Jem and the Holograms Infinite and Dimensions Review

Hey, this is Kelly Thompson, writer of IDW's

Gem in the Holograms, and you're listening to

the Geekcast Radio Network. Gem here, and I've

jumped inside the pullback to discover the stories

in my own comic, Gem in the Holograms, from IDW

Publishing. Listen in as Mike, Amy, and Nicole

give their thoughts on the laced issue, who are

all going to have a truly outrageous time inside

the pullback. Hello and welcome to The Pull Bag.

This is episode 340. That's right, folks. 340

episodes. We're just a week shy of our sixth

year anniversary of the show. I am, of course,

TF2 and Mike. Joining me is my truly outrageous

misfit, one of them anyway, Amy A .K. Lady Rourke.

Hello. Hello. Woohoo. And in case you didn't

realize by... Six years. Woohoo. Six years. Does

anybody actually listen to this show? I'm sure

they do. I'm sure they do. There are fans out

there. So yes, we are going back to Jem and the

Holograms finally after so long. Our other misfit

is dealing with some life stuff. So Nicole is

out there, you know. kicking ass and taking names

just like Roxy would. Without the bagels, hopefully,

because bagels... No, with the bagels. English

muffins are better. I'm sure at times she has

her bagel. Kind of like, you know, eat your cake

and your bagel too. That's right. So we are here,

two trades, one podcast, like what we've been

doing a few times. Ryan and I did this with Transformers

with More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise,

where we would do like, you know, two trades

in one show kind of thing. Yep. Gem and the Holograms,

I don't know what IDW has planned for them in

the future. I do know that there was infinite

this massive crossover thing between Gem and

the Holograms and the Misfits, and then there's

Dimension. which is like five or six one -shot

stories. So those are the two trades, Gem of

the Holograms Infinite and Gem of the Holograms

Dimensions, that we'll be talking about tonight.

It seems like the truly outrageousness at IDW

has kind of diminished a little bit since the

big flop of the movie and everything else, and

that was, god, that was years ago now. uh...

yesterday the movie i'd say the movie flopped

before the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the the announced

to celebrate their 20th anniversary online, you

know, being a company this year, uh, the IDW

2020 series, which it's like, I think six one

shots, Ghostbusters, My Little Pony, Gem, Turtles,

and I think there's another one, but I don't

remember it off top of my head. Uh, so there

was another Gem story at some point, but it's

just a - Star Trek. Star Trek. That's what it

was though. Um, you know, so. That'll be covered

in an episode at some point. I don't know when

but we wanted to return to Gem of the Holograms

To you know get this covered because we never

actually ever did it So yeah, we're gonna start

with Gem of the Holograms infinite written by

Kelly Thompson Artists are Stacey Lee On part

one, parts one, three, and five is also Jen Hickman.

Parts two, four, and six is Jen St. Ange, or

Ange, I think. I asked her one time. how she

pronounces it, and I think it's St. Ainge, but

it's okay. Lyric letters are done by Sarah Stern,

Jen Hickman, and Victoria Rovedo. Collarists,

Sarah Stern, and Victoria Rovedo, and Brittany

Pier. Letters by Sean Lee, series editor, Sarah

Gaydos. Yeah, this is the big crossover event

thing. this feels like the way Kelly wrote this

and the way that the story progresses it really

feels like that that Hawaii episode that we all

love of the old cartoon series I agree that's

that's true which we've already done a little

bit of the luau and yeah I think was what issue

25 26 something like that yeah so we It's good.

I liked this episode. I liked these issues. Infinite

for me was definitely the between infinite and

dimensions. I liked infinite much better or to

coin a phrase infinitely better. once it's been

a while since i've read kelly's gem writing uh...

and i want to follow her and other stuff that

she's done i just haven't had time but i love

how this is set up where it's opens with jim

and pizzazz yelling at each other back and forth

and then it has the two bands yelling back and

forth and then you break out into two pages of

being introduced in you know to the characters

and with what jim is saying and all the little

fun little funny things character bits for each

of the characters same thing on pizzazz and the

misfit side absolutely love that it was good

yeah um... i love seeing all the um... the musical

aspects after the the band face -off kind of

thing there yeah i think that is really really

well done um this story i knew what it was going

to be but i didn't know what it was going to

be um yeah and i'm gonna tease it but they didn't

like completely reveal it right so that was good

yeah um obviously jim jerica and rio the uh love

triangle there is having uh issues still but

um you know it's just one of those things where

reminding I guess if you hadn't seen this or

if you hadn't read kind of a thing it still continues

from the series and that's the point of it it's

still part of the gem of the holograms idw comic

series yeah you know you've got everybody on

the buses and and everything else in this in

this first part When I mean about, when I said

it, it kind of reminds me of, what was it, Hot

Time in Hawaii or whatever that episode was called

from the original cartoon series. It's just the

arguing and the bickering constantly between

Jim and, uh, Jim slash Jerika and Pazazz. That's

really what I mean, because sometimes Pazazz

just can't let stuff go. Yep. That's true. There

is, and I like that they, they carried that over

from... From her character. She's she's very

loyal, but she's also she can't let go of you

things so I'm alright with that I like my characters

to have you know little flaws and things like

that, and they've been really great about Making

sure the characters have that and it makes them

much more I think more realistic in the comic

than the the TV Animation show ever was so I

mean, I was never a fan of Pazazz until I read

the comic and then I'm like, oh, I really like

Pazazz, she's great. Yeah, she's great. In the

comic series' run, we had so much character development

and depth to Pazazz, which actually makes her

more of a character that you want to enjoy than

one that you don't. Yeah. So the bands are still

fighting with each other back and forth, back

and forth, except for obviously Kimber and Stormer

because they're in love. Yeah. Um, meanwhile,

everybody and their smartphone click flash, click

flash, you know, everybody's taking pictures

and I love the exchange between Jim and Pizzazz.

Another time, Jim. Yeah. I'm sure that considering

you can't let it go. Pizzazz is like, grr, and

I'm like... Please don't turn this into Frozen.

Please don't turn this into a Jim Frozen thing.

I'll say this later, but I'm just gonna preface

this when we get to that part in the story, folks.

I don't know what Kelly was... I understand why

the story is the way it is, but with the current

timeline that we're in in real life in 2019,

um separating people out from the inner city

and the outer city and the wall and the this

and the that i was just waiting for eric raymond

to come in with a trump comb over i don't want

to get political on this podcast but i'm sorry

as i was reading through this story later on

with events that happen i'm like um hmm a giant

wall basically dividing the like oh boy And I

know I had a completely different take with it

because I've read the Hunger Games and you know

all of that I kind of took it as that because

like all of the people that are inside the wall

of course have hologram technology and that kind

of that the ooh shiny they look pretty they have

all the prettiness and the glamour and so I kind

of remember that's what I took it as is it's

this apocalyptic kind of tail a short one because

it you know we mostly clean it up clear it up

by the end of the issues for Infinite. But like,

it kind of, because they also take the slant

of, oh, the people haven't, they haven't been

reminded about all the people that are outside

that are having to struggle and stuff like that.

And so they're still like, that was their whole

spiel, is that they are able to kind of make

them aware of all of the stuff that's been going

on. And so the people, you know, they, Changed

their mind because now they know and I thought

well it kind of sounded like to me kind of like

the hunter games is that And you're most likely

right that yeah, I don't want to speak for Kelly

But I'm sure that's more so where her mind was

when she was crafting this I guess I'm sorry.

