Dear Watchers: an omniversal comic book podcast

Rob: Happy Halloween. Welcome to Dear Watchers, a comic book omniverse podcast where we usually do a deep dive into the multiverse.
Guido: We are usually traveling with you through the stories and worlds that make up the omniverse of fictional realities we all love. And your watchers on this journey are.
Rob: Me Guido and Me Rob, and an extra very special guest who she doesn't know this, but we've been talking about trying to have her on almost as long as we have had this show. It's Alicia. Mesino I already know. And I was like, hey to myself. The Thor. It's pronounced just like it is written. Uh, and of course, I still get it wrong.
Guido: Hi, Alicia. Thank you for joining us. So, for our listeners, Alicia is the manager at Earthworld Comics. That's our local comic store in Albany, New York, and she's been there on and off for almost 20 years. And really, this is every comic nerd's dream come true because you're basically like my drug dealer, but in a good way. Uh, but maybe more like, I don't know, like my deity or, like, the goddess of comics in my life. So thank you. But regardless, you're amazing. And we've bonded over the years, not just about comics, but about horror, which is, of course, why we asked you to join us today. And also, soap operas saved our lives. And I'd also just say, I think a shared appreciation for kindness in the world. You're really kind, and it's clear that kindness matters to you. So we're just really happy that you agreed to join us and participate with us today. Is there anything we missed about who you are that you want to share?
Alicia: No, thank you.
Rob: I think that's a great thing. When we go into Earth World and so many other people we've talked to on the show have experienced this at their local comic book shops. It does feel like a community. And especially as we're increasingly in these more virtual worlds. It's just nice to come in and talk to you and talk to the other people at the store and also just see other people. Like. Shopping in real life and not on just the Internet. Yes. The only thing is, I think every time guitar comes in, it's always a question, a bag or a box today, for all your comments, and it's usually a box. That's how many you get. Yeah. Welcome. We are so excited that you're here. And while we normally explore world building and storytelling through alternate universes or the multiverse, today we decided to span all alternate universes and imagine ourselves within them with a Halloween horror comics themed game of Would You Rather? So before we get into that, anything new to report? Keto?
Guido: Well, this episode is coming out, if you're listening, on the day it comes out on Halloween. And you can go back to our last episode to listen to the director of a, uh, wonderful Halloween movie WNUF Halloween special, a number of movies, but that one in particular was the focus for our conversation. That's our most recent episode prior to this. And we keep putting out episodes every week of our bonus podcast on, um, diversity, which you can learn more about on our website. So nothing else.
Rob: Speaking of Halloween, yes, I wrote a little essay on the multiverses of Michael Myers, also on our coffee. So kind of going into the different plots of all the movies, which can be pretty confusing, and then kind of going into how the six or so timelines all go together. So you can read that and listen to our bonus episodes all on coffee.
Guido: So back to this episode. We have a bunch of questions that we'll throw out for the three of us to answer, inspired by some of our favorite horror movies and horror comics, and some submitted by our listeners too, mhm.
Rob: But before we get into that game, so how about each of us share a couple of things? So one, a favorite horror comic, and two, a favorite horror on screen, film, TV, what have you, that you would recommend to people. So, Guido, why don't you kick us off?
Guido: Okay, so for horror comic, I'm going to choose something I only just read, which is from, uh, Source Point Press, Dr. Rigby. And it just came out last week. And it's a really interesting horror comic that I hope we get a lot more of. To summarize, it has a lot of homages to classic horror like The Shining and a few other things. It actually has an appendix at the back that goes through some of what it's homaging, but it's most directly related to actually the Haunted Mansion. It's kind of as if what if the haunted mansion at Disney World had an actual the Cryptiker character from the Haunted mansion top hat. Like, what if he was a real demon? And what if you had this character, Dr. Rigby, who was, uh, created by John Kissy, who wrote this comic that kind of fought demons and dealt with them, and I just want more. It's one complete story and one single issue just out last week, and it made me want more. So based on recency bias, I'm going to choose that as my favorite comic, uh, to recommend right now. And onscreen, I'm going to go with the movie that is three years old, but I cannot stop thinking about ever. And I just recommended it to Jake from Spectacles, which is Climax from 2019. Alicia.
