WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 hello ladies and gentlemen this is the pull bag 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.860 and you're hearing the sound of my voice before 00:00:05.860 --> 00:00:09.240 this episode of the pull bag because in episode 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:13.019 579 i tfg and mike forgot to say or maybe i did 00:00:13.019 --> 00:00:20.800 say but didn't really acknowledge it but we recorded 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:26.239 this one day before mine and joe's 12th anniversary 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:31.519 of when we started doing turtles coverage January 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:37.100 22nd, 2014 is when we released our first IDW 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:41.140 Publishing TMNT comic book episode here inside 00:00:41.140 --> 00:00:43.579 the pull bag. So literally it's been 12 years 00:00:43.579 --> 00:00:45.960 ago today as you're listening to this, January 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:50.119 22nd, 2026, because I'm going to edit this and 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.140 publish it as soon as I possibly can. Hopefully 00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:56.539 it will air on January 22nd, 2026. But it was 00:00:56.539 --> 00:01:01.039 recorded January 21st, 2026. If that makes any 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.700 sense. And yes, I know I'm talking super, super 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:05.439 fast because it is early in the morning and I'm 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.120 trying to get it all out. I'm getting all of 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.439 this out all at once and I'm in the middle of 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:14.920 eating my own breakfast and everything else and 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:17.840 all that. And hope everyone has an excellent 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:19.840 day, an excellent week, and hope everyone has 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.670 a happy new year here in 2026. Right now, The 00:01:24.670 --> 00:01:29.890 Pull Bag, episode 579. The Armageddon Game from 00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:32.390 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is Opening 00:01:32.390 --> 00:01:36.349 Moves. Up next here, Inside the Pull Bag, only 00:01:36.349 --> 00:01:41.090 on the Geekcast Radio Network. Tonight I dine 00:01:41.090 --> 00:01:44.129 on turtle soup. Hi, this is Bobby Kernow, and 00:01:44.129 --> 00:01:45.670 you are going to have a shell of a good time 00:01:45.670 --> 00:01:53.250 inside the pull bag. Hey, this is Tom Waltz, 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:55.510 IEW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle writer, and 00:01:55.510 --> 00:02:00.609 you have jumped inside the pool bag. Well, ladies 00:02:00.609 --> 00:02:05.290 and gentlemen, it's 2026. Holy crap. And we only 00:02:05.290 --> 00:02:09.250 released nine episodes last year for multiple 00:02:09.250 --> 00:02:12.009 reasons. Number one, I had surgery in August. 00:02:12.030 --> 00:02:15.050 For those of you who don't know, I believe I 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:17.810 released the last episode. Episode 578 was an 00:02:17.810 --> 00:02:21.639 interview with my buddy Tom Zoller. Comic writer 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.960 and artist is illustrator Tom Zahler. That was 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.759 the last episode that we did. That was August 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.780 of something last year. I forget the actual date. 00:02:32.099 --> 00:02:34.580 But that was the last episode that I was able 00:02:34.580 --> 00:02:37.580 to do before I went in for On Our Nerve and Crippled 00:02:37.580 --> 00:02:41.110 Tunnel. surgery on my left arm. For those that 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:43.509 don't know, I'm TFG1 Mike, and I have cerebral 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:46.569 palsy on my right arm. So, yay, I was Mr. No 00:02:46.569 --> 00:02:49.430 -Arm for about three or four months. I'm still 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:52.169 kind of Mr. No -Arm now. Now, as you can hear, 00:02:52.370 --> 00:02:58.270 the return, finally! After whatever the... How 00:02:58.270 --> 00:03:01.810 do you lose your freaking comics, dude? I put 00:03:01.810 --> 00:03:03.509 them in, like, three different places in the 00:03:03.509 --> 00:03:07.669 house when I get them home, and then... Look 00:03:07.669 --> 00:03:10.169 at the big pile of things I haven't read and 00:03:10.169 --> 00:03:16.189 go. But no, I had we had friends over for New 00:03:16.189 --> 00:03:18.110 Year's and then again a couple of nights ago 00:03:18.110 --> 00:03:23.370 and art art dinner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I came 00:03:23.370 --> 00:03:25.189 over and said, so what about these comics? Like, 00:03:25.270 --> 00:03:29.189 oh, dude, I forgot. Sweet. And all of my Ninja 00:03:29.189 --> 00:03:33.490 Turtle comics are in order now. What kind of 00:03:33.490 --> 00:03:36.490 order? Who knows? But I was able to... We're 00:03:36.490 --> 00:03:38.349 going to find out, because we've got to get to 00:03:38.349 --> 00:03:40.650 the end of this run. Yes, I have to. And then 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:43.270 we've got to start the new run. I'm told that 00:03:43.270 --> 00:03:45.870 I haven't finished this, and hopefully this will 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:50.770 get me going again. Well, that's the point. And 00:03:50.770 --> 00:03:53.110 originally, folks, I was going to do something 00:03:53.110 --> 00:03:58.150 so huge and so stupendously stupid, I was going 00:03:58.150 --> 00:04:00.870 to put all of Armageddon Game into one podcast. 00:04:00.969 --> 00:04:05.919 We're not doing that. I was going to edit it 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:10.520 into one long, awe -inspiring episode, and I 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.960 ain't doing that. This is episode 579. This is 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.060 part one of Armageddon Game. This is opening 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:19.339 moves. Episode 580 will be part two, which will 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:22.560 be the overall story for Armageddon Game. And 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.120 then episode 581 will be part three, which will 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.620 be the alliance or aftermath or whatever it is. 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.810 I think it's Armageddon Alliance. So three episodes 00:04:32.810 --> 00:04:35.889 for Armageddon Game. And then we will be getting 00:04:35.889 --> 00:04:40.529 back to TMNT Reborn with Volume 8, Damage Done, 00:04:40.810 --> 00:04:44.649 or Do Damage, Damage Done, Go Red Sox, all that 00:04:44.649 --> 00:04:48.149 good stuff. And then Volume 9, First, Last, and 00:04:48.149 --> 00:04:52.029 Always, or First, Last, Always, whatever it is 00:04:52.029 --> 00:04:55.569 on the trade there. But yeah, Armageddon Game, 00:04:55.689 --> 00:05:02.199 this is the... Going into this, even before we 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:06.240 had all the delays last year, this was the story 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:12.220 I was least looking... This is a... You know 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:15.199 how sometimes... I forget which movie it was, 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:17.579 but there was a movie where somebody was tired 00:05:17.579 --> 00:05:19.980 of somebody speeding in their neighborhood, and 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:21.959 they just kept making the speed bump bigger and 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:25.800 bigger and bigger? I forget if it was a movie 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.560 or a TV show. Somebody out there is going to 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:28.959 know. I don't remember off the top of my head 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.180 what it was. And, oh, I forgot to say, folks, 00:05:31.459 --> 00:05:35.079 Mr. Joe Reed is back. Hello, sir. How are you? 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:38.699 I'm good. I forgot you didn't say that. Yeah, 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:41.980 I didn't say that. This is so far out of practice. 