DC Comics and KFC Crossover Comics Review

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inside the pull bag. Hey, fellow university students.

Man, that Psych 302 class is tough. You know

what makes me feel better? A great lunch. Like

this $5 fill -up from KFC. This popcorn chicken

is made from one piece of chicken. Not like those

nuggets that come in funny shapes. Are you Colonel

Sanders? Yes. I mean, no. I'm just a normal college

student. It's Finger Lickin' Good. Hello and

welcome to The Pull Bag. This is episode 329.

We're a bit late, folks. I'm, of course, TFG1Mike,

and I'm all by my lonesome this time around.

I had lined up several hosts, co -hosts, to do

this with me, but sadly, it just wasn't in the

cards. This is the first time I've done a solo

episode of The Pull Bag since episode one, which

was the Iron Man 3 prelude issues. So it's been

about five and a half years since I've recorded

by myself. I don't normally like recording by

myself. If you go back and you listen to the

TFG1 podcast from episode 0 to episode 13, very,

very, very green when I first started podcasting.

But here it is, the pull bag, as I said, episode

329. And today... We're going to be talking about

DC Comics KFC Presents. I was shocked that this

was a thing. A crossover between the DC superheroes

and Colonel Harlan Sanders from Kentucky Fried

Chicken. Now, I guess you could say I spent most

of my life in Louisville, Kentucky, Simpsonville,

Kentucky, that area of Kentucky. 25 years out

of my 38 years of life on this planet. At this

point, 38 and a half, whatever. And I always

liked KFC before I moved to Kentucky in 1993.

So, I don't know. I just figured I would do this.

My original co -host that I had in mind to do

this was Spade of the Balt Matrix. If you've

ever been on YouTube in the last 5, 10, 15 years,

or however long it's been that Spade has been

on YouTube, even though that he does a lot of

Transformers video reviews and that kind of thing,

he was one -fourth or... one -fifth of the TFWire

podcasting crew for the longest time with Jesse,

Ryan, and others. Jesse, Matrix Prime, also created

TFWire. The reason why I wanted Spada on this

episode was because he had done a funny video

years ago, and hopefully I'll embed it in the

post so you guys can see, where he tried the

KFC Double Down. And it basically ends with him...

Acting like he's going to pass out or like he's

gotten sick from eating the sandwich. I don't

normally eat KFC sandwiches. I normally stick

with their extra crispy chicken strips things.

I've had, obviously, regular KFC before in my

lifetime, and it's okay. I love their biscuits

and their mashed potatoes. Those are awesome.

Anyway, so I find out that DC Comics has done

these three issues. with Colonel Sanders. And

I figured, oh, hey, why not do something fun

and do something light? As next time around,

we're going to be going back and finishing up

Superior Spider -Man after four and a half, five

years, or however long it's been since JT from

Saskatoon and I did that originally when the

podcast first started. So, again, something light,

fun, interesting, cool. These three comic book

issues are, they're all 20 pages of story, but

they read really, really fast. I was surprised

at how fast these things read. So I'm going to

take a quick break, and we're going to come back

after this with The Colonel of Two Worlds. Good

morning, babe. Good morning. Oh, no, Colonel!

to let you take away KFC's Nashville Hot Chicken

with its delicious, spicy, smoky flavor. Well,

it was always just a limited time offer, Colonel.

Well, uh, no more Nashville Hot Chicken, no more

Colonel. I mean, what are you gonna do? It's

not like you can find another Colonel, right?

