WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Hey, hey, hey, it's Chaos Queen here, and you're 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:05.820 listening to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, 00:00:05.860 --> 00:00:08.019 it's Jesse Rass, and do you love comic books? 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.980 Do you have opinions about comic books? Do you 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.240 like hearing opinions on said comic books? Then 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.239 you need to make the great escape, and it's a 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.980 small leap into another world. We call the Pull 00:00:20.980 --> 00:00:24.420 Bag, and you'll only find it here on the GCRN. 00:00:24.989 --> 00:00:27.929 otherwise known as the Geek Cast Radio Network. 00:00:28.190 --> 00:00:31.109 You've just jumped inside the pull bag. Join 00:00:31.109 --> 00:00:33.869 TFG1 Mike and the rest of the comic crew here 00:00:33.869 --> 00:00:36.909 at the GCRN as they make their great escape into 00:00:36.909 --> 00:00:41.229 comics. From DC, Marvel, and Image to IDW, Boom 00:00:41.229 --> 00:00:44.189 Studios, and Xenoscope, we have everything right 00:00:44.189 --> 00:00:47.429 here. We cover things like Transformers, He -Man, 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:51.229 Super Heroes, TMNT, and Radiant Black. Yeah, 00:00:51.350 --> 00:00:55.119 we have all that and so much more. It's all inside 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.020 the pull bag here on the geek cast radio network. 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:01.960 So without further ado, it's time to talk about 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.920 the comics we're reading right now here inside 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:11.180 the pull bag, because this is going to be episode 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:15.019 580 of the pull bag. That's right, folks. You 00:01:15.019 --> 00:01:17.739 are here in a live recording of the pull bag. 00:01:17.819 --> 00:01:21.129 I'm of course, TF2 and Mike. From the Geekcast 00:01:21.129 --> 00:01:24.930 Radio Network, you are here live with me, and 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:27.129 unfortunately the pullback listeners don't get 00:01:27.129 --> 00:01:30.569 to see all this junk that the video viewers are 00:01:30.569 --> 00:01:34.950 going to be seeing. How about a Cybertronic Spree 00:01:34.950 --> 00:01:41.170 patch? A Cybertronic Spree Ravage booklet? So 00:01:41.170 --> 00:01:44.010 there's that. This came in the mail the other 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:47.849 day, so I gotta watch this. Love this series 00:01:47.849 --> 00:01:51.510 with Christian Slater. Can't believe this complete 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:56.030 series is only two discs. That was crazy. My 00:01:56.030 --> 00:01:59.629 favorite film from 1993, and no, it's not Jurassic 00:01:59.629 --> 00:02:05.069 Park. Airborne. So there's that. And then we 00:02:05.069 --> 00:02:08.889 get into the comics in which begins my journey. 00:02:09.050 --> 00:02:11.090 Oh, wait, I gotta go back over here to Facebook 00:02:11.090 --> 00:02:14.849 because it is the pull bag and I need to get 00:02:14.849 --> 00:02:18.229 this. Come in, come in, go back, go back, scroll, 00:02:18.490 --> 00:02:22.889 scroll, scroll. You ever just realize, folks, 00:02:22.949 --> 00:02:25.689 that half your time online is just scrolling 00:02:25.689 --> 00:02:29.909 the doom scroll of life? Alright, so, comics, 00:02:30.069 --> 00:02:33.969 folks. The only physical comic books I could 00:02:33.969 --> 00:02:39.050 find... in my closet, unfortunately, because 00:02:39.050 --> 00:02:42.250 I don't, like... All this stuff back here, all 00:02:42.250 --> 00:02:46.909 this, it's Funko Pops. It's toys. It's all that 00:02:46.909 --> 00:02:51.389 stuff. It's not actual things. It's not books. 00:02:51.449 --> 00:02:55.189 It's not DVDs. It's action figures, or inaction 00:02:55.189 --> 00:02:58.270 figures, technically. But anyway, all the stuff 00:02:58.270 --> 00:03:01.889 that the people on camera can see, it's toys. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.219 All of the comic books that I could find that 00:03:07.219 --> 00:03:09.979 are in my closet, I wanted to find other ones 00:03:09.979 --> 00:03:14.300 that I know I have, like the Radiant Black issue 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:17.199 number 10, which was the Blacklight issue, the 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.580 first Blacklight issue that Radiant Black ever 00:03:19.580 --> 00:03:22.939 did. I actually, in the process of pulling out 00:03:22.939 --> 00:03:25.139 these comics that you'll see here in a minute, 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.340 I found my Radiant Black box. When they originally 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:30.439 did the Radiant Black box, I could have brought 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.979 out the Radiant Black bath bomb that they originally 00:03:33.979 --> 00:03:38.259 did. Not doing that, but I do still have my Radiant 00:03:38.259 --> 00:03:44.280 Black bath... Radiant Black box from when they 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.460 did that. So, yeah. The comics that I found that 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:52.759 I pulled out. The double -size issue 1 and 2 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:57.439 that they originally put out for... Go beyond 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:02.280 the Gotham, you know, DC Black Label. Batman 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.460 Beyond the White Knight. This is the showcase 00:04:06.460 --> 00:04:11.300 edition number one. This, I forgot, this is issues 00:04:11.300 --> 00:04:14.479 one and two of Batman Beyond the White Knight. 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.439 Because I kept looking for issue two. I'm like, 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.920 where is issue two? Where is issue two? Why am 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.769 I missing? It's... Both issue one and two in 00:04:23.769 --> 00:04:27.009 this one issue. I forgot about that. That is 00:04:27.009 --> 00:04:31.230 so freaking cool to me. I love Sean Gordon Murphy's 00:04:31.230 --> 00:04:35.110 Beyond His White Knight Universe. Love that stuff. 00:04:35.370 --> 00:04:38.449 Absolutely love it. We've covered it on the pull 00:04:38.449 --> 00:04:44.470 bag before. It's in past episodes. I'm trying 00:04:44.470 --> 00:04:48.769 to think. Come on, brain work. I want to say 00:04:48.769 --> 00:04:53.230 it's... Oh, what episode number is that without 00:04:53.230 --> 00:04:57.329 me having to look it up on the schedule? I want 00:04:57.329 --> 00:05:02.129 to say it's episodes 317 and 318 of the pullback. 00:05:02.750 --> 00:05:06.069 I could be wrong. I'm most likely wrong in that. 00:05:07.550 --> 00:05:12.069 But I have never gotten to cover Beyond the White 00:05:12.069 --> 00:05:17.329 Knight yet. I don't think I ever started this. 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:23.699 I'm pretty sure I haven't. So gotta cover this 00:05:23.699 --> 00:05:27.160 at some point. So we got the first two issues 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:34.600 in this showcase edition. And then I thought 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.740 I got I'm gonna have to look inside the ear because 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:46.839 I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure if I got like spoofed 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:52.870 or Something. Because, like, I thought, I didn't 00:05:52.870 --> 00:05:55.790 realize this was a regular cover or what, but 00:05:55.790 --> 00:06:00.509 when I walked into my local comic shop here in 00:06:00.509 --> 00:06:03.870 town, when I walked into the Danger Room here 00:06:03.870 --> 00:06:07.290 in Anderson, Indiana, and they gave me the Batgirl 00:06:07.290 --> 00:06:11.449 cover, I was like, okay, I'm in love. Look at 00:06:11.449 --> 00:06:15.089 this, folks. This is just amazing. Just amazing. 00:06:15.589 --> 00:06:19.149 Absolutely love this. This is one of the best 00:06:19.149 --> 00:06:23.250 covers ever. So, yeah, absolutely love, love, 00:06:23.350 --> 00:06:26.350 love, love it. And then the other comics I was 00:06:26.350 --> 00:06:31.810 able to pull out of the closet at the time, I 00:06:31.810 --> 00:06:36.589 think there were more of these. I could be wrong, 00:06:36.790 --> 00:06:41.670 but my buddy Ryan Drost. He's doing a new one. 00:06:41.730 --> 00:06:44.649 I think they just finished up, but Stealth Hammer. 00:06:44.810 --> 00:06:48.470 My buddy Ryan Drost did this series called Stealth 00:06:48.470 --> 00:06:53.889 Hammer, so I have his first two issues. So I 00:06:53.889 --> 00:06:58.470 got that for this one, and I have the second 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:02.069 issue here for this one. And there's a bunch 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:06.050 of postcards and stuff in the back for both of 00:07:06.050 --> 00:07:12.480 these, actually. If I can turn around. Both of 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.899 them have postcards in the back, so I absolutely 00:07:14.899 --> 00:07:18.459 love that. I believe we covered the first series 00:07:18.459 --> 00:07:22.300 on the podcast. Obviously, he's doing the second 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:30.040 series now. And, yeah, then we have Livio Ramondelli's 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:38.680 Pencil to Color. So this is Livio Remendelli's 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.639 Pencil to Color, and this is all of his covers. 