I just with everything that has gone with everything

that's gone on in the last let's say six months

and some military veteran person some guy creating

a go fund me to get the wall bill did you ever

so anyway this that's me that oh my god it's

not that we need to go there yeah but it's one

of those things where it's like elitist this

whole wall thing in inside and outside i'm like

or gone uh... anyway so well the good thing to

know that the with the one thing i would do want

to say is this actually came out before a lot

of that drama happened that's true because this

came out last year about this time last year

what was it i mean look infinite came out um

even it was out january of 2018 okay yeah yeah

so yeah i mean that being said i mean we're i

i read it of course a year later but yeah the

point is is that it did come out last year before

all of the drama really started heating up yeah

true First to say that, you know, the political

stuff has been going on since, you know, 2016.

Yeah, took office. The minute it happened, it's

just been ramping up since then, so. So TechRat

shows up. Not looking like his slimy self, which

is nice. Yeah, I actually liked TechRat in this.

Yeah, I did too. But he wasn't there. tech rat

technically yeah yeah it's like the hunger games

meets the dc universe with also you know infinite

earths and then other earths and things like

that it's really cool i'm digging this i like

it i like the direction that they went with that

because it's so it's such a fresh take they never

did that in the show and it is something that

i feel like is is something that's very relevant

it's fun to do in today's storytelling. I'm not

opposed to it. It was kind of fun to just, you

know, hey, tech rat. Yeah, but he looks a lot

tech rat -ish and he's acting, not tech rat -ish.

He's a radish. He's a radish that everyone relishes.

It's relishing radishes. So the Misfits, specifically

Pizzazz, has a little fit over all this and everything

else and basically Techrat tells them that he

has come to their earth to get their aid in helping

him save this earth, his earth, because the gem

of the holograms technology has taken over and

gem core um run by none other than eric raymond

is you know the devil incarnate you know it's

big business it's you know raymond towers it's

um what other trumpisms can i equate to eric

raymond good times yes good times they They all,

because the misfits show up, the way this first

part ends, they all end up going to the alternate

earth. Yep. What did you think of the first part

of the story here? I liked it. I was completely

on board. I was like, okay, we got to the first

break in between issues. And I was like, okay,

I want to read more. Let's keep going with this.

I did read Dimensions first. I'm kind of glad

I did. But then I came back to, then I read Infinite.

I was like, I felt like with Dimensions, this

stopped and then we started a whole new for every

section. And this one, I wanted to know what's

going on. I wanted to know what happens next.

What happens next? Do you want to know more?

Yes, keep turning the pages then. So yeah, I

was very interested. I really liked the art in

this one too. It just, I liked how I can't remember

who was the one that did on the first... Who's

the artist that did this one? Oh, I just said

it earlier. Yeah, hold on. Give me a second.

I'll get to it. It was Stacey Lee. Stacey Lee.

I liked what she had here. Yeah. Stacey's art

was awesome. Absolutely loved what she did with

all the characters. Their expressions, their

micro -expressions, the use of simplicity, and

then even their body. This is something that,

shoot, now I'm terrible at names. Sophie. Sophie

kind of set the tone for that when she started

the whole, when she helped start the series.

All their body types are just unique to them

and not all of the artists have carried it through

really well But I really liked what Stacey did

she just really made it work for me Yeah, I mean

all the body types are still there from what

Sophie initially set out to be I would say in

Stacey's art for pizzazz Her design is a little

different, but it's okay. It works. It's still

the comic version of pizzazz All of the art is

just is just so so good. So so interesting Well,

it because this is the problem I had with some

of the artists and dimension is that There's

a few in there where the proportions are like

they're exaggerated in more ways Yeah, and this

there seems to be a really good cohesion of the

the bodies the the faces she doesn't you know

yes there's exaggeration because it is it's a

you know it's a cartoon to begin with and so

i mean the micro expressions and everything the

expressions and how she uses them just really

works um but and there's but there's a type a

feel of cohesion with it like you know the style

eyes of each individual is still there but yet

it's it reads well the proportions of the bodies

look great. Whereas there've been one where they

really went to, they pulled a little bit too

much on it and I didn't care for it as much.

This, I felt like there was a little bit more

unity in that. And I really do like that. They

read as individuals, but also as a whole, the

art just worked really well together. So. Yeah,

absolutely. And the love of the way it was colored

too. It's just, it's sparkly. It looks like a

gem comic. Oh yeah, the colors are amazing. They

really, really are. Uh, part two starts off,

obviously, where part one left off. Like I said,

they're about to jump into the portal kind of

thing. Uh, Clash shows up. Been running after

you guys for like half an hour. If you'd tell

me where you're going, it'd be a lot easier to

bring you these dumb coffees you, uh, wanted?

because everybody except clash jumps through

the portal they all land and you know get your

this out of this and is that who's touching me

blabby blah blah blah uh... what i love about

this second part is uh... first of all that big

open uh... reveal of the gem world and you know

get the truly outrageous look and it's just glittering

gold and pink and purple and just all kinds of

gem of the holograms, holograms, kind of. Very

graphic, like graphics, like graphically, like

a design graphics, designy graphic. And yeah,

it was very, it was very, very much the show,

like the eyes, the J, the stars. It's pretty,

you know, it's what I expected to see if I saw

gem. Painted everywhere Absolutely, and I love

the way that they did on the bottom panel at

least through comics ology I get three basically

moves through the guided view of all the character

designs on the bottom of that page where it starts

with Kimber and it ends with with Jetta and just

all the looks on their faces You can clearly

see you can't see their whole body types But

we all know what the body types are but seeing

them all next to each other you see how different

they all are, you know, again, highlighting that

not all people have the same body type. What

I like about going through this is that obviously

Jerrica, because she's not Jem right now. We'll

get to that in a minute. Jerrica and Pizzaz are

basically the center to all the other parts of

the... the bands are like around them kind of

thing it's really really interesting i love it

and she jumped in as jem but she's there as jerrica

yep yeah that was good they do have an in in

story explanation for that too so it's like yeah

i i expected it was good it was a good explanation

too it wasn't like oh it was just no it was expected

and throughout this entire comic even up till

the end basically um Pizzazz basically blames

Gem and the Holograms for everything. Yeah, pretty

much. And, you know, we're at a point in the

story now in the second part where Jerika is

coming clean to the Misfits. They have to reveal

the secret, you know, that she's Gem and, you

know, Showtime synergy and doesn't exactly work.

And this is where the reasoning comes in. They're

too far away from their synergy. Yeah. Their

computer kind of a thing So Well, I thought it

was really cool too is that you see the actual

what what tech rat was talking about because

he is using the tech Yes, he is using the tech

because he helped build the tech. Yeah, but like

when he gets there He's even like he's he looks

different. He looks very very different It totally

works. I thought he's gemmified He's gemmified.

It's funny. I loved that. I loved that how they

did that. So it was good I love how he basically

says you all have to have gem star earrings because

you're not from this world You need to have a

disguise Obviously, it's only a hologram if people

get too close. They'll know but just passing

by no one's gonna know kind of a thing Yeah and

I Love what pizzazz yells at him You know cuz

again, it's her and Jim fighting with each other

yelling at each other and Jim or Jericho's like

well Why did you come here tech rat and all this

Jim and the holograms are all but gods? The world

remade in their image nonsense. Where are the

misfits? He says well If they still exist. If

they still exist! Oh boy. Lots of drama. Yes.

