 We're live. Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody welcome back from Joe Fest for this two-hour extravaganza I'm so glad to be to be back with you guys Anybody want any beaver nuggets these things are great Beaver nuggets anybody. Let me tell you when you're driving when you're driving for a I don't know 13 14 hours you get to ponder a lot you get to think about a lot of things Think about a lot of things. Okay. Oh, they're good. You think about a lot of things like You ponder You ponder questions like is a female beavers Genitalia called a human These are the things you think about These are the things you hello everybody Welcome back from Joe fest. Hey There I am Marianne of many of you met Marianne at Joe Fest Okay. Hi I'm ready to start the show now. All right. That was that was all just We haven't started the show yet, right? Okay. Let's start the show now. Hello, everybody Welcome back from Joe Fest It was so great to see a lot of you we have a lot to talk about Okay, we have a lot to talk about I want to go over this the show I want to I am surrounded by Stuff to show you. Okay. I've got stuff to show you. Hello, Joe fan 84. Hello, mr. S Mr. As playing Nintendo. I I don't I can't blame you. I'd like to be playing Nintendo Toss peanuts in your so I don't actually don't know next time next time I'll I'll toss the peanuts in the soda. Hello Andrew Andrew the guy's so nice to name twice We got to hang out with Joe fan. We got to hang out with a beta ray Bob. Hello JLS comics. Hello Ray Paz Hello, Mike Layton and everybody. Hello. Hello. Hello. We have so much to talk about We have so much to talk about okay Before we get down that road look before we get started. Hello Cobra Island. Hello the hunter now before we get down that road I Want to make sure that I remind everybody today is Tuesday That means there's a new episode of half the battle with Timmer in which he reviewed the deep animated series episode El Dorado El Dorado that is an episode. It's a dick episode that had grunt in it and the dick series more or less continued the The continuity of the Sunbow series, but in the Sunbow series Grunt was off fighting evil in another dimension So how did he get back? to be in Deak episode who knows who know, you know, don't think about it too much instead Watch Timbers episode. Also after this show After this show, I will be on what's on Joe mind also Talking about Joe Fest for those guys. So make sure you check out what's on Oh, man, I didn't get the make sure you check out what's on Joe mind Normally, I have the link, but I did not put the link in I'm sorry I did share it on the social media. So please join me. So I'm gonna be on for three hours Today, that's gonna be awesome. So we have much to talk about I've got so much stuff Yes, three hours three hours if you can stand it if you can stand it I can So Joe Fest Augusta, Georgia over the weekend Friday Saturday Sunday, we arrived on Thursday. We left on Monday We drove from Oklahoma when I say we I mean me Mary Ann and Audrey and Marianne's daughter The four of us drove from Oklahoma. That's a That's about a 14 hour drive straight through but of course you got to stop, you know, you have to get gas and food So it's it's a it's more than that And So that was exhausting that was exhausting, but you know what I feel really good about it. This was a great Joe Fest. This was a great convention. I Feel like this was my favorite one I feel like I had more fun at this one than I have any of the others Oh Cobra Island says new Cobra Island video. So there's a new Cobra Island video as well. Thank you very much Cobra Island So Yes, lots of driving. Oh, thank you for the super chat Comic tropes. Did you get recognized more as hoodie or as outback? Well, you know what? Both Well, that's not the correct answer. I got Record more recognized as me, but I got lots of kudos for the for the outback cosplay and Because I'm riding the coat tails of bigger channels, you know, that's what I like to do I like to ride the coat tails. So I was like, hey everybody. This is my comic tropes Outback t-shirt Tiger Force outback, you know, basically basically we best friends I was telling everybody that that we're best friends And And I did I did put together, you know, I had more than the t-shirt. I had more I had a headband. I had camouflage Pants I had a belt. I had a pocket patrol pack. I had boots. I Was so authentic as Tiger Force outback that I did not go by the Finest cosplay area with my outback costume because I Didn't want to show those guys up, you know, I didn't want to intimidate those guys who who've been cosplaying for so long with my my Absolutely perfect and authentic Tiger Force outback cosplay. I didn't want to intimidate them I didn't want them to feel bad because I just came up with a perfect cosplay, you know first time So I'm just kidding. We love the finest the finest is a fantastic Organization, but I did have a lot of fun with the cosplay and I was not I was not the only Tiger Force outback out there. There was me the authentic one and and Several Zartans out there. Hello, bloody card. Hello the photo viper. Hello Terrence. So Sergeant slaughter met Me the actual me I've got so much to tell you I've got so much to tell you so And I've got I've got pictures. I've got pictures. I can show you pictures so we as promised on the on the GoFundMe We did get video for a video travel log of the show I've got it all on my laptop. I just need to edit it. It's a lot So I'm gonna do my best to edit that Hopefully tomorrow. It's just a lot to go through So if you are not able to make it to the convention You will hopefully get the the convention fan experience What's up with that Flint and Lady J two-pack? Well, I think it's gonna be a three-pack because it's gonna be oh and thank you I'm sorry. Thank you Danny for the super chat. Thank you. I think it should be a three-pack because Flint and Lady J and baby makes three So I think they need to sell that with the Flint and Lady J dream house and And really lean into that family dynamic I think that's that's that's what's that's what's up with it Joe fans says he disappointed this show the Sarge well that that's dangerous sir, that's dangerous I would watch my back. I don't think it's seriously. I don't think you just Disappointed anyone the Sarge was super nice. He was super cool We've got a lot to talk about with the Sarge so let's begin at At the beginning We drove overnight Wednesday night to Thursday morning this saved us some time because We were going through Cities at night. There was hardly any traffic that made it a really easy drive but it We were all so wiped out when we got there. I spent most of Thursday asleep I got there and I just crashed out and I slept for a long time I slept for a long time Friday Okay, Friday was the first day of the convention did not make it to the first day of the convention Let me tell you why so we had this This big group dinner, okay at the mellow mushroom. I posted it I wanted everybody to get together before the show and hang out. I called ahead And to get a table for everyone. I knew that there are a couple people who RSVP'd but they weren't able to sign up on the the Facebook things So I had a pretty good idea of how many people would be there and and we were right We were right It was about almost exactly the number of people that I thought it would be but We ended up first of all everything went really well Flawlessly planned and executed. That's what I'm saying and So we had to wait an extra 40 minutes past the time that I booked the table to actually get the table and What what this did was run us very late for getting to the show on Friday, so thank you to everyone who showed up And Thank you to everyone Who stayed I know not everybody could stay Thank you everyone for your patience and I have I have a picture. Hold on. Hold on. I have I Have photographic evidence Let's see here There we go. There's the gang So, yeah, that's those of the folks that showed up after the group dinner. Thank you everyone Also, thank you to the guy who picked up our tab that was unexpected and very much appreciated and I didn't I didn't find out if I was allowed to Tell everybody who you are but I but thank you. I thank you at the time I thank you now and thanks everyone for being there. That was so cool but it was not supposed to Overrun The actual convention. That's not how it was planned It's just kind of how it turned out if we if we do it again next year If we do it again next year, then we will Well, we'll do it somewhere else first of all We'll also try to start it earlier You know if you if you started too early, then it's more of a lunch than a dinner But we'll try to start it earlier. We'll get up. We'll find a place. That's more reliable that that will have a table when we asked for it But but but thank you. Thank you everyone who is there and and thank you for showing up. Oh What's what's happening? Sorry I'm late Well, hello late Okay, so I was just getting started I was just talking this is Mary Ann. Oh, hello. Hello cyclonus I see client cyclonus there. This is Mary Ann many of you met her this weekend And I I want to I want to get her input because you know, you don't have to disbelieve me You know I'm to be lying. You know, I'm a big fat liar. Well Your level of sarcasm is epic I've had a lot of practice So, you know what impromptu interview With Mary Ann I'm gonna interview Mary Ann that she didn't doesn't know this is coming But that's okay. This this is guerrilla journalism right here So this Mary Ann if that is your real name Yes Was this your your first Joe Fest experience? Yes, it was Yes, it was Well, and you you met a lot of people a lot of people met you What would you say to to the boys and girls out there about? About the experience it was I'm not sure it was it was