00:07:41.699 --> 00:07:45.980 This is showing you how he makes his covers for 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:49.680 his Transformers and I believe his other stuff, 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.439 his creator -owned stuff. Sorry, Livio, I'm blanking 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:01.040 on the title at the time. And, of course, everybody 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.660 in here is like, or everybody watching this after 00:08:03.660 --> 00:08:06.240 the fact of this not being a live video anymore, 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:09.100 Mike, you moron, just take it out of the thing. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:17.240 Of course, that's what I would do. Is it mostly 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:21.019 his Transformers stuff? What is the name of his... 00:08:21.019 --> 00:08:26.420 Oh, God, I'm so sorry, Livio. Yeah, it's pretty 00:08:26.420 --> 00:08:30.930 much his Transformers work. Pencil to color. 00:08:33.250 --> 00:08:37.590 Why can't I think of his creator -owned stuff? 00:08:37.789 --> 00:08:52.169 But yes, it is very much his... I love that series. 00:08:52.269 --> 00:08:57.980 Why can't I think of it? We covered it. Hahi 00:08:57.980 --> 00:09:02.539 Prime and I covered it on the podcast. Watch, 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:06.720 I bet you I can remember the dang... And yes, 00:09:06.779 --> 00:09:10.460 I know this bag is... The board's fine. The bag 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:15.399 is failing. Why can't I think of the dang... 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:21.639 I don't know. Anyway. And then my buddy Tony 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:25.480 Wolf. Good old Tony Wolf. Green point of view. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.940 And other stories. Memoir Tales from the Wolf. 00:09:30.539 --> 00:09:36.539 I've got his book. So those are the actual comic 00:09:36.539 --> 00:09:41.440 books that I have physical copies of currently. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:49.120 I do more digital comics. I have so many. Comixology. 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.600 And yes, I still call it Comixology even though 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.500 it's called Kindle Comics now. But anyway, The 00:09:55.500 --> 00:10:00.340 Pull Bag, March 5th, 2013. Now, The Pull Bag 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:03.879 actually has goings -back almost a year prior, 00:10:04.139 --> 00:10:11.559 because in 2012, Steve Megatron and I did a little 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:17.080 miniseries on Geekcast Radio. Geekcast Radio 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.820 is the flagship show of the Geekcast Radio network, 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:26.690 geekcastradio .com. We did the Death of the Family 00:10:26.690 --> 00:10:36.529 Batman New 52 issues 13 to 17. We covered those 00:10:36.529 --> 00:10:41.470 on Geekcast Radio as episodes. At the end of 00:10:41.470 --> 00:10:45.250 that run, Steve was like, okay, we can't have 00:10:45.250 --> 00:10:49.450 this permeate Geekcast Radio. If you want to 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:51.690 cover comics, we need to put it somewhere. We 00:10:51.690 --> 00:10:53.549 need to do something with it. I was like, okay. 00:10:54.569 --> 00:10:59.809 Sure. What do you want to do? You want to create 00:10:59.809 --> 00:11:04.850 a podcast? What? What are we doing with it? He 00:11:04.850 --> 00:11:08.269 said, well, let's think of stuff. Let's advertise 00:11:08.269 --> 00:11:14.370 stuff. Let's figure something out. So this is 00:11:14.370 --> 00:11:16.549 what I wrote up last year for the 12th anniversary 00:11:16.549 --> 00:11:19.419 on Facebook. I'm going to read this verbatim, 00:11:19.419 --> 00:11:21.759 and yes, I'm reading from my phone. This is why 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:26.159 I had my phone out on Facebook earlier. 