come on Orson Welles, dude

Yeah, seriously, man, you know, so and then yeah

everybody the new characters I'm just I'm like,

okay, whatever whatever voice I can come up.

Yeah. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I mean wind blade kind

of has her own voice because she was in the robots

and disguise cartoon a little bit the 2015 robots

and disguise cartoon You know I don't know. So

yeah, Free Comic Book Day 2018 is going to continue

because I'm going to have somebody, I don't know

who, but somebody and myself are going to be

talking about Shattered Grid, the Free Comic

Book Day issue for Boom's Mighty Morphin Power

Rangers comic, because yeah, Lord Draken is destroying

the world here. Oh boy. So that's coming up next.

I'd like to thank Eduardo for coming out for

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Alright everyone, to close out Free Comic Book

Day 2018, I am going to tell you that I did get

and read the Riverdale comic. It was kind of

interesting, kind of the history of Pops and

all of that, because Betty wants to do some sort

of story. There is like another story in there,

but I just couldn't keep following along. It's

a good comic, but it's not the best, but... to

wrap up free convict a twenty eighteen here on

the poll bag episode three oh six i'm going to

be talking to you about the shattered grade money

more from power rangers issue that came out uh...

the annual the twenty eighteen annual which uh...

basically happens before this this is kind of

the aftermath of that uh... was uh... very very

good it's kyle higgins the team at Boom Studios

is doing amazing on this Power Rangers comic.

I absolutely love it. The free comic book day

issue of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Shattered

Grid is kind of catching us up and giving the

new readers a way to break into the comic from

March 27th to April 8th of this year. Read through

all at the time because volume five just came

out in trade for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

I read through all four volumes in that time

span because I wanted to catch up to be prepared

for the Shattered Grid event and damn When I

interviewed Kyle Higgins back in 2013 when he

was still doing new 52 Nightwing over at DC He

had said that his one of his dream jobs was doing

Power Rangers one day and Boom Studios gave him

that opportunity or he got that opportunity from

them or however you want to word it and he is

kicking ass and taking names. We have never seen

a Power Rangers story this good in years. It

pays homage to all kinds of fan service things

for those of us that grew up with it. It's telling

a unique and individual story set aside from

any of the other franchises within the Mighty

Morphin Power Rangers universe. but at the same

time it ties everything together. I absolutely

love it. The art in this is great. It's a great,

great read. I'm not going to spoil any of the

stuff in the Free Convoy Day issue, but if you

didn't grab this, you should have, folks. You

should be reading Boom Studio's Mighty Morphin

Power Rangers. Please go pick it up now. So...

The Pull Bag, episode 306. Huge thanks to Jay

and everybody at Jay's Comics for that little

interview that I did earlier, talking with him

and Jimmy. Free Convict Day 2018 was great this

year, absolutely loved it. Lots of camaraderie,

lots of people coming out to read comics and

get stuff, and very, very cool. Hopefully next

year is even more awesome. Coming up here on

The Pull Bag, we've got a lot going on. but at

the same time we're also going to take a little

bit of a break. So, this may be the last episode

in May. I know it's still early in the month,

but I need a little bit of a break so I can catch

my breath to cover everything I'm going to be

covering for you guys starting in June. June

we will have episodes 307 to 310. I Hate Fairyland

Vol. 3 with the comic concierge role then human

thundercats finally get to that in episode three

oh eight with myself in a desk man we get somebody

probably don't be able from talking about my

generation in episode three or nine to talk about

the funko universe trade that idw put out and

then j t from saskatoon is going to be back with

me to talk about the zeno scope entertainment

tenth anniversary one shots so that's coming

up in june uh... in july we're going to have

some batman beyond coverage uh... dane lamont

from punish your body count is going to return

to talk about the flash season zero and cowell

volume two uh... and then auto -botly august

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