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:43.920 This is what happens when you only release nine 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.540 episodes in a 52 -week year. That's a lot of 00:05:48.540 --> 00:05:51.240 comics you got to go back and read. Well, that's 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:57.540 what we're doing now. So. So, yeah. Yeah, I was 00:05:57.540 --> 00:05:59.759 like, oh, OK, we're doing reborn volume one, 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:03.279 two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh, wait. 00:06:03.779 --> 00:06:06.259 Armageddon game. We should do that. Right. What 00:06:06.259 --> 00:06:10.819 is Armageddon? Oh, for flubbers sake. It's the 00:06:10.819 --> 00:06:15.759 thing is an insane crossover. And yeah, I feel 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.180 like we're going to discover things when we get 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:22.120 into the main. like the books want to be in the 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:24.439 middle of it. I have no idea, but I mean, I think 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.920 this is probably why I stopped reading it or 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.180 started to hesitate reading it because the reading 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:35.399 order was just kind of crazy. Yeah. So this is 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.100 why, this is why I always have them in trade 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:41.379 now and I don't do single issue. Like I understood, 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.740 and we've known this for the last 2014 to 2026. 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:49.980 10, 12 years that you and I have been doing these 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:52.379 comics since we started January of 2014 that 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:56.139 we did this. We've known this about you since 00:06:56.139 --> 00:06:58.819 day one. You have to read the single issue as 00:06:58.819 --> 00:07:00.819 soon as it comes out. And I understand that and 00:07:00.819 --> 00:07:05.060 I respect it. But for me, it's like for organizational 00:07:05.060 --> 00:07:08.120 purposes, IDW has always done the greatest thing 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.199 with their trades. They put them in. the story 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.360 order the way they want you to follow the story. 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.439 Yeah, for sure. That's why I've always championed 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.899 the IDW TMNT trade paperbacks. And that's why 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:26.639 I always will. But I, unlike you, as far as like 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.540 the story order of it all for me, I'm not a fan 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:35.279 of the Pantheon stuff because not anything against 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:40.639 Kitsune or. toad boy toad baron i almost said 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.920 toad boy toad baron or any of the other pantheon 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.759 family members i'm not a fan of rat king i don't 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:51.540 care i even in this even when we're gonna get 00:07:51.540 --> 00:07:57.399 to this but even in this i yeah the chaos for 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:03.339 the sake of chaos is uh not very fun for me i 00:08:03.339 --> 00:08:08.720 think and he's a very chaotic villain and yeah 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:16.279 i just gross yeah plus you know i go back to 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.560 what indy said about his dad he never made it 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:24.560 past the rats like that's that's me i never made 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.720 it i never made it past the snakes i never made 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.120 it past the rats so Armageddon game. The trade 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.940 paperback collects Kingdom of Rats Prelude. The 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:37.659 story was done by Bobby Kernow. Yay, Bobby! Art 00:08:37.659 --> 00:08:40.559 done by Pablo Tunica. Letters done by Sean Lee. 00:08:40.659 --> 00:08:47.840 TMNT number 84. Is that our book? That is our 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:51.500 book. That's right. Look, folks. We're a little 00:08:51.500 --> 00:08:54.080 rusty here. They're pulling a little short story 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:00.169 out of 84. Yeah, 84. Story by Eastman, Kernow, 00:09:00.330 --> 00:09:04.690 and Waltz. Strip done by Waltz. Art done by Dave 00:09:04.690 --> 00:09:07.789 Wachter. With colors by Rhonda Pattison. Yay, 00:09:07.990 --> 00:09:12.940 Rhonda! Letters by Sean Lee. Annual 2020. Story 00:09:12.940 --> 00:09:18.019 by Tom Waltz. Art by Adam Gorham. I hope I pronounced 00:09:18.019 --> 00:09:21.820 that correctly, Adam. Colors by John Rausch and 00:09:21.820 --> 00:09:25.340 Michael Garland. Letters done by Sean Lee. Sean 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:27.440 Lee's on all the letters, folks. Sean does all 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.059 the letters. Annual 2021. Story by Tom. Pencils 00:09:32.059 --> 00:09:37.259 by Casey Maloney. Inks by... Maria Keene. Colors 00:09:37.259 --> 00:09:40.840 by Luis Antonio Delgado. Another IDW staple for 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:44.460 the colors. Yay. And then opening moves. One 00:09:44.460 --> 00:09:48.080 and two. Tom Waltz on the story. Pharaoh Pei 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.620 on the art. Colors by Rhonda. Yay. And letters 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:54.440 by Sean. So that's what's here. And that's what 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.980 we are here to discuss this evening. Oh, boy. 00:09:58.659 --> 00:10:05.330 Kingdom of Rats Prelude. I listened to our first 00:10:05.330 --> 00:10:09.730 5, 10, 15 minutes of episode, whatever episode 00:10:09.730 --> 00:10:12.730 it was. I forget the number. But when we did 00:10:12.730 --> 00:10:18.370 episode 81 to 85, issues 81 to 85 in the old 00:10:18.370 --> 00:10:20.409 episode, and I'll link that old episode, but 00:10:20.409 --> 00:10:23.029 even listening back to that after reading this 00:10:23.029 --> 00:10:25.549 one part of the story, I'm like, I still don't 00:10:25.549 --> 00:10:30.549 remember this shit. The reason I didn't remember 00:10:30.549 --> 00:10:35.440 this Kingdom of Rats Prelude is because it showed 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:40.139 up at the end of Ninja Turtles Universe number 00:10:40.139 --> 00:10:43.820 19, which had a completely different story in 00:10:43.820 --> 00:10:50.039 the beginning where Raphael and Alopex are raiding 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:55.200 Null's land. But there's these couple of pages 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:59.519 here, beautifully drawn, creepily drawn. Creepily 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:04.600 drawn, yes. Yeah, so this is basically Rat King 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.639 just setting everything up for himself for that 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:13.519 story, the Kingdom of Rats story, 81 to 85 of 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.320 TMNT. And it's been years, folks, and we will. 00:11:20.100 --> 00:11:22.580 Since the run is concluded for the main story, 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.620 we will be going back and doing other TMNT books 00:11:25.620 --> 00:11:28.539 that IDW has done, including Universe. We never 00:11:28.539 --> 00:11:34.440 have covered Universe. That was by design because 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.620 we were so engrossed in the main story. I didn't 00:11:37.620 --> 00:11:42.059 want us to get distracted on anything else. We've 00:11:42.059 --> 00:11:45.100 done some crossovers here and there when it seemed 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:48.360 fit and it wasn't too distracting away from the 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.440 main story. Yeah, universe is kind of like, what 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.419 were those two characters doing when they went 00:11:53.419 --> 00:11:55.840 this way and you went that way? Yeah, exactly. 