13 years 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.860 ago today, March 5th, 2013, Steve Phillips VO, 00:11:32.179 --> 00:11:34.820 a .k .a. Steve Phillips and I, launched The Pullback, 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.700 only on the Geekcast Radio Network. Thank you 00:11:37.700 --> 00:11:40.080 for all the arts and all the podcasts over the 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.480 years and everything else in between, Steve. 00:11:43.529 --> 00:11:51.330 13 years and 579 episodes later. Here we are. 00:11:52.649 --> 00:11:55.789 And I go on to say here is episode triple zero 00:11:55.789 --> 00:12:00.950 at the time, the introduction. 13 years ago, 00:12:00.990 --> 00:12:03.690 and neither of us knew which one of us was going 00:12:03.690 --> 00:12:07.250 to take the lead on this show. It turns out it 00:12:07.250 --> 00:12:12.090 was me, TFG1 Mike, from the Geekcast Radio Network. 00:12:14.250 --> 00:12:17.149 My goals with the pullback were always to not 00:12:17.149 --> 00:12:20.950 be predictable, to not be the same old podcast 00:12:20.950 --> 00:12:24.690 that covers The Dark Knight Returns just because. 00:12:25.269 --> 00:12:28.570 I have no issues towards the story or the art, 00:12:28.649 --> 00:12:32.669 but the legacy, like, oh my god, you're not a 00:12:32.669 --> 00:12:36.330 comic book podcast unless you cover it. Right. 00:12:38.210 --> 00:12:43.259 Uh -huh. Uh -huh. And I still, to this day, don't 00:12:43.259 --> 00:12:46.340 think we've ever covered The Dark Knight Returns. 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:51.159 Maybe one of these days. Thank you, Michael Powers, 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.299 for coming up with the name of the podcast. So, 00:12:55.340 --> 00:12:59.600 we went through names upon names upon names. 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:04.480 Steve went through art upon art. At one point, 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.220 it was going to be called The Pull List. Because 00:13:07.220 --> 00:13:10.159 you go into the comic workshop and you have... 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:16.500 a pull list and you know you tell them what you 00:13:16.500 --> 00:13:19.059 want and they pull it and they add it to your 00:13:19.059 --> 00:13:24.419 pull list and that's the list you have and you 00:13:24.419 --> 00:13:27.480 can always go in there and change it and everything 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:30.000 else and whatever you can take things off you 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.500 can add things to it and yada yada yada so it 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:38.679 was going to be called tpl at one point well 00:13:39.850 --> 00:13:43.490 after doing massive amounts of research and that's 00:13:43.490 --> 00:13:46.950 the other thing folks research your podcast name 00:13:46.950 --> 00:13:53.429 check itunes apple podcasts but itunes apple 00:13:53.429 --> 00:13:56.470 podcasts whatever same thing check spotify check 00:13:56.470 --> 00:14:00.269 youtube check google check everywhere on the 00:14:00.269 --> 00:14:05.110 internet that you can and be sure to hydrate 00:14:05.110 --> 00:14:10.909 be sure that your podcast name is Nothing like 00:14:10.909 --> 00:14:14.470 any other name out there. Also, be sure to trademark 00:14:14.470 --> 00:14:17.350 it, copyright it, whatever you need to do, so 00:14:17.350 --> 00:14:21.090 that it is yours. So anyway, we couldn't use 00:14:21.090 --> 00:14:23.629 the pull list because it was too similar to another 00:14:23.629 --> 00:14:26.970 title. We were having trouble and we were just 00:14:26.970 --> 00:14:30.029 posting all over social media, hey, what's a 00:14:30.029 --> 00:14:33.710 good title for this comic podcast? We want it 00:14:33.710 --> 00:14:36.289 to sound cool. We want it to be this. We want 00:14:36.289 --> 00:14:39.289 it to be that. We want it to be an acronym. And 00:14:39.289 --> 00:14:43.110 our good buddy, BoothNinja81, a .k .a. Michael 00:14:43.110 --> 00:14:48.809 Powers, was like, what about the pull bag? The 00:14:48.809 --> 00:14:54.730 pull bag? Oh, yeah. Because you can jump inside 00:14:54.730 --> 00:15:00.629 the pull bag today. A light bulb went off in 00:15:00.629 --> 00:15:05.460 my head. And I literally, I've been six foot 00:15:05.460 --> 00:15:09.320 one practically my entire adult life. I've been 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:15.220 somewhere between 300 and almost 500 pounds my 00:15:15.220 --> 00:15:19.480 entire adult life. So I'm a bigger guy, obviously. 00:15:20.139 --> 00:15:25.700 I do count as obese, obviously. But literally 00:15:25.700 --> 00:15:30.710 when he said the pull bag. What you just saw 00:15:30.710 --> 00:15:34.990 me do with, oh, jump inside the pull bag today. 