Alicia: Have you seen Climax? Something I need to watch?
Guido: Yeah, uh, it's kind of a hard watch because it's intense. It's not hard in that, like, it's depressing or shocking, but it is very intense. It's for anyone who likes music and dance. It somehow captures it's by gasper. No way. And it's this really intense experience even watching it because the characters are just dancing and music is blasting the entire movie. And then the horror like unfolds in this night dance. And it's really wild and I loved it. And as, ah, someone who used to go to nightclubs and like that sort of pulsing, bright light experience, this movie somehow captures that, but then in horror. And I love it. And I want to rewatch it all the time and just I love it.
Rob: Yes. It's one of those movies you watch those A 24 sometimes where, oh, there's not a lot of horror and then a little bit of horror happens. This is one of those movies where all the first 30, 40 minutes, there's really not much horror and then the horror happens. There's no subtle little horror then. Yeah.
Guido: Alicia, what's a horror comic you love and what's something horror on screen you love?
Alicia: Um, okay. I don't like recommending stuff unless somebody has like, a specific idea in mind. One that I love is like, Harrow County. It's about Amy, like a reincarnated witch and all the different creatures in her town. I'm giving just a very basic it's very good. Uh, Tyler Crook is the artist and it's done by Dark Horse. It's great. I was sad when, like, the main story ended, but they do minis, like, for issue minis. So you still get like, little bit more every couple of months, which is nice.
Guido: Yes. We haven't read that one, but that sounds it looks beautiful.
Alicia: It's gorgeous. And like, I don't want to say that I relate with a young girl, but he writes it very relatable. It's very nice and spooky cool. Um, and I always, uh, recommended alive by Peter Jackson. It's, ah, Peter Jackson masterpiece and, um, funny and ridiculous and just gory an overbearing mother gets bit and turns into a zombie and things just spiral into bananas. It's fantastic.
Rob: I was such a big Peter Jackson phase growing up in high school. And a lot of those movies, like Dead Alive, I haven't seen since then. So I really feel like I should just, like, watch them all back to back because it's non stop nuts ness. Until for each of them, I watch.
Alicia: Dead Live at least once a year, sometimes more, when I'm, like, showing friends like, oh, you haven't seen us.
Rob: We need to watch it.
Alicia: Have you seen have you seen Bad Taste?
Rob: Yes, I saw bad taste.
Guido: I remember better.
Rob: And I remember love that. Yeah. Illegally downloading Meet the People, which isn't quite hard, but like, days where it literally took a day to download it in the early, earlier Internet days. And then you like, okay, if we started on Friday morning, we can watch it on Friday night when we come home from school.
Guido: Robert, what are two of your favorite picks?
Rob: Yeah, so, I mean, for comics, I'm gonna go really old school. And recently I've been reading the, uh, horror anthology comic Black Magic, which was originally published, I think, you know, right in the Think the 40s through like.
Guido: Early 60s or something.
Rob: And then DC wound up uh, republishing. A lot of them in the Think an issue ish run, they specifically republish.
Guido: Like they pulled out like the Simon and was it Simon and Kirby?
Rob: Simon and Kirby.
Guido: So they pulled all the Simon and Kirby stories from the golden age and then republished them in the 70s.
Rob: So you get this great classic Jack Kirby art, but not within the context of superheroes, which is really interesting. And it definitely some of those, a lot of those anthology ones stories can be real hit or miss, but this has been more hits than misses. I would say it's been pretty good. And I'll also go a little bit more old school with my, uh, film recommendation, but it's something I only watched recently, which is the BBC madefortv movie Ghostwatch which came out in the it is a great found footage, horror ghost story film, and basically if the BBC was investigating a haunted house in, uh, London. But what's really cool is most of the lot of the people, all the TV presenters are playing themselves. So it really starts to meld reality and fiction together. And I thought it was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. And I've seen and it was on.
