IDW’s Funko Universe Trade Paperback

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There you go. And we are here to talk about IDW

Publishing's Funco Universe trade. This came

out as like five or six one shots, and then they

collected it into a trade paperback. It includes

Ghostbusters, TMNT, The X -Files, Strawberry

Shortcake, and Judge Dredd. And for those of

you who don't know what funko is just go over

to Netflix and watch making fun The the story

of funko because that's the documentary they

have on there I just finished watching that it

is so interesting looking at that. You really

should watch that I have I kind of saw it the

other day and I was like And I wasn't sure I

wanted to get into it just because I didn't have

the time at the moment Yeah, it's like an hour

and a half almost two hours something like that,

but it's really really fun basically chronicles

their start up until I think like 20 17 20 like

like late last year, middle of last year or something,

but they like focus on like how the company started

and how it continued to grow and that kind of

a thing and whatever. It was very cool. I myself

have 55 Funko Pops. Six of those are my wife's.

She has Anthony Rizzo from the Chicago Cubs,

Allison from the Breakfast Club, Ali Shidi's

character, Chun Li from Street Fighter. And what

was the other ones? Oh, she has the the pop pets

She has a Maine Coon cat because we have a Maine

Coon cat and she has a German Shepherd dog and

a couple other ones I forget off top my head

I have the rest and they're like way too many

to name I will maybe put some pictures in the

post of of what my collection is and this really

I mean this has been a while, this has been like

in the making here, but it's been probably about

two years in the making. This is all Doug's fault

everybody. Oh god. It's all your fault. All because

you saw them while you were out here. Exactly.

So I went out to California two years ago, spent

some time with Doug and his wife, and they have

god knows how many Funko Pops. And they're all

over their apartment. Okay, let me specify they

are not all over the apartment. There's probably

I want to say 10 or 15 that are in the entryway

right as you come in that are Star Wars related

and there are things like I Want to I don't know

if she has slavery. I think she does but she's

got Leia. She's got Java. She's got Luke and

Han I Think she might have gotten the Java weight,

you know Java creatures Don't remember But you

know, that's all just our Star Wars stuff in

the entryway which kind of blends with the rest

of the Star Wars stuff that we have right there

if you go into our spare bedroom, she's got above

the Closet she put a bunch of them up there and

she's got all of her Disney characters that she

loves for the most part or Disney She's got Tinkerbell.

She's got Snow White and I think she's got a

couple of dwarves You know, she's Then she found

some others that she was really like I love these

because they're kind of girl power type things

and I and I say that with with with love mind

you right things like Supergirl and Wonder Woman

strong female I am completely fine with it. It's

great, you know But she's got she got most of

those me on the other hand. I like Karen. I've

got sick. So Yeah, Doug is like my wife and I'm

kind of like his wife Yeah, I had to twist your

arm into buying that I know I know I do you're

like oh Alicia will never let me do this blah

blah blah I'm like I Pity the fool that doesn't

buy this Funko pop Like, seriously. And the crazy

thing is, I now have Hannibal. I was actually

waiting to eventually start and just buy all

four of them together, but I found Hannibal somewhere.

So anyway, Fun Co. Pop, Fun Co. Universe, the

trade paper bag from IDW, starts off with the

Ghostbusters issue. I just love this. This is

super, super funny. It was it was goofy, but

it was it was in a lovable way. We'll put it

down That's how I felt about it. Yeah, the creative

on this story is Troy die as the writer artist

Philip Murphy colorists Luis Antonio Delgado

with letter done. What letter was Neil Yucatay?