00:15:35.289 --> 00:15:39.950 I literally ran around my apartment in circles. 00:15:40.570 --> 00:15:43.870 I jumped up out of my chair when I read what 00:15:43.870 --> 00:15:49.730 he said. And I was like, huh. I was saying it 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:53.830 over and over and over. I wrote out every single 00:15:53.830 --> 00:15:56.950 permutation of how I could say it on the podcast. 00:15:58.169 --> 00:16:01.129 So thank you so much, Michael Powers, for that. 00:16:01.250 --> 00:16:04.909 I wanted TPB to have a different edge to it. 00:16:04.990 --> 00:16:08.429 I wanted it to stay modern at the time in 2013, 00:16:08.669 --> 00:16:12.450 to discuss the comics we were reading at the 00:16:12.450 --> 00:16:16.450 time, whilst also allowing ourselves to dive 00:16:16.450 --> 00:16:20.860 deep into the past. I did this with Back Issue 00:16:20.860 --> 00:16:24.000 Classics. Anything before the year 2000 was under 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.659 Back Issue Classics. At the time, I also wanted 00:16:27.659 --> 00:16:31.500 an interview series. I and others who helped 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:35.899 me came up with, at the time, 25 questions about 00:16:35.899 --> 00:16:40.820 how our podcast guests got into and out of reading 00:16:40.820 --> 00:16:45.840 comic books. I called it Origins in Comic Reading, 00:16:46.259 --> 00:16:52.590 folks. This is how GCRN Origins started. It started 00:16:52.590 --> 00:16:56.990 with the pull bag. With Origins in comic reading. 00:16:57.230 --> 00:17:02.129 And now, in 2026, we have Origins in comic reading. 00:17:02.269 --> 00:17:07.609 We have Origins in all things Transformers. We 00:17:07.609 --> 00:17:11.029 have Origins everywhere. We have television Origins. 00:17:11.069 --> 00:17:16.160 We have... podcast origins, we have toy cast 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.220 origins, we have origins all over the place with 00:17:19.220 --> 00:17:23.180 GCRN. It all started with The Pull Bag. To this 00:17:23.180 --> 00:17:26.500 day, that series is still going strong, and back 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:31.700 in 2019, we rounded it up, we rounded up the 00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:35.660 questions to 30 instead of 25. We've covered 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:38.380 our favorite characters, we've covered comics 00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:43.059 from DC, Marvel, IDW, Image, and more. Batman, 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.980 Iron Man, Nightwing, Batgirl, Spider -Man, Superman, 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:53.380 Transformers, Jem, TMNT, and so many more. 579 00:17:53.380 --> 00:17:58.440 episodes is more than that in actual comic issues. 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.460 We used to go issue by issue, then I started 00:18:02.460 --> 00:18:05.799 waiting for the trades, because I wanted the 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:09.759 whole story all at once. Thank you to anyone 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:14.599 who has ever listened to the show. To many friends, 00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:18.539 guests, and co -hosts. So many friends, guests, 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:38.660 and co -hosts to thank. Kendra Hale, Jesse Raz, 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:43.640 Benji Richards, Bethany Kessler, Ryan Drost of 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:47.539 Star Joes, Jonathan and Maggie Schaefer -Hames, 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:53.079 John M. Wilson. One in 1 ,000 comics! Whoa! You'll 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:54.859 have to check that episode out, folks, and learn 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:58.660 all about that one. Dave McIlvenny, Edward Hale. 00:18:59.339 --> 00:19:03.240 Carter Mann, Mike O'Sullivan, Kevin Thompson, 00:19:03.539 --> 00:19:05.940 Michael Bailey, Shag Matthews, Delvin Williams, 00:19:06.299 --> 00:19:08.839 Donovan Morgan Grant, Brad and Lisa from Comic 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.940 Book Couples Counseling, Comic Book Couples Counseling, 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.380 that one time in 2018 I was live at Jay's Comics 00:19:16.380 --> 00:19:20.059 in Grayslake, Illinois, what an adventure that 00:19:20.059 --> 00:19:25.430 was, and so many more. Thank you to all of you 00:19:25.430 --> 00:19:28.910 for everything. And so many more to thank. But 00:19:28.910 --> 00:19:34.730 rest assured, you all are amazing. From listening 00:19:34.730 --> 00:19:37.130 to and being on the podcast and so much more, 00:19:37.329 --> 00:19:44.589 what a journey this has been. 579 episodes. Just 00:19:44.589 --> 00:19:50.529 21 to go to reach 600. And oh boy, y 'all will 00:19:50.529 --> 00:19:55.839 not believe I have. The plan I have for 600. 