But that's what General Holograms is. It's family,

it's friends, it's this, it's that. Even on the

Misfits side. You know, reading the comic for

as long as it ran, you know. With Kelly, you

know, giving new dimensions. huh pun not intended

but to each of the characters on both sides of

the bands just I mean it's just absolutely amazing

and cool and gives you a better reading experience

yeah it does so they have to basically take the

elevator up to the penthouse or whatever it is

and we look out over Tarzan's jungle Yeah, pretty

much. And that's the reveal of the world beyond

the wall. Yeah. So they have their holograms

on, so they shift because of the holograms that

they have on. But then they go to see what the

rest of the world looks like. And yeah, I was

like, OK, well, it doesn't look bad. It's not

like complete waste, but it's definitely run

down outside. it's like if you know the president

does if nature took the world back over so things

are definitely that like the buildings and stuff

like that are kind of being swallowed up by things

so it's it's run down but it's you know if the

earth is still the earth it's just technology

inside the wall is much different than outside

so yeah how are you feeling about the story so

far after the second issue Oh, I loved it. I

was like eating this up. I was like, okay, we're

on a roll. Where are we going with this? What's

going to happen next? Because, you know, I was

like, I want to keep going. Let's go for it,

man. I liked I liked the difference between the

two. I liked the I liked again. The art was great

on this one. I think it was Jen St. Ange. Yeah.

And again, expressions are working great. It

was a little bit of a switch, but still like.

they're still still doing a good job with with

the second issue so yeah yeah it's uh... it's

a little bit of a switch in art it's not as drastic

as you know individual stories putting their

own spin on the characters and whatever else

which we'll talk about later uh... but uh...

yeah it was really nice very well done i uh...

absolutely love the uh... the cover for issue

3, which is basically synergy with all of them

in her hands. Oh yeah. So that's very, very cool.

She looks very Egyptian. Yeah. Yeah, she does.

So everybody's out in the world, everybody's,

you know... Walking around doing their thing

and of course pizzazz has to you know, I'm gonna

go find this but before that but first Rio and

Jerrica. Oh boy. Well, they share a kiss cuz

that ain't her real Rio. That's this world's

Rio Yeah Yeah, that's interesting To say the

least Oh, a nice little tension there. That was

a good... But the thing is, and this is the part

that I was like, okay, I guess Rio doesn't, cause

he doesn't really do much. It was more like a,

hey, you're here. Kiss, kiss. Yay. I didn't realize

you were alive. Kind of a thing. Oh, sorry. I

just, yeah, I haven't told you anything. Yeah.

What I love about this story besides what we've

seen so far and all of that is how the alternate

earth roles are changed up where, you know, because

we're getting to a point of going to Jim Core

and it's Elise who is Eric's errand girl. Whereas

in the regular gem world it's the other way around

like Eric is the manager for the Misfits Well

now he's in charge of gem core and Elise is like

his gopher kind of you know assistant person

whatever Yeah They did a really good job with

this. I think this is really cool Eric interacting

with synergy is a little strange, but obviously

it's an alternate dimension kind of a thing.

Who the hell's he got in that south entrance

there, that hidden door on the south wall? Like,

who's back there? How very flash of him. Yes,

really. How very Harrison Wells of him. Yeah,

true. That's very Wells of him, yeah. You know,

it's interesting because, like, this is the way...

At about this time, I was like, okay, so he's

behind what's going on with synergy then. And

I thought, oh, that's a bad thing. Yeah, that's

a very bad thing. Way to start off with the conflict,

yo. We get to see who's the mastermind behind

this. Well, at least. we think yeah we think

we think yeah we go to eric emmett benton's apartment

or house or whatever because in this universe

emmett is alive he did not die and both him and

tech rat are the ones that kind of figured out

the synergy or the the the technology yep and

they've both been trying to hack it and yeah

they haven't been able to yeah and it's one of

those things where What I love that Kelly has

done with this is basically, okay, Emmet's on,

you know, in the real Jim and the Holograms Earth,

or whatever you want to call it, kind of thing,

for our Jim and the Holograms on our Earth, they

lost their mother and father kind of thing and

whatever else, and obviously they have their

synergy to kind of be Jackie's spirit, whatever,

but they no longer have Emmet. Well, here, They

still don't have Jackie as far as I can tell,

but Emmett is still here. The only difference

is, obviously, his gem and the holograms are

gone as well. So it's just him, like you said,

and TechRat. But it was just a beautiful way

of fitting Emmett Benton into the story without

it being like, hey, Emmett Benton back from the

dead or something kind of thing. And if I remember

correctly, I think that was what TechRat kind

of used as the thing to lure them into his world.

Say, well, your dad's there. Yeah, your dad's

your dad. Yeah. And he's dad to all of the girls

because from what I'm taking, what we got is

that he was he still adopted the other girls

as well. So they're all they all know him. Yeah,

they all consider him as a father figure not

just a biological father. Yeah, not just Jerrica

and Kimber. Yes that yeah So Jerrica has this

idea of maybe her original gem star earrings

can can work somehow with finding out their plan

of This this story basically takes everything

that we've already read flips it on its ass and

puts it in a way that uh... wouldn't think that

you could use it basically she's like hey how

about we hack the stuff and figure out how to

release silica or release the the the code part

of it not necessarily release silica again on

this universe but yeah at least that that hidden

kind of thing with synergy what's going whatever

is going on and that's kind of the plan is that's

what they're going to be doing And they of course

let them know what silica was because in their

world silica didn't take over there was no there

was no whatever yeah, and they've pretty much

taken out most of You know the code that could

be that way because there were two people you

know writing it But it's still pieces of it are

still there. So that was the plan is to use What

they know of silica as a back door to get in?

Yeah to kind of you know get get synergy to be

less um controlled yeah less obedient to eric

yeah yeah um and we have before that's kind of

i mean that is kind of the plan before we actually

get to all that though but don't but i don't

tech rat didn't you tell them i didn't know how

to and this is where we get the reveal that this

earth's gem of the holograms all the girls are

dead and he tells the story of how they died

and yeah wow yeah sad sad day yep And of course,

Jerika's final line of this issue, then we'll

take down Gemcore and free the world of the illusion

if it's the last thing we do. Bum bum bum! Commercial

break! Yep. Perfect place. Absolutely. Yeah,

that's the other thing. the cliffhanger. I'm

so glad I did not read this single issue week

to week, because it would have killed me. Six

weeks of torture is what this would have been,

to have to wait until the next issue. Yeah, reading

and trade is so much better, folks. You get the

whole story all at once. You can spend two hours

reading the thing if you want to, or however

long it takes you to do so. But yeah, this...

believe this is the third issue we just finished.

Absolutely love it. I love where the story is

going. There are moments that are just going

to not only tug on your hard strings, but basically

rip them out. Like you have no more hard strings.

Kind of a thing. What did you think of, again,

the story so far, this issue on its own as well

as the rest of it so far? Yeah. Like I said,

I'm signed up for it. I want to keep going. I

definitely They did enough things in here that,

again, like you said, they're taking all elements

of things that we know in the earth that they

came from, and they're mixing it up and turning

it on its head and doing different things. And

I like how they've done that. I like how the

differences in how things are. They're not there.

They're dead. They're like, oh, great, wonderful.