So basically this this artifact ends up being

smashed open these ghosts this you know, red

version of Sub -Zero, you know, comes out of

here and whatever. I mean, it's a ninja that's

all in red that looks just like Sub -Zero if

he was red. A story consultant on this is Eric

Burnham, because Eric Burnham does a lot of the

Ghostbusters stuff at IDW. And we then go to

Ghostbusters HQ where Winston and Peter are playing

Knights versus Cowboys and somehow some way Peter

tries to cheat and win and all of that. What

do you think here of how the Funko Pop Ghostbusters

look in a comic book form? And then it got you

know, I you just kind of grew on me. I'm like,

okay, I got past You know that kind of initial

Okay, it's not IDW's Ghostbusters. It's not what

we've had for regular comics in the phone. Yeah

And you know once I got past that it's like,

okay, it's a good story, you know If you look

at the Ghostbusters here in the IDW Funko universe

comic, it's they're basically Pretty much they're

movie versions. The original movie, the only

movie that counts. The 1984 movie, if I have

to really super specify it for everybody. Well,

that and Ghostbusters 2, so we'll live in those

two. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. But Rey looks like

Rey, Peter looks like Peter. I mean, Egon virtually

Harold Ramis and obviously Winston, you know,

Ernie Hudson kind of a thing. I mean, even Janine

looks just like, you know. Yeah. You know you

like like a like you'd expect for a fun -to -pop

character to look yeah so we have a ninja and

a samurai the ninjas in red the samurais in blue

and they are trying to figure out why they summoned

each other yada yada yada why the ninjas summer

the samurai and and They have this giant battle

and they're like, oh, well, we're villains We

battle first then we team up and beat the the

good guys I do love when the Ghostbusters show

up. This is great. It's like watching Black Belt

Theater live, but with dead guys. And without

subtitles. Silence Gaijin, be gone and let the

adults talk. Talk to the gun. I love this. I

love the art. I was not expecting too much of

a story here. You know a better story than I

expect yeah Yeah, exactly, and I think it's either

I think it's I think it's Peter or ray hmm these

guys look familiar know them from and You know

so they're fighting the samurai. They're fighting

the ninja they try to get them in the trap and

Doesn't really quite work. I love the I love

the way the trap is designed. That is such a

classic trap. Yes So the ninja cuts the proton

pack line and that kind of you know screws that

up and and all of that and then the ninja and

the Samurai guy kind of basically beat them all

up They're like sayonara suckers I knew it legend

of the four masters, and it's basically the four

masters So there's two more guys that are coming

out of these things And they're eventually gonna

work together and become this one whole entity

and the Ghostbusters We're gonna try to figure

out how to beat in each of them individually

as we go through this I Love how they have to

all fly 2 ,000 miles Egon wake up. You're starting

to drool man. Not cool That's a complete Peter

line. I mean that's something you would have

expected not cool, man And the fact that the

ghosts are actually on the plane with them They

don't even know because they specifically say

I wonder how they'll get here like yeah They're

already here, and did you see what the bags are

that the ghosts are carrying? They're pop bags.

Yes. I love that detail. That's so funny. So

we have the three ghosts going after the fourth

ghost and basically reaches down and pulls them

out of the thing and they all decide to work

together which means they all get to become one

giant entity. That's not gonna be good. Yeah,

where we heard this before uh -huh And the ghosts

beat them up pretty good I Mean like really good

Yeah Well, should I mention how they you know

how things take a turn? Yeah, sure Ghostbusters

cheat of course they cheat Um, I love the design

on the, on the all in one form of the ghost here.

I thought that was super cool. Yes. Um, and then,

you know, Ray's like, whoa, talk about mixed

martial arts, Ray or Peter. I often mix Ray and

Peter up because some of them, one time one of

them has the, I think the one who has the goggles

on is Ray, but I always thought Peter had the

darker, I don't know. I mix them up all the time.

With, with the Funko Pop. stuff, it's kinda easy

to mix it up, so it's not... Yeah. Okay, Rey

does have the goggles on, and Peter is the one

with the brown hair, because the panel where

the monsters, the ghost says, bow to your new

master fleshlings, bow to master prime. I'm like,

where's Optimus? And Egon's like, no thanks.

You see the smirk on Peter's face, where all

four of them are in that panel? That's Peter.

The one without the goggles is Peter there. And

they try their best to defeat these ghosts, but

they get other dead skeleton -looking pops together,

and then they figure out, hey, let's cheat like

we all did at the game. And they basically, you

know use all kinds of things to make them basically

separate from each other and they can't work

together anymore and The day is saved. Yay. Yeah

pretty much pretty much My favorite bit about

the whole thing is at the very end When was it

was it Ray? I'm trying to remember was Ray that

shows up with the new board game and says hey

I got a new board game that we can try and play

No, it's Peter okay, it's Peter Yeah, they're

like is there going to be more cheating involved

Yeah, exactly and the crazy thing to me is like

ninjas versus samurais It's an expansion pack

to our favorite game than the the samurai on

there Looks like shredder. Yes. Yeah And then

at the end of it here you have the the stay puffed

Funko pop cover which was really cool The Ghostbusters

one I really dug I thought it was fun. I thought

it was funny I thought it felt it kept the the

spirit of what the Ghostbusters are and what

they do and how each of their personalities is

Like you said the not cool drooling line from

Winston probably could have come from Peter but

Winston had to have something to do because yeah

Let's face it. He didn't have much to do other

than fire the proton packer But they had to give

the token black guy something to say yeah I would

probably rank the Ghostbusters one three and

a half out of five stars probably Yeah, that

sounds about right for what I would give it to

I mean it wasn't like it wasn't a super standout

story But again, it wasn't terrible either And

now folks we head back to 1987 because it's time

for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles says we're

getting close eyes open Turtles If I know Shredder,

he's got a few more tricks up his pointed sleeve.

And like, here come a bunch of them now! Sorry,

no turtle waxing today! Alright! We really wiped

the floor with those floor wipers, huh? Writer

on this is Caleb Golnar, artist is Nico Pena,

colorist is Rhonda Pattison, letterer Sean Lee,

editor Bobby Kernau. I've interviewed Bobby like

two or three times since Joe Reed and I have

been doing the turtles coverage for IDW. So the

turtles are out of food, they have no pizza,

they have no frozen pizza, they have no cereal,

they have no nothing. Donnie's like, oh, it's

no big deal. I can just call for delivery. Everybody

okay with lollipop, crawfish, and potato again?