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.119 Some might already know of these plans. I've 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:06.079 been plotting this since 2022. Remember, folks, 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.019 to always make your greatest scape into comics. 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:16.990 I can't thank everyone enough. So, yeah. 579 00:20:16.990 --> 00:20:21.910 episodes. This is episode 580. I have moved the 00:20:21.910 --> 00:20:25.690 TMNT coverage that Joe Reed and I are going to 00:20:25.690 --> 00:20:29.430 do down the line. We'll get to it when we get 00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:33.609 to it. I want to get back into this podcast. 00:20:34.170 --> 00:20:38.809 It's been a year or so since I've been able to 00:20:38.809 --> 00:20:42.950 do anything with it. And I miss being able to 00:20:42.950 --> 00:20:46.109 do stuff with it. This episode is going to have 00:20:46.109 --> 00:20:50.509 a very special podcast art. Steve Megatron made 00:20:50.509 --> 00:20:55.609 me a template where I can pick my favorite six 00:20:55.609 --> 00:20:59.910 covers over the last 13 years of covering comics. 00:21:00.609 --> 00:21:04.109 So if you're listening to this on any of the 00:21:04.109 --> 00:21:06.569 podcatching clients you choose to use, Apple, 00:21:06.789 --> 00:21:10.529 Spotify, whatever it is, you will get that podcast 00:21:10.529 --> 00:21:12.930 art. Or if you're listening on geekcastradio 00:21:12.930 --> 00:21:16.920 .com, You'll get that podcast art. But yeah, 00:21:17.059 --> 00:21:20.700 I love comics. I love being able to read comics. 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:24.039 For the last almost three years, even though 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:25.640 I haven't been doing stuff with the pull bag, 00:21:25.940 --> 00:21:29.420 I've been doing stuff with my buddy Jesse. Uh, 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.920 and our other friend, Ryan, Ryan, um, uh, the 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.380 uneven flow. I mentioned Ryan Merkley earlier. 00:21:36.500 --> 00:21:39.119 Same guy, Ryan, the uneven flow Merkley, my buddy, 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:43.099 Jesse matrix prime and Ryan. We've been doing 00:21:43.099 --> 00:21:48.759 Jesse's podcast, uh, another comic review. We've 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:50.440 been doing that almost three years this coming 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:53.640 June, and we've been covering the entire Energon 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.940 Universe comics from Skybound, Image Comics slash 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:01.680 Skybound Entertainment. So it's all Transformers, 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:05.160 G .I. Joe, Void Rivals. So I have been doing 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.599 comic book podcasting, I just haven't been doing 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.660 it here inside the pull bag, because Joe Reed 00:22:11.660 --> 00:22:16.400 and I, another... quote -unquote claim to fame 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:23.180 that the pull bag has is that January 22nd 2014 00:22:23.180 --> 00:22:28.460 the pull bag published IDW publishing Teenage 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:31.759 Mutant Ninja Turtles volume 1 we published that 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:35.200 podcast where Joe Reed and I reviewed that comic 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:40.559 book trade paperback and when Joe got me to read 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:45.920 that I opened it And I come from the Ninja Turtles 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:48.779 side of things, where it's the cartoon, so it's 00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:54.759 the multicolor. It's the, oh, chaos. You put 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:56.839 all my turtles over there on the table, and I 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.220 have a giant wall of Transformers right here, 00:22:59.299 --> 00:23:05.500 so I can't easily reach them. So, anyway, if 