It's just the little things that they're doing

that are just... taking all the elements, shaking

it up in a bag and pulling out what they want.

So it's working. Yeah, absolutely. And the art

is, again, I think this one is Jen Hickman. Yep.

Doing great with it. I really liked everything

that they have. Yeah. Issue four starts out with

the Misfits because they were going to run off

and find out what happened to this world's Misfits.

Let me start off with Pizzazz. I admit it's scarier

than I thought it would be. Jetta says, oh, so

you do admit it. Wow, you admit it. Just bloody

great, Pizzazz. Roxy's like, I don't know what

you guys are complaining about. It's awesome.

Though I ruin my concern about bagel quality.

And back to the bagels. Uh -huh. And Stormer

has the best reaction. Nobody told me we had

to rappel down this dumb thing. I hate all of

you. It was just nice to see that the Misfits

are still the Misfits no matter what you know

they're just still I hate all of you So they

rappel down the wall they get to I don't want

to necessarily say the grassy knoll But they

get to the bottom of the wall where there's a

bunch of grass and bushes and whatever else They

decide to take the earrings off because what

if the earrings don't? what if the signal doesn't

get out there that far or whatever so why don't

we just take them off anyway or turn them off

then again they're trying not to stand out when

they were in when they were in the city they

didn't want to stand out when they're outside

the city they don't want to stand out so they

will if they have the holograms on so they take

it off yep and they see basically the gem version

of agrabah like when is Aladdin going to show

up here? street rat oh boy yeah so we basically

have you know this whole misfit storyline with

them going off on their own and they're not just

going off to destroy stuff for whatever they're

going to find their counterparts and pizzazz

starts hearing this really really good music

and Oh my god, what in the bleeding hell is happening?

It's Stimber! Yes, I really liked this. This

was fun, fantastic to run to this point because

we haven't seen any of that in any of like the

show that was kind of like, or the animated show,

they only had it for like what, just a couple

issues or a couple episodes or something like

that. Yeah. And so we really we were kind of

hoping while we were reading I wonder how they're

gonna do that how they're gonna bring if they're

gonna bring in a moment where we have you know

Kimber and Storm or doing a you know their own

thing and this is that and I was like oh cool

I like that we had to go to another world to

have it happen but this works for me it so works

yeah it was I think it was when the bands break

up. I think that was the episode title in the

original cartoon. Yeah, the bands broke up and

so the two of them went off into their own being.

Yeah. So, obviously... There's a few changes

though. Yeah, there's a few changes. What happened

to your arm? Yeah. So you know Stormer from this

this earth has a robotic arm I Loved it. I was

like awesome. She's so totally metal. Yep. She's

one part Cybertronian Hey, this is a this is

the 14th colony nobody knew about And you know

even pizzazz says My god, they're not just rock

stars. They're like revolutionaries. I love it.

Like, again, showing the depth of Pazazz's character.

Yes, she can be that bratty, oh, Jem has everything,

why don't we have anything kind of a thing. However,

through Kelly's writing and through the longevity

of the time of the series for the comic, Pazazz's

character has shown way more dimension than we've

ever seen. Just this time, you know again the

Misfits are family too. They're not like Pizzazz

is now, you know to get any of the Misfits kind

of a thing So Just I know yeah, you're absolutely

right I mean she just she's I don't see the you

know good and bad like, you know the good band

and the the The misfit band basically they're

always causing troubles like actually no, they're

doing some really good things that I I'm very

sympathetic to both sides I like both the bands

for different reasons because they have They

have the way they do things and each one of them

is unique and that definitely carries over even

in this alternate world So let's go. It's cool

You know And we get to a point of his ass is

like of course I can do whatever I want I can

you know I cannot wait to get back home and tell

the world about all of this Hologram nonsense

and stormers like that's the one thing you can't

do because if you do it Well, then our world

is gonna become like this world Yeah That's explain

how it is that this world went wrong. Yeah Yeah,

yeah Because there's always has some cool fashion

sense, but I'm sorry skull head pajamas really

That's cool, but wow that's bringing out that

personality there It's so funny. Yeah, they explained

the world and you know the president and the

wall again the president the wall the list of

that I'm sorry, I just... Talk about needing

to let go. So they reveal of how the Misfits,

we were against the tech and we weren't quiet

about it and the Misfits were considered a liability

and they were dealt with. Yep. The only reason

why Stormer from this earth survived is because

she was with... with timber when it happened

yeah and and they obviously went out on their

own and became stem burn yeah but um that's not

really that is the true like which is the sad

thing is spoilers folks if you haven't read this

already it's been over a year um the sad thing

is stormer and uh pizzazz are The only two Misfits

that actually died were Roxy and Jedha Yeah I'd

probably Blaze, but you know it's just one of

those things where it's like the reveal later

of who's in Eric's little room there. It's like

oh Wow, yeah That was interesting yeah, so they

get this message like one of the earrings starts

glowing and it's a message from From Jim and

they have to get the higher ground to see the

message for better signal like all cell phones

in the 21st century You know And, uh, Pazez,

we need you to come back, all of you. TechRat

has made arrangements to get you through at the

south wall entrance, so go there as soon as possible.

We have a plan to put things right here, but

it's going to take all of us together to make

it work. Sure it will, whatever you say, Jam.

Ends on that. Yeah. Man, this story. It's so

good I Knew it was yeah, you know, you think

you know, then you keep reading you're like,

oh, okay. Oh, okay They're not dead some of them

are live They have a twist every single issue

it seems like to me yeah, they do and it seems

like Like I know the reality TV show thing that

they did at the end of the Main ongoing thing

that they admit, you know When they did the Misfits

five -part miniseries that we covered kind of

thing with the whole TV show like that obviously

reference to any reality television show kind

of thing but Reading through these six issues

at least the first four I'm like, hey This is

kind of like Big Brother expect the unexpected

kind of a thing because you just don't know what

they're gonna throw at you Yeah So Any thoughts

on Story so far before we get into the next one

No, no, I like I said, I like the fact that each

each issue has a little twist to it really worked

for me and Again, the art is we went back to

I think Jen St. Ange on this this this issue

and it looks great. I mean, it's just more of

what I expected that we already have kind of

set the tone earlier in this trade. So it's very

consistent. They kept to the three, it looks

like there's three different artists, but all

of them seem to work really well together. Slight

differences, but they mesh really well. Absolutely.

So the Misfits arrive at Emmett's apartment,

and oh yeah, we picked up some strays we thought

you might be interested in. Thought dead on this

world, but nope. So at least we have a father

-daughter reunion between Kim Burstomer and Emmett.

Yay! That's nice. And it's believable. I mean

that I was that's when I got a little choked

up too going Oh gosh, because he said they were

dead and you know I'm sure that it was great

to see people that weren't hit will be they're

not his girls because they're I mean they are

his girls But they're from a different earth

and so but to know that you thought them dead

and to find that they're not They've been stuck

on the outside hiding staying alive You know,

it was really good. It was I liked how they did

it how liked how they brought this reunion together

I was like aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww

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aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww aww

aww aww aww aww aww aw Yeah. But, um, you know,

I love what Jenna says for the supposed quote

unquote good guys. You guys are pretty bloody

bad. Um. So they explain the plan about the pop

-up concert and how they're basically going to

take it over and then we kind of get to Eric

and Elise and how Elise is basically just completely

ready to just Not be around anymore as far as

working with Eric and Eric after she leaves basically

says to synergy We're probably going to take

have to take care of her at some point and it's

like damn Yeah That was just like oh cold hard

slag there dude. I mean she knows too much So

if she's not gonna be in it to win it Then yeah,

it makes sense that he'd be like, okay. Well

at some point we're gonna have to take care of

her and it's very implied We're gonna have to

kill her The Eric Raymond of this world, as much

as our Eric, both cartoon and comic, is a sleazeball.