a lot of fun. It was definitely everything he hiked it up to be so Very busy But fun. Yeah, I'm fine Danny says what does Mary Ann think of the Flint and Lady J2 pack with a comic book? That's what she thinks Thank You Danny. I will refer to you. Thank you Danny. Thank you for the super chat So, yes, we had we had quite a weekend we came in on Thursday pretty tired Pretty exhausting. Yeah, and then Friday we had we had the dinner and that was Perfectly flawlessly planned and executed So I'm hoping that next year we can do our second annual Hallway meeting yeah in the lobby of a restaurant while we well getting seated Late interfered with being able to go to the show, right? Yeah, that that was not that was not intended That's not how it was planned Nonetheless, thank you to everyone who came and actually hung out with us. That was really cool and and then now we did go to We were in the con hotel and we did go to the floor a couple of times. Oh, hey, Rob Vegas. Hold on Thank You Rob Vegas g'day from Melbourne Mary Ann G'day Melbourne from the United States Rob was gonna try to be there, but he didn't make it there. He was gonna be Australia part two of the so so sorry We did miss you Rob and you were mentioned there as as one of the folks that we all wanted to see and we hope that You will you will be able to make it. Yes next year Ask Mary Ann which is better stargator GI Joe and is who are you going to a Stargate convention now? Look? I know the answer. That's objective. I am a big Stargate fan. I mean Stargate inspired my writing so That's kind of sorry. Yeah, no, that's not nothing. I already knew the answer to that And if I would totally go to a Stargate just find find a Stargate convention and I will go to it. I Would love that that would be a lot of fun I've never even been to one. All right. Well, yeah, we'll find one now. Yeah, that would be cool. Wouldn't it? Yeah, I'd do that. I would do that. Thank you cheapest big spender for the Super Chat We met a lot of people. We did a lot of people. I don't remember everybody's name. I am so sorry I know I asked it for your chat name because I can associate that better But I'm terrible with names And hello Kujo and I said hello sparkster We met sparkster and Cyclonus. Hello sparkster Um Zazel from Sergeant Slaughter slaughterhouse. Yes, you should remember Zazel Ken from toy connections We met the guys from podcast from the pit Chaplain's assistance motor pod We met up Jay remember Jay Are you remember Jay? We made a pact for next year. That's right Thank you again for the Super Chat eventually to Yeah, I agree, you know Flint and lady Jay absolutely and thank you again for the Super Chat Danny There you go, I'll put that up there for a while. I'll put that up there for a while Uh, but yes nothing the the pact so there's an oral contract between We can't tell them what we're oh, well, we can tell them we're we're going to do a duet That's right for karaoke next year, but I'm not gonna tell you what it is Yes, so karaoke next year will be a surprise duet with Marianne and and and Jay let's roll. We're gonna do it badly It'll gonna be fun Bad, but fun. That's my favorite. That's that's my favorite. Yeah Hello cyclonus. We also met cyclonus. Hi there and Joe fan 84 the dad of mr. S mr. S Bart and Cindy Not always nice to see Bart Bart's one of my favorite people to see there We kind of missed out on seeing them there toward the end because we we kind of we split and had to take care of other things, but but Bart Bart's and Cindy are always really great to hang out with It was it was busy Carson a good kind of exhausting now firefly Um Gazz Kelly what did you eat? Oh, hold on time out time out. What did you eat? What did you eat? Had a lot of pasta yes and and and pizza and seafood So not the seafood time the actual like fish from the sea kind Yes I'm lost I you know Anyway So Kelly Remus aka Kelly slaughter aka slaughter daughter Kelly she was really nice. She was really nice so we were We were so incredibly busy on Saturday that we hardly had time to go Down to the floor. No, we didn't even get a third Third through the floor. It was very Yeah Look at this. You're she means seafood instead of sea. Yes. There you go. Also. You're a hoot. Oh Thank you Uh But yeah, yeah, so we on Saturday, we did not have a chance to see sergeant slaughter did not have a chance a chance to see Larry We were in panels for part of the day. We tried to make it down to the floor Then we had to go back upstairs. It was Madness madness But I think I mean I think it's better to have too much to do than not enough Don't don't you think I mean there was so much to do So there was so much to do I did not get to do everything did not get to say hello to The voice of Zirana the voice of gem from Gem in the holograms Mark Pennington was there. Did I get to say hello to him? No And it's not from lack of trying we were just everywhere we were everywhere but But man it was It was really good, I mean honestly, I felt like it was the it was the best vibe of Joe fest of a Joe fest that I've been to Everybody would seem to have a good time Larry Hama he was laughing. He was having a good time. He was in a good mood. I got pictures of him smiling Yeah, we got pictures of Larry Hama smile. Let me let me There's a There's me and Larry a Picture taken by you. Yes So, yeah, I told I told Larry I was gonna tell everybody that we're best friends and we've known each other forever So, yeah, Larry was in a good mood he Got a picture with the like the mock-up 50 caliber M2 that Bart brought to the show That bar bar brought to the show Hello, I've forgotten how to work this thing that bar brought to the show and And it had a lot of fun with that He got pictures in all of like the vehicles that the finest brought with them Sunday morning The breakfast with sergeant slaughter Yeah Tom McTrope says Larry was smiling in a bunch of the photos he posted he was he was happy all weekend So we had gotten used to going into the con from upstairs Like because there's a way you can go in from the hotel upstairs and then go down to the floor So he kind of got used to that But Sunday morning they were doing the breakfast with sergeant slaughter, which he had to have a ticket for we didn't have a ticket for it And they even refused to let Larry in yeah, Larry was going in that door. They're like no, yeah Larry took that in stride, you know, he didn't he wasn't grumpy about it But I just thought that was funny that it's so exclusive Was the breakfast with sergeant slaughter? That Larry Hama rolls up in there and they're like no no, sir. I'm sorry. You don't have a ticket Okay, I'm sorry I'm trying to keep up with the Super Chat, which is not easy but Terrence watched arise to printer arise today and bronze age. Oh, thank you Joe fan 84 mr. S says hello to both of you and thanks for the birthday video. I did give him a very S Do you know who the guy was selling the Joe selling the Joe Fest panels The guy that was selling the Joe Fest panels. I'm not sure I know what you mean the guy's selling the Joe Fest panels I Don't know if you if you're talking about about the guy who arranges the panels that would be Ed And we did have a chance to talk with Ed. Oh, and oh, thank you again for the Super Chat Joe fan. We did have a chance to talk with Ed Ed is usually ridiculously busy during that whole weekend and Incredibly stressed out because the logistics are a little crazy of trying to Make this whole convention go off and you know putting out fires and stuff But even Ed was in a pretty good mood I saw smiles from Ed, which is really cool and He gave you a shirt. Yes He gave me a he gave me a Joe Fest 2023 shirt now I can't wear this because I wore this on the way home and I haven't watched it since so it's it It's a it needs wash But but thank you Ed, I've got so much to show here I've got so much to show we've got work panels the all the artwork panels See the artwork panels Carson maybe maybe Carson Yeah, yeah Carson. Oh, yeah Carson did two panels he did one on Operation Recall and he did the other one on The art of GI Joe book. I've got some news on that Cyclonus will be back. Yeah, it's a cool t-shirt design It's kind of it's kind of like a it's got a bit of a punk rock edge to it Isn't it kind of a punk rock t-shirt? I dig it. I dig it What was I saying you're supposed to keep on track He distracted me. Yeah Cats over there being a cat Yeah, so some news which is it's not it's not a scoop anymore. It's out there. It's out there Um Not the Scuttlebutt the difference Scuttlebutt. I can't talk about that Scuttlebutt because I Said I told the guy I wouldn't talk about it, but Carson 3d Joe's Great friend really nice to catch up with him He was still running pretty much all of the AV for the entire show They said they were gonna get him some help, but he seemed to be doing it all So the book that he's been working on the Collecting the art of GI Joe, which is like a 20 pound Honkin you said it was 40 pounds. It's it's a really you get you can use it as a murder weapon So There's been a development with that it is now an officially licensed book he got official Licensing from Hasbro For the book which is extraordinary so That's been a lot of work and a lot of stress on Carson's part. Congratulations, Carson. Well done We got to see a mock-up of the book along with some scans and the the presentation It's gonna look gorgeous. It's gonna look beautiful. It's gonna be comprehensive. It's huge but yeah, that it's not just a A third-party independent side project now It now is going to have The official Hasbro licensing so well done Carson That's awesome So that's new there was some other scuttle, but that I can't talk about No, it's okay. It's okay. Well that in how we haven't revealed Nobody knows no one knows But there is there was some scuttle, but but