And as soon as I heard that, I thought, oh, wow,

this is just like the original. Absolutely. Yeah.

Yep. It's like Choco Puffs for me on my pizza.

Yeah. And Mikey comes in with a balanced breakfast

is totally here. Rice shreddies. Yeah, I just

looked like oh god. We know exactly where this

is coming and they look just like throwing stars

Yeah, Mikey only bought it for the prize though

I mean this is so 1987 because it's exactly like

I would buy a but I would have my mom buy me

a box of cereal if I just wanted the prize and

not the cereal but you know what's funny is as

I'm looking at it all I could think of was Captain

Crunch because if you ever ate Captain Crunch

dry It would shred the top of your mouth. So

that was all yeah about reading shreddies. Yeah

Yep, and Yeah So they decided to go topside Get

some pizza get some food, whatever Master Splinter

appears my sons. Where are you? Hey since I gotta

get decoder ring and be back soon sigh The rice

shreddies are all over the layer and everything

else It's too funny And we have classic 87 shredder

and crank along with the foot soldiers bebop

and rocksteady the foot soldiers with their hair

nets is like a little creepy, but Yeah, you got

to be accurate. I guess Yeah, the one thing that

bothered me about the artwork when I saw a crank

in this was just because All the other characters

have big heads in pop and I see Krang and he's

like Disproportionate to shredder. It just looked

really weird with how they did it Yeah, they're

they're pretty much the same size and he does

have a big head except Obviously the big head

is the robot part of him. It's not his it's not

Krang's actual brain It's not crying himself.

It's the robot body head. Yeah big head It's

just a little weird, that's all. What I do love,

because if you remember, and I know you, I don't

know how often you go back and watch it, but

I know you have the turtle van complete series

set for the 87 TMNT cartoon. Look at the big

heads facial features in this, like he's grinning,

he's scowling, he's frowning, he's gritting his

teeth. Looks just like how Krang would have him

react in the old cartoon series. Oh yeah. Yeah,

I love what they did with the writing here. This

is by far the best written one out of all of

these I think Because it is so 80s. It like look

at bebop and rocksteady You know munch munch

I hate it when crunch mom and dad fights keep

walking or they'll hump ask us to Do something,

you know, like I love how they make mention of

hey at least we need into our own little separate

story line this time around. There is nothing

wrong with if you if you were anybody else that

was listening to this podcast that has followed

the IDW TMNT universe you'll know there was Bebop

and Rocksteady destroy everything and now I think

currently going on I could be wrong I haven't

kept up with it but I think right now or just

a little while ago from when this was recorded

they've been doing Bebop and Rocksteady hit the

road. I like that IDW can have the main ongoing

and do all these mini -series like Casey and

April or the Mutanimals or the individual character

things they did like heroes and villains to spotlight

one -shot stories for each of the heroes and

villains kind of thing. I like that they're doing

that. I like that they gave Bebop and Rocksteady

their own kind of two different series in the

comics. And you're right. It's a nice little

nod here. And obviously, because Bobby's editing

it, there's going to be nods to everything. I

had to laugh at that. That was one thing just

from recognizing the other stuff from IDW that

was spot on. And then we get to the turtles with

Turtles and Trench Coats going to the cereal

factory. Hello. Hello. Are you the cereal makers?

What something behind us slam yeah You know and

then obviously the you know pull off the coats

reveal the turtles I love that turtle power And

you know oh great from both shredder and crying

So they're all fighting shreddy the the rice

shreddies are going everywhere And it's basically

this giant battle over cereal and over whatever

I don't even know Like Did they I mean I know

in 87 they didn't really have plans and that's

kind of the point here is they don't really have

a plan like they have like this master mind control

plan, but it doesn't really ever go anywhere

because Hello You know, well doesn't even shredder

point that he's like Okay, so we're gonna have

all these things and give them out for mind control

But what are we gonna do with it crank says?

I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead.

Yeah Yeah, exactly So it is very much 1987 series

style and I absolutely love that about it Did

I enjoy it? I think it's fun, but the the the

technodrome van thing that was a little weird.

Yeah, like you either have the technodrome or

you don't have the technodrome. I understand

they're doing a fun little thing to go up against

the turtle van, but it was really weird. Yeah,

the crank started driving. You can't see over

the steering wheel. I'm like, yeah. What? Mm

hmm. And they almost run over Casey Jones, because

Casey's a pop as well, and... SCUZ BUCKETS! And,

um... Hey, the Turtles have to save April every

time, right? Well, that happens too, because

April's in the crosswalk. What in the world?

April, sorry we didn't call you for brunch, but

you know, this city on a Saturday. Brunch? What

are you guys even... Sorry, light's changing.