This Eric is downright... Mastermind. Yeah, he's

a mass murderer at this point. He's killed Gemini

Holograms, he's killed... He's killed everybody.

Almost all of the misfits. And then the big reveal...

My question is where's the bathroom if she's

been in that room the whole time Where does she

go to the bathroom and the little cup on the

table there? Probably and we get revealed to

pizzazz of this earth That brings up a lot of

questions because if she didn't die in that explosion

did she plot the death Of her own teammates?

Of Roxy and Jetta, yeah. Yeah. If Eric has been

behind all of this for this long, then was she

behind it as well, or did she come in and say,

no, Eric, you're going to do what I say? Because

if not, you're not going to kill me this time.

You tried, but. Now I'm pulling the strings.

I don't know. That's the good thing is that they

left enough unanswered in this that I'm like,

okay, Kelly, whenever you decide to come back,

if you come back and tell us how this goes, I

really want to see more of that. Yeah. Demented,

you know, infinite part two. Exactly. Yeah. Who

knows? Come from another where they take over.

Who knows? I mean, the possibilities are endless.

This is such a great little run to go. Different

way so and it's so like Normally when you have

alternate Timelines or alternate earths or whatever

you have the doppelgangers of each other kind

of a thing But there's usually one it like obviously

the two stormers This earths stormer, you know

has it like you said a metal or robotic arm Between

the two pizzazzes this pizzazz kind of this point

where our pizzazz is in the comic this one kind

of reminds me of like cartoon pizzazz as far

as how she looks and things like that and the

look on her face and it's about damn time Eric

yeah you know all of that so I don't know like

I said there's a lot to there's there's a lot

of questions to be asked at this point if if

she is if she did plot The death of her own teammates.

I'm just gonna say that's nothing I don't think

that the cartoon pizzazz would have gone to that

extent She definitely would destroy them like,

you know if if they turn against her But I don't

think that she go to the point of killing them.

And this is just a different dimension Different

dimension version of pizzazz Just taking a different

quality of hers and just up notching it up a

couple oh yeah volume up a little bit so that

we like this is a version of her yep in another

version of me you know you would basically turn

no you do turn into a helicopter and no you turn

into a helicopter and have you know whirling

adventures and things like that. Yeah, exactly.

So we get back to Gem, the Holograms, the Misfits,

TechRat and Emmet and they're finally getting

ready to do this whole computer trick thing with

Synergy. And this Kimber looking version of Silica

shows up. You know we are sisters We are this

we are that and they agree and they I guess body

meld mind meld I don't know they do some sort

of weird computer thing and then she has obviously

a very different look we remember Kind of a thing

so how they've been able to controllers that

they she doesn't they've blocked her Ability

to remember certain things and so she's been

very passive the silica version I liked it because

it was the design was so cool and I was like

oh wow she doesn't look she has some similarities

but a lot of differences too and you know basically

free will has been taken away from synergy and

so them joining back together gives her the free

will that she's been denied and It's interesting

to see that I liked that, how that played out.

So part of the plan was to have some sort of

spontaneous concert that they're kind of hacking.

The rest of the groups are hacking to kind of,

they're not holograms. They've hacked the hologram

to be them so that they can have a concert and

you're like, hey, are they supposed to be there?

No, no, they really are there. They're not the

holograms that everybody's been Deceived into

thinking that they were there. They are the real

people on on stage. So it's like awesome Yeah,

and Elise and Eric are like are you seeing this

and of course synergies nowhere to be found And

then, you know, they go ahead and reveal it,

you know I'm you know she says to stormer she

says to this earth stormer robotic armstormer

I'm gonna show them are you sure I think it's

the only way to make them really see and shows

over synergy Jerrica the reveal you know oh god

kind of thing and you know she goes on this you

know revolutionary sound and and whatever about

you know free yourself free your mind you know

kind of a thing be your be our best selves and

that's how this one kind of ends is on jim's

message of you know don't let jim core control

you kind of a thing yeah and then she changes

again in front of them goes from being just Jerrica

to back to Jem again shows them who she is yep

and as we get into the next issue like you said

you know she changes back to Jem and Kimber has

an idea so she wants Stormer to go with her and

they're like hey let's you know reveal all of

ourselves to these people and You know, let's

give them the message of, why are you trusting

GEMCore? Why are you using their technology?

And part of the other part of the thing is, Eric

has made the GEM tech, the earring tech, so expensive

that his plan is that those that can't afford

it go outside the city. Basically, you're on

the other side of the wall. You're on the outs

if you can't afford this. Yeah, if you can't

afford the next update, then they're they're

literally they're pricing people out of of the

city, basically. And they didn't let them know

that that was going to actually happen. They

were kind of having this concert to kind of hide

the fact that they're about ready to upgrade

another 15 percent of the population out. And

I was like, holy crap. what a you know scummy

thing to do yeah that's eric for you well yeah

i mean that's that's eric for you but the one

thing i'll say is we're kind of winding this

down here i mean we'll go through the rest of

the story beats here as well but it seems like

did you feel like It just kind of dropped the

Eric story. Like, they just left. Like, the board

members are gone. This is gone. Eric and Pizzaz

are gone. Like, I didn't feel like we got too

much. Like, oh, ho ho ho, mustache twirling.

We'll be back again, kind of feeling it all,

either. No, it kind of just, it wrapped it up

in more of a, people just know they've been told.

But I don't know if that actually makes any huge

change because, like, they just take it off.

we don't really see I mean that was the one that

was the only thing I was kind of a little disappointed

in with this is the fact that we didn't really

see any major consequence other than the fact

that people just said oh yeah okay we believe

you and they take off the tack and they start

being them their true selves and you know like

this you know they said then they start actually

realizing oh I can't really afford this but I'm

doing it anyhow because you know You know a B

and C. Oh I haven't seen you for so long. I thought

you're cuter than I remember, you know, it was

like, okay that that works and I don't know if

it was just I don't know it's kind of I wasn't

feeling a lot of pop to it other than the fact

that they Stop them they get away but we didn't

really see why like we didn't come like hordes

of people are coming and banging on the doors

no it wasn't like that at all it was just kind

of like oh now they're just running away and

i was like okay yeah and now synergy shows up

again yeah synergy shows up again um and it doesn't

Like, I love the story. I absolutely love the

story. I love what Kelly did with it. I just

feel like the whole Eric of the alternate earth

running away kind of thing, Eric and the pizazz,

there's no real answers there, like you said

earlier. There's no resolution. Yeah. Yeah, there's

no resolution. You don't know how deep the rabbit

hole goes. And they don't know. All of the characters

don't realize that. There's somebody even behind

Eric. So that's why I was like, well, maybe that's

a card. She just didn't want to play it because

she has plans for something else, which I'm definitely

on board with. I mean, if this is, you know,

I'd like to see her finish that I'd like to see

her come back and do another episode. So the,

or another whatever six issues and see how that

pays off. Because I mean, I'd like to see Kelly.