I was told to keep that under my hat I will I do want to talk about it with I Mean, I can't talk about it here But I want to talk about it with the organizers because if there is anything to announce for next year I would like to know so that I can So that I can announce it You've got your wristband I do yeah, I've got here's my wristband There are the wristbands that we got I Guess we could I could start showing off some of the stuff I am surrounded by stuff that we got now despite the fact that it is a toy show. I I got one toy Depending on how you measure such things. I got real one vintage toy I will say these were free the the slap slap bracelets So we got these and we start slapping each other with them. That's what you're supposed to do. I'm pretty sure now Anyway, just video evidence of the abuse that I take that's fine. I wanted the manly pink one anyway What is it we though these were free Slap slap bracelets for free. So I've got Yeah, your beaver nuggets I heard you say something about the beaver nuggets and you know whether they call him beaver or not Well, I was on my way over here. Well, you know, these are the things that you ponder when you're on the road for hours Anyway, anyway, okay I'm just gonna I'm gonna start showing you some stuff that we got some swag Didn't expect Alistair Alistair to be rest behaved, but here we are you well. He's up there He's actually up at the top of the thing Sleeping right now. Yeah, you just please Go to sleep So I got this from can from toy connections very nice to meet you can thank you for making her all the way out from Canada to be at Joefest and I got this This Delta 17 shirt from the project that he's working with and I've got I've got posters too. I've got I've got a I've got a postcard Actually and let me flip it around so you can see the The website there. This is a new set of o-ring figures and my understanding is this is not gonna be a Kickstarter This is gonna be for sale at their website I got to see the prototypes that they have up and They look awesome. They look beautiful when I do the The travel video when I finally get that thing edited I got lots of footage from the Delta 17 table. You're gonna I was blown away by these I think they are awesome So thank you very much can for this and these guys these guys are great And I got I got a poster also which got a little crinkled. I'm sorry We had to we had it was We had to get creative packing everything to get back But thank you Delta Delta 7. I'm gonna keep these safe over here Who we got and again hello, Rob Vegas wish you could have been there that would have been would have been cool to see I hope we can see you next year And Let's see who we got who we got who got I'm trying to keep up with the chat Gonna be a new GI Joe movie and it'll be amazing and Sparkster said he got three autographs four toys one custom vehicle. I Well, you know, technically I guess I got Three toys. Well, here's one that I got. Here's one that I got from call sign longbow. They had these It's it's clear figure stands Because calls a call sign longbow another o-ring figure project and it's gonna be compatible with Joe stuff And this is just a special any Convention special and as you can see the artwork is reminiscent. I'm sorry. I'm covering you up the artwork is Reminiscent of the battle gear accessory pack. It's really cool. It's very nice. It's a fun idea And I think the call sign longbow folks are also really great. It's really cool It was really cool to see them. I wish I could have spent more time with them and Could have hung out with them But I did make sure to make it to their table and grab one of these. I knew these were coming. Thank you. It isn't that But our lovely model. I feel like Bob Barker Which means that I'm not going there not going there anyway mood on Call sign long longbow, so these guys also check out of This is like a golden age of O-ring figures even though the o-ring figures that are coming from Hasbro are limited There are so many independent toy makers doing O-ring figures that it's just a great time to collect that particular kind of figure call sign longbow. That's a big name and Operation recall which also I will get to I've got some of their stuff too But yes call sign longbow. Thank you Marianne for modeling Modeling the lovely thing. Yeah, I don't know if you count this as a toy But I but I did get it I did get it the other toy that I got the the only vintage toy that I got Is over here. I'll get to that in a minute. It's kind of a big honking thing. I assembled it I see that it does have all the pieces. I just need I just need the figure and the file card I'm working on that Speaking of artwork, I wish we had more info about Hector Gerito the painter of many action figure card backs His work is iconic, you know, that is something you really should check out Carson's book for because it's gonna have a ton of Information about all of that. I mean, that's what it's about. It's about the artwork of GI Joe It's gonna include a lot of Hector Gerito stuff and it's it's pretty thorough. It's it's quite thorough So that is I'm gonna give full credit to to Carson Rob says Troy's good people. Yes indeed indeed and Yeah, so credit to Carson for for putting together this Incredible book that he's got going but yeah, if you if you want to know about Hector Gerito and the other artists who worked on GI Joe That's gonna be a fantastic source. You know what? I think that's a great segue to talk About Carson's project because I have so much so many things so many things so first of all operation recall which is The action figure project bringing the creators of GI Joe in to get to do new figures and We got we got this set of cards Very nice set of cards Carson asked me what number I wanted and I said So I got number 69 out of the set It has some artworks. So it's kind of preliminary card layouts for the the figures in operation recall and Let's see here Oh, yeah, well, I should have shown this off. This is This is yeah cover artwork for for It's not all are called collecting the art of GI Joe now. It's just called the art of GI Joe And that's that's pretty gorgeous. So I got that from Carson And this from operation you know what else we got from also from operation recall So these Are pieces of the the bucks That they were using to sculpt the operation recall Figures, but these are the old ones. They decided to do them with a more sturdy material So rather than throw out these old ones they Gave them away. They gave them away pass the big bag around and let you dig in and grab whatever you wanted So this is so these this is the size and the scale like this would be the size of the leg the Sculpts are all done at two to one scale and They'd be sculpted like literally right on these bucks these live appear to be of like a plastic resin So, yeah, these are little mementos of operation recall so that's pretty cool and not the kind of thing that you all the time you would get to see or Have Way to go. I Guess that's why they they decided to make them out of a more sturdy material It's not broken it's not broken It's only half a leg But yeah, so that's another thing we got from operation recall and it was really really cool to see Carson What shall we talk about now shall we talk about? Shall we talk about let's talk about let's see. I can't get to that stuff until I get to this stuff All right, I'm going do you want to go day by day? So we yeah Saturday. We couldn't really make to the floor very much because Panels and Interacting with people so I Saturday morning first panel Audible interlude these guys who will be in Cobra convergence These guys so they did the first panel of the show and What they do they ruined the panel by inviting some rando Which I got I recorded by the way, yes, so they invited me up to talk about Cobra convergence. Thank you guys They also did a quiz They did a quiz and I answered the questions correctly because I Mean, I don't want to brag but I I pretty much know everything about GI Joe everything for instance Did you know that the G and the I does not stand for a gastroenterologist? I? Know everything about GI Joe And I won I won the sticker and the pen. So thank you audible interlude guys For it was fun. That was that's how we kicked off the morning. Yeah on Saturday There's so much stuff like this isn't even from the show this is from this is from assembly required I found this in the bottom of my backpack. I found this in the bottom of my backpack that's been there since November. I'm sorry I Will disorganize but so this is from after-action report This also is from after-action report. We've got these these posters and This these post these are posters of the Rod Wiggum artwork from after-action report volume one the cover which is actually Right there so That's the some posters of the cover art by one of our favorite artists Rod Wiggum Which I Gotta put back So we got that and I you know what I never looked at this What is this I Have no idea so there's this There's I'm sorry 100% complete USS flag custom base with accessories $8,000. Okay, so this is an advert because we did see the custom flag Yeah, this we got this They had a custom flag with a base For those of you who have been around for a while GI Joberg They created a base for their flag like a a base for it, you know Not exactly a stand, but it's sort of like an extension so that you can move it around and you can put stuff under it Those guys had something like that It was all like juiced up and had lots of custom stuff on it and apparently they were selling that night I just thought those were cool. So so I got it now. I did not drop $8,000 On this but despite that are there's this line that I keep thinking of from Joe exotic I may never financially recover from this But what's okay, she's very patient I'm completely disorganized