Guido: TV in the early ninety s. And.
Rob: It was on TV. Yeah, I got 300 complaints when it came out because people who made sure that people knew it was fake, but if you tuned in late, you didn't necessarily know that or you weren't following it in the press. So it got all these things about like, oh my gosh, you're putting this on TV. And there's some other like morbid things kind of connected to the production as well. So yeah, I definitely would give it a watch. Especially if anyone who's a fan of found footage. Okay, so I think now that we got those recommendations gone, done with, let's kind of get into our game.
Guido: Alright, so we're starting easy. We're starting with the concealer of Elvira in Horror Land, which is a um, mini series still coming out. You can go back to our episodes 45 and 46 for a deep dive into that, including an interview with the author David Avaloni. But we're going to choose which movies we'd rather have to live in. So would you rather be in The Shining or Psycho? And anyone jump in which one?
Rob: Haunted Hotels. Right? Uh, I'm going to choose Psycho because Anthony Perkins was really hot. I much rather be like alone with him than alone with Jack Nicholson in an excluded ocean.
Alicia: Uh, I'll say the shining. There's more space to hide.
Guido: It is a cooler hotel to be trapped in, like a place to be. I agree. But yeah, I think I'll choose psycho. It's hard for me to separate my love of Psycho and then having just watched Queer for Fear on Shutter, like the queerness of Psycho makes me want to be there instead of The Shining. But definitely the hotel of the Shining. I would rather be creating.
Rob: I never thought of this, but one has a famous shower scene and one has a famous bathtub scene. So there's got these bathroom seats in them. Um, too.
Guido: Maybe there's maybe there's a Kubak homage in that. All right, so next one saying we're sticking with this format for the next one. Would you rather be in Nightmare on Elm Street or Alien?
Alicia: Um, I have narcolepsy, so Nightmare on Them Street is a no no. I fall asleep a lot, so that's super dangerous. But alien.
Guido: So alien for you, I guess.
Rob: Yeah, I think that is the scary thing about Nightmare on Elm Street is you can't not go to sleep at some point. So I think that's what I would rather be an alien as well, just because I like sleeping. So I would not want Freddie to come after me. I'd rather, like, lock myself in my chest pod and take my chances that way.
Guido: Yes. I'm sicken with the group. We'll all be on the ship together because terrifying.
Rob: Plus, if Sagari is there, you're good, too. We're safe.
Guido: Yeah, we are. The seagornes.
Rob: Okay, well, then, that's even better then. Yeah, sure.
Guido: All right, Rob, you've got the next question.
Rob: So we've got a listener submitted question from Elliot comic Art, our most frequent guest, our good friend, our designer of our logos and art for us. And Elliot asked, would you rather find yourself in a battle with the Thing of the Fantastic Four, or trapped in the Antarctic facility with John Carpenter's? The Thing?
Guido: To be clear, he said, would you rather be getting clobbered by The Thing from The Fantastic Four? I didn't translate that when I wrote his question. M yeah, I'm going Antarctic because I don't think my chances of survival in any physical brawl, let alone with the Thing, are very high, whereas my chances of survival in the Antarctic I mean, I probably will end up dead, since everyone in the movie does, but at least I might live a little bit longer. So I'm going with the Antarctic. I'll be in John Carpenter's with it.
Rob: Yeah.
Alicia: I have to agree with your logic there. May as well turn into, uh, a monster creature thing first and then go.
Rob: I think I'm going to break away from the group and say, maybe as a longtime New Yorker, I'd be able to reason with Ben, who's atypical New Yorker, and talk to him. I think we'd probably have a lot in common, and I wouldn't want to not know who the John Carpenter's that's interesting to mention and be very, uh, paranoid and that kind of thing. So I think that Ben Grimmy can't.
Guido: Hide the fact that he's the best.
Rob: Yes, exactly. It's interesting. They're kind of, uh, diametrically opposed in that way.