00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:09.779 you ever watch the 1987 cartoon, all the bandanas 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:12.240 that they wear over their eyes, over their foreheads 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:14.670 and stuff, They're multicolored, so Leonardo 00:23:14.670 --> 00:23:17.470 is blue, Donatello is purple, Raphael is red, 00:23:17.569 --> 00:23:20.289 Michelangelo is orange. In the original comic 00:23:20.289 --> 00:23:22.829 books that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created, 00:23:23.289 --> 00:23:27.390 all of the bandanas are red. So when Joe Reed 00:23:27.390 --> 00:23:31.470 suggested that I read this comic book from IDW 00:23:31.470 --> 00:23:35.890 Publishing in 2014, even though IDW had the license 00:23:35.890 --> 00:23:41.430 since 2011, Uh, when we got to the point of reading 00:23:41.430 --> 00:23:45.549 this in 2014, I got the trade paperbacks for 00:23:45.549 --> 00:23:49.150 volumes one, two, three, and four to prepare 00:23:49.150 --> 00:23:53.309 for the podcast here for the pull bag. I read 00:23:53.309 --> 00:23:56.710 the first like six pages or whatever, the first 00:23:56.710 --> 00:24:01.109 page of, of the volume, a full stop. And I messaged 00:24:01.109 --> 00:24:05.289 my buddy Joe and I'm like, dude, red bandanas. 00:24:05.289 --> 00:24:12.039 Really? Full stop. That's all I said. He messages 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:17.500 me back and says, dude, it's worth it. Keep going. 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:26.039 I'm like, okay. But if you so much as... And 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:29.900 obviously, this didn't come across through in 00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:33.779 text and my sound effects didn't come across 00:24:33.779 --> 00:24:38.529 through in text. But, and here we are. 2026. 00:24:39.069 --> 00:24:43.710 Well, we did get to cover the Armageddon game 00:24:43.710 --> 00:24:47.069 opening moves last year. We're almost to the 00:24:47.069 --> 00:24:51.069 end of the original IDW Publishing TMNT run. 00:24:51.210 --> 00:24:53.809 We've covered almost everything in the main run. 00:24:54.230 --> 00:25:04.990 That main run ran from 2011 to 2025? 150 issues? 00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:13.019 But because between my arm surgery last year... 00:25:13.019 --> 00:25:15.680 God, I can't even see this. Between this surgery 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.359 I had last August and between Joe's life stuff 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:22.880 he's got going on, we've had to postpone the 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:25.500 rest of the turtle stuff. So I'm moving it around 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:28.539 so that way the podcast can continue. That's 00:25:28.539 --> 00:25:32.180 the whole point of this whole story. So now that 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:35.279 I've moved the turtle stuff around and postponed 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:39.319 it for later, I now have to create a whole new 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:44.480 schedule between episode 581 to 600 because the 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:53.079 plans for 600 to 690, well, let's just say they 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:58.380 involve a certain DC Comics character. Where 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:02.940 he might be a Gray Sun, and he might be a Nightwing, 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.400 and I don't know if they're going to work, because 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:14.059 it's all... It's going to require a lot of... 00:26:14.059 --> 00:26:20.460 time, love, and tenderness. I can't just believe 00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:28.069 I made a Michael Bolton joke. Anyway, so... And 00:26:28.069 --> 00:26:31.390 Steve is going to kill me if I do it, but oh 00:26:31.390 --> 00:26:33.509 well. As long as the artwork is different every 00:26:33.509 --> 00:26:39.009 time, it doesn't matter. Anyway, yeah, so 580 00:26:39.009 --> 00:26:42.490 episodes, folks. We are here. This is the 580th 00:26:42.490 --> 00:26:44.609 episode for you people listening to the podcast. 