We'll call you later. Yeah, and I love that the

end of that there goes my exclusive stop talking

to yourself April you're not on TV right now

So they got all this milk and and Everything

else cuz Mikey just wanted a bunch of milk apparently

which it's kind of like how I am I love drinking

milk even now as an adult I will drink the hell

out of a milk But they make a milk bomb because

they're like, oh it's gonna be soggy cereal once

the milk hits it Hey fellas thirsty So they throw

the milk bomb in basically foiling the whole

plan and Not only does the the cereal explode

the whole car explodes Yeah, like okay, but whatever

we'll go with it And Mikey does eventually get

his decoder ring. And it doesn't fit. Yeah, because

don't they say something about, well, you know,

hey, we should try it for the size of our fingers.

We just have too big a finger or something. Yep,

yep. Yep, absolutely. So Shredder and Crang finally

come down. And Mikey's like, nothing but net.

And they catch him. Pizza time and it's kind

of the end. I love the story. It's a fun fun

story Yeah, I wish this issue had more covers

more alternate like at least three other alternate

covers because the alternate cover for this is

basically the Michelangelo Funko pop But I wish

it had the other three turtles as well Turtles

it's she's the it's supposed to be cheesy because

let's face it wall the eighty seven series was

where most of us all started i mean there are

some people that i know that started reading

the original comics but for the most of us it's

where we started and it was really good at the

time we absolutely loved it although most people

nowadays just feel like it's too full of cheese

and whatever but that's not a bad thing that's

the way the late eighties mid nineties were Love

this this for me is a five this story is so fun

because you don't think Comics today. There are

a lot of fun comics out there, but there are

a lot of serious comics out there and something

that Can basically look at it and make fun of

itself. That's super fun to me. Yeah I'm gonna

give this one Overall if we're looking not just

at storyline, but artwork and everything. I'm

gonna get a Give it a four and a half out of

five and that's only because of the weird thing

going on with pranks head Yeah, that's my only

nitpick, you know, you know Up next folks. We

have the X files funko pop story We're not gonna

go through this one panel by panel or anything

because there's like like two or three stories

in here I do love how it starts, you know Agents

Mulder and Scully FBI to believe or not to believe

and this first story is basically Mulder believing

Scully trying to scientifically explain stuff

away and they eventually have this whole alien

crash fight scene thing which was funny yeah

you know what I wish this was I wish this was

Mars attacks the X -Files or something like I

wish the aliens were the Mars attacks aliens

that would be funny like have the Mars attacks

aliens as Funko pops that would be cool and I

could just see the whole thing with Scully going

They're not aliens. They're weather balloons.

Yep. Exactly. Yep. Exactly. So I think there's

like three stories here. The first story, like

I said, is them trying, you know, each other

trying to, him trying to make her believe and

her trying to... Have him, you know, look at

it scientifically, which is funny. The next story

is escape from Space Mountain. Hey Area 51 and

a half no trespassing underneath. No, seriously

go away. Yeah And we have this, you know ninja

looking funko pop trying to sneak into area 51

to find out all the secrets come to find out

it is Fox Mulder and He basically meets up with

an alien and has an alien adventure of his own

I Thought this one was super fun. I'm the least

Bit of an X -Files fan I just I was I watched

like half of the first season when it came out

years and years and years ago But it was just

never my thing But these first two stories are

just hilarious The third and final story I think

is a little strange But what are your thoughts

on the first two before we get into the third

one? Well, I would say they're right right along

with saying with years I like the fact that they

were putting in more of a humor more of a humorous

take on The series it because the entire series

with x -wiles. I watched a couple of them and

it's supposed it's more dark and more This isn't

real and you kind of go. Oh, this is creepy kind

of had some of the uploads had this kind of horror

factor today Yeah, I did this just hey, let's

make fun of all that and I really enjoyed that

Yeah, the third story here is Sasquatch on the

set I Already know where this is going. Yeah

Um, just with that title, I already knew where

this was going, but they, you know, Mulder and

Scully run into this guy, gone squatching. Oh,

God. Yeah. And they run into Bigfoot and it's

this whole, whole thing. It's a really, really

short story. Um, turns out it's a movie that's

being shot and on light. God that's just too

silly You know, this was it was Very tongue -in

-cheek, but at the same time very predictable.

Yes And I count well not very memorable for me.

Unfortunately. Yeah Yeah, it's Yeah, it was a

little strange I did absolutely enjoy it, though.

I enjoyed all three. I enjoyed the first two

more than the last one, because the last one

is like, I mean, it's essentially four pages.

Yeah, it's four pages. And I'm not expecting,

like, I get it. This is a collection of multiple,

like, Ghostbusters TMNTX files, you know, up

next to Strawberry Shortcake here in a minute,

so I get it. It's six stories or whatever it

is, or five stories into one thing. So I get

they're not going to spend too much time, but

I would have rather have had more of the first

two stories than had four pages of the third

story. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. The

ultimate cover for this was the alien Funko pop

from X -Files. So that's kind of cool. And now

we come to the one that Doug couldn't even finish.

