Free Comic Book Day 2017 and I Hate Image Review

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and we're about two months late on the free comic

book day episode I had planned to have various

other people along with me to talk about all

the comics that we all got of the same like if

movie revolt Dan and I got the I hate fairyland

one that released or if Joe Reed and I got the

turtles free comic book day we I had all this

big giant plans for this episode and they just

kind of all fell through so What you're going

to hear today is the one we did get to do, which

is, as I mentioned, movie revolt Dan and I talking

about I Hate Image 2017. This is the Image Comics

free comic book day offering this year. All about

I Hate Fairyland and how Gert and Larry end up

in the image offices. So enjoy. Sorry, I couldn't

have gotten more done. With the pull bag is gonna

fully loaded week this week because we start

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It's July 1st We're also gonna have the end of

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first week as well as the first of gem jam in

July where myself Amy and Nicole talk about the

rest of the gem comic series from IDW publishing,

but for now Enjoy Movie Revolt Dan and myself

talking about I Hate Image. Our coverage of I

Hate Franklin will continue at some point soon

because I know Scotty Young has done the third

arc of the series. At least that's what Comixology

has told me. So yeah, enjoy and I will see you

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back and enjoy this week's pull bag. Alright

folks it is time for a Muffin fluffin good time

because we're heading on over to image for free

comic book day here inside the pull bag Joining

me is movie revolt Dan. Hello, sir Hello Yes,

uh everybody already heard what I got for free

comic book day, but what was your free comic

book day 2017 like this year? Oh, it was it was

grand old time The first week of may is becoming

honestly to me the best weekend of the year for

a lot of reasons. We all we have a huge marvel

marvel movie Tends to come out this year guardians

galaxy volume 2 last year civil war. It's my

butt my son's birthday and free comic book day

So it's like a tribect of awesomeness and I looked

at a lot because the movie theater that I went

to I was able to see guardians and right across

the street only a few feet away was a comic book

store so it was it was like, you know a mecca

of geek goodness, so Luckily the story went to

wasn't too crazy busy, but it was it was it was

poppin So I was only able to get a few The key

free issues you want to be allowing three per

person, which was fine There were some I was

interested in that I didn't pick up but I picked

up the ones I had the most Desired of the read

and for me they were the secret empire slash

Spectacular spider -man from Marvel, which I

got to give Marvel credit. They've been doing

a lot of stupid things recently, but Their free

comic book days this story like this is a great

story. Like this is a free book that is usually

their free stuff is like some throw away or a

reprint. This is a very important story that

has a huge ramifications to their major event

this summer. And it's quite good. So I would

highly recommend it. And the Spider -Man backup

was pretty good as well. I also picked up XO

Man and War from Valiant, which they had a new

relaunch this year. And if I don't think you

read Valiant, but I wouldn't. They like I for

those people that complain about comic like superhero

universes Valiant does it right? Like they they

have they have their game on they kind of relaunched

in 2012 and they've been You know, been great.

Uh, so I picked up their Exxon Manor War special,

uh, this year. And then of course, I Hate Image,

which is, you know, just, uh, it's such a fun,

fun, like it's got a young unhinged in the best

ways possible. So this is great. This was so

much fun. I wasn't sure what this was going to,

I mean, obviously I knew because it has the I

Hate and it has the I Hate Fairland logo kind

of thing, except that it's got image and obviously

Gert's there. And folks, if you haven't heard

Dan and I wax poetic about the I Hate Fairyland

series, please go do that. All of those links

will be in the podcast post for this episode

of The Pullback, but... Oh, because at the end,

when we did the last issues, nine and 10, I had

said that, you know, Scotty had said in the book

that issue 10 finishes off the second arc of

the series, and he's gonna go away and do other

things for a while and come back to it eventually.

So I was like, oh, okay, so we're done with I

Hate Fairyland, and... My life kind of feels

kind of empty now because it was awesome when

it was going on And and I was super surprised

when I went to free comic book day comm and I

saw that this was one of the time like hey I

know that series But yeah Image is celebrating

their 25th anniversary this year. So that's awesome.

Yeah, they've been a lot of doing a lot of cool

things. It's in 25th 25 cent issues this year.

I was kind of curious to you, because I know

like a lot of the books that are brought into

this are ones I don't think you're reading. So

was it kind of like, was it weird having like

no context for like saga or something like that?

You know, just seeing all these, I mean, obviously

Walking Dead's kind of... Walking Dead's, I mean,

that's the most obvious part. Yeah, Walking Dead's

easy, but some of the other ones may not be.

Like Black Science is not as popular as some

of the other ones. Because of the fact that I...

do a comic podcast, I'm all over comic websites

and things like that. Just because I'm not reading

a certain publisher or a certain series from

that publisher doesn't mean I don't know about

it. Because you talk about Saga, everybody talks

about Saga, I've heard of East of West and I

used to do, I don't do these anymore because

honestly I never got any feedback about them.