Guido: All right, well, good luck on Yankee Street. To you. All right, so now we have one inspired by Nice House on the Lake with very mild spoils to the initial premise. So I don't think anyone has to turn this off.
Rob: I think they're basically revealed if you want to even yeah.
Guido: So would you rather live in a post apocalyptic world, unsure if you'll survive, or be trapped in a mysterious house with random people, getting everything you could want delivered to you, but not totally sure why?
Alicia: Postpocalyptic world, at least, you got to fight for your own stuff. And there's no, uh, reason for anything other than surviving.
Rob: You could become like Isaac Hayes in, like, Escape From New York, too. Or like in DMZ, or start to rule your own little apocalyptic world. I don't know.
Alicia: Anybody, anything. I've talked for this myself.
Rob: Exactly.
Guido: Mhm see, I agree with that reasoning on an instinctual level. But the mystery of the house, it's hard for me to like I kind of want to be there because I want to understand. I want to be part of the unfolding mystery, even though it does feel you feel powerless because someone else is controlling what's happening. But I think I'll stay in the house.
Rob: Uh, I think I'm going to choose the house. Because the cool thing that is there is that you can order basically anything that you want. So you know, you're not going to really run out of food and things like that. And I am not super up to date on the comic. So maybe some of that changes. But at least early on, like, anything that you want. So it's like, oh, okay, you are.
Guido: Waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole time. True.
Rob: Yeah. I don't know. But you know, the shoe could drop any time in the apocalyptic world.
Guido: You've got your little kingdom of the city carved out. Mhm all right. And now inspired by what if? Volume two, issue 91. So this is back in episode 63. We had Ethan From make Mine and Amalgam. And this is where, uh, the Hulk is inverted a little bit in this what if. So would you rather be a kind, calm person who can turn into a raging superhuman brute like the Hulk that we know, or be a raging abusive brute as a person who turns into a calm, loving energy being like the Hulk of that What If world? Mhm so would you rather be by default, a kind, calm person or a raging abusive person and then flip the.
Alicia: Other way by default? Be a kind person? I would rather have occasional rates than be that way all the time.
Guido: Yeah, I think I agree with you. Yeah, I'm going with the same. I also feel like and, uh, maybe this is myopic but well, no, Rob can tell you this is going to be time full of shit. Because I was going to say I feel like I could just keep my rage under control and never turn into the Hulk. But Rob will tell you that's not.
Rob: True while you're driving.
Guido: Yeah, anytime we're leaving the house in a rush, I will be the Hulk. Yes, exactly.
Rob: Well, in life, I think I'm, uh, generally a calm, collected person. Maybe sometimes too calm and collected, but that would be so I think that is my default. So I think I would go classic Hulk, be the nice, calm person, and then have, uh, that rage kind of come in. And then maybe, hopefully, you can meld the two together. Like what, uh, Bruce is eventually able to do.
Guido: Yeah, it's true.
Rob: So this next one, Alicia, this one is inspired by one of your favorite horror comics, bunny Mask. So we want to know, would you want evil people violently punished for their crimes by a woman in a bunny mask or rely on the law to catch them, but with the chance that they won't be called?
Alicia: I, uh, want Bunny Mask to catch them. Uh, not for stealing or stealing a candy bar or anything, but the bad stuff. Yes. I wanted a ripple part.
Rob: M.
Guido: I'm going the law. Yeah, I like, even though, like, our law and judicial system is very flawed, I want to put my trust in a system, and a, uh, supernatural woman in a bunny mask doesn't feel like a well constructed system. I'm going with law.
Rob: I think I'd go with Bunny Mass, because, and correct me if I'm wrong, Alicia, it seems like she always knows she's not wrong about people. Right. It's like the shadow. She can, like, see into the hearts of men and stuff. So it's not like, oh, she's going to get this one wrong and kill someone who doesn't deserve it. So, yeah, I think in that way, I'd go with her. Unless, like, it's like, what you said, it's a slippery slope, and it's like all that person jaywalke murdered them.