and she hasn't slapped me yet Thank you. You're welcome. At least she hasn't slapped me in public Oh Dan clean Smith, I barely got this His he was shutting down his table. He was out of stuff. This was one of the display ones And I try to get one of these each time I see him because it gives me an excuse to say hi and everything So this is creating GI Joe and it has a ton of pre-production Art and information on lots of Lots of stuff. So this is a multi volume series That has just a ton of pre-production information and for me for research purposes. I love this stuff This is great. This really gives me some information that I can add to reviews I think Dan clean and Smith is doing a great service and has an awesome set of books well What's up? Oh, yeah, so Sunday Finally Sunday, we finally got to walk the floor. Did you even walk the whole floor? No, I did she did I did I walk the whole floor She managed to walk the entire Dealer floor and I never did I came close But there was still a section that I did not make it through Yeah, I did not make it but I had a camera in hand most of the time too, so I cannot stress to you how Busy it was a good kind. Hey, look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Who look who it is? Hans Yes, we we got to we got to meet Hans and Hans I Missed your karaoke So that means unfortunately, I mean it just means you're gonna have to come back next year and do it again Because I missed your karaoke So and and hello Hans, I hope that you made it home safely. Well, obviously you're somewhere safely because you're typing Diana Davis late to the ball again, that's all right, but the last person here has to bring snacks for everyone Their own volition The short answer is yes The longer answer is they didn't want to go to the show So they wanted to do their own thing. They wanted to hang out Where's Jen? Oh It's it's chat and we and it's chat. Hello. See it's he says he knows You too that he's referring to us It was really cool to see Chad too I Got I wore the first ever neon at night t-shirt I have the only one is in existence so far even the creator of the neon at night t-shirt. It's Chad Doesn't have his yet so I Look, I don't know I'm no law scientist, but I feel like this gives me some kind of exclusive rights I See Hans's Garuki it was fire Whatever you see and talk to Hans, can't you just tell that he's an incredibly talented guy isn't it disgusting? It's like settle down man Don't show awesome. Don't yes stop being so awesome and showing up some of us less talented people Give us a chance. Yeah, but Hans was great Chad and Sunday morning. I was able to get to get this Signed by Larry Hama. I did not get a sketch this year, but But you know what I got I got to actually talk to Larry a little bit, you know, just kind of chat with him He was in a great mood. Look you got if Larry's in a Great mood. That's the time to get him and and to talk to him it's You cannot pass up these opportunities and Larry seemed to have a fantastic time the whole time That there you go. Look at that a Smiling and laughing Larry Hama. Oh, that's you know what that is that he's holding That is the issue number 21 the raggedy copy that Jay brought to him showing a very well loved A copy of issue number 21, which is I mean, that's That's it's really awesome. I think it's good for I want to make sure that he knows how much his work is Appreciated and how much it meant to us back then and how much it means to us now and you know that bringing in a copy of a Comic book issue that obviously was read until it fell apart I mean that that kind of shows you how important these things were to to kids at the time Larry you mailed me a pic of him with a Duke cosplayer and said it was a lot of fun Yeah, he seemed to really really have a good time. I'm so so thrilled. I want Larry to have a good time You know, not not all conventions have treated him Super great Yeah, Hans her tales of mr. Hama being mad was elated to know he's a good spirit. Yeah You've called him prickly. He can be but it's it's not necessarily him Sometimes he hasn't had the best treatment at every convention he's gone to but man everybody just They expressed their appreciation everybody was so nice So Larry who will never see this. Thank you For being awesome and just being a really cool person old guy See Chewin bubble gum says Hey, HTC use some of that high-level Hasbro pull to get us some more retro Joe's regular sized dragonfly would be nice You know what Hasbro? Who's definitely watching? Chewin bubble gum Here would like Some more retro Joe's in a regular sized dragonfly. Can we get on that? It's you know I've green lit it. I feel like I have the power to do that. It's green lit So yeah, go right ahead and while we're at it make sure Chewin bubble gum gets gets one at at his address He will which he will send to you any any day now Comic tropes I love Larry so much he co-created Peter porker the spectacular spider-ham now Are you familiar with that one? Oh, that's my phone isn't oh, oh look it's potential span All right, I won't I won't I won't answer that one Yes, so the spider-man parody Peter porker the spectacular spider-ham who's a pig He was he was in that yeah, it's yeah now. I really liked that comic book I actually loved that comic book I thought it was a darn good parody of spider-man And it makes sense that that Larry would would help create it So Larry Larry's first love in comic books were was a funny animal comics, you know He liked uncle Scrooge and stuff like that. That's what originally got him You know got him in the comics Raw rubber is there. He says potential spam that guy's a riot. Yeah, you know, if you ever answer Good old potential spam. He just never stops calling Exploriso says you see valorous figures. I did but I was Again really busy. I barely made it to the call sign long bow. I did not make it a chicken fried toys booth I made it to marauders. I I got to the valorous booth About the time that a local news crew was interviewing Zazel So I don't have a lot of information about valorous, but But given that I'm not an active valorous collector there's a ton of Information that came out of the con and a lot of folks who are really enthusiastic about valorous. So I will Leave that to the experts Who are are more familiar with what's going on with that line? But absolutely there was a ton there. I did see it. But oh my goodness. Yeah, I got I got there I was walking up when I just walked right in the middle of Zazel being famous. Yes Yeah Um, and Zazel just had to be famous right in front of it Did you get it? I did. Yes. Yes. I did Recorded what I could she recorded Zazel being recorded So I want to apologize in advance for anyone who watches the travel log if the camera is shaky It's 100% my fault because I did Correct. I did a lot of the recording. I You know what? It's it's not very often that I don't have to take the blame for everything. Oh Cool, this is great. I don't have to take the blame for everything. I take the blame Anyway Cobra clutch is what I'm going to assume the shoes or anyway Sunday I'm sorry You hear this you see you understand why you can hear her laughing in the background Even though Even though the microphone is is pointed away from her you realize now why you can still hear her laughing in the background Sunday Okay, so Sunday We wanted to make sure we met Larry we wanted to make sure we met the sergeant slaughter So we we got into the line for sergeant slaughter. It was it was not the longest line ever, but it was there was a line It wasn't too bad and So we got up there on the way there, you know Kelly was sort of at the front of the line and we chatted with her a little bit. She was very nice By the way, Sergeant Slaughter's daughter Kelly Sweet person. What a lovely person. She's very Y'all are too sweet we now have diabetes. Yeah, that's um I'm sorry, like you just gonna have to eat some broccoli or something to balance that out and and Comic tropes. I'm sorry. I'm not helping your health matters just by being so So sugary I 10% of the two-hour show is giggles. See that's We're hoping to up that to 15% That's what the focus groups tell us. Oh, well here. No, this is something that I'm I'm getting the sergeant slaughter I'm getting the sergeant slaughter. Aren't you guys enjoying this completely disjointed? Retelling of show fest from Hans That's that ha it says right there Hans So I Hans gave me this artwork and and he autographed it. He autographed it So it was really nice Hans pretended to know who I was that was really nice So thank you Hans. Thank you Huh, he was really cool. I mean well everybody was everybody was really cool. Everybody was wonderful Um sunday we were going for the through the sergeant slaughter line um, I signed up for the the eight by ten the photo and the cobra clutch The cobra clutch and with the cobra clutch if you do the cobra clutch You get a challenge coin, which is pretty sweet Um, and I got I got this so first of all, let me let me tell us Oh after you I was gonna ask you what the best part of meeting him was The best part of meeting sergeant slaughter was that it took two generations of slaughters to pin me Um, yeah, they I got that cobra clutch and I didn't try to break out I didn't want to embarrass anybody with my superhuman strength Um, but I did get the cobra clutch um But uh, so I get up there and first of all Um, he knows who I am. He knew who I was. He knew my name before I got up there, right? He he Uh, he's like, it's oh brian. You you're ready for this and he's like, how did you know my name, sir? um, and then uh uh, so he he did the the clutch thing um and Uh, I mean we chatted for a bit. We got pictures and everything and he said unprompted Unprompted he said slaughterize it and Check this out This is this is my eight by ten and he he wrote Down