Really? I mean, I haven't even been doing it

that long. It's bigger looking good! All right,

folks, I'm back here, and, uh... Kentucky Fried

Chicken presents, along with DC Comics, The Colonel

of Two Worlds, starring The Flash and Colonel

Sanders. Two colonels, how can this be? Find

out in a stunning adventure like no other. Absolutely

love this, folks. So, the story is done by Shane

Edwards and Tony Bedard. Script is done by Tony

Bedard. Penciler is Tom Dernick. The inker is

Trevor Scott. Colorist is Hi -Fi. Cover artist

is Tom Grumet. Trevor Scott and Hi -Fi. The letterer

is Deron Bennett. The design was done by Randy

Mayer. So basically, this is, you know, kernel

of two worlds kind of thing. It's like Crisis

on Infinite Earths or whatever. It's just so

fun. It really is. We start out at the Central

City Fairgrounds, and we end up running into

Captain Cold and Mirror Master as they're regaling

us with a tale of how they almost got the Justice

League, sort of. And then an evil Colonel Sanders,

called Colonel Sunder, comes into the mix. Um,

we then go to, uh, so Colonel Sunder is here

to basically do things the easy way. That's the,

that's the goal of, of this comic because everyone

knows the story of Harlan Sanders. He did it

the hard way with hard work and perseverance

and all that. Um, so obviously the evil Colonel

Sanders, the earth three Colonel Sanders, um,

is going to do it the easy way. The billboard

here in the book at his restaurant, Easy Fried

Chicken, don't knock it until you've fried it.

Oh, my God. The puns in these stories are simply

amazing. And he has Mirror Master and Captain

Cold working as employees of this place. It's

too hilarious. Colonel Sunder starts breaking

out into a song that's televised on TV, so we

get to Colonel Sanders. This has got to stop.

That jack leg is carpetbagging my whole public

image. Maybe this is that identity theft nonsense

I keep hearing about. So, Colonel Sanders leaves

KFC to go over to Colonel Sunder's Easy Fried

Chicken. And, meanwhile, the Flash is stopping

a bank robbery along with Green Lantern, and

they end up at Easy Fried Chicken. And they try

to stop Colonel Sanders from going in there,

because Colonel Sunder is the one that robbed

the bank. Oh, man. This is just so fun. I'll

link the Facebook album on the pullback page,

folks, that I've taken screen caps for. But this

is just so cool. You have the two kernels here.

Satisfaction. Good luck finding that here. My

food's fast, cheap, and easy. Yes, but satisfying?

Hmm. I don't know how you stole my good looks,

but you got none of my know -how. And they go

on and have a battle. And Colonel Sanders kicks

Colonel Sunder's butt. And The Flash and Captain

Cold come in. And all this action happens. Colonel

Sunder with some sort of nugget buns. No, nugget

guns. I thought it was nugget bun guns. But it's

nugget guns. So he's got a gun that fires chicken

nuggets. Really? Seriously? That's hilarious.

um i love the art the artists do an amazing job

fitting colonel sanders colonel sunder kfc into

the dc universe world i'm not sure which i think

the version of flash that's in here is wally

the suit i don't remember seeing and this came

out a couple of years ago folks um by the end

of it they're all like oh the hard way is the

best way kind of a thing And it ends with, you

know, if I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe

it, says Flash. I just call it Kentucky Fried

Justice. And he has the $5 fill -up bucket there.

They even go so much to change the mail bag of

the comic. You know, the colonel's mail bucket.

I just think this is super cool. This is, you

know... When I think of DC Comics, I think of

those hard -hitting, dark storylines like Dark

Side War or the Joker stuff that Scott Snyder

did a few years ago, Death of the Family. I think

of really, really dark storytelling. When I think

of DC Comics, I don't really think of a lot of

fun storytelling. The only thing as fun as this

is... that I remember absolutely loving is the

Batmite six -issue miniseries from Dan Juergens

and Corin Howell. That was a fun little book,

but you don't see DC putting stuff like this

out, and I think this is super fun, super interesting.

We're going to take another quick break, and

we're going to come back to the next one in the

story, which is the Colonel Corps. So that's

the next issue, and we'll be back after this.

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All right, folks, I'm back with the second issue

of KFC Presents the Colonel Corps. This one...

This one is... So I said earlier, Kernel of Two

Worlds was kind of like Crisis on Infinite Earths.