Guido: That didn't happen in the comic yet. Alicia someone jay watched and got bunny masks. All right, so on to another recent horror series. This one inspired by Jake from spectails, who got me to finally read this series. And when I posed this question to him the other day, his response was, that is a disgusting choice, because inspired by Ice Cream Man, I said, would you rather never, ever eat ice cream ever again or get ice cream from some mysterious otherworldly demon ice cream man who may enter you into some sort of horrific scenario?
Alicia: I can live without ice cream.
Guido: Yeah, you can. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's funny. I'm vegan, and I don't think I can live without ice cream, so I think I'm going to take my chances now. Not dairy ice cream, of course, but I think I'm going to take my chances with this ice cream man and see where it gets me.
Rob: M yeah. As I think you know, I'm not a huge ice cream person. So I can live without ice. Um, cream. I'm not big. Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know. I've read some of ice cream and not all of it. I'm wondering if there's ever an issue where the ice cream man has no merry ice cream.
Guido: Vegan ice cream.
Rob: Did you read any ice cream?
Alicia: I started the first couple of trades, but I have a problem where, like, if I don't stay current on something, it's kind of in and out. So eventually I'll just sit down and plow through all of it again.
Guido: Yeah, I've been stepping I'm only on, like, issue six or so and yeah, using the, uh, collected edition. I've just been reading two every few weeks. Some of them are quite dark, so it is good to take in small doses.
Rob: That's true. Yeah. And speaking of new horror comics, uh, this next one is a favorite of mine. It's from Maniac of New York. So would you rather move to a different city or stay where you live and risk a Maniac randomly murdering you?
Guido: Isn't that just life in New York?
Rob: But in Maniac of New York, like, once a month, the Maniac kills like, a dozen people. So would you want to leave where you are or say, you know what, I know. Maybe I'm not going to be one of those dozen people. I might as well not change my whole life. It's kind of like Gotham City, too, right? Like, everyone just stays in Gotham City. It's true.
Guido: If you stay in Gotham, it is.
Rob: The Joker could be killed. He basically is the Maniac of Gotham.
Alicia: I'd probably take my chances. Yeah.
Guido: Yeah. I'd probably stay and just continue to I'd become even more anti social than I am now. Not go out. I'd feel safe at home. Although I guess Maniac could come kill me at home, but he could.
Rob: Less likely. And I was going to say I would also stay because I work. So my chances of encountering the Maniac are limited to, like, if I go to a concert or something like that, and then are you going to be at that particular one? I'm not sure. He does go into a baseball stadium in the comics.
Guido: Well, to really complicate this scenario is what if every year at Comic Con, dozen people, you still go to Comic Con knowing that you could be one of those dozen people, but a dozen out of 200,000, your chances are low.
Alicia: So it's like lottery.
Rob: Yeah. Well, you go to Comic Con, you get your favorite artist or writer's autograph, and then the Maniac kills that artist and writer and that autograph. That value goes way up then, right?
Guido: That's another possible outcome.
Rob: It's true.
Alicia: True.
Guido: Yeah. Or the Maniac kills the person who's trying to get the same vaccines I'm trying to get.
Rob: Exactly.
Guido: All right, so now let's visit the Marvel Bronze Age, which we've done on a lot of our past episodes. Would you rather be cursed like Ghost Rider is to become a flaming skull motorcyclist or cursed like Werewolf by Night is and become a, uh, werewolf?
Rob: Wow.
Alicia: That's a tough one.
Rob: And one of them, I guess it's three days a month. Ghost Rider, I guess, is kind of all the time. That's kind of something to maybe like every nightish. Yeah, let's say it's every night. But werewolf by night is just three nights. So that is a big difference.
Alicia: If I could build myself a lockbox to contain me for three days, I'll go with Werewolf by night.
Rob: Yeah, that's the classic like Oz on Buffy. Just lock yourself up for three nights and you're good. Yeah, this one's a tough one for me.
Guido: Werewolf by night too. I guess I'm not factoring in the fact that I might. If it is like Ozla and Buffy, then I'm losing myself when I become a werewolf. But because werewolf by night doesn't really lose himself, if we're using that example, I would just be a werewolf. That's fine. That's not that big a deal. Like a flaming skull of demonic vengeance. That's much less interesting.