down here He wrote slaughterize it Um, so that's that was my experience with with sergeant slaughter. I you know I'm not a wrestling fan. I just I just didn't grow up with it. It just never was my thing But um, I was still really giddy I'm not gonna lie. I was I was really giddy after Yeah, um We got like Hold on. Let me get okay. Let me let me let me go back to the to the photos. Let me go back to photos. Here's uh So here here's me. Um, and and sergeant slaughter punching the air, you know punching simulating punching cobra Um, and there here's oh, here's the whole gang. Hey, check this out. Here's the whole gang. So you can see Um, there's people can't tell I'm pointing at the screen as So there's joe and zazel and uh and ken and gas and kelly and me and hawns All hanging out with sergeant slaughter having a group photo Photo op look how look how look how happy hawns is hawns is a little he's just a little too enthusiastic settle down hawns Um, yeah, well, he's very energetic and you know what it looks like it looks like all of us are getting a picture with ken It looked the ten he's in the middle So basically this is our photo op with ken Uh, so uh, thanks ken. Um, so that was uh, that was the whole gang and then here is Here is my cobra clutch and now I'm I know I'm supposed to like act like I'm um, you know, I'm I'm being torque wrenched Right. I'm I'm supposed to be grimacing like like they're like they're uh, they're wrenching my arms into an uncomfortable position and and uh, and and um Clutching me into submission, but I I mean look at me. I just couldn't I was smiling anyway. I couldn't stop it I couldn't I couldn't stop myself from smiling. So um, so I did I I just I had to smile through the whole thing and Um, I got for the cobra clutch this challenge coin Which uh, that's pretty sweet looking cobra on the back of it proud member of the cobra clutch club So you have to do the cobra clutch to get this you cannot simply purchase it negative Uh, you you have to you have yes. You have to earn it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Uh, so that was Sergeant slaughter is Really nice. He's just a really really nice person if you ever have a chance to meet him and say hi You definitely should Again as a non wrestling fan, you're also not a wrestling fan. I'm not a wrestling fan. Yeah, we we we did not grow up as wrestling fans um I don't think that matters because he's just such a nice guy. He's so he's so cool Uh, he he's very nice and kelly We walked around with that whole gang that was in that picture there With kelly. We kind of walked around the floor a little bit. We were chatting with kelly about our cats Yes, yes our our cats She also has a black cat. Yes. She also has a black male. Yeah a male who's also an asshole Yes What is it about males and being apples? Yeah, um, I mean male cats. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you mean male cats You shut your human Uh, so kelly was Kelly was really nice. Kelly was really cool. She was she was very sweet. So um, I want to I wanted to Uh, I wanted to show um the cards. So I had Oh wait before we get to the cards. I forgot. I got gifts. So this one now this one was from mike vegeta and I Should have asked if it was okay to say who it was. So this is I should have asked if I could say who it was From I didn't ask and I just said it So this is from unknown Even though you could just roll this back and find out the name of the I should have asked so a person who who gave me this box if it's okay for me to Say thank you on screen. Please. Please say so Please say so. Um, but anyway, um, so this you'll like this. You'll like this You won't hear but you you'll like I'm invested. He's she's invested Um, this is Let me see if I can I gotta be careful here. This is a classified scale. Uh, joe fans know exactly what this is already This is a classified scale Cobra sms. Hold on. Hold on. It has here's the The launcher rack Launcher missile rack that goes right on here Classified scale 3d printed. This is freaking awesome. Look At this and as you know, because I have reviewed it. I have reviewed it the uh The sms or the sms has Red missiles This is the Console i'm gonna move that so I can put the legs down for its stationary. It's fully functional, man It is 100% now. We don't have the hiss tank yet, but I'm hoping This will actually attach to the hitch tank when it when it arrives. So missiles one and It do Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry. Thank you. Good catch. Good reflexes from the mom. It's it That one's a little loose. Let me see. We'll fit it on the side a little better. Yes um And let's see Yeah, this one. Okay top one's a little loose. I can fix that In fact, I'm gonna take the top it off. But I'm gonna show you so sms black and red gorgeous beautiful My favorite color scheme and yes, it does include the stand For the console Which I shall attach Um, this is it's a rare piece. It's a rare sears exclusive Recolor of the mms from 1982 which is not especially a rare piece, but in this deco It was quite rare So that's awesome and You know, it's we're probably never going to get officially released, you know, classified scale stuff in of this um Like these these little Uh World building pieces the these weapons systems of the the stuff that That attaches to the big vehicles because they want to give us the big vehicles apparently Uh, but the smaller stuff that that attaches to the big vehicles Um, the what can be done with 3d printing now is Friggin amazing. They can do anything. They can do they can do anything and so thank you Person who gave this to oh, hello, uh, white mic, uh, bagueta bagueta, um and Again person who gave me this box Please uh in the chat. Let me know if it's okay to thank you In public. I should have asked I should have asked Not everybody wants to be public, you know, not ever. Yeah, see. Yeah, exactly Exactly Not everybody wants to be public and so I should ask I should ask Uh, but but uh, even if even if person who gave this box to me, um, Doesn't want to be thanked in public. Thank you anonymously For this awesome awesome gift um and Speaking of gifts this one. I think is okay. Oh, uh, he says yes, you can thank you my white mic, vegeta Thank you. Uh I totally didn't already Give that away. Thank you very much for Uh, the gift. I just showed off just a second ago. It's really cool. Looks great awesome colors And it's really cool to get something like that in the classified scale cyclonus And and thank you cyclonus. I was just see you're you're a step first of all, uh thank you white mic and cyclonus a step ahead because Actually, did you notice did you notice this already? Who noticed this? That that's from cyclonus And so cyclonus made these check these out Check these out. You're these are cool If I if I there we go All right, moving the box top so the and they they have magnets. So I need to put some of these on the The fridge what should what order should I do these in? I think I'll do it like this. I'll do it like this I'll I'll do I'm trying to decide what order to show these in because these are adorable. These are just the cutest thing here we go so we've got pixel art scarlet and These have magnets so I'm gonna put these on my fridge Scarlet lady j Very cute. That's that's That's adorable. I like it. I love it. I love it and the masked cobra commander very nice Very nice love it now I thought we were army building on these two, but no No, these are these are actually different. Check this out. So what we have is This is a this is a crimson guard And this is a his tank driver. Yeah, look at the details you can tell The his tank driver has the blue chest plate The uh crimson guard does not so details details matter. Yes So, uh, thank you very much cyclonus. That was really awesome I love these and I've as you can see I already have the the hoody coco Up there on there and you know I think it's really too bad that we haven't gotten to this guy. Um Maybe we can If there's time, you know, we've got I'm gonna be on what's on Joe mind immediately after this show But if there's time, maybe we'll open maybe we'll open gung-ho. We'll see no promises no promises But thank you cyclonus and it was really cool to meet cyclonus Um and sparkster. Thank you guys so much. Thank you for coming to the dinner and thank you for hanging out I hope you guys had a lot of fun There's firefly. Uh, great. Um, I'm supposed to be highlighting these I I can do that Um, great to see Marianne on the scene on the screen finally. Yeah, he's seen you in person. I thought why not? Um, I've met most most everybody Uh, and uh jerk monger, uh, I'm sure it's nothing personal. Uh I know you don't remember everybody great running into you at the hotel friday night. You were super kind Well, thank you and I probably do remember you except you weren't wearing a nametag And you didn't go by jerk. Yeah, you didn't you know what if you had been a jerk, I would remember you a lot more But no, I didn't um, but thank you Uh, and uh, and thank you. Well, thank you for the super chat But also thank you for saying hi and this is and you know what jerk monger First of all, you're a nice guy Second of all, this is a perfect opportunity to segue Uh into the joe fest card. So she went bubble gum. Where's chewing bubble gum? Chewing bubble gum says hi Marianne. Uh, she she just said hi back I I don't know why I needed you you could hear that for you can speak to yourself. I perfectly capable. Absolutely I do not need to repeat what you said I'm sorry Moving on Oh, hello, and we we saw beta ray bob there beta ray bob awesome guy um Let's see, uh, can you uh, uh, bjorn Oh, come on. Yeah There we go, uh Uh, okay, can you please remove the brown paper like acrylic? Oh, okay Uh, oh, yeah, yes, I will but not right now because I don't want to break it. Thank