I actually used to do solicitation episodes where

instead of like, so this is May. May the August

solicitations for comics publishers will be coming

out this month. So instead of doing a previews

episode on what's coming out in August, I would

do it as, okay, this is what's out in comic shops

now. Go get this stuff now. I've read this, please.

It's awesome, go do it. So I keep up with...

Almost all of the publishers. I keep up with

certain image stuff. I don't keep up with everything

I there's certain image series that I do want

to try at some point, but there's just so much

I mean yeah, I mean the pullback this year folks

It's gonna be a lot of IDW a lot of DC. It's

gonna be I Mean for me IDW is is the franchise

is the license? you know guys between Transformers

and back to the future and and Turtles and all

that stuff, you know, we're gonna do two different

DC months later on Supergirl I think and and

Nightwing in November And then Marvel and Marvel

in December of this year in January of next year.

We're gonna do Star Wars stuff. So But yeah,

no, I reading this reading I hate image I I think

the most shocking point for me was when she had

to go see Tony Chu. Because I did read the first

two volumes and there is an episode of The Pull

Bag where I talked about Chu from John Layman.

But no, I was fine. What I like about it is that

they use... Don't have the issue open and quite

yet But the letters when they do this because

I'm not sure if Scotty is doing the letter No,

it's Nate Picos of blambot is doing the lettering

in this they bold out When they want to make

a reference to one of the other titles Yeah,

and that's what I absolutely love so going through

this this is Gertrude is she's beating somebody

up because she wants information from this person.

And it's got all of the Scottie Young things.

It's got the onomatopoeia. It's got the violence

and whatever. It's got this poor chick with this

purple, black eye. Oh my god. Because Gert is

just beating the hell out of her. And to clarify,

this is from Bitch Planet. Oh, OK. That's right.

All right, that's why the in the in the first

the second the second panel bitch Yeah, it's

written out there. Yeah, that's right Yeah, Gert

wants to know where the partners are Like where

is this going? So we get The main character from

the bitch planet series narrating throughout

the rest of telling her where to go and what

to do and of course Gert's not always gonna You

know follow directions like she very rarely does

um... and what are the... because y 'all have

to mention some of these series because i know

some i don't know all of them but uh... you know

just ask uh... you know you'll need to get off

this hunk of metal and get back down to the planet

uh... i can call in a favor and get you a ride

but be careful whatever he asks you tell the

truth So what series is the the guy in the cat

from? That's that saga. So that's okay. Yeah,

that's that's the infamous line cat which like

reading something like that line cat would be

graded it would have to be regular for us I hate

fairyland because you know it it does lead to

some great great comedy in this obviously So

so she Gert basically destroys their ship and

She's on the colorful brick road that turns into

the gray and white or black and white brick road,

and we have, you know, a Walking Dead scene.

Yay, Walking Dead. Whatever. Zombies, I don't

care. I have never seen... The book is quite

good. You know what I would recommend? I don't

know if you have it or not, but I tried Comicology.

They're like unlimited free, like free for a

month. it has a bunch of image stuff now that

you could read like I think the first three four

volumes are walking dead like a lot of image

stuff idea it's great like I would recommend

it you know it won't cut you know I think it

won't cost you anything read the first volume

I think it like the cart the comic is I think

it legitimately really good but you know I know

you have possibly Harry Potter to watch so there's

hey I might be getting paid for that so no not

you Not! Yeah, I know, no! That's a good service,

like pay me to watch things. Well, I think actually

people do that online. What's great is that obviously

they keep Gertrude in color and then being in

the black and white world of Walking Dead. I

do love that Scotty Young draws Glen, not Glen,

but... Carl with a rock yeah, which is amazing

so And I should say folks I think I said it at

the beginning of the podcast but I remember this

is the first time because Free comic book day

is basically go out and get free stuff from the

shops It's not on digi - very rarely do free

comic book day issues end up on digital So we

actually have physical comics. I haven't done

a physical comic in ages on this podcast So she

ends up at this bar And getting information from

that guy the whole point of the issue is she

goes through the entire land of image You know

runs into Tony Chu like I said, runs into the

Paper Girls, that might be a series I'd want

to try those. Those girls look awesome. Yeah,

I think you would like Paper Girls. It argons

back to Goonies. It's not like these kids going

on an adventure. It gets super crazy. It's one

of those series that you end up asking yourself

a lot of questions and don't get a lot of answers.

But yeah, a lot of things are included in this.