Oh, I'm sorry. This I I had a hard time getting

through this. I was just like that now move on

strawberry shortcake writer is Georgia ball artist

is Valentina Pinto letter is Krista Meisner assistant

editor is chase Mario it's an editor is David

Hedgecock I've read Georgia balls writing before

not on strawberry shortcake But I know that's

what she's doing for IDW, but I've read her unlike

Transformers robots in disguise when they did

that comic kind of a thing based off the Animated

series that they did in 2015 and whatever else

so this one was a little strange Strawberry shortcake

and raspberry tart and all of their friends and

enemies and yada yada yada. They're trying to

get to this event And the purple pie man wants

to stop them because he wants to be the best

or whatever. What I like about this story, if

you would actually were able to finish it, just

the fun of it all. Like there's a point where

she actually interacts with the sun or the purple

pie man does, which I thought that was pretty

funny. And then eventually, obviously it's going

to turn around. The purple pie man is going to

see the error of his way as big as a strawberry

shortcake. He's going to try to help him. and

all of that. What I do love is the one scene

where they're chasing him or they're running

up to him on the horse amidst these purple trees

with red apples. I'm like, cool, purple trees.

Wow, LSD drug trip. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. So they

eventually get to this you know kind of the end

of this is they get they get to the the thing

and You know the whole part of the story of strawberry

shortcake is gonna be a judge this year and not

enter the contest and she wants to be a Fair

judge and and everyone's trying to get her to

like there's more and have them be the winner

You know it's the standard. You know judging

a contest kind of a thing. Yeah not that i would

ever get any of the strawberry shortcake funko

pops but the the cover the alternate cover is

the purple pie man and berry bird i think that's

kind of cool so if i ever did that would probably

be the one that i would get but i probably won't

get any of those because well just not my thing

i will tell you this and i would probably go

out and get strawberry shortcake one if i ever

saw it for a leash head part of course it's dead

Hasbro came out with their re -release of strawberry

shortcake Eight years ago at comic -con It up

for her and so she still has it and the thing

you open up the box It still smells like strawberry

still smells like yeah, you know, and she loves

it. So it's like that Okay, I might get it if

I were to see it was on sale or something like

no, but Overall for the comic I could have cared

less. Mm -hmm. I'm sorry Hmm, so I have this

website and I'm sure everyone know everyone that's

collecting pops knows about this the pop price

guide pop price guide comm Where it shows you

what these pops are worth? And if any of them

are for sale or whatever and I just looked up

strawberry shortcake They do have a purple pie

man with with the berry bird. So that is kind

of cool Yeah Alright strawberry shortcake. I

give it a three out of five. It's it's not horrible.

It's not like the worst thing in the world But

it's nice little fun again what I see this trade

as it's it's marketed towards Multiple types

of fandoms. You've got the Ghostbusters Turtles

Judge Dredd Line of people like us. You've got

the X -Files people. You've got the strawberry

shortcake people. So it's it's It's pushing itself

to multiple Fandoms which is kind of cool, and

I hope I really do hope that that Funko and IDW

do another one of these with other franchises

Like I would love to see I would love to see

a basically a rehash a comic version of Home

Alone with the home alone pops because I have

Kevin Harry and Marv over on my shelf As fun

go pops from home alone. Okay, I can see that

happen. Thank you. That would be funny You know

now the wet bandits are going to wrap Kevin again.

Yeah, that would be fun What are you gonna rate

strawberry shortcake before we head to mega city

one? You know what? I'm gonna give it a two out

of five just because it wasn't Terrible, but

it was enough to where I couldn't I couldn't

get tired. Yeah Alright, last up is Judge Dredd.

Judge Dredd has multiple stories in it. We start

out with Crim's story. And we have this narrator

narrating this thing and we don't know who the

narrator is at first. And Judge Dredd comes on

the scene and of course I don't think of Carl

Urban. I don't think of Dr. McCoy from the 2009

Star Trek movie. I think of... I am the law.

I am the law. My first note on this when I was

writing notes down for these things, my first

funny. It really, really is. Oh boy. So yeah,

Judge Dredd in Funko Pop. The only thing I wish

that was, and I know this is more of a 2000 AD

thing, it's more of the comic version, I wish

the outfit, he was like the helmet is spot on.

But I wish the outfit, the green and the blue

were more darker, like a dark blue and dark black,

kind of like how it was in the original 95 film.

But I understand it's the way it looks like in

the comic and I understand that. That's fine.