you bjorn I will remove the uh paper on the serpentor stand. Yes, absolutely um now Let's talk about the history Of the joe fest card. So it starts with this one Back in 2019 I got this card. I had a table this is the first time at a convention where I had a table Um, this is the biggest one because it's a gate fold I actually had this standing at the table with sharp sharpies for everyone to sign and as you can see We got lots of signatures. This was my favorite thing to take back from 2019 joe fest now, uh 2020 2021 I I missed those there was a thing going on that you may have heard of It rhymes with pandemic Um But in 2020 There's this one I the it's bigger to handle only because I have it in a frame Yeah, so that was Uh 22 So two 2022 I went back I finally made it back to joe fest. This is um, it's a smaller card. It's not a gate fold It's not it's not a it's not a trifold It's not a trifold. I don't want to cover up your face You're you're prettier than I am Um, I actually looked everywhere to try to find a trifold card like the first one, but I couldn't find one So this was plan b and I've had it. I've framed it since then so this is my joe fan or joe fest 2022 card Uh, lots of people sign it and basically, you know, you just came to my table and signed it I wanted everyone to sign it and lots of people did well This year I didn't have a table So I had to um, I still wanted to do the card but I had to Um, I had to improvise so I had to get a smaller card because I needed to carry it around in uh in my backpack, so that brings us to This year's card, which is the smallest one the smallest one but again, it had to fit in the Had to fit in in the backpack but as you can see We had a ton of people sign it and this year I actually asked a couple of the the convention guests to To sign it. So we have let's see. Um Yeah, yeah, right there. There's larry larry hamma Oh look right there That's sergeant slaughter and And look at all these You can see some names on here and immediately recognize them because they're in the chat right now Uh, some guys from uh cobra convergence Some long time friends some new friends. There's there's joe fan 84 and mr s um frank Signed in a silver marker. That is not a blank spot. He signed with a silver marker There's uh, hold on the the first The first signature on it What was that one But I don't remember who did it. You remember who did that? So Mary Ann was the first to sign and Well, it's it's artistic. It's an artistic signature Um, and then on the back side there's bonus content There's bonus content because on the back side josh ebbing from after action report signed Signed the back side. So that's the bonus content um, but Those of you who were there. Thank you so much for doing this. This is always my favorite thing I value this more than all the stuff that's that's bought there All the the swag and everything this is a momento that everybody took the time To put their personal signature on and I love this. I've got three of them now I want to keep this tradition going. I want to do this every year Um, this one is framed. I'm going to get a frame for the first one as soon as I find a frame That's big enough. That's really big And I'm gonna frame this one too because these These are the memories that I get to take with me and all the people that I met So thank you to every single one. I thank you at the time And I'm thanking you again So and and thank you to the the first person to Thank you everybody who made my first experience so great. I had a wonderful time It was her first experience. It wasn't it it it was okay So I had a wonderful time. Um, as far as me Yeah, the microphone I keep scooting it. Uh, but now, okay, um, so now Before this whole thing started I hyped it up Pretty much didn't I I I was saying it was going to be great. You're going to meet a lot of people Lots of my friends are really busy. Yeah, very busy. It was everything you said That's that's that was what I was going to ask. Did it live up to Expectations. Yes Yes, it was exhausting, but it was a good exhausting I came back with Wonderful feelings about it. So it was a lot of fun. Yeah, this is something like you never would have imagined this existed probably. Yeah No It's a it's a new world for you Um, and I and I'm thank you to everyone many of you are in here. Um Uh For for making Marianne feel welcome. I knew that you would you guys are great I've known a lot of you for years. Um, and I knew that you would be Very friendly and that you would help Marianne have a great first joe fest experience and you did so thank you And thank you for going with me I think it takes some courage To try this this was new we make good road trip partners Because that was a long time in the car with you That was a long time. That was a long time of course. Good thing. We had some some beaver nuggets I don't know if we could have made it Out some beaver nuggets, but we do travel pretty well. Don't we? I think so. I think so I put you on the spot here in front of all these people and ask you if We travel you can tell me otherwise Well, I told you in private yesterday that we travel well, so Um Diana davis says joe cons are the best place to take significant others people are so welcoming. I agree. I agree. Um, it's a pretty Good group. It's a pretty good welcoming group. I think Um, so thank you to everyone. Thank you to everyone Um, and sparkster says welcome to the club Um And uh joe fans says marion is so nice and very supportive and that's awesome. I I agree Michael winfrey were you the one who chased him through the dealer floor? Oh But uh, thank you to everyone, uh, thank you to everyone who made it Um, such such a great experience and thank you. Thank you for being there. Um, thank you for inviting me a great time Um, are we going back next year? I think so. I think so. Yeah, I might have a table though Uh might have yeah Um, I think we have to because you and jay have a have a uh packed an agreement Uh, yes, I made uh, yes, and I had a lawyer as a witness. Yes Yes, so as your attorney in this matter, I feel like this Contract is binding Uh, thank you comic tropes of the super chat. Uh, what uh kind of figures or toys tempted you? There was a lot of vintage Carded stuff like vintage carded 90s stuff And the thing about vintage carded 90s stuff is that if it's If it's a good deal, it might come off of the card. Don't tell anybody Um, let's just keep this between us. Yeah, thank you. Thank you anybody. What nothing? What are you talking about? Nothing? um, but uh You know The 90s that's where the biggest gaps are in my collection Is 90s stuff. So even though 90s, that's not my favorite when I see stuff that I don't have that's what I tend to gravitate toward um, but I did get one thing I did get one thing And uh firefly says big shout out to supporters Uh supportive partners of uh show fans in general. Thank you firefly 100 agree Um, I did get one thing and I will show it off now after I have I gotta Uh michael winfrey, please tell your wife. I said hello She told me how she got you the tickets to joe fest. That was very clever and that's my kind of woman A little gift in a box. That's like that could hold the aircraft carrier Uh And thank you for coming like this The vibe this year was really so great. Um And it not that it's been bad any other year But this year was just a very positive feel and I just I I didn't find anybody who didn't have a good time Uh, so uh, so yeah, thank you And I guess now is the time I should show off. I did get one thing I did get one thing I got We packed the entire trip home was like centered around getting this box in the car without damaging it. Yeah, this stupid box It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was a great idea. Yeah, so anyway, I got this I'm trying not to smack you in the face with it I'll go for so I got this. This is the retaliator This is one I've had my eye on for a while Um, it does have all the pieces the bombs are in there Um, and it has the it So it's all here except for the the figure and the file card, but I'm I'm nailing those down I'm I'm tracking those down so it will be it will be review ready and It came with the box and as you know, I don't always collect boxes I don't always collect boxes, but boxes are a nice bonus when I can get them And given that it was a complete vehicle in good condition with the box For the price that I got it. I I I couldn't pass that up and it's one that I had had my eye on for a while Um, so uh, so yeah, excellent. I was really happy with it, but getting at home Getting at home was an adventure. Yes, it was. Um The whole thing was an adventure. It's all part of the adventure is my slogan But see the the box is is kind of big It's kind of big, but it's also kind of light It's a lightweight box and this isn't very heavy. So it was Awkwardly balanced and I kept dropping it I just bought the thing and I kept like dry like Somebody comes up to talk to me and I'm like, hey, how you doing box drops and falls on the chair Um, so yeah getting that thing home Was an adventure We did it That was not easy packing that packing that car On the way back On the On the way back. Yes, uh rob says live the we we did we did live the adventure Yeah, I'm pretty sure the kids will not be going back. Yeah The thing with the kids, you know, they wanted to hang out together and they wanted to spend time together, which is fine Yeah, I asked um, I asked my daughter on the way home after dropping you off Like I I think I think you had a good time, didn't you and you know, I And she said she did so she got to do a few things she wanted to do and she spent time with Audrey. So Yeah, she had a good time. Yeah, um, they did not go to the show Uh, which is I thought they might not I mentioned that before Audrey has been actually Audrey has been a couple