Use, you know, tell us more because you kind

of left it a little bit here We didn't get as

we didn't get the resolution and the the the

twist moment where all of the characters realize

Oh my gosh, it's pizzazz behind all of that I

mean cuz how would this pizzazz react if she

found out the version of her pizzazz on this

earth? Has been the mastermind behind all of

it would that change her mind about coming back

to the other earth and revealing? The hologram

tech because they've done a really good job of

convincing her in this other world not to do

that So I believe that she believes but would

that change if she saw the other pizzazz because

You know, she's got it made. She's yeah, she's

betrayed everybody But, you know, she is the

top of the world here. Would you be that? You

know, would you would you do that just so that

you could be in charge? So it'll be interesting.

They they didn't leave us any answers with that.

And that's why I'm like, Kelly, OK, I ready for

the next episode. Yeah. And maybe that was the

whole plan to begin with is to have a well, kind

of soft, kind of a soft answer. to wrap up this

story, but kind of leave some of these threads

hanging that were just as important. We get,

we also get to see that, what's her bucket? What's

her name? Not, not, not Eric, but the guy, the

lady. Oh, Elise. Elise. That's right. Sorry.

My bad. So Elise comes in and sees that Eric

has escaped. because now everybody's kind of

turning off the tech and he's left. And energy

is there. You look different. She does. I was

surprised that Kelly didn't have her say, I feel

different. That would be cool if they said that,

but yeah. So he's left Gemworld. And I just not

picked up on he doesn't just left. He's even

left gem world So does that means he's left to

go out into the other world or has he gone to

another earth? Does that ability I mean you never

know you never know I guess all's well that ends

well with a little bit of you know, Eric and

pizzazz of this earth this alternate earth, you

know hanging out there somewhere, but you know

our gem in the holograms and the misfits all

go back to the main gem earth and happy ending

mostly happy ending i don't know they go back

to their earth so we really don't see what the

fallout is going to be other than they go to

the wall elise has authorized oh and that's the

other thing that they find out is that elise

knew that they were trying to hack into the back

door And she allowed them to do it. Right. Yeah.

And then she also authorized the wall door to

open so that people on the inside can actually

find their family that's on the outside that

have been separated because of, you know, the

technological separation. And so you see all

the people hugging and happy because they get

to find the people that they haven't seen in

a long time. So all good. I liked it. And tech

rat and dad. Yeah, Mr. Benton. Mr. Benton. They're

back there. They go back to helping out with

Elise and they're back in charge again. Yay!

Yay! Infinite was very well done. Love the writing

from Kelly. I love all of the artists that were

on this. Jen, both Jen's. Hickman and St. Ange.

and uh... stacy lee her art was really cool uh...

just absolutely really enjoyed this uh... this

is super fun nice little alternate earth kind

of story for gem of the holograms and something

to just have fun with honestly yeah it was it

was a fun run i really liked it What would you

give the trade overall, the whole story, zero

to five? Um, I really liked it. It was pretty,

it was pretty solid all the way up until, like

I said, the last issue where I don't feel like

I got as much payoff that with that ending. Cause

a few things got, I mean, I, again, I'm assuming

that Kelly's going to come back and that there's

going to be more to this that she has more to

tell. Maybe it's just not the right time for

her. To you know do an ongoing maybe it's gonna

be another issue or whatever that she has, you

know planned I that's what I would do I'd be

like, hey I'll come back and pay play some more

in this world in a sandbox when it's convenient

So for me I kind of feel like everything was

really solid into like the last issue so I'm

gonna give it a four Yeah, I'm right there with

you. I'll give it a four as well. Um, like you

said, everything up until the last issue and

the last issue is great as well. It's just that

we didn't catch all the bad guys. Well, we didn't

catch all the bad guys and they're just gone.

We don't even see like a side scene of them escaping

or like, you know, we don't see them step into

another portal to leave or anything they're just

gone yeah and it's like um where'd they go how'd

they get out they're not even on the world anywhere

anymore um i mean that's a kind of big problem

right there it's kind of implied that that they

maybe they just went away from gem world but

i'm like well if if it's the only real city that's

left now um yeah Somebody's gonna see them and

go. Hey, aren't you supposed to be? You know,

you think that those left in charge be like hey,

we're on our look at where we're looking out

for these people now Yeah Yeah Yeah, so we'll

see a lot of They did more are in here like you

had the story and then they did like the covers

and all of the art that that's extra in the trade.

I love a lot of it. It's so good. It's just so

- The covers are amazing. Yeah. I don't know

if they're all covers, but I'm guessing that

they probably are, but some of these are just

fantastic. Yeah, at the end of the book, yeah,

that's a cover gallery. That's all covers from

the series. Marguerite. Marguerite. Zuvash. Good

job. I mean, just Genevieve did. Like some of

these are just really fantastic so I mean even

for just the art alone Amazing yeah, it's so

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we are back and it is time to talk about Gem

and the Holograms Dimensions. This is... six...

One -shot stories written by various other writers

and art drawn by other artists and whatever the

back of the book basically says Jim and the holograms

get back to their rock -and -roll roots in these

standalone stories from some of comics most popular

creators including Sophie Campbell Kate Leith

Tanya Ford Sarah Kuhn Siobhan Keenan Sarah Winifred

Sarah Winifred Searle, Nicole Guax, Rebecca Nalti,

and others. It says, celebration of creativity,

friendship, and being true to yourself. Dimensions

is full of humor, fun, and characters that radiate

positivity. These uplifting stories will bring

a smile to readers' faces even as they put a

song in their hearts. All your favorite characters?

and some new ones take the stage in stories about

everything from Dungeons and Dragons to ski trips

gone wrong. I remember when this was first announced

after infinite was was already a thing and everything

else and I'm like okay gem one shots that could

kinda be cool Just like infinite I know you said

you had read it you had read infinite like what

last year when it finally got traded or whatever

else I had not read either one of these until

right before we recorded the podcast because

That's just how I roll these days I read it and

then I came back and read it again before you

know But I didn't I don't dimensions was a new

one that one I did not read I read infinite But

I did not read dimensions until like two days

ago. Yeah So I'm like, eh, yeah. I like it. It's

interesting. Um, so we have, like I said, eight,

no, really eight stories. Yes. Eight stories,

eight short ones. So I'm thinking like, like

two, two stories per issue. Yeah. Something like

that. So it's four issues long, but you get two

stories per issue, right? That's what it is Yeah,

I remember it was only for yeah, it was only

four issues originally. Yeah for comics originally

and then it's traded With all of them together

and I read it in trade. Yeah, so did I So the

the eight stories the first one and I'm just

reading off the titles here first one is catnap

written by sophie campbell written and art by

sophie campbell colorist is m victoria robedo

role with it is written by cate leith artist

is tanya ford colorist is britney pier face -off

is written by sarah coon with art by chevonne

keenan then we have star girl writer artist is

sarah winterfred serial Shooting Star is written

by Nicole Geokes or I'm sorry, Nicole. Colorist

is Rebecca Nalty on that. Haunted is written

by Sam Maggs. Artist is Rachel Stott. Colorist

is Marissa Louise. Tasty is written by Gina Gray

Sina grace artist is Hannah Templer and Jim OJ's

Jim OJ's like We're in the next emoji movie is

gonna be Jim OJ's versus misfit OJ's Writer on

that is Kevin Panetta artist is Abby both yeah

i think it's both and colorist is heather danforth

on that yeah oh boy um we've been here a long

time folks i don't think we're gonna go in depth

as much as we did on infinite with these yeah

um just because they're they're they're meant

to be self -contained yeah they are and that's

good uh catnap is basically a ski trip with um

um not clash clash no it is clash yes clash uh

clash and and her friend misty and she has to

babysit pizazz's cat while they take the cat

skiing video and other quote -unquote evil hologram

fans yeah i i will say that video and graphics

and who is the third one shade shade yet i'd

i'd believe graphics and shade are new characters

they are universe i think they are as misty i

believe yes misty is as well uh... i love the

way that they've put you know video and clash

and they're not together kind of thing you know

their cousins uh... i love that We essentially

have evil gem fans kind of thing. I think that's

super cool. I think it's super fun. I didn't

like that switch. I liked that just because I

thought, oh yeah, well, you gotta have a few

that are just a little shady. And there you go.