Rob: He kills people who deserve it. And I think the werewolf by night is killing more people randomly.
Guido: No, he killed that guy who deserved it, who killed his mother.
Rob: Sure.
Guido: I don't know where it goes beyond.
Rob: That, but um, I think I'd choose Ghost Fighter just because I think weather jacks are cool. I would never want to ride. I'd be too terrified to ride a motorcycle in real life. But I guess if I was like a demon that that was like my power, then that would be kind of awesome.
Alicia: Maybe you could be like a different Ghost Rider. Have a different vehicle.
Rob: Yes, it's true.
Guido: Robbie has that car. But yes, you could be a, uh.
Rob: Ghost Rider on a skateboard rollerblade. Yeah.
Guido: Alright, well, I have another listener submitted question from Elliot. Comic art keeping us in the Marvel Universe. Would you rather be trapped in space with the Brood from the Xmen, the brood aliens, or with the Xenomorphs from Alien?
Rob: Now gito a question for you. Because you're the Xmen expert. The brood can speak, right?
Guido: Yeah.
Rob: Yeah. So I think I'd go with the Brood because maybe you could kind of like talk to them and find out what reason.
Guido: I guess the Xenomorphs have a queen too. Because I was going to say the Brood. So I feel like they have a society and you could sort of figure out what their motivation is. But I guess ultimately they are just trying to infect you with the Brood. Like the Xenomorphs kind of are.
Rob: Mhm.
Guido: I don't know. The Brood also look a little less scary than the Zeno.
Rob: I don't know. I, uh, feel like they're scarier looking, actually.
Alicia: Uh, have to go with the Brood then. I already chose Xenomorphs once. I don't need to live that twice.
Guido: Exactly.
Rob: Yeah. I think the speech is probably, uh that's a big factor.
Guido: And the Xenomorphs never no, never. Even in, like, the prequels, they don't have some sort of psychic communication. Right.
Rob: I don't remember some of those prequels. They're hazy memory for me. But I'm, uh, going to classic alien and aliens. They definitely don't right.
Guido: They definitely don't talk.
Rob: Well, we have yet another question from Elliott. He published and just joined us for this episode. But he's got three kids. He's got a busy life. He's drawing things all the time. So Elliot has another question for us, which is, would you rather be in Marvel zombie verse or in the DC verse, where DC is basically zombies? So zombies with the Marvel folks or DC. Characters? Basically.
Alicia: I'm going to go with Marvel. Marvel Zombies. Yeah.
Rob: I think because it's the end of the world and it's zombies, you at least want some quips. Batman and Superman, they're not doing some jokes at the same time. Right.
Guido: Um, see, my thought, though, it has more to do with what people always say. The DC issue is they are gods. Right? Superman and Wonder Woman are gods. I don't want a zombie god around me. And I guess while there are some gods in the Marvel universe, I'm sort of imagining they'll stay elsewhere.
Rob: I don't want them. Right?
Guido: Yeah, but he'll be on Asgard, right? He's not going to he's on Asgard. I'm imagining like zombie avengers. Zombie Xmen. They all seem like I can escape from them.
Rob: Zombie Professor X or zombie Dean Gray, and your head explodes like scanners. Basically. That could be. They don't even eat you. They eat your brains after they explode them.
Guido: So we're all saying in the Marvel Zombies, yes.
Rob: I think.
Guido: I do love deceased, though. I actually like deceased far more than I like Marvel Zombies as a comic. But I'd rather live in the marvel Zombie verse, too.
Rob: To close this out, here's one last horrible, terrible, no good scenario. So would all of us rather never be able to read another comic or never, ever be able to watch another horror movie or TV show again? So you can never read a comic again? And we kind of did this question for Alicia because I think, uh, for Guito and myself, the answers are a little bit more obvious. Um, oh, that's terrible.