I have no problem with that whatsoever. Yeah,

it wasn't terrible. I kept looking at it and

thinking, oh, the color is a little off, but

okay. Yeah. Yeah. So he's up against this mutant

bull or whatever it is. And I love the, I just

love the back and forth amongst them. I think

it's so funny. And obviously he, he. Fries the

bull what I love about this story is You know,

I am the law lawgiver incendiary lawgiver Flamethrower

log it like that. They really do because obviously

they would have you know, they you know between

IDW and and 2018 I believe I think it's IDW that's

doing a new Judge Dredd series coming up soon

Maybe I think I could be wrong about that though

Don't know for me one The narrator this one and

just the fact that the narrator all of a sudden,

you know, you see him there He's talking about

the ball and the bullet, you know, he starts

pointing out Well, he could you know instead

of instead of fighting judge dread the bull decides

to run off down the pathway. That's clearly open

See the bull guy like kind of looking at going.

Oh, oh, hey, there's a path that's open over

there. Okay, I think I'm gonna do that mm -hmm

yep yeah I would have to look into this more

to make sure like I know IDW did has published

83 issues including 14 classics reprints but

I could have sworn yes that's what it is Judge

Red goes under siege a new comic series that's

what it is and it is at IDW Let's see, this summer

the law returns to comic book stores, and it's

got something to say. Writer Mark Russell is

behind a relaunch of IDW Publishing's Judge Dredd

series. So yeah, it's coming out this summer.

I'll have to look and see if I can find an actual

date somewhere, but it looks really, really cool.

And I'm glad that IDW has that license. I think

that's super fun for them. yeah okay so the funny

thing about the camera thing if you've ever seen

beast machines which was the sequel to beast

wars oh actually I thought I have not okay so

in beast machines so At the end of Beast Wars,

Transformers, they were all getting ready to

go back to Cybertron. Megatron was captured.

He was basically strapped to the outside of the

ship, and they were all gonna go back to Cybertron.

Beast Machines picks up almost a completely different

computer animation, CGI animation style, and

Megatron has somehow, no one knows, because no

one can remember, taken over. Well, throughout

the series, Megatron has multiple modes. His

goal is to purge his... His organic mode, he

wants to be all technological. At one point or

another, his mind, his spark, gets stuck in a

drone. The drone looks just like this one, somewhat.

Like the page where Judge Dredd swats the thing

and destroys it or whatever. I'm like, hey, what's

he doing to Megatron? Because it looks just like

that from the Beast Machines cartoon series.

And yeah, that was that story. We then go to

a story of Judge Dredd having to find a little

old lady's dog. Judge Dredd all pumped up. I

love this story. Why do you love this story?

It was just, okay, it was stupid. I know, but

I'm reading it and of course he's like, does

your dog like to climb? And he's looking up there

in the tree in You know the this toxic waste

they you know all these all these things are

sit around and saying don't go in all these sides

are fire They do not enter danger. No trespassing

unsafe. Yeah, and it's judge dread. He's gonna

go in anyway Well, yeah, I know that but I mean

you're looking I'm looking up there and I see

the dog up of the tree that just like One what

what dog climbs trees and just think the whole

absurdity of it Couldn't help but laughing the

entire thing. I'm like, okay. This is the funko

portion of it coming in. Oh, yeah Versus the

I am the law 2018 type stuff. Oh But you just

wait cuz oh, sorry judge. I am the law and he

points to his badge Stomp stomp stomp Yeah reading

these stories I hear nothing with Sylvester Stallone

I love the Carl Urban movie, and I hope they

eventually do another one at some point, but

this is really meant to be the Sly Stallone version.

Yeah, I hear that. I hear Sly Stallone, but then

I hear Rob Schneider doing the I am the law impression

every time. It's horrible. I know, but I can't

help but laugh and think about that. Yeah. Yeah,

and So he does eventually get the dog back. I

got your dog back citizen That's great except

that's not my dog my little Norton climbed up

to a park bench and was lying in the sun the

entire time and Judge reds like and you Next

time I see you, you better have a home, and you

better have an owner, and you better have a license.

Or it's off to the Mega City One hound pound

with you. And he walks away and the dog just

kinda whimpers there. Well, are you coming along

or not? Must be getting soft in my old age. Then

the final story which I almost didn't get to

before we started recording this episode Judge

dread and pug dread. Oh my god. Yes. Oh my god

Matters of life and death The writer on this

is John Layman. Oh my god the writer. Oh my god

That's awesome artist is Francisco Gaston colorist

West D. Zoba, letter is Sean Lee, editor is Denton

J. Tipton, and Bobby Kernile. Very cool. So this

one, basically, um, the law doesn't run from

zombies. So, is, are they, oh no, zombies, yes,

zombies came out, I thought they were making

fun of the Comic Con zombie walk, and they kind

of are. Yeah. But, I didn't notice at first that

the zombies came out of this purple portal. tell

me exactly you citizen stop right there and tell

me exactly what happened it was terrible judge

what was terrible it was just sitting I was just

sitting there videoing the the whole the hollow

news when there was this strange crackling noise

black light that opened up in the middle of nowhere

some sort of interdimensional doorway I reckon

and then from out of the doorway the dark judges

Judge Fire, Judge Fear, and Judge Death. Okay,

I assume this is a take on Evil Judges and Judge

Mortis. I assume I have never read the 2018 comics.