I guess it could be, except this is called the

Crisis of Infinite Kernels. So I was wrong in

that. I guess the last one is more of an alternate

timeline type of thing. I don't know. This one

is... Script is done by Tony Bedard. Pencils

are done by Tom Dernick. Ink's done by Trevor

Scott. Colors by Hi -Fi. Cover art by Tom Grumet,

Trevor Scott, and Hi -Fi. Letters done by Carlos

M. Mangul? I'm probably butchering that name.

But having the same people on the creative team,

for the most part, is very cool. I think that's

a great continuity bit. And this story is all

about how I've had it up to here with Harlan

Sanders and his holier -than -thou hard way.

So we have Colonel Sunder, basically after his

defeat, thinking he's going to somehow get his

revenge on Colonel Sanders. As we go through

the issue, we've got Colonel Sanders flying the

KFC flag, and we've got basically a whole bunch

of other colonels show up. There's a female one,

there's other male versions, there's a female

Flash in here. And the whole gist of this story

is that... They basically have to save the universe

from Colonel Sunder. So most of the issue is

Colonel Sanders going around to all these other

Colonels of Infinite Earths and getting them

all together for this big giant war kind of thing

with Colonel Sunder. Which is interesting, because

they all have to use kind of the Flash's treadmill?

as a time jump kind of thing. It's very cool,

very interesting, very fun. They go to so many

worlds, and I love the image of all the colonels

with the female Flash character. I think that's

so cool. I love the art on Colonel Sunder. Oh,

that's what it is. Colonel Sunder's plot is to

make... All of the Colonels of the Infinite Earths

forget one ingredient of the Eleven Herbs and

Spices secret recipe. I remember this now. And

basically they all have to get together because

they all can only remember one thing about it.

So not all of them know the entire recipe. That's

a little ingenious on Colonel Sunder's part.

We get Gorilla Grodd involved along with, like

I said, the female Flash character. And there's

a big ol' war between all these characters. Big

ol' fight, I should say, not war. And Colonel

Sanders is like, You can't beat hard work with

lies and tricks. Mine is a will that can't be

broken. Colonel Corr, on your feet. And we have

this nice image of all the various colonels in

the Corps going to defeat Colonel Sunder. The

easy way does not pay, so heroes do it the hard

way is how it ends. And I love that final image

of them all. I think it's so cool. Again, we

have the mail bucket. We have KFC's Crusaders

of the Hard Way. Very, very cool. Very, very

fun. This issue was interesting. I don't know

why it's not listed under the others, the other

two. And for some odd reason, you can't actually...

I don't know why DC... stopped comixology from

being able to buy this these three issues because

they have and it's a little weird i don't know

so but i absolutely love uh the colonel core

issue i think it's super fun it's it's a nice

little plot that you don't expect it's a nice

little twist kind of thing and it's just fun

That's the whole purpose of episode 329 here

in the pull bag, folks. This is a fun, fun comic.

Go out, try to find this in print, and read it.

If you're looking for a comic book thing to make

you laugh, to make you smile, to make you groan

at some of the cheesiness of it all, or I should

say the extra crispiness of it all, get these

issues. I'll be back after this with the final

issue, which is Kentucky Fried Chicken Presents

Across the Universe. folks. Finally up is the

third issue, Across the Universe, KFC Presents,

DC Comics, or DC Comics Presents, KFC Presents,

I don't know. Script done by Tony Bedard, pencils

done by Tom Dernick, inks by Trevor Scott and

Sean Parsons, colors by Hi -Fi, letters by Carlos

M. Mangul, again, I'm probably butchering that

name, cover by Tom Grumet and Trevor Scott, along

with Hi -Fi. And this one is probably the silliest

one of all. This one has the Colonel and Hal

Jordan Green Lantern trying to figure out who's

stealing all the... I can't even believe I'm

going to say this. Oh, God. The new KFC sandwich

that the Colonel... The Zinger. That's what it

is. Trying to figure out who in the universe

is stealing all the zingers. That's the basic

plot of this. That's what I mean when I said

earlier about how fun these three comics are.