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.720 But that was a good issue. I read that part anyway, 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:05.340 just in case. Rat King is establishing his new 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:07.960 base, talking to his rats in creepy ways. At 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.200 least he didn't eat any of them this time. But 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.639 I think he will later. The last page of that. 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.440 He is seeing New York City in ruins like as a 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.580 premonition. This? Or something. Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:28.200 This is where he decides to start making things 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:33.139 happen toward that premonition. And this is way 00:12:33.139 --> 00:12:37.100 back in 2018. Yeah. When that particular book 00:12:37.100 --> 00:12:42.120 was published. Yeah. So long ago. So long ago. 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.179 Yeah, because we published that episode in 2019. 00:12:47.419 --> 00:12:51.279 So the next part of the story opens up with the 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:55.820 turtles and Rat King on some sort of scaffolding 00:12:55.820 --> 00:12:58.899 and the Rat King is holding up some child. Oh 00:12:58.899 --> 00:13:01.840 boy. Yeah, it begins this way. We're kind of 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.700 in the middle of a story when they're hitting 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:07.509 this kind of flashback. to Armageddon games starting, 00:13:07.690 --> 00:13:10.490 and I think these were Splinter's kids. Yes. 00:13:10.730 --> 00:13:14.029 The Foot Clan kids that he had lured out of the 00:13:14.029 --> 00:13:16.029 place, and he's threatening to kill them, and 00:13:16.029 --> 00:13:18.610 the turtles are trying to stop him. Yeah, is 00:13:18.610 --> 00:13:23.129 it Splinter's kids, or are these the kids that... 00:13:23.129 --> 00:13:29.929 No, these are Rat King's kids that he manipulates. 00:13:30.549 --> 00:13:35.610 The turtles save them, I think. The turtles save... 00:13:36.059 --> 00:13:39.740 They get brought back to splinter. Yes. Cause 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:42.820 I nearly gorged my eyes out with tears when they 00:13:42.820 --> 00:13:47.980 came back. I think if I have this right, fast 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:51.440 forwarding a little bit here, folks. Yes. Yeah. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.360 Because at the end here, I think at the end, 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.539 yes, yes. Cause he bring, yeah, they, yeah, that's 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:02.009 what it is. So. Yeah, in the beginning here, 00:14:02.110 --> 00:14:04.870 these are the children they are trying to save 00:14:04.870 --> 00:14:08.409 from the Rat King because he is trying to bring 00:14:08.409 --> 00:14:13.570 them over to his side. He is messing with their 00:14:13.570 --> 00:14:16.789 minds and whatever else. Piper trying to walk 00:14:16.789 --> 00:14:23.009 them off the cliff. Yeah. And then he sicks them 00:14:23.009 --> 00:14:26.159 on the turtles. With mind control and the rats. 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:27.620 And so the turtles don't want to fight these 00:14:27.620 --> 00:14:29.799 kids. No, they don't want to fight these kids. 00:14:30.500 --> 00:14:33.679 Meanwhile, Mr. Mouser, because we can't call 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.580 him Mr. Mayor yet because that hasn't happened 00:14:35.580 --> 00:14:41.700 yet. As of this, he's still Professor Inventor 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:47.620 Creepy Moron Baxter Stockman. Oh, whatever. Dexter 00:14:47.620 --> 00:14:52.120 Boinkman. Yeah, there you go. That's an inside 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.259 joke in our family, too, whenever that character 00:14:54.259 --> 00:15:00.340 is mentioned. Yep, yep. You mean Bat and Stockboy? 00:15:00.740 --> 00:15:03.320 Bat and Stockboy? That's right, that's right. 00:15:03.980 --> 00:15:08.639 Flyborg, Flyborg. Yeah, this was 2018 as well. 00:15:08.860 --> 00:15:12.159 Wow, yeah, man. Rat King's been at this for a 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:17.149 while. Yes, he has. So what is, yeah, I... What 00:15:17.149 --> 00:15:21.529 is Baxter up to? So Baxter is manufacturing the 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:25.889 mousers. Oh yeah. Baxter's plan is to eradicate 00:15:25.889 --> 00:15:28.950 the city's rat problem. So that way he can get 00:15:28.950 --> 00:15:32.690 more power because he wants to eventually the, 00:15:32.769 --> 00:15:35.350 from what I remember going and we'll go through 00:15:35.350 --> 00:15:37.429 it obviously. But what I remember from just having 00:15:37.429 --> 00:15:41.269 read this again today is that this leads him 00:15:41.269 --> 00:15:47.070 to declare his intentions to become. mayor but 00:15:47.070 --> 00:15:51.409 that's what gets him there to do it is that he 00:15:51.409 --> 00:15:54.649 invents the mousers to get rid of all the rats 00:15:54.649 --> 00:15:57.690 and they get rid of all the rats very violently 00:15:57.690 --> 00:16:00.629 which I'm not saying that because I have a problem 00:16:00.629 --> 00:16:02.809 with the violence I'm just stating a fact that 00:16:02.809 --> 00:16:07.950 the mousers they kind of violent so I hate to 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:13.519 clean those things out after a hunt yep I love 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:18.639 the exchange here between Raph and Mikey. You 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.159 got him secure, Mikey? Yeah, he's safe now. Good. 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.500 Can't say the same thing for Rat Boy, though. 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:34.009 No. And then we have this whole thing and man, 00:16:34.190 --> 00:16:37.370 I, as much as I'm not a fan of the rat King, 00:16:37.570 --> 00:16:43.769 just because I do love all of the interactions 00:16:43.769 --> 00:16:47.230 between the turtles and, and him. And I love 00:16:47.230 --> 00:16:52.009 that Leo is trying to outsmart him because he's 00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:53.909 like, why are you going all the way up there? 00:16:53.990 --> 00:16:56.409 What are you doing? Trying to get the high ground 00:16:56.409 --> 00:17:01.070 for whatever else. Oh, man. Look at this. This 00:17:01.070 --> 00:17:03.289 reminds you of anything? Oh, yeah. Even though 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:06.309 the fact that it's creepy as hell? Hmm. Target 00:17:06.309 --> 00:17:09.490 Mouser. Kill number one. Literally, I'm like, 00:17:09.549 --> 00:17:13.289 ooh, that reminds me of an old cover. Target. 00:17:13.349 --> 00:17:18.730 I love those red covers. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely. 00:17:20.470 --> 00:17:23.750 Wow, that was fast and extremely disgusting. 00:17:25.320 --> 00:17:27.619 Don't get squeamish on me now, Miss O 'Neill. 00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:31.039 This was your plan. And he explains to her how 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:34.700 his Flyborgs... Does he call them Flyborgs? He 00:17:34.700 --> 00:17:41.420 does. Oh, wow. He does. Damn. The only other 00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:45.000 place that I've heard of the term Flyborg is 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:50.779 in Phineas and Ferb. Uh -huh. In Phineas and 00:17:50.779 --> 00:17:56.220 Ferb, across the second dimension. Because the 00:17:56.220 --> 00:17:58.859 evil Doofenshmirtz in the second dimension has 00:17:58.859 --> 00:18:04.960 Flyborgs that he uses. But yeah, so that's what's 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.819 going on here. My machines are functioning as 00:18:07.819 --> 00:18:11.819 designed. No surprise there. Which just means 00:18:11.819 --> 00:18:16.200 it's a matter of time. Dun, dun, dun. Leo up 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.259 here gets his high ground so that he can attack 00:18:19.259 --> 00:18:22.480 Rat King psychically. He goes meditating. Yeah, 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:24.980 it goes into the astral plane. I was wondering 00:18:24.980 --> 00:18:29.380 why it went from outside the docks looking thing 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:33.460 to a really bad... Well, I was going to say a 00:18:33.460 --> 00:18:36.279 really bad nightclub that looks like it would 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:45.240 be in a John Wick movie. But he and Leo and Rat 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.859 King have a battle of wits in the astral plane. 