And I liked the fact that in this, because Clash

tends to be more of the shady character in the

series. And so to have those that are shadier

than her in this, You know, I liked that switch.

I like how they twisted that. Or how Sophie twisted

that. Yeah, this is Sophie Campbell, folks. She

set the stage for the whole comics. So the fact

that this actually happened, I was just like,

I love Sophie! Sophie is amazing. Absolutely.

It's a nice little quick story. It doesn't go

too far. It doesn't do anything... I love the

cat that's wearing a little outfit. Oh, Mad Martigan

is great. It's like the cat, you know, this is

like the perfect thing. I wish more of the more

of the stories were like this one because this

one just made me laugh so much. It was so cute

and so amazing and so lovely that I just like,

oh. Sophie, I need you to write more of these.

We need her to do more of these things like this.

Oh yeah, if Sophie Campbell had her own, like,

Gem and the Holograms miniseries outside of what

Kelly was doing that are just kind of like one

-shot adventures, that would be glitter and gold.

Yeah, I absolutely love the cat nap story. So

cool. Up next is Roll With It. This one is...

I know it's the Dungeons and Dragons story and...

Honestly, personally, I was never into Dungeons

and Dragons. It just was slightly outside of...

This is where we need Nicole. Yeah, well... This

is Nicole's territory, because I've never played

the game either. I've played! I just... I don't...

I'm not as obs... Like... You know how a lot

of people will reference like clerks or mall

rats or whatever early Kevin Smith works kind

of From the 90s and things like that. I do that

all the time myself, you know We make Transformers

references Jim references GI Joe references all

the time Dungeons and Dragons was a little bit

before my time and I never really I played like

once or twice but I never really got into it.

Gotcha. And again these are very very short because

you know like we said two stories per each issue

and four issues very very short short stories.

The one thing that kind of bugged me a little

here And I think is a little out of character

for her How angry Jim gets or how angry Jerrica

gets I should say yeah, it did seem a little

bit It didn't see I'm like she does get overwhelmed,

but she doesn't get like angry angry overwhelmed

Yeah, she's not Jerrica is very much That's why

she has gem. She's very much an introvert. She's

very much like not going to, you know, rock the

boat kind of thing. And as I was reading this,

I'm like, um, did we go to some sort of third

earth or something like from dimensions? Cause

that's not the Jerika Benton I know. And again,

character, you know, whatever thing, you know,

character portrayal is, you know, obviously up

to each writer, but. this. Yeah, I was not a

fan of that. I mean, some of her behavior seemed

more like pizzazz behavior. Very much so. So

I was kind of like, I don't know if that worked

for me. So I was kind of a half and half on this.

I like the idea. But I think the I think it just

didn't work for the for Like I said, like you've

mentioned, Jerika just doesn't seem like Jerika.

And the art on this one was a little... Half

of it, I like the other half. There's just a

lot of weirdness in some of the panels that I

just kind of went... Some of the faces end up

looking different. They just kind of didn't work

for me. So I thought, well, it's a half and half.

I like the idea. I just, it just... was weird.

It was odd. There was oddness in it. The changing

Jericho was enough to kind of pull me out. And

then the change in some of the art, as detailed

as it is, it works in some, but in other parts

it doesn't. So I just kind of like, okay, maybe

that one just wasn't me. It was a fun little

run, but I didn't really feel the love as much

on that one. Yeah, not so much. uh... so we get

face -off as the third story here this is basically

um... karaoke night yeah that made me laugh yeah

that was kind of funny it's like they're karaoke

okay they're gonna go win their own karaoke this

is this okay let's go for it man it's like you

invited everybody over to your place but I like

yeah yeah the twist was really cool it's really

interesting I love the songs but with Jim and

pizzazz doing this you know rap battle Duloff

here and like that's not karaoke. That's a rip

that you know, that's a thing That's a that's

a lip -sync battle kind of thing. Obviously,

they're not lip -syncing but you know, it's just

You know clash won this clash won the karaoke.

I loved that I loved that it was just it was

a good twist The other thing is is that this

this one? This issue made the characters They

pulled them off feeling much much younger like

yep The art was great and maybe the art aided

in that but they the whole issue just seemed

like it made the characters much more younger

than We have been seeing them in the rest of

the comics and that was the only thing that I

only Criticism that I had to knock at it was

the fact that it just made them seem less Adults

and more like a bunch of teens Yeah, yeah very

much so uh... the next story up is all about

shana and more of her design stuff and how she

feels pressured under deadlines and how am i

gonna get this to work and how am i gonna get

that to work and it's a nice little shana story

focusing on her fashion which we've only really

seen once in the overall series you know that

kelly was writing where she actually went off

to Uh, where was it? It was, um, Milan to study

under, you know, this, this person kind of thing.

So that's, I like this story. I think it's super

cool. Um, I liked, again, the little twist at

the end where Gem and the Holograms wear her

unfinished designs kind of thing. I thought that

was fun. Yeah. What'd you think of this one?

I liked it for the same reason too. Um, it was.

It was nice to see like a focus on Shana Yeah,

and I really like what they did with it Like

the and the thing is is that all of the other

art in this is so much more complex than hers

and The art in this one I liked because it was

so simplistic and maybe that's the reason why

it stood out But she did such a good job with

it Like, you know illustrating exactly what it

what she was trying to do in it and it worked

for me Because it just made it You know, it just

goes to show that sometimes something so simplistic

can be even a stronger, more powerful story than

the ones where you get lots of detail. And that's

kind of the take that I took from it. I really

liked this one because of that. And I liked the

positive message like, you know, you get to the

end and the other person that was modeling her

final completed dress was like the support that

she kind of needed. And I was just like, it was

it was a really good it's a really good female

led story yeah very cool uh next up we have shooting

stars and guess who's back it's all of the starlight

girls so a story with the starlight girls i think

this is super fun this was super fun i really

liked it too yeah very interesting super fun

ashley and bonnie and and Chrissy and everybody

gets to shine in this. I thought that was really

cool. Don't know because I did not collect these

four issues singly. I have the trade I hope they

did this in the trade but after each of the stories

they have the the star the gem star at the end

with the Magenta pink background and the white

star. Yeah, all I can think of is those those

old gem PSA's you can be a superstar too First

thing I think of when I see these it was a nice

little divide between between issue so was a

good yeah you know uh... is the last one now

it's not there's a thing when we're at this no

no no i don't know anymore after this three more

after this okay uh... next up is jim the holograms

misfits in the haunted and they are on a ghost

shows spirit stalkers So they're really tapping

into all kinds of pop culture things, you know,

you got D &D You've got you know, the ghost hunting

show kind of thing This one was cool, but it

wasn't my favorite. Yeah, this was my least favorite

one just because I'm not even sure like after

I read it how that was supposed to have ended

and I don't even know yeah and of the art either

it just it just kind of fell flat for me on a

lot of things again like I said I liked the simplicity

of star girl and then this one is so much more

detailed and it just didn't work for me. Yeah.