The plots are just not even, like, they're there

and they're cool, but it's so different and so

interesting to me that DC Comics did this. Again,

it's a fun, fun thing. So, as we begin this,

we see, you know, Colonel's unleashing the new

sandwich, the Zinger. And, you know, he talks

to Hal. He says, Hal, my boy, I'm glad you asked.

See, I'm going to need your help with getting

my sandwich out to the whole universe. Or rather,

the Green Lantern's help. So we have a small

little recap of how they whooped Colonel Sunder.

And we then go to the Green Lantern Corps ship,

and they basically send Zingers, all of the Green

Lantern Corps, including Kilowog, Jon Stewart,

and others, probably Guy Gardner as well, even

though he's my least favorite Green Lantern.

Kyle Rayner, I think, is there as well. If I

had to pick, if I had to rank my top four Green

Lantern characters, it would be... John Stewart,

Kyle Rayner, Kilowog, and then Hal Jordan. Hal's

cool, and I like him, but I was first exposed

to Phil Lamar voicing John Stewart in Justice

League and Justice League Unlimited. I love Kilowog,

and I love Kyle Rayner as well, because Kyle

is just kind of this cool, new kind of kid, and

Hal is that, I don't want to say old hat lantern,

but you always see stories with Hal Jordan in

it. So they send out all the Zingers to all the

planets and none of them get any. They're all

empty. And the reason for this is because Larfleeze

has stolen all of the Zinger sandwiches from

the Colonel. The Green Lantern shares his ring

power with the Colonel and the ring... It's a

green lantern ring with a KFC bucket as the center

of it. I'm like, what the heck? Why would they

do that? That's so fucking funny. I love that.

So they go 13 .7 billion light years away to

the source wall. And they find out who has and

who's doing... This with the stealing of the

zinger sandwiches. And we find out that it's

Lar Fleas. And basically, the colonel charges

him. That'll be $3 ,457 .50 plus whatever sales

tax y 'all have on this stinking mud ball. And

Larfleeze is like, mine, they're mine, and I

want more. I want them all. I want all the zingers.

I love the art. I love the colors. I love how

this is, out of the three comics, these colors

are by far the brightest contrast between the

green of Green Lantern and Colonel Sanders and

the orange of Larfleeze. I love that. I think

that's absolutely funny. Not funny. I think that's

absolutely cool and interesting and fun. So the

colonel finally gets a good idea and uses his

power ring to create a knife and a fork and a

chicken leg. And basically... And Larfleeze figures

out the Colonel smells like zingers because the

Colonel makes the zingers. And they go to a whole

thing of saying, hey, why not have a KFC all

the way out here so you can have all the zingers

you want? Kind of a thing. And he goes, you know,

Colonel's like, of course, you're going to have

to run the place up to my standards. Don't worry,

we have an excellent training program. So he's

going to train Larflees to cook the zingers.

And it basically ends with, you know, I may not

be a real space cop, but this is indeed an honor.

Now I'd like to have a word about how you feed

all these fine employees of yours. Again, we

have one more mail bucket. And I assume there's

supposed to be another one. Because it says,

next, Apocalypse looking good. Which basically

means he's going to team up with Superman. I

don't know. As I said, these were out a few years

ago. Not sure if it's going to come back or not.

I hope it does. Because I really, really dug

these. I thought it was super fun. I thought

that the writing was well done for what it is.

I felt that the art encompassed both the DC Universe

and what KFC and The Colonel stand for. So very,

very cool. Absolutely love it, folks. So if you

can, as I said earlier in the podcast, check

out DC Comics KFC Presents. There's three issues.

colonel of two worlds colonel core and this third

one so there's that um please check it out you're

probably not going to be able to get it digitally

you might have to find them in print because

as i said also earlier it seems that comixology

is not selling them anymore for whatever reason

i don't know why It's probably something to do

with DC and not getting enough numbers or I don't

know. But Tony Bedard and on writing and the

rest of the art team, thank you so much. You

guys really made my day with these. And I hope

to God there's more. I really, really do. So.

That's going to do it for me, folks, here inside

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