00:18:51.150 --> 00:18:53.849 The other turtles think that they can attack 00:18:53.849 --> 00:19:00.950 Rat King in the real world. That's not so easy 00:19:00.950 --> 00:19:03.910 to do since the Rat King is the master of the 00:19:03.910 --> 00:19:10.430 real world and the astral plane. He's in there 00:19:10.430 --> 00:19:15.950 multitasking. Yes, he is. My god, the colors. 00:19:15.990 --> 00:19:25.359 The colors. And just the visualizations of this 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:30.460 page, the page where, does not happen by accident. 00:19:30.539 --> 00:19:35.420 You wish to stop me to save those pathetic urchins? 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.539 Dave Wachter has grown on me for a long time. 00:19:40.740 --> 00:19:44.240 Oh, yeah, but yeah. I do enjoy this. Like, look 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:49.039 at his design on Leo. Like, man, just. This image 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:52.240 alone, I know it wasn't knocked out or whatever, 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.779 but just the way he's designed him. Yeah, drawn 00:19:55.779 --> 00:20:01.000 real small. Well, yeah, but I'm saying... It's 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:02.480 hard to get the pen to do what you want to do 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.400 with that tiny, tiny scale. That's very true. 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.559 But it's so good, and it's done so well. And 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:13.640 the writing's just there, and you get the scenes 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:20.230 mixing with each other. You get Leo and the Rat 00:20:20.230 --> 00:20:23.609 King, and Leo's coming back, and they're fighting 00:20:23.609 --> 00:20:25.150 each other, and you got the turtles fighting 00:20:25.150 --> 00:20:30.309 the Rat King's body. Yeah, I like how the Rat 00:20:30.309 --> 00:20:32.089 King is fighting them in the real world with 00:20:32.089 --> 00:20:35.730 absolutely no expression, because he's not there. 00:20:36.190 --> 00:20:39.549 He's not there, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely. 00:20:40.069 --> 00:20:45.019 And then just... Wow. And then you get Flyborg, 00:20:45.259 --> 00:20:50.200 and Flyborg comes in, and oh boy, you get astral 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:54.039 plane projection, and this is creepy as hell. 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:58.460 He looks like a vampire here. How's this? It's 00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:01.880 just all so good. But the mousers invade. Baxter, 00:21:02.099 --> 00:21:04.880 the mousers distract. The mice, or the rats, 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:09.299 rather, taking care of them. In the astral plane, 00:21:09.380 --> 00:21:13.599 Leo scores a big hit. The Rat King, which wakes 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:17.400 both of them up right before Rat King gets socked 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:24.920 in the mouth. Yep. You got punched right in the 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:33.440 mouth. How's that? What? What? Huh? Who? Where? 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:38.950 Why? And the flyborgs and the mousers determine 00:21:38.950 --> 00:21:42.569 little monstrosities, aren't you? And he just 00:21:42.569 --> 00:21:45.730 jumps right off the edge of the building. Oh, 00:21:45.750 --> 00:21:51.609 boy. Smell you later. Smell you later. Hey, you. 00:21:53.869 --> 00:22:00.670 But all's well that ends well. The turtles save 00:22:00.670 --> 00:22:04.710 the day. The children are saved. I love this, 00:22:04.809 --> 00:22:09.349 though. Because this is like one of those running 00:22:09.349 --> 00:22:12.609 TV gags to me. So you go down to the very bottom. 00:22:12.670 --> 00:22:17.640 So you get. Is something I picked up like mentally 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:21.500 snared mammoth, yada, yada, yada. Final page. 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:26.359 I think, dudes, I think I know. So you see Mikey 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:28.640 looking at the kids like, what are we going to 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.359 do with them? Well, dudes, I think I know. And 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.039 then all of a sudden, mouse are chasing rat. 00:22:33.220 --> 00:22:36.380 One last rat to go. And I'm like, that's a TV 00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:40.019 run through right there. That's like Urkel running 00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:42.819 through the camera to chasing something or whatever, 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.339 whatever. I'm like, oh my god, I laughed so hard 00:22:46.339 --> 00:22:50.460 at that when I read this. And this is where we 00:22:50.460 --> 00:22:54.900 get the emotion down of Mike, because damn, I 00:22:54.900 --> 00:22:59.240 was not expecting this. Not expecting this at 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.099 all. This is an epilogue that I was not expecting. 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:09.119 We need your help. And then obviously Baxter 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:15.490 makes his thing known that he wants to run for 00:23:15.490 --> 00:23:20.509 mayor so far like the opening moves opening whatever 00:23:20.509 --> 00:23:25.289 armageddon game so far it's okay yeah even with 00:23:25.289 --> 00:23:29.089 the rat king like going back and getting the 00:23:29.089 --> 00:23:32.750 context of what i know is happening now compared 00:23:32.750 --> 00:23:36.089 to these books that we read back in 2019 uh it's 00:23:36.089 --> 00:23:38.509 interesting to see that yeah the this is where 00:23:38.509 --> 00:23:41.029 it started this is where they were kind of starting 00:23:41.029 --> 00:23:44.009 to put the seeds for an event maybe they didn't 00:23:44.009 --> 00:23:45.750 know what it was going to be but they knew that 00:23:45.750 --> 00:23:49.670 the rat king was maneuvering and like i said 00:23:49.670 --> 00:23:53.269 even though i don't care for the character overall 00:23:53.269 --> 00:23:59.670 even later he gets we're gonna get there but 00:23:59.670 --> 00:24:03.309 when he talks to all his siblings like the turn 00:24:03.309 --> 00:24:06.759 like When I hear, oh, it's a Rat King story, 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.579 I'm like, oh, great. It's going to be the same 00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:11.420 thing every time. Let's get the family back together. 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:13.859 Let's get the game going again. I want to play 00:24:13.859 --> 00:24:15.619 the game. I want to have, like we've already 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:17.980 said already, I want to have the chaos. I want 00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:19.759 to have the this. I want to have the that. This 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:25.160 threw me for a loop because of what happens and 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:29.259 how. But unfortunately, because of what happens, 00:24:29.579 --> 00:24:34.480 he has to pivot. Pivot! Oh, God. Don't get me 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:42.039 started. And yeah, so we... This is something 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:46.359 I was not expecting. I was not... I did not remember 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:50.000 this. I did not remember... I remember Frank 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.000 discovering the body of Leatherhead and inhabiting 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.859 him. But I don't remember where that happened. 00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:03.329 Yeah, I... Folks... Like I said, we are very 00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:06.970 rusty, and we have not gone back to do super 00:25:06.970 --> 00:25:11.009 deep dive research. You're getting our real raw 00:25:11.009 --> 00:25:13.910 reading reactions. Research? You mean we read 00:25:13.910 --> 00:25:17.230 everything from issue 80 on? Yeah, I know, right? 00:25:18.930 --> 00:25:23.109 No. Even if we were to go back and listen to 00:25:23.109 --> 00:25:26.150 all the podcasts from 80 to now, that's still 00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:29.299 thousands of hours of audio. Yeah, it'd take 00:25:29.299 --> 00:25:32.240 me less time to reread it. I know. I already 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.539 did that when I edited the podcast. Yeah, exactly. 