I wish I had at this point. I know of Dark Judges.

Go ahead. I thought, when I first saw it, my

first thought was, okay, they're making a reference

to like the Four Horsemen or something like that.

Yeah. War, famine, pestilence. Yeah, okay, I

can kind of see that but you know, let's see

where this is gonna go see if it's gonna be down

that path Whether they're gonna pull it out.

I don't know So it's basically Judge Dredd versus

these dark judges and these dark judges basically

destroy humans and Again the law doesn't run

from zombies or dark judges I Can see the dark

judges with my Psi powers dread. Oh Is this the

chick from the toot the Karl Urban movie? I think

so. I think so. Yeah, it's been a while since

I've seen the Karl Urban versions. I don't Yeah,

I think it is. Yeah This story was a little weird.

I enjoyed it, but it was a little strange. Yeah

I love the artwork in it. I'm not usually a fan

of like blood, guts, gore, all kinds of weird

things, but just the Funko poppiness of it all.

Like the one panel where, look, it's working.

The reversal ray is turning the zombies back

to normal. Like just seeing the half zombie,

half human face kind of thing. That's okay. It's

kind of funny. And they actually turn all the

dark judges into the love judges. Judge Rainbow,

Judge Happy, Judge Flower, and Judge Sunshine.

And I gotta admit, that I thought was just a

little too corny. Yeah. Okay, you've gone too

far. The law doesn't run from hugs. Oh god. Yeah.

I do love that the Judge Dredd Funko Pop Box

with him in there is one of the alternate covers.

The Judge Dredd stories, I liked them. I thought

they were fun. I haven't read the Judge Dredd

comics at all. I want to. I might be checking

out the new series coming from IDW this summer.

I don't know yet. This one? Three and a half.

I mean, I'm being fairly... Positive with these

because they're all in fun Yeah, the strawberry

shortcake one was a little hard to swallow because

that was some burnt shortcake there But I mean

other than that they're all supposed to be super

fun. Yeah Probably good about a three and a half.