00:26:45.230 --> 00:26:47.769 For you lovely people watching the live stream, 00:26:47.950 --> 00:26:50.109 thank you so much for watching it. I'm sorry 00:26:50.109 --> 00:26:53.509 the first 11 and a half minutes were boring as 00:26:53.509 --> 00:27:00.720 hell. But yeah, so that's, I think that's going 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:04.519 to do it. No ad break this time for the podcast 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.079 listeners. Usually I will put in an ad break 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.079 when I'm doing my podcast editing. So you lovely 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:14.339 video viewers, you are kind of getting an inside 00:27:14.339 --> 00:27:18.839 baseball look at how I'm publishing or how I'm 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:23.079 doing the, like, normally I would just come on 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:26.259 here and talk. But at the beginning of this, 00:27:26.339 --> 00:27:28.900 when I did start the podcast thing, I did do 00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:31.440 the whole, hey, I'm TF2 and Mike and you're listening 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:34.640 to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So there's that. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:42.079 So, yeah, to end the podcast portion of the video 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.799 segment, I will say thank you for listening to 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.900 The Pull Bag. You can reach us on all the social 00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:52.059 media stuff. We're on Twitter. We're on Facebook 00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:54.900 and all that good stuff. Check us out. Be sure 00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:58.799 to visit geekcastradio .com for all your podcasting 00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:01.759 needs from me and my friends and make your great 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:06.000 escape into comics and read comics today. Thanks 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.099 for listening as always, folks, and I will catch 00:28:09.099 --> 00:28:16.440 you next time. 122, 122 and an eight? 122 and 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:20.900 an eight. Terrific. Where the heck is 122 and 00:28:20.900 --> 00:28:25.619 an eight? You're standing on it, dude. Just slip 00:28:25.619 --> 00:28:39.180 it down here. Give me that. Hey, this is the 00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:42.759 10. The tab's 13. You're two minutes late, dude. 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:46.440 Ah, come on. I couldn't find a place. Wise men 00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.640 say forgiveness is divine, but never pay full 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:53.049 price for late pizza. Alright folks, I know this 00:28:53.049 --> 00:28:55.289 episode was a little unconventional because, 00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:58.769 well, it was originally a YouTube livestream, 00:28:59.190 --> 00:29:03.369 but there you go. 13 years of the pull bag once 00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:07.029 again. Huge thanks to Steve Megatron, the co 00:29:07.029 --> 00:29:09.069 -creator of the Geekcast Radio Network, with 00:29:09.069 --> 00:29:12.029 me, my best friend in the world, for allowing 00:29:12.029 --> 00:29:16.470 me to go on this crazy 579 episode, 580 episode 00:29:16.470 --> 00:29:20.680 journey, and all that awesome stuff. I've been 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:24.420 TFG1Mike, and yeah, here's to more. We got new 00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:27.859 episodes coming up. I have pushed back the TMNT 00:29:27.859 --> 00:29:30.599 coverage. We will get to it. We will always get 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.319 to it. Joe Reed and I will definitely do so, 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:35.980 but we got a bunch of stuff coming up here inside 00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:40.130 the pull bag. We got 20 episodes to 600. 600 00:29:40.130 --> 00:29:44.150 will hit this year in 2026. So thank you, folks, 00:29:44.269 --> 00:29:47.609 for listening. As always, we've got plenty more 00:29:47.609 --> 00:29:51.410 where this came from. We got 20 episodes to go 00:29:51.410 --> 00:29:54.210 to 600. So make your greatest skit in the comics 00:29:54.210 --> 00:29:57.329 and jump inside the pull bag today. Catch you 00:29:57.329 --> 00:30:00.210 next time. Now, I love s'mores as much as the 00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:03.250 next guy, but I'm fresh out of marshmallows. 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:06.880 What do you say we call it a night? 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