00:25:34.740 --> 00:25:38.039 I already did it when I edited the podcast. So 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.160 we start this one where Shredder's still in hell, 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.640 I'm assuming. Or he's somewhere. Because that's 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:50.000 the devil, clearly. Yep. Okay. So this is coming 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:53.119 out of the annual 2020. Yeah, this is annual 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.339 2020. Okay, cool, cool, cool. And the coolest 00:25:56.339 --> 00:26:00.119 thing for me out of this, look what they have 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:07.019 him in. Yeah, the animated colors. Not just the 00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:12.819 animated colors. Them's toy colors, man. Oh, 00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:17.759 no shirt? Yep. That's the toy. That's the freaking 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:21.599 toy. I was like, oh, okay. That's that for okay. 00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:24.920 Yep, yep, yep. Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, yeah, 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:29.000 yeah. Because every child wanted a shirtless 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.859 shredder in the 80s. 1988, folks, you could have 00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:36.460 gone to whatever store and gotten a shirtless 00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:43.400 purple shredder for $5. You got to ask the... 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:47.359 If you get to a con, you got to ask... Kevin 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:50.380 East saw how they arrived at that action figure 00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:53.660 because that was a whole bunch of people at the 00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.819 toy company not understanding the drawings. Yeah. 00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:03.680 Oh, that's the other... Is it... Who is it? Yeah. 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.180 Playmates no longer has it? Oh, yeah. I just 00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:13.839 heard that news recently. Yeah, yeah. I don't 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:18.640 know. I mean, what? McFarlane Toys has a license 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.960 now, but they're making the high -end figures 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.619 or the medium -end figures. I don't know who's 00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:28.539 going to be doing the Mutant Mayhem toys. That's 00:27:28.539 --> 00:27:34.660 crazy. Crazy, crazy. Hasbro? I hope not. Oh, 00:27:34.660 --> 00:27:41.000 God. If Hasbro had... That would be everything 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.259 is a super monopoly now. Like everybody has everything 00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:46.900 or one company has everything for everything 00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:49.799 these days kind of things. But Hasbro already 00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:53.480 has Star Wars, G .I. Joe, Transformers, Polly 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.900 Pocket, Polly this, Polly that, whatever, whatever, 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.839 whatever. They have so many things. I couldn't 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:02.779 even imagine if Hasbro got Turtles. Oh, God. 00:28:02.859 --> 00:28:05.240 If they do, if they get Turtles, that's going 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:07.130 to soften up. And we're going to get a whole 00:28:07.130 --> 00:28:09.329 bunch of Transformers crossovers and G .I. Joe 00:28:09.329 --> 00:28:12.069 crossovers. Too many crossovers. No more Turtles. 00:28:12.369 --> 00:28:15.210 Yeah, no more Turtles. No more crossovers. No 00:28:15.210 --> 00:28:20.569 more. And we see that... I almost said Yoshi. 00:28:20.809 --> 00:28:25.569 Wow. For two seconds, I thought that was not 00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:34.450 who it is. But we get Saki and Kitsune. And then... 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.579 And then Rat King shows up and he's there to 00:28:40.579 --> 00:28:43.440 see his sister because he's there to recruit 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.400 her. And he and Saki have a conversation, which 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.619 I love this. I loved all of this. I thought this 00:28:49.619 --> 00:28:52.900 was, this is, this is cool. This is great. And 00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:54.839 this is what's so great about this story because 00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:57.400 Rat King is looking for players for his game. 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.839 He wants Kitsune, even though Kitsune failed 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:07.000 him last time. He wants to see if... That's the 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.539 whole point of this. That's the whole point of 00:29:08.539 --> 00:29:10.200 opening moves. That's the whole point of the 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:14.240 annuals and whatever. He wants to see who's going 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.400 to play the Pantheon game. The Armageddon game, 00:29:18.579 --> 00:29:22.180 whatever you want to call it now. Spoilers, folks. 00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:26.000 Nobody wants to play. Oh gosh, what's the line? 00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:30.880 The only way not to lose is not to play the game? 00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:33.869 The only way to win is not to play. Yeah, the 00:29:33.869 --> 00:29:37.950 only way to win is not to play. Yep. Yep, yep, 00:29:37.950 --> 00:29:41.630 yep. But you know what? They address that in 00:29:41.630 --> 00:29:46.329 this book later. Yep. They do. But I just... 00:29:46.329 --> 00:29:54.289 Ah, what the... Wait a minute. Oh. Uh... Yes, 00:29:54.289 --> 00:29:58.470 by this point... Oh, God, yeah! And Shredder's 00:29:58.470 --> 00:30:02.069 moving toward the good side here. Right. Yeah. 00:30:02.289 --> 00:30:05.450 No, no, no. Uh, cause this is a, this is after, 00:30:05.509 --> 00:30:11.170 uh, he leaves and she says, beloved, what are 00:30:11.170 --> 00:30:16.210 you contemplating? And he goes, and you see splinter 00:30:16.210 --> 00:30:20.750 and he goes, old friends, kitsune. And the next 00:30:20.750 --> 00:30:25.789 will be yours. Just. And new possibilities. Just, 00:30:25.869 --> 00:30:31.450 oh god. Just, oh god. Again, these books just 00:30:31.450 --> 00:30:37.490 always find ways to just crush your heart. And 00:30:37.490 --> 00:30:45.650 then we get to Oroku Karai. And all her stuff. 00:30:47.750 --> 00:30:53.069 Stuff. So it looks like she's this is an issue 00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:57.470 I somehow missed, never read, don't have. So 00:30:57.470 --> 00:31:00.009 I'm seeing this for the first time. But she's 00:31:00.009 --> 00:31:05.589 harvesting parts of the dragon that was partly 00:31:05.589 --> 00:31:14.349 formed in issue 100. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. So she 00:31:14.349 --> 00:31:20.549 says to all her minions It's been nearly a month 00:31:20.549 --> 00:31:23.849 since Kitsune's attack, so why am I still staring 00:31:23.849 --> 00:31:26.430 at all this destruction? I want answers now. 00:31:28.529 --> 00:31:34.190 And then he says, What do we have here, my children? 00:31:36.710 --> 00:31:39.789 I'm losing my voice. I understand your frustration, 00:31:40.029 --> 00:31:45.369 Karai, but we're fortunate to have anything left 00:31:45.369 --> 00:31:49.779 after the dragon debacle. If Stockman wasn't 00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:53.079 mayor, it's almost guaranteed we'd have government 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:56.819 inspectors snooping all over this facility, which 00:31:56.819 --> 00:32:00.140 would fully expose our operation. So they have 00:32:00.140 --> 00:32:03.039 all this discussion about all that, and we eventually 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:06.720 have the Rat King break into this whole thing, 00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:13.140 and we have him basically put them to sleep kind 00:32:13.140 --> 00:32:18.289 of thing, where he does his... Does his whole 00:32:18.289 --> 00:32:24.109 thing with Karai and he says to her, Not a mere 00:32:24.109 --> 00:32:26.710 knight, no, but a veritable queen in the making. 