Well overall because yeah, you know I mean the

the judged red stuff was corny as all hell, but

it was still funny You know the Ghostbusters

one was was great. The TMNT one was spot -on,

you know Didn't have the plot and they admitted

to it how you know the very beginning of it with

it They're going back and forth with what are

we gonna do? We once we get the mind control

I haven't thought that far ahead, you know Great

and the spot on but the strawberry shortcake

like you said that kind of killed down a little

bit for me The X files were those were up and

down. They weren't great. They weren't horrible

either Right. Yeah The only thing I wish, so

after that final Dread story, they go through

all the rest of the alternate covers for the

things, and at the very end, right after the

Judge Dread alternate cover, they have a super

splash page of Judge Dread Funko Pop, like, hitting,

like, the guy or whatever. Then they have Stay

Puft with the Samurai Ghost. They have, I assume,

Peter and Slimer. But they don't have anything

for Turtles or X -Files, and I'm like... oh come

on really that they should have put in something

for those other ones as well yeah really it's

just it's just silly um overall though i absolutely

love this this trade i thought it was super fun

yes there are a couple of stories that are you

know whatever but other than that i really dug

this like i said before i hope they do this again

and do more one shots Like I said with other

French like can you imagine this might be and

I I have nothing Nothing against it. I I just

I'm not into it at all Can you imagine because

I know they have these like a saga funko pop

comic from idw because i know saga is over an

image for the most part i think it's it's an

image series isn't it i don't know anyway or

you know the walking dead imagine the walking

dead funko pops like seriously um that would

be super fun i've already seen it but i mean

trying to put a comic together on that i would

like yeah yeah um you could easily do the breakfast

club though what's crazy to me is when i was

looking for the breakfast club pops Like, at

the time, uh, Bender was going for like 90 bucks

for his Funko pop. And I'm like, are you kidding

me? Come on. Oh God. They actually did, since

we're talking about this and we, we have, um,

we have the Incredibles 2 that just came out

this past weekend. They actually did do, um,

a Edna Mold pop, but that was back when it was

Disney. Um. And looking on the pop price guide,

she goes for like 900 bucks. I'm like, oh, God,

I showed that to Karen. She's like, well, you

know, there's certain things. I'm sorry. I'm

getting to the point where it's like I'm buying

these things. I'm buying pop pop figures. If

I'm buying them, it's for fun. It's not collectability

because, OK, they may say that they're nine hundred

dollars worth. Have to find somebody who's got

$900 she's willing to buy it. Yeah, I have not

found that person yet If there's somebody who

has 900 bucks before the funko pop, please let

me know I'll be happy to sell you some of mine

Yeah, it's just crazy Yeah, like I wanted one

of the alternate Batman like they have two Batman

Beyond pops one is a metallic one the other one

is a regular one the metallic one according to

this is estimated value at $85 and It's just

an estimated value Whatever. I mean if I can

find it I can find it if I can I can it like

that's the thing like you said I'm only doing

this to have fun collecting them and like I've

got several pictures in the funko pop album on

Facebook that I have where it's like oh Marvin

you know the wet bandits versus Hetfield and

and and Lars from from Metallica or something

you know just like fun little pictorial things

like I'm not out. I'm not collecting these things

to eventually make millions of dollars on them

later That's ridiculous. Yeah, you know if if

you're thinking Son or your daughter's published

fun with these things. You got another thought

coming. I'm sorry. Yeah Exactly, it's beanie

babies all over again. That's all I can think.

Oh god. No, do not say that Please do not say

that. Have you seen beanie babies lately? Yeah,

no big eyes. They look very similar. Mm -hmm

What I love are the the various versions they

can do of the of the very of the characters like

there's a um Arkham Asylum detective mode for

Batman um there's like a rainbow Batman to promote

you know the what was it it was like all inclusive

kind of uh Batman rainbow kind of thing like

I love when they do stuff like that I think that's

super cool and most of these things aren't going

for a lot at all like You know black chrome Batman,

okay, that's a super special one. It's like going

for 50 bucks Yeah, you know that's fine But like

the like the the entertainment earth exclusive

rainbow purple Batman that I wanted it's ten

bucks like I mean That's not bad like there's

a Batman golden Midas. That's $18 like I'm not

paying more then unless it's something super

special, I'm not paying more than 20 bucks per

pop. I want to pay less than that. Yeah. I mean,

like I paid I paid because Alicia has Mr. Knapp.

Well, I think he paid 30 dollars. Yeah. And again,

like specialty thing like that, I can see because

isn't he bigger than everything else? Yes. He's

like twice as big as the other. So I went. Yeah,

I'll pay you extra for it because it is bigger.

But, you know, am I going to pay one hundred

fifty dollars for it? No, I'm sorry. No Yeah,

the ones that I wanted since being out there

in California the two that I have really wanted

maybe three is Roger Jessica and Judge June from

Roger Rabbit They have a Roger and Jessica two

-pack, but it's like seven. It's estimated value

is $70. They've got Two of Jessica for sale,

but she's 25 bucks, which is okay, whatever and

they've got one of judge doom Which he's thirty

four dollars judge doom is the most expensive

one out of the three Roger is thirty three dollars

and it doesn't say that there's anything that

that That are available on here. So I don't know

man. It's It's crazy. I know there's a lot of

people that are just bands just because of you

know, yeah But everyone should check out the

IDW publishing funko universe trade paperback

I will post the link in the show notes for the

comics ology trade paperback so you guys can

Purchase it if you would like on your comics

ology accounts. It's super fun Yeah, I mean it's

worth it if you're gonna get vigil Yeah Absolutely,

so coming up next time here inside the pull bag

before we let Doug Promote anything he's got

coming up We've got episode 310 coming up, and

that's going to be our return to the xenoscope

entertainment coverage JD JT from Saskatoon is

going to be joining me once again This is his

first time on the xenoscope grim fairy tales

universe stuff we're going to talk about the

six issues that make up the uh... zeno scope

uh... tenth anniversary one shots it's uh...

alice in wonderland snow white and the seven

or snow white uh... red riding hood death van

helsing and cinderella so that's coming up next

what have you got going on sir you've been awfully

your generation is essentially dead well okay

i've been doing a lot of things Off the computer,

I've actually been very popular with website.

Anybody who is familiar with RC planes and RC

vehicles. Mike, as you know, the RC bug kind

of bit me hard last year. We're out here. I have

been flying quad lately. I've been flying planes

and I've been actually very vocal on flight test

dot com, which I'm going to kind of talk about

that once we get to launch my relaunch. Talk

about my generation. Something I want to share

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thing that happened and Mike I don't know if

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they do their whole policy is to try to get people

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Try to get people involved in RC planes and RC

flight for as cheaply as possible because it

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they want people to get into the hobby So what

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learned to build all sorts of planes. I actually

have I have built the sea duck Yes, you have

I've noticed that one. Okay tailspins sea duck

and I love flying this thing It's just like I

you know, every time I'm flying it all I can

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but At any rate, they were nice enough. A couple

of weeks ago, they have actually sent me a plane

because they were so happy with the fact that

I was promoting flight test and helping people

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You know, if you are interested in it, go check

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But you know, the other favorite one that I've

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which I'm sure all of you know what they look

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wings onto it. They had that flying for one episode.

So. These guys I love them and that's that's

kind of my thing and I'll stop now going off

on my rain Where the people find you online sir

Well, I am actually getting ready to relaunch

the talk about my generation podcast that will

be at my generation podcast calm You can also

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changed that have you? No, I have not and I'm

gonna keep it now because flight test even know

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