of times and last time she went she was Not super enthusiastic So You know what my car gets excellent gas mileage, okay Yes Now the original plan was for just the two of us to go Yeah, and as it was originally planned that would have been flawless That would have been easy peasy But uh, we took two extra human beings. Yes, which meant Four extra bags. Yep. So so uh, that that got rather complicated. Um, and you know, I I love having the kids with us And and I love the kids. They're they're fantastic and they they did have fun hanging out together. Yes But they might enjoy hanging out together In a different setting a different setting Uh, for those some of you may have noticed that uh, there were times when we kind of had to up and run out of there Um, like I I skipped out part of the way through panels and things like that because Like we would check our phones and it'd be the kids would be like, we're hungry So, yeah, uh, there were panels that we missed. I missed out on a few things because you know Parents do we had to do parent things which they had to adults. Yes We had to adult which is, you know, absolutely no complaints. This is what you sign up for When you're a parent, um But some of you may have noticed I like there were some occasions where like I was hanging out But then I had to split uh, and Marianne had to as well because well, we had kids to take care of so That's that's how that's how that happened but uh, yeah, but we we still had fun and, um Next year it'll probably just be us I think yeah, yeah Yeah, not that the kids can't hang out. They'll they'll hang out. They can hang out Every day between now and then And then they won't be going Yes, yes, but yeah, I definitely need to put a luggage rack on my car because it gets Wonderful gas mileage. It took like what two tanks to get there and back. Yeah or two tanks to get there and another couple tanks to get back so Which is that's way better than my car would have done way better than my car um, but yeah, it was just it was unexpectedly cramped Um, but you know, we got there. We did it We did it can't complain too much. It was a lot of fun. We made it. Um Uh comic tropes and folks talk classified comics or movie news a little bit and thank you again for the segue comic tropes I know we've been talking about joe fest because we're supposed to Um, but let's see. There was a bit of news uh of the the new of image comics skybound gi joe and transformers series this leaked all over the place. So like This is not breaking news. Everybody has broken this already So this is pre broken news uh, so you can see it like this is a a combination uh gi joe and transformers shared universe which is something that people have been uh asking for And I've said before you know, um If if there's something going on in gi joe that you don't personally like You should at least Hope that it's successful because gi joe needs as many successes as possible. This is my opportunity to uh to practice what I preach because I've never been a huge fan of gi joe and transformers crossovers And I'm this is a poster that's going with it. I sincerely hope it's good Calling it the energon universe Definitely puts transformers, you know At the center of it There are a couple characters here. I have no idea who they are um that are a top jet fire And um, yeah, I honestly have I don't know what it's going to be like We should still be getting a series by larry hama That series should be continuing issue number 300 was the last issue with idw So at some point issue number 301 should be coming out through image skybound So I I really hope that it sells like hotcakes I really really do But um the gi joe and transformers crossover. This has just never been my thing Uh the thing about uh gi joe and uh and transformers crossovers is like you you have military guys and You have giant robots, right? So to have these guys fight or be in conflict You have to either Nerf the giant robots To the point that it's feasible for Humans to fight against them to the point that they don't really feel like transformers anymore Or you have to overpower The gi joe guys so that it's feasible for them to fight Giant robots to the point that it doesn't feel like gi joe anymore. So I it's I know this is something that a lot of other fans love For years they have But it's it's not my preference, but I still want it to be a huge success Because the more successes we get the more of everything we get so So I'll I'll get it. I'll get it and I'll read it and I will hope that I like it um Let's see, um, is it out of the I don't know that it's out that picture leaked on his tank dot com Diana, so I don't have any insider scoops on that. I don't have any insider insider scoops Uh comic trope says he meant tomorrow um And uh firefly says hoody does my exact sentiments as uh joe and g1 transformer stand And uh, thank you firefly and I like both I like both gi joe and transformers I just don't think they mesh that well together Obviously with good writing you can do anything right with good writing you can make it work, but um, I think it's just a huge challenge to make these two things that don't fit together Somehow work together in in a shared universe On the other hand transformers has been hugely successful And I completely understand hasbro's mindset that they would like to leverage the success of their popular franchise to give gi joe a little a little goose you know This is this is Sign language for a little little goose You know what I was thinking you know when people you know when people um, uh, Keep up with international relations. Yeah, you know flip the bird. So the bird History lesson. So the bird is supposed to be like, you know, you're given the fingers like Waving male private parts in your face. That's the that's the insult Uh, what I was thinking of is if you're vulcan when vulcans Give the finger do they give the fingers? And when they do and if this is if this is the the vulcan middle fingers Does this mean that vulcan male private parts are bifurcated? I don't know but klingons are So this is what the klingons do How did we get on this? Look mr. S. I'm sorry. I'm sorry Joe fanny for I'm so sorry I would like to apologize to everyone Uh, I mistakes were made, but I've learned and grown Since then in the last uh 25 seconds I've grown as a person and I promise to never do it again um What we're talking about Uh, I don't even know what we were talking about. I'm sorry. I got it. I got it's completely sidetracked. I'm sorry um Okay, okay gi joe transformers um the new transformers movies rise of the beast. I have not seen it yet I've been a little busy I've been I've been a little busy um, but I It was mentioned in fact in Uh audible interludes panel that there is a gi joe cameo in it Yeah, you know I haven't seen it yet. I can't comment on it when I haven't seen it. I will see it. I will see it So it's not just in the comic books, but even in the movies. They're really trying to Uh give gi joe a goose they're trying to give gi That's where it came from you said something about a goose right and then you're like a goose. Oh wait That's how that's how we got there. That's how we don't don't say goose again. Yeah, no so They're really wanting to give gi joe a maverick. Um and with uh with with the transformers uh, not just in the Not just in the comic books But in the in the movie as well um Um Movie isn't as good as a bumblebee, but I like to look more than the bay movies. I Probably will too. I wasn't a huge fan of the michael bay transformers movies, but I can understand Uh white hasbro wants to leverage the popular franchise to help the franchise that needs needs Uh That needs a goose I understand that that um They want to use the popular franchise to help the franchise that needs a goose um I just think that it's hard. I don't think it's as as easy a combination as As the people think it is but even so I know there are people who want it who have been asking for it for years and will Love it and I think that's fantastic What I would like though, please knock on wood knock on wood is to get uh more gi joe solo stuff and give gi joe a chance to soar on its own without the the giant robots um because there is so much in gi joe lore it is a very rich history and I'd love to see that We've seen a lot of movies that are kind of like gi joe that do gi joe It kind of sorda, but it's not gi joe. In fact We talked about mega force. She hasn't seen mega force Ladies and gentlemen, she has not seen mega force Um, you remember? Well, I hadn't seen snake. I've told you. Yes. Yes Um mega force is one of those movies that sorda like gi joe a little bit in some ways Um, but it's not gi joe. Well, that's all well and good and that's fine dandy but um I would like to see an actual good gi joe movie. That's what I want to see. Um, so Transformers fine crossovers fine giant robots fine fine fine But but let's still try to get a good gi joe movie. Um Diana davis um wrong one. Uh, diana davis um sort of Oh Yeah, speaking of mega force. Yeah. Yeah, um Rob says she's not making one. I I disagree I disagree and um Um Mega force is it's a trip. I think the ending is great. You know, I um I don't take anybody's word for movies because He has shown me some interesting movies Yes Some some all-time classics Like berdemek And the room You know classics Um, but uh, yes, uh So, I mean there was talk about that. Um, and obviously there's talk about the comic book and um Uh, we of course, we haven't seen any of that stuff yet. I will um See comic tropes is trying to help me out. So show her neal bring. I'll show you neal bring Who who all knows neal bring? Who I'll get you on it. Um, anyway Uh, I'm sorry. I was just thinking of neal bring movies. They're priceless. Um So what was I talking about see look I can't do this. I shouldn't I shouldn't have