Invincible is there everything to even chew and

black science southern bastard, which is one

of my favorite current comics Yeah, and what

is it the sender? There's little a little in

the background. It's just it's you know an image

wonder It's like we can divide like it's like

that but with image image world. It's pretty

amazing. Yeah What I love about this the two

best lines out of this is the whole thing with

the paper girls and them referencing everything

80s and and larry's like it's an 80s thing it

it happens and then later when they go into the

wiccan divine club because that's a reference

to the wiccan and divine series uh where they

say it's a nightclub run by some gods that dress

up like david bowie rip and prince rip too and

play boogie woogie revolution for days on end

dance dance revolution. And the narrator is saying,

first get up to the DJ booth. They'll look busy,

but they're just pressing the play button on

their music fight playlists. I love how they

basically just, you know, derail the entire business

of DJing. Take the mic and say these words exactly.

The 90s sucked. Yeah. It's not true, but it'll

be easier for you to get their guns that way.

I just love that. I love the way Scottie Young

draws a lot of the 80s or 90s characters with

like, you know, just ridiculous amounts of pouches

and it's it's great, you know, some like some

some really like Like some characters that I

have not seen in a comic book in years so I'm

like Chappell from Spawn you know it's it's pretty

fun Youngblood characters it's it's yeah it's

I think if you're the image fan from back in

the day to an image fan now it has a lot a lot

of great little Easter eggs all throughout and

it even has Spawn sort of as well yeah yeah I

love his line I always wanted a sidekick so I

could pull off this pose So he takes her to image

central which is a giant door with a window that

looks like a little lowercase I and she goes

in and she meets the partners and abruptly kills

them all because she's been in fairyland for

Four decades and she wants to know how she's

gonna get out and she forgot to say, you know

not kill one of them So do we know? The writers

and stuff, you know Some of them I I don't know

for sure. I think Rob Liefeld might be there.

I'm not I think I'm pretty sure the guy that

they first talked to the first one that says

hey Hey, bud, what what you're doing in our office

and stuff, but I'm pretty sure that's Todd McFarland

because he's holding Spawn characters and whatnot

There's Kirkman in the back I'm not I think I

think Hickman's there, and Jason Aaron. Forgive

me, but I know a lot more. I realize I know a

lot of comic book characters. Their writers,

names, and stuff like that, but I don't know

what a lot of them look like, which is kind of

odd. So yeah, she basically kills them all. I

assume one of those are Scotty Young, too, but

I don't know. Yeah, that's that's one of the

reasons why I was wondering I was wondering which

one was gonna be Scotty. I Hope it's not the

guy in the top cow. There's t -shirt I don't

think so because you never worked the top cow

that you know that for those who know that was

like another You know Brando comics that they

eventually bought that still puts out stuff here

and there I think Eclipse that came out last

year. I think was top cow and that was quite

a good series, but Yeah, so he just basically

kills all the notable in past image and current

image writers and artists Yep, and it ends with

on the bright side you call that guy glasses

So your sick burns are still working. Are you

making fun of my name calling skills? What? No,

the guy had glasses and you call them glasses

that takes real special kind of person That kind

of quick thinking keep it up and I'm gonna pull

some things off of you It's a nice little introductory

issue. It's a nice little real wor - It reminds

me of - and I know people are gonna hate when

I say this. Reminds me of, um... Oh, that's not...

It reminds me of Spider Wars. The old 94 Marvel

Spider -Man series, the very end of it, the very

last dimension they go into is the real world.

And Spider -Man... voice by Christopher Daniel

Barnes meets up with an animated version of real

-life Stan Lee. And that's what this really reminds

me of, is Gertrude getting out of Fairyland somehow.

That's the other thing. It doesn't even show

you how, well, Image Central isn't Fairyland,

so she doesn't really get out, but it shows you

her on some sort of adventure to figure out how

she's going to get out of Fairyland, even though

she eventually just ruins it herself. It doesn't...

You don't need to have read the entire series

of Fairyland, even though you should. As long

as you're over the age of 21. Because this comic

is not for kids. Not at all. I think you're 15

or above, but you'll be fine. It does say rated

M mature, so I would say 17 or above, but anyway.

Yeah, I think it depends on the person. Yeah.

I mean, I don't, I don't, I, yeah, it's cartoon

violence if I'm thinking it's like, yeah, it

depends, whatever. Yeah, that's very true. Um,

the, uh, I, I just absolutely love this. Cause

I, like I said, I was not expecting this. I was

not expecting anything out of, out of Fairyland

for a while. And this was a nice little. fun,

free comic book day surprise. What would you

give this issue, zero to five? Oh, geez, that's

a good question. I'd give it a four. I think

it's, yeah. It's, you know, it's, it does a lot.