Alicia: Yeah, I can't pick either. I'd rather just be dead, just entertainment and imaginary. And if I can't have, like, all of those things, I don't want anything that's like, if I was forced to choose, shit, I don't even know.
Rob: Yeah, I blow it all up and.
Guido: Burn it to the ground.
Rob: Exactly.
Alicia: It's part of my life for most of my life, so I can't choose.
Rob: Yeah, well, you kind of have the answer. I feel like that is often in a, uh, genre movie where it's like, choose this or choose that. It's like, no, I choose the thing that you. Didn't say. And that's like, what the fake villain in the end?
Guido: Which is the final girl in your scenario?
Rob: Exactly.
Guido: Yeah. Elliot and I once did this question for each other with comic book movies or comic books. And it was fun because he's a lot more in a visual medium as someone who likes to draw art. And so the movies mean a lot more to him than the comics, even though comics are a visual medium. But he likes the screen visuals. So he chose he'd rather watch movies and never read another comic. And I chose I'd rather read a comic and never watch another movie. But yeah, so my answer is comics always.
Rob: Yeah. Well, not to surprise you, I would choose the movies, uh, or TV shows for hard, but there are plus and minuses. Because I think the thing about a Hard movie is, like, you really have to, like, set down and put 90 minutes away. A comic. You can take in smaller increments, too. You can read a comic on the bus, but I'm not the kind of person that can sit and watch a horror movie on the bus, although some people can. So, yeah, there are plus and minuses to both, but I'm just such a horror movie.
Alicia: I think they both go with each other. It's just different formats of the same kind of entertainment. Some people are better at writing books and some people are better at writing movies. I'm sorry.
Rob: Yeah, it's just, like, solid.
Alicia: It's a terrible decision. Cut off my own head.
Guido: The other thing about comics for me that I'd have to choose is actually Alicia thinking about, like, Days of Our Lives and our relationship to that, though neither of us are able to watch it regularly anymore. There's a comfort, I guess I take, in that there's a story being told that will be told after I'm dead. And while some horror franchises have been going on for 40 years and will keep going on, I think they're less serialized than, like, a comic. And I love a story that's going to be going on forever that I can enter whenever I want. And there's something really compelling about that still.
Rob: Yeah. It's interesting, though, I think movies are the opposite, which I talked a little bit about in my essay on Coffee Plug that is that movies, uh, I think because there's flesh and blood actors connected to them and things like that, it's a little harder to kind of revamp them. And that's why you see things like Halloween once a generation, basically, it gets redone for, okay, now we're doing the postcream Halloween. Now we're doing the very blumhousey Halloween, which we have now. And then earlier we've got like seventy s and eighty s slasher ones. So it's a little harder, I think, with comics because you don't have, like, real people, you can kind of keep that story going so much longer without having to just okay. We're going to change everything every ten years. Yeah. Wow.
Guido: So you found a scenario, Rob, that was undoable for Alicia.
Rob: I know. End in the multiverse. The omniverse has exploded.
Guido: Right? The world has collapsed. Well, that was lots of fun to explore. Thank you, Alicia, for joining us. We hope you'll come back again. Uh, can you share with listeners how they can find Earthworld and you and, uh, what to find you on Facebook?
Alicia: Uh, Earth World is in Albany, New York. Um, we have Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. I think it's all earthworldcomics. Earthworldcomics.com and very funny memes.
Rob: So even if you're in other places of the country and you can't actually physically shop at Earth World, you'll always have some very funny comic memes and comic movie memes posts and tweets that you can definitely enjoy no matter where you are.
Guido: Yes, agreed.
Rob: And if you go there almost every week, you might run into Guido. Guido walking away with two boxes full of comics.
Guido: We hope our listeners had fun. You can tweet us. Would you rather send them along? We'd love to hear what scenarios you can think of inspired by your love of horror and comics.
Rob: Yes, and make sure you review, like subscribe and join as members@deerwatchers.com. Just hit join. We'll be back soon with another trip through the multiverse.
Guido: And in the words of Uwatu, keep pondering the possibilities.
Rob: And happy Halloween.