00:32:27.849 --> 00:32:30.730 And what's more dangerous, my children, than 00:32:30.730 --> 00:32:34.150 having a deadly and determined queen at your 00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:39.470 behest? You may continue. Get moving. And all 00:32:39.470 --> 00:32:42.130 her minions kept moving because he stopped them. 00:32:42.170 --> 00:32:44.970 He stopped the thing right before she could say 00:32:44.970 --> 00:32:48.720 that. And now we get to Alopex and Angel, and 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:53.599 oh boy. He's going to try to recruit them? You 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:59.599 know, he's Chaos. Yeah, he's Chaos, all right. 00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:06.099 No, he's following them to see where... No, he's 00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:09.299 following them to get to this. He's following 00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:13.680 them to get to Leatherhead and Krang. That's 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:16.599 what he's doing. I do think that that is the 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:21.339 coolest thing to have done to Krang. Oh, no. 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.900 I'd like to see more of that because it's horrifying 00:33:24.900 --> 00:33:27.559 and nasty and it makes Leatherhead even more 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:36.799 scary. Oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah, it's very, very scary. 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:45.059 And nobody's like, oh, shit. Or something to 00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:48.180 that effect. It's actually bleeped out. What's 00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:53.000 this? A monster within a monster? Two for one 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.140 sale, pal. Tell me you're not playing with a 00:33:57.140 --> 00:34:06.960 Jose Canseco tale. And war with each other, no 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:12.949 less. How splendid. Again, Dave Walker's art, 00:34:13.070 --> 00:34:16.769 the colors, and just, oh, man, it's so good. 00:34:17.949 --> 00:34:23.869 So, so good. Like, just the change. Like, just 00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:26.389 the change. In this entire page, you start with 00:34:26.389 --> 00:34:29.230 the dark, like, inner panel here with the what's 00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:33.989 this. You have the green and pink, green overall 00:34:33.989 --> 00:34:38.670 of Leatherhead with the little leg thing he's 00:34:38.670 --> 00:34:41.190 got, little bandages he's got. And you get the 00:34:41.190 --> 00:34:44.610 background there, and then pink of Krang, and 00:34:44.610 --> 00:34:48.690 then you get Alopex within the white, and nobody 00:34:48.690 --> 00:34:52.730 with the purple. And then down at the left -hand 00:34:52.730 --> 00:34:54.869 side of the page, he picks up a Mouser, which 00:34:54.869 --> 00:34:59.210 is a yellow background, and basically he just 00:34:59.210 --> 00:35:02.190 chucks it. Let's liven things up a little bit, 00:35:02.269 --> 00:35:07.130 shall we? Hey, he'll throw that at me. Oh, no. 00:35:07.789 --> 00:35:18.280 Yeah. Uh -huh. Intruders. Uh -oh. We're in trouble. 00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:30.000 Uh -oh. But Angel got a little electrocution 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:33.500 stuff on her side, though. She electrocutes the 00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:37.250 shit. It had a crying Leatherhead. Just find 00:35:37.250 --> 00:35:40.210 a way to total the damn thing while I keep the 00:35:40.210 --> 00:35:44.630 psycho twins busy. So Alopex tries to get to 00:35:44.630 --> 00:35:47.710 the van. Leatherhead's tail stops her. More fighting 00:35:47.710 --> 00:35:51.289 ensues. Krang says, I've never experienced such 00:35:51.289 --> 00:35:55.369 infuriatingly resistant host. But thanks to you, 00:35:55.449 --> 00:35:58.730 I am now in full control of the local idiot. 00:35:59.929 --> 00:36:05.969 Oh no, the elect... Oh, it knocked him out, but 00:36:05.969 --> 00:36:08.690 not Crank. Yeah, it knocked Leatherhead out, 00:36:08.710 --> 00:36:12.210 but not Crank. Oh, God, yeah. Well, now he can 00:36:12.210 --> 00:36:14.349 do whatever he wants to do, and what he wants 00:36:14.349 --> 00:36:17.769 to do is make contact with the other U -Troms, 00:36:17.769 --> 00:36:19.730 because that's all he has ever wanted to do. 00:36:20.530 --> 00:36:23.650 Jamming remains active. You weren't able to disrupt 00:36:23.650 --> 00:36:29.239 that. It ain't reptile, which means I'm still 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:33.139 invisible to my prying enemy eyes. And then they 00:36:33.139 --> 00:36:38.059 threw a... She shot... One of them threw something 00:36:38.059 --> 00:36:43.059 at the thing. And we get more electrocution soon 00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:46.300 here. And then Alopex does her thing with the 00:36:46.300 --> 00:36:50.559 computer. Man, so much electrocution. I love 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.179 this. Where, where, where? There. You're a regular 00:36:55.179 --> 00:36:59.159 riot, Libby. Break glass. Push button. Run. Bye 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:08.920 -bye. Man. And then, yeah, they do all that and 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:16.360 get down. How absolutely beautiful. Rat King 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:20.559 just stands there. And Leatherhead's like, er, 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.260 Krang's like, uh, no, I need to get back in there. 00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:29.019 Stop, you fool, you'll burn us both. And then, 00:37:29.019 --> 00:37:32.440 uh, Rat King puts an all -stop to it. I won't 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.360 have all the delicious mayhem this motley group 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:39.219 provides snuffed out so soon. Like these two, 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:43.639 Biological Warrior and her furry mutant sidekick. 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:48.780 How absolutely thrilling. Truly, ladies, it's 00:37:48.780 --> 00:37:53.900 been a joy to watch you both in action. Simply 00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:57.800 leave here with the pride of a mission successfully 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:04.559 accomplished. Really, really sore for some reason. 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:09.519 Yeah, that was crazy. That was crazy. Yeah. Crazy 00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:14.079 mind control. I hate that shit. Absolutely hate 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.800 that shit. But here's where it gets even stranger. 00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:21.960 Speaking of weird, you are bizarre, and most 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:25.820 tumultuous sense of the word, my friends, two 00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:28.679 oddities for the price of one. So many chaotic 00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:33.340 possibilities. So no, there will be no murder 00:38:33.340 --> 00:38:38.579 -suicide today, no martyrs. I will put those 00:38:38.579 --> 00:38:42.219 thoughts out of one's obstinate mind, and memories 00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:47.860 of today's battle will be lost to you both. Come 00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:51.800 with me, my pets, until we again enjoy the amusement 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:55.559 of these two offers. But for now, we must bid 00:38:55.559 --> 00:39:01.719 them adieu. Wow. Oh boy, this comic. So Leatherhead 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:05.960 and Krang wake up. Who, where, what, what the 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:11.239 hell have you done? You idiot! You brought us 00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:14.730 here through this... But you soared just to steal 00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:17.170 this opportunity to reunite with my people away 00:39:17.170 --> 00:39:21.030 from me. He thinks Leatherhead is the problem. 