a show I shouldn't have a show. I've got an attention span of 35 seconds um So, uh, yeah, the comic books and stuff. We haven't seen it yet. That'll be out soon. I will get it. I will support it I want it to succeed even if it's not something that I prefer. I want it to succeed So if you are in any way even slightly um inclined to Get the transformers gi joe enter enter john universe um comics that they're coming out with uh Grab it get it support it. Also. I understand they're supposed to also have a Duke comic book and a cobra commander comic book if I recall correctly that are coming out later this year um, so We'll look for those. You know, it's gonna see it's gonna be um It's gonna be a it's it's a new iteration You know, it's a new take on it and you and g gi joe does need that gi joe does need a refresher from time to time I'm in totally in support of that. Um But as I've said before when you put gi joe in transformers it tends to be mainly transformers with a little bit of gi joe and Uh, that that I will see we'll see Um, but I think the good Uh The good news is we should still be getting a larry hama series a continuation of the larry hama series for those of you who um read issue number 300 which was like seven months ago Um, it was we thought that was going to be the end like the end of the series but instead Um, it ended on sort of a cliffhanger It was not a conclusion which Basically informed all of us that the story will continue. We were not expecting that So we should we should get more. Uh, and I'll definitely keep up with the larry series and uh, and you know, uh, but even so Interjohn universe All that jazz I that's jazz. That's the transformer. Hey, um Skybound image. I just gave you a new title Uh, all that jazz I think for the new new transformer series all that jazz So you can have that one for free. You can have that one for free you do that. Um, but uh Yeah, I think I think that's all I have to say about that It's hard to say anything without actually seeing it. So, uh, we should we should see it pretty soon How are we doing on time? We got about uh 15 minutes After the show I will be on watson joe mind to talk more joe fest. I certainly hope they can keep my brain on track I I couldn't I'm sitting right here So you I mean you see how it is i'm like I have the attention span of a gerbil um Comic tropes is classified tunnel rat and desert snake eyes are listed for tomorrow on entertainment earth. Cool Well, so we'll keep an eye out for that as well um And photo viper another guy who is in cobra convergence. I'd love to have more transformers that are in joe scale That is something that they have done recently with the his tank and the awestriker that Transformed into Uh Megatron and bumblebee and rumor was that they were going to do a thunder machine that would transform into sound waves. So Uh, so we should in theory be getting more And after all this we haven't we have not talked about the the the dragonfly Uh has lab which is now funded Uh, so there's a lot going on. Uh, so, uh Look, but let's let's kind of wind down. Let's kind of wind up because uh, Marianne is joining me But she's not going to be able to join me for what's on joe mine. She's she's got to go and take care of marianne business um But i'm happy to have you here Finally Took me long enough I you know, I I would I don't I don't push anybody to do anything and I didn't want you to appear on camera unless and until you were comfortable doing so So i'm i'm thrilled that you're here You are on audio. I mean people were hearing people knew my voice pretty quick um uh So comic comic trope says not or nor shall I leak anything? That's good. If you're leaking something they have some special undergarments that you should wear for that um but um Thank you for I I really had a great time. I did too um, do you What well, you know, I'll Since we have a few minutes and I only have you for a few minutes I I'd like for you to share with all of us kind of your memories the things that stick out the most in your mind About the weekend your favorite stuff Just how nice everyone was very welcoming and warm and friendly like one big family Oh That was my favorite part too. Yeah I'm a people person. She's she is a people person And uh, and she not only is she a people person. She's also a person people uh, so Thank you Thank you for being there. I I sincerely hope that you will go next year. Um, I saw lots of smiles and laughs Uh from your direction and that made me happy Uh, so so thank you. Thank you Um, it is it is our annual family reunion. So a lot of those folks I will um Not see for a year or we will not see them probably most of them until next year. So Um, well, I did make a verbal contract with Jay. So that's right Jay There's gonna be karaoke. Yes, sadly That'll be fun It's that's the best kind Yeah Maybe we'll have a table. Yeah, we should we should um, but um, yeah, I I think um Joefan84 says What about opening? I guess we didn't get it get to Yeah, maybe maybe next time. Maybe next time. I think we're I think we're short on time I think we're short on time this time Will it ever happen? Um, so uh, all right Let me recap Uh new episode of half the battle what's on Joe mine coming up next with me. I will be there Thank you. What's on Joe mind? Um Later this week, I should have a live show with the guys from power comics to talk about the super joe comic book that's coming out So watch for that. Also. I will be editing Uh a travel video for those who want to relive the convention or for those who were not able to make it so that you can Get the feeling of what it was like to be there um Also, I've got to work on cobra convergence stuff that absolutely must be done before the end of the week. So it's going to be Busy But uh, it's it's good. This is good. This is I'm I'm enjoying it. I really feel Um energized from From our uh from our time in in augusta um so I guess Oh, no, we got a super. Uh, thank you for the super chat. Um Uh, the uh chupas big spender says I think I will get my classified dragonfly before you open that's possible Uh, before I open gung-ho. Uh, that is possible um I mean heaven's how long has it been? How long has it been how long has that one been sitting up there? How long has this been sitting up? Who can really say Oh, we we did I didn't even mention the cigar social. Oh, yeah, we went out to the amphitheater For cigars. Yeah, uh, we did a brief live for that um, so that was fun, uh Uh, I I've been thanking everybody, but I don't know I mean, I don't know how else to express it, but you guys made the event What I was hoping it would be um No ron rudat this year ron was not there. However, ron rudat will be uh at The dfw What's it called? It'll be in dallas for the dfw I should have grabbed the link for it, but Uh for dfw for dallas show on the 24th and our hope and expectation is to make it there for that uh because lots of people talked about ron But ron was not at joe fest this year. So I'm hoping to see ron again. He's a really cool guy um Comment trope says saw the cigar social video seemed like adult beverages may have been involved not for me Not for me. Yeah, this is just how I am all the time Uh, but it's awesome Some folks had Stuff, you know, some folks may have had an adult beverage or two um But yeah, uh next year next year, um I think next year what I will try to do is see if I can get Uh a panel for cobra convergence I didn't do it this year. I didn't ask for one this year because it's a little early in the month and um I normally like to announce the cobra convergence stuff a little later in the month closer to the launch in july but I think I think next year I should do a panel. I should I should do something special for it. I think that would be fun I think that would be fun. Do your cheerleader. It should be my cheerleader She's gonna wear a cheerleader costume. No, I don't know about that I'll be on the sidelines. She'll be on the sidelines. Woo But uh Yeah, so I I mean, I know it's early But I also know you have to go Yeah, and I also have to uh get ready for what's on joe mine So I may wrap it up here in just a minute just a few tiny minutes early Uh so that I can freshen up a little bit uh and get ready for the next show um, and then I can say Goodbye to you for the evening um before you Let's get out. Yeah, let's get out 23 skidoo um but uh Diana davis says I think you should do a kickoff panel. That'll be fun. That would be fun I would enjoy that I think I think I could have some fun with that I think you know, I don't want to toot my own horn, but I will Um, I think I could do a good panel. I think I could give good panel Uh, I think I could do it Um, so I'll I'll talk to Ed about that for next year. Um, but for this year Ladies gentlemen, I think I think we're gonna wrap it. I think we're gonna wrap it just just a few tiny minutes early to give us some time to uh to to If you've ever Wondered about going to joe fest 10 10 recommend definitely Take the time to go This is from somebody who had no interest in such things Yeah, um who still had a fantastic time and yes, I I would go to a stargate convention with you I have you I have lots of witnesses. Yeah I'll do it. I was and I would love the heck out of it. Yeah Yeah, okay Anyway, guys, so thank you all for being here. I'm gonna wrap it up here a few minutes early I will see you guys soon. I oh most likely I will not have a new review Uh up on sunday just because I've got so many other things that I have to do this week. I'm sorry. I'll get it done Um, I will get it done as soon as I can but cobra convergence is coming up lots to do But thank you everyone. I will see you guys. Um Later this week and uh, and thank you mary and and for now, I guess we will say good night Good night everyone. Bye. 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