I just, and this is another one where I felt

like some of the faces just were just, and some

of the expressions were, things got really, really

crazy and it just didn't feel like them. It didn't

feel like any of the characters at all. Yeah,

no. The final two stories are Tasty and Jimoji's.

Tasty is all about good press versus bad press

i guess it's all about the misfits kind of finding

their felt like it was like a comic version of

an episode in from the cartoon and i really liked

it because of that i mean at first i wasn't sure

what to think because like the the little icon

that they have for it i thought okay we'll see

how this goes but then i got into it i was like

oh my gosh this is such a cute little take And

basically, they're looking for some sort of PR

thing, and Pazaz goes and gets, they're gonna

have a photography session. And it turned out

that while she was being schmoozed by everybody

there, she didn't realize that they didn't invite

any of the other. Misfit members to be there

a very possessed thing. It's just a very possessed

thing. Yeah, but like It was just really cute

how it pulled off like the art was really fantastic

They they do they also didn't like the the angel

the devil on her shoulder thing. It just it worked

for me It was so fun. I thought you know what

this is this is what I expected to see out of

this book is is stuff like catnap and Tasty and

yeah shooting stars and star girl and then a

few of them just fell a little flat So I was

like, okay Yeah, finally we have jimoji's as

the final story It was the weirdest one but it

was so fun basically they're fighting over who

has the more popular emoji program and very very

much taking a very today idea that would have

never brought been shown in the the show and

then a show feel to it because like you know

that this is very much the wonky Pazazz and her

brain, brain, brainless ideas, trying to take

something over and then it falling completely

flat and her having a rage moment. Yeah, absolutely.

That's exactly what it is. It was great. They

have the cute stuff. The art was really fun.

But, you know, again, yeah, I loved how they

did with Pazazz. Just had a rage, just rage fit

over it when it doesn't work out. Oh, that's

fun times. yeah it was super fun absolutely dug

it um but there's no long lasting consequences

with these these are just like little no yeah

and that's the cool thing yeah so that's the

cool thing go ahead i was gonna say so like if

you're new to like gem you don't want to get

into something that's really If you're giving

away a comic for somebody that's like, hey, what's

Gem all about? It doesn't reveal anything that's

in any of the other comics, but if you wanted

just to try it out, it's definitely one that

I'd say is a good try out for one. If you know

anything, if all you remember about Gem and the

Holograms is just the TV show that you mostly

watched, you should be able to get in this. If

this isn't the end all be all of all... the gem

comics that have been out because there's some

really good stories out there. This is just,

they reveal nothing. You get a sense of what

maybe you might like in the rest of it. But no,

it was like, if I was going to give like, Hey,

try out gem comics. This would be the one I'd

be like, this is an easy, fun one to give to

people. without having to like, oh, I'm going

to reveal all this, you know, great storyline

plots and stuff like that. No, this is good.

So yeah, absolutely. I feel the same way about

it. Overall, I'd probably give Dimensions a three

or three and a half out of five. Mainly because,

like we said, some of the stories, a couple of

them didn't really stick the landing, but they're

not bad. I mean, it's not a bad comic series.

It's not a bad idea to do. Jim short stories,

essentially. I mean, it's very cool. Like you

already said, it's, you know, a good kind of

introduction for people that may want to check

out IDW's gem comics without having to deep dive

into the main series. It's a nice little tasty

morsel of gem. Yeah, it sounds super creepy.

I've said it. That being said, it's not hard

to get all of the comics either. I mean, there's

like what? Like five trades in total? Five trades,

yeah. Five trades plus the misfits plus infinite,

I think. So yeah. Yeah. So that's, you know,

there's five trades. To get the complete, it

would be like eight. There you go. Eight, eight.

Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Absolutely.

They had like a run of 26 issues and then they

also had the Misfits. Infinite crossover and

the Misfits cross and the Misfits series, yeah.

Less than a few issues to read through. I mean,

that's actually a pretty fast run if you really

wanted to sit down and like buy all of them.

And they've had them on sale a couple times too.

So it's really easy to just dive in and grab

all of these and just, you know, take a few days

and read them. fun times yep absolutely um before

we get out of here i do want to bring up the

gem of the holograms idw 2020 issue that came

out again this is idw celebrating 20 years of

being a publishing company and things like that

and like we already said at the beginning it's

gem star trek ghost busters turtles and my little

pony are the five issues that make up the idw

2020 series IDW 2020 kicks off IDW's year -long

20th anniversary celebration, an all -new weekly

event giving a glimpse of your favorite characters

20 years into the future or past. What made them

into the heroes you love and what twists does

the future hold? Jamming the holograms are back

with new music, old flames, and good friends

in this adventure set 20 years in the future.

Join Jerika Synergy and the rest of your favorite

holographic gals for a rockin reunion that's

sure to please old and new fans alike so again

this is something that if you want the I you

know if you want a taste of IDW gem this would

be I haven't even read this yet but this this

would be something that I would point people

to even though I haven't read it yet but again

it's a one -shot it's a story set 20 years in

the future it's you know it's not like you have

to read all of what we've already said you should

read yeah so very cool very cool oh boy yeah

I'm tired coming up on the pull bag we have Mighty

Morphin March we're gonna be heading over to

Boom Studios and their Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

ongoing series we're gonna start with the first

five volumes uh... episodes three forty one to

three forty five will be volumes one through

five of the mighty morphin power ranger series

written by kyle higgins so that's what's coming

up here inside the pullback anything you got

going on that you want to pimp out? no not really

i'm just trying to keep it simple that's right

i think that's what we're all trying to do these

days yeah my kids have been extra fun my four

-year -old is getting more and more Defiant on

things. So I'm like, uh, great. That's a change.

So Well, that's what happens when you know, his

father doesn't catch him and throws him into

a baby gate You're still going on about that.

Are you hey? There's video evidence There's video

evidence So yes, my record will be busy, so I'm

looking forward to the Transformers 2 .0 start

back up in another, what, four weeks? Three or

four weeks? Something like that. Soon, actually.

Today's March 2nd, right? Well, when this would

have been released, it wouldn't be March yet,

but yeah, essentially, yes. It's coming very

soon. Beginning of March, so it could be out

any time. I haven't checked to see what day exactly,

but... I'm definitely looking forward to it.

See how it goes. Let's see if I can tip out right

now. I like all the art that I'm seeing. Let's

go for it, man. Give me something to read and

review. Oh, don't tell me that, because you'll

be sitting here weekly, and I know you don't

like that. Anyway, it's very time consuming,

folks. You can find me on Twitter at TF2 and

Mike. You can find Amy on Twitter at Lady of

Rec. That's usually where I hang. Absolutely.

Yep. Yep. And make your greatest game in the

comics and we will catch you next time here inside

the pull bag for Mighty Morphin March. I still

love these stuff, baby. What does Arnold have

to do with Power Rangers? He doesn't. Oh boy.

It was just a thing to say at the very end of

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Shows Over Synergy. Oh. Do you want me to say

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