00:39:21.349 --> 00:39:28.409 Oh, boy. The end. Gotta love Leatherhead. I love 00:39:28.409 --> 00:39:30.349 that because of the alternate cover by Kevin 00:39:30.349 --> 00:39:33.429 Eastman, though. That's a good Leatherhead cover 00:39:33.429 --> 00:39:37.050 with the city as a backdrop. That's a good one. 00:39:38.429 --> 00:39:45.679 Oh, boy. This is Casey Maloney and Maria Keene, 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:48.340 Louis Antonio Delgado for the cover here. You 00:39:48.340 --> 00:39:53.980 got the turtles all in the front. You got Leatherhead 00:39:53.980 --> 00:39:58.000 Rat King and all the Pantheon people in the background 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.920 on the chessboard. And I'm assuming this is opening 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:06.039 moves? This is the annual 2021. Oh, this is annual 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:11.909 2021. Okay. Wow. Annual 2021 has... Wow. Okay. 00:40:13.969 --> 00:40:16.630 So this is where we really kind of get going 00:40:16.630 --> 00:40:20.110 with the setup. I love this page here where he's 00:40:20.110 --> 00:40:22.309 kind of recapping. And this is the cool thing 00:40:22.309 --> 00:40:25.150 about the annuals, folks. If you haven't kept 00:40:25.150 --> 00:40:28.110 up with some of the stuff, the annuals are a 00:40:28.110 --> 00:40:32.730 good way to get a refresher course. But you still 00:40:32.730 --> 00:40:35.789 should read this series from issue 1 to issue 00:40:35.789 --> 00:40:39.960 150. Yeah, the annuals and the free comic book 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:42.619 days are great places to jump on and start reading. 00:40:42.659 --> 00:40:45.360 If you don't feel like going back in time and 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.539 reading everything, good place to start. Yeah, 00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:53.960 absolutely. And we have this big giant recap 00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:57.320 page of all of the siblings for the Pantheon 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.039 and where everyone's been. And this is where 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:03.780 he starts going to all of his siblings and the 00:41:03.780 --> 00:41:06.920 various ways and things. And this is my favorite 00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:11.860 page of this entire trade right here. This is 00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:15.300 so frigging cool. This is awesome. We're making 00:41:15.300 --> 00:41:19.019 a, a poster out of that. Uh, they should make 00:41:19.019 --> 00:41:21.000 a, I don't know why they didn't make a poster 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.880 out of this. This is so cool. So this page here, 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:29.139 folks, so the previous page to this is. As I 00:41:29.139 --> 00:41:33.840 said, it's Rat King says, my sister Kitsune particularly 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:39.239 has been a rather aggressive run -up until recently. 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:45.539 He talks about the dragon. He talks about all 00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:48.099 this and everything else. And then this giant 00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:52.619 poster at the top of it, it says, do I really 00:41:52.619 --> 00:41:55.639 have to spell it out for you? Oh, because at 00:41:55.639 --> 00:41:57.699 the bottom of the previous page here, he says, 00:41:59.230 --> 00:42:02.170 You see, the source of my sister's failure, nay, 00:42:02.309 --> 00:42:04.849 the source of all of my siblings' recent failures, 00:42:04.949 --> 00:42:08.949 as well as many of your own, is annoying as a 00:42:08.949 --> 00:42:13.250 assembly of antagonists shared by us all. And 00:42:13.250 --> 00:42:14.710 then that's where he says, do I really have to 00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:16.949 spell it out for you? So in this annual, he is 00:42:16.949 --> 00:42:19.969 actually talking to an audience that we can't 00:42:19.969 --> 00:42:24.949 see. So he is sitting somewhere talking to somebody 00:42:24.949 --> 00:42:27.250 somewhere that we don't know who he's talking 00:42:27.250 --> 00:42:30.750 to. And we get this poster. So starting at the 00:42:30.750 --> 00:42:35.510 top left there, you get Casey's dad, Alopex, 00:42:35.670 --> 00:42:42.309 Casey himself, Angel as nobody. You get Splinter, 00:42:42.409 --> 00:42:52.869 Shredder, April, Kitsune Karai, Jenica, all the 00:42:52.869 --> 00:42:59.429 turtles. Mondo Gecko. Mondo Gecko. Can't believe 00:42:59.429 --> 00:43:02.670 I forgot Mondo. All the humans. Wait, who the 00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:07.010 hell are these guys? Woody. Okay, that's Woody. 00:43:07.550 --> 00:43:10.449 Who's this? I don't recognize who those two are. 00:43:10.869 --> 00:43:14.670 Yeah, that's Harold. Those are April's parents. 00:43:14.869 --> 00:43:20.590 Okay. And then there's Pete. Good old Pete. Herman. 00:43:21.449 --> 00:43:25.530 There's Fugitoid and Hob and Man Ray and there's 00:43:25.530 --> 00:43:32.289 Harold. There's Libby. There's Mr. Alien Dude, 00:43:32.469 --> 00:43:37.550 whatever his name is. Donnie and Leo. Bebop and 00:43:37.550 --> 00:43:41.969 Rocksteady. Wait, where's Rocksteady? Slash. 00:43:41.969 --> 00:43:51.570 Slash Dude. Raph and Pepperoni and Koya. I saw 00:43:51.570 --> 00:43:54.929 my first Pepperoni toy today. And you didn't 00:43:54.929 --> 00:43:59.550 buy it? Well, it's a pre -order, but the McFarlane 00:43:59.550 --> 00:44:04.489 Raphael, I think, comes with pepperoni. Oh, nice. 00:44:04.750 --> 00:44:07.610 That's so cool. Yeah, so that's a nice little 00:44:07.610 --> 00:44:13.369 big ol' splash page poster -like thing. So, yeah. 00:44:13.489 --> 00:44:19.570 So he's going to Splinter. He's going to Shredder 00:44:19.570 --> 00:44:25.210 and Kitsune. he's going to everybody he can think 00:44:25.210 --> 00:44:29.250 of to go to. And then he starts going to his 00:44:29.250 --> 00:44:40.090 siblings. And this is where I do what I don't 00:44:40.090 --> 00:44:45.309 feel bad for him. All of his siblings tell him 00:44:45.309 --> 00:44:49.530 no. I don't have time for your games. I don't 00:44:49.530 --> 00:44:51.650 have time for this anymore. Like, I'm doing my 00:44:51.650 --> 00:44:55.730 own thing. Like, the whole cat lady thing here. 00:44:55.949 --> 00:44:58.230 I'm like, yeah, okay, you got your own war. And 00:44:58.230 --> 00:45:01.329 then we get to this. Oh, my God. Not this. Not 00:45:01.329 --> 00:45:05.750 this. Not this page. We get to this. And I was 00:45:05.750 --> 00:45:09.349 like, oh, what the? Oh, right. It's going to 00:45:09.349 --> 00:45:12.690 be kickball. Because I knew as soon as he held 00:45:12.690 --> 00:45:15.010 the head in his hand, I'm like, you know, I always 00:45:15.010 --> 00:45:17.860 preferred a good. I knew he was going to say 00:45:17.860 --> 00:45:20.760 kick. And then I knew it was going to be like 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.300 an Alice in Wonderland -like thing. And then 00:45:23.300 --> 00:45:25.420 I'm like, oh, right, the Toad Baron. Because 00:45:25.420 --> 00:45:27.300 the Toad Baron kind of reminds me of the Queen 00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:30.239 of Hearts. Like some Miyazaki fever dream. Yeah, 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:36.420 a little bit. Time out, time out. And I do love 00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:41.099 how fun this is. I wanted any of the Pantheon 00:45:41.099 --> 00:45:44.869 characters to be... not super regular, but a 00:45:44.869 --> 00:45:48.429 more regular thing, the Toad Baron place would 00:45:48.429 --> 00:45:52.630 probably be the funnest place to be. I mean, 00:45:52.670 --> 00:45:56.949 it's still creepy as all hell, but it's probably 00:45:56.949 --> 00:46:03.309 the most fun. Players to the pitch and all that. 00:46:03.590 --> 00:46:06.050 And yeah, they basically tell him, no, we don't 00:46:06.050 --> 00:46:09.010 want to do it either. And then we get to the 00:46:09.010 --> 00:46:14.000 mammoth and the mammoth. I didn't... Okay, maybe 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.099 you can explain this to me. Like, I know they're 00:46:16.099 --> 00:46:19.800 just kind of, like, sparring each other, but, 00:46:19.860 --> 00:46:26.960 like, his moves here, like, how... Huh? He didn't 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:33.219 really move. Like, they are going at each other, 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:38.300 but, like, there's, like, again, they're not... 00:46:38.300 --> 00:46:42.159 Yeah, that's what I thought. I thought he... 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:46.840 Yeah. The knife sent the swords in him. But... 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:52.019 Yeah, I think he's killing the wolves for furs 00:46:52.019 --> 00:46:57.599 and food. Yeah, but... That kind of thing. Maybe. 00:46:58.300 --> 00:47:00.960 Yeah, he's not so much of a protector as much 00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.059 as he's a survivor. Okay, maybe I read it wrong. 00:47:05.179 --> 00:47:12.940 I guess I did. I don't know. Again... But yeah, 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.659 basically everybody's telling him no. No, they 00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:19.260 don't want to go back to the game. And this is 00:47:19.260 --> 00:47:23.300 like the easiest one of all. He just goes there. 