It's a lot of fun. You know, it's just, it's

clearly, it's a free comic book. So, I mean,

maybe 4 .5 because of the price point, but it

complete, if you just like want something that

is just like eye candy and a lot of fun. And

if you're, like I said, a fan of image at any

point in your life, I would say you have to pick

this up. Because it's just it's it's a movie

a book that I think chose that image as a company

the fact that they allow Scott Young to make

it does not take itself too seriously, which

is I think key You mentioned price point yeah,

um, there is no price Oh god, yeah, I I gotta

go to four and a half to I mean, yeah For a good

story that was a free comic, I mean, you know,

I mean most of the free comic day stuff, in general,

I'm not singling anybody out, but just in general,

it just depends on what the publisher want to

do with what their selection is going to be,

I guess, and some put in the time and effort

and work through it and some don't. uh... some

use free company which is actually a good thing

to lead up to upcoming series or graphic novels

or things like that so uh... we're going to find

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.com. Alright everyone. Sorry about the shortness

for the Free Comic Book Day issue or Free Comic

Book Day podcast. As I said, we're two months

late with this. So the other free comic books

I got were the DC Superhero Girls, the Loud House

one, the Turtles one, because I always get that

every year when IDW has one. And I also get the

IDW Star Trek Mirror Broken Free Comic Book Day.

I'll tell you right now folks at some point this

year hopefully Steve Megatron and I will be able

to look at the Star Trek Mirror Broken mini series

from IDW. This actually, this free comic day

kicks it off, this issue does. So that's what's

also coming up inside the pull bag as I said.

July is Gem Jam in July, where Amy, Nicole, and

myself talk about the final arcs for the Gem

IDW series, which include the Stinger's arc,

issues 19 to 23, the Misfits mini -series, issues

1 through 5, the annual 2017, and issues 24 to

26, which is the Truly Outrageous arc, and then

we're gonna do parts 1 through 3 of Gem Infinite,

the first Gem and the Holograms full -on crossover.

series. After that, we go back to Transformers

in August, because it's going to be auto -botly

August. That's right. Ryan and I are going to

finish off More Than Meets the Eye and Robots

in Disguise, or More Than Meets the Eye and The

Transformers, or whatever, with Transformers

Titans Return. And then I realized, it's funny

folks, when you realize you think you didn't

buy something when you actually already did,

because you... The way I use Comixology now,

I used to when we first started the podcast,

what I used to do was I used to subscribe to

series of comics and Comixology. So if you have

a series subscription on Comixology, whenever

a new comic comes out, you get charged for that

new comic. I don't do that anymore because I'm

planning so far ahead for the pull bag. I usually

just wait for the trade or whatever. Well, apparently,

Wanted to do the autocracy monstrosity primacy

series the Flint Dilley. Oh god, Chris something

I forget what his name is. I'm so sorry Chris

I forget what your last name is, but it's written

by Flint Dilley and Chris somebody I know everyone's

screaming at the top of their iPod. It's Chris

Robinson or it's Chris this or it's I'm sorry

so Due to some scheduling conflicts with the

angels Lady Rek and Beatles Diva and Hi Prime

I'm moving the wind blade stuff distance stars

Which is the second wind blade trade series and

then the two till all are one trades I'm moving

that until later in the year or maybe even Beginning

of 2018 because we were not gonna be able to

get it done properly, you know in a timely fashion,

so I've got three spots open on the pull bag

for Auto -Botley August. So, as I said, it's

going to start out with Ryan and I doing Titan's

Return, finishing off the two ongoings. You may

ask, well, what about Lost Light and Optimus

Prime? We'll get to those eventually, folks.

We will. So episode 149 is going to be Transformers

Autocracy. 149 .5 is going to be Monstrosity.

And episode 150 of the podcast is going to be

Transformers Primacy. The only reason why I do

point five episodes at times is so I can keep

in with the numbers and I don't have to You know

have to do two things in one podcast at times,

but at the end of Auto Bali August we are going

to have because August is a five Wednesday month

So we're gonna have the week three is gonna be

transformers sins of the wreckers with lady wreck

myself and Ryan the onion flow Merkley aka night

at night beat on Twitter And then Ryan and I

are going to talk about Angry Birds Transformers,

so there's that. And to close off Autobotly August

this year, it's going to be Transformers, Punishment,

Redemption, and Salvation, three trades, one

podcast. After that, originally I was going to

do Supergirl September this year. I've been wanting

to do Supergirl September for the New 52 Supergirl

series. It's just never been able to happen with

the host that I want to have on that. What I

will say about September this year, folks, is

you're going to get four weeks of varying comics.

Hopefully myself and Movie Revolt Dan, Comic

Revolt Dan, will talk about Hadrian's Wall from

Image. It's Kyle Higgins. Alex Siegel and Rod

Rice. Gem Infinite, parts four to six. So Amy

and Nicole and I will do that. And then maybe

we'll bring back Adas Baron to talk about He

-Man Thundercats at the end of September. So

that's what's coming up between July and September

everybody. I hope everyone enjoyed this little

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