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.179 There's nobody else around this sibling. The 00:47:28.179 --> 00:47:32.639 Pacific Northwest. No. I don't remember who that 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:35.900 is. Oh, it's just the black inky thing. Yeah, 00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:42.050 that's... Tentacle squid. Jaguar to Toad Baron 00:47:42.050 --> 00:47:45.550 to Mammoth, it was all beginning to come together 00:47:45.550 --> 00:47:49.190 for me in a most unexpected fashion. I was ready 00:47:49.190 --> 00:47:52.949 to return home with my newfound knowledge and 00:47:52.949 --> 00:47:55.489 one determined, but I first had one last step 00:47:55.489 --> 00:48:01.130 in order. I, yeah, I don't remember the character. 00:48:01.190 --> 00:48:03.170 I thought they said it already. I thought they 00:48:03.170 --> 00:48:07.369 were going to say it. And so there you have it. 00:48:07.429 --> 00:48:14.219 Oh, Gothano. The dragon is dead. And Garfano 00:48:14.219 --> 00:48:18.380 is like, no. Oh, honestly, no surprises there. 00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:22.139 So that was a quick, easy exchange. And then 00:48:22.139 --> 00:48:24.900 this is where we get the nice little nine panel 00:48:24.900 --> 00:48:27.960 thing of him explaining everything. And we get 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:35.420 the reveal of who he's talking to. Well, yeah. 00:48:36.059 --> 00:48:43.099 Everybody that we've. Yeah. Met so far. Yep. 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:46.900 Pretty much. Laying out his pitch. This is his 00:48:46.900 --> 00:48:53.420 elevator pitch to Leather Crang, Baxter, and 00:48:53.420 --> 00:49:03.860 Madame Null. Yep. This was crazy. And it's the 00:49:03.860 --> 00:49:05.960 first time that we hear the Armageddon game. 00:49:06.409 --> 00:49:09.889 The Armageddon game. Yep. I have to go back and 00:49:09.889 --> 00:49:13.030 look at what year. So this is 2021. Holy cow! 00:49:13.210 --> 00:49:15.230 Five years that's been sitting around. Oh my 00:49:15.230 --> 00:49:22.690 gosh. Yep. And that was Opening Moves 1 and 2. 00:49:25.489 --> 00:49:33.929 Wow. Yeah. That's, yep. Crazy. So Opening Moves, 00:49:33.969 --> 00:49:42.019 what'd you think overall? It's a long draw. I 00:49:42.019 --> 00:49:44.880 don't know what you'd call it. It's taken a long 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:51.139 time to get to where it wants to go. Which, again, 00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:56.440 I feel like I've read Armageddon Game three times. 00:49:58.179 --> 00:50:02.659 But I don't know that I ever got anywhere in 00:50:02.659 --> 00:50:05.460 any of these. I know I've read all the annuals. 00:50:06.219 --> 00:50:09.280 But I don't remember this stuff coming up. And 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.780 so I'm very excited that this will finally get 00:50:11.780 --> 00:50:15.280 me over the Armageddon game speed bump. And then 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.460 by March, I'll have caught up with the new series. 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:25.420 Yeah, absolutely. Well, there you go, folks. 00:50:25.539 --> 00:50:28.760 Armageddon game opening moves. Zero to five with 00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:31.179 half points. What would you give this overall 00:50:31.179 --> 00:50:39.889 story? Three out of five, only because it is 00:50:39.889 --> 00:50:47.989 set up. It's not a complete story yet. For the 00:50:47.989 --> 00:50:50.269 setup, I absolutely love it, but I do agree with 00:50:50.269 --> 00:50:54.510 you. It is basically three out of five. There 00:50:54.510 --> 00:50:58.480 are a couple of good... really good moments. 00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.960 Yeah, lots of character moments. Yeah, and those 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.260 character moments for me are the Turtles, Splinter, 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.400 Kitsune, and Shredder. The whole Kitsune and 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:11.880 Shredder thing where they're basically you know, 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:16.000 Ghost of Christmas gone by, past, future, present, 00:51:16.059 --> 00:51:19.369 whatever. When they're doing that stuff, oh man, 00:51:19.469 --> 00:51:22.949 I love that. And when the turtles show back up 00:51:22.949 --> 00:51:25.769 to the thing, oh, that was so cool with the kids 00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:29.510 and everything. That was awesome. Like I said, 00:51:29.690 --> 00:51:34.570 because all of his siblings did say no to him, 00:51:34.590 --> 00:51:36.769 I kind of felt a little bit mad for the Rat King. 00:51:37.250 --> 00:51:40.969 Still doesn't mean I still don't dislike the 00:51:40.969 --> 00:51:44.340 character overall. But I'm interested to see 00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:48.179 where the Armageddon game goes with this new 00:51:48.179 --> 00:51:53.340 quote -unquote family that he has now with Leathercrang 00:51:53.340 --> 00:51:58.079 and Stockman and Null. Yes, I don't have any 00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:01.860 idea where this goes. I don't either. I've never 00:52:01.860 --> 00:52:05.239 read it until now. I know from the covers of 00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.699 some of the books closer to 150 what shows up. 00:52:10.429 --> 00:52:12.849 how it related to some of the Archie books and 00:52:12.849 --> 00:52:17.570 things that sound like the word Armageddon. Uh, 00:52:17.829 --> 00:52:20.550 but, but I don't know. It'll be interesting. 00:52:20.630 --> 00:52:23.889 I'm excited to get there. Yeah. Look, man, the 00:52:23.889 --> 00:52:25.590 only thing I know of what are we getting is that 00:52:25.590 --> 00:52:28.329 it's a Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck joint from 1998 00:52:28.329 --> 00:52:36.309 directed by Michael Bay with Aerosmith. Oh my 00:52:36.309 --> 00:52:39.539 gosh. I remember that song. Live Tyler. Yep. 00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:45.679 Yep. Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, 00:52:45.699 --> 00:52:49.139 folks, that's going to do it for this episode 00:52:49.139 --> 00:52:54.059 of the pull bag. We are back in the swing of 00:52:54.059 --> 00:52:57.840 things and we are going to get things going. 00:52:59.019 --> 00:53:02.590 Coming up. We've got the Armageddon game part 00:53:02.590 --> 00:53:05.750 two. Let the game play out. That's just my own 00:53:05.750 --> 00:53:08.230 little subtitle for the episode number, but that's 00:53:08.230 --> 00:53:11.989 episode 580. After that, we will finish with 00:53:11.989 --> 00:53:17.570 the Alliance, which is the Armageddon game Alliance, 00:53:17.730 --> 00:53:22.340 which is the finale for that. Only because this 00:53:22.340 --> 00:53:24.719 was recorded months and months and months and 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:28.920 years and years and years ago, my buddy Beachhead 00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:30.480 Mike is going to join me, and we're going to 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:33.619 do G .I. Joe Silent Missions from Skybound Entertainment 00:53:33.619 --> 00:53:37.639 in the episode after Armageddon Game, but then 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:40.599 after that, Joe and I are going to do Damage 00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:44.400 Done Vol. 8 from Reborn, and then first, Last 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:49.199 Always, which is the final... trade paperback 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:53.420 for the original IDW Publishing TMNT run. We 00:53:53.420 --> 00:53:57.440 will be doing that in February of 2026, and then 00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:03.559 we will start the new Jason Aaron run, which 00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:07.440 his run only lasted 12 issues, which, you know, 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.360 it's a good run. 12 issues is not bad. I think 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:12.300 there might be some behind -the -scenes drama 00:54:12.300 --> 00:54:15.000 going on with that. I don't know, and I don't 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.179 care. I don't want to get into any of that. I'm 00:54:19.179 --> 00:54:22.900 just saying he had a 12 -issue run. He kicked 00:54:22.900 --> 00:54:26.440 off the new run. Yeah, I've heard it's very good, 00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:31.260 too. So, yep, yep, yep. And it's IDW. It's still 00:54:31.260 --> 00:54:33.360 Turtles. We're still going to cover it because 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:36.219 we still love it. So, you know, we're still here 00:54:36.219 --> 00:54:39.039 for it. 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