 check it out. We should be coming in live. Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is, what is today? August 30th, 2020, and wow, wow, wow. What a year, what a summer, what interesting times. And today is Sunday and we've done a few these over the summer. We're doing Sunday comic book readings. We did actually reading yesterday as well with that so Julian, an independent comic out of the UK, I believe, but it came to me from Portugal, so it might be out of Portugal, out of Europe. So, Elder God, how you doing? You're the first one in. Nice. It's early afternoon for you, or mid-afternoon for you, so that's cool. This is a nice start to the day reading comic books, I guess. And today what we're going to do is we have four comic books to choose from. I'm not sure how many comic book readings we've done this summer, but we've done a fair bit. We've done a nice share of comic book readings, which is fantastic, fantastic. And today the selection is Valiant Comics, XO Mad of War, number one. Okay, we got Kid Colt 107, Jacker Recover, Decayers, a lot of Decayers are Jack Kelly as well. We got Crime Does Not Pay 116, and this is from 1952. This one is 1962, this one is 1992, and we got Batman, Colt number one selection, and this one is 1988, Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson. And we'll wait for notifications to go out. It is a Sunday morning, so we'll see how many people pop in and how fast notifications goes out. I think today's notification has taken a while to pop in, maybe seven readings. No notifications yet, yeah. So we've done seven readings so far this summer. So we're averaging about one a week since July, I guess, which isn't bad. Hopefully we can keep this pace up at least for September and do at least four more readings, at least finish off this set this summer for sure. And then I'll hit up the boxes and pull up more, twist just one out, twist just one out. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Good, good, good. I'm not sure about Discord. Discord usually goes out sooner from what I understand. But I'm going to do my intro while we wait for people to roll in. Thanks, Elder God, by the way, for keeping me posted. If you want to follow this work, Flame, how are you doing? Hey, Gicho, how are you doing? If you're doing fantastic on a Sunday morning, loving it. Loving it. I harvested a lot of grapes yesterday and made grape syrup and put half of them in the fridge on charter days. Hello, hello. Cheryl, how's it going? How's life? Now, Discord went out. Awesome. Gang, if you want to follow this work on Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Gicho, C-H-Y-C-H-O. If you want to follow this work, if you want to support this work, if you know what this is all about, Patreon is a great way to do so. I don't put anything behind paywalls, everything creative commons, share and share alike. Follow the work. If you like it, if you do have the means, support this work through Patreon if you can. On charter days, hope you're doing good. Indeed, lonely piggy, how's it going? At least, how's life, brother? Getting colder here in Montreal, not anticipating another hard winter. I hope not. I've got fingers crossed, mild, gentle. Ahoy, how are you doing? But it is getting colder here as well. Look at my toucan. Toucan for comic book reading. Eagles of cycling. Where is the best place to buy vintage comics in England, in Europe, eBay, I guess. The problem with eBay from a lot of people that I mentioned from UK is the shipping costs. They're insane. The shipping costs are crazy to Canada now, so I don't even know what it would be to the UK. But I've seen some sellers on UK on eBay that have amazing deals. Like I've bought from UK sellers before. I bought five copies of Legends of GeoMastery No. 1 for a pretty good price. Smith the man, the legend, how are you doing? Cheryl, send the cold and snow to Pennsylvania. Is it still hot there, Cheryl? Wow, wow, wow. We didn't have very hot summer. I'm hoping we have at least one more month of nice, warm, sunny weather here. I got plants that are flowering that I need. I want them to grow bigger buds. Graham, yeah, you can send someone that winter my way too. Wow, I'm so glad Mario is not in there or have I spoken too soon. No Mario today. Rambo, how are you doing out east? What up, what up, Graham? It was like 114 yesterday. Send someone your son up our way, man. I wouldn't mind someone that heat. On Trader Days, you can get some great deals in UK, but there can be few and far in between. Yeah, I haven't seen too many, but there are some that I've wanted to get, especially Warrior Comics. What do you call it? Yeah, the 2000 in AD and first appearance of Tank Girl and stuff like that, right? Cheryl, not as bad. We finally got some rain, but almost no winter last year. Wow. I don't think I can take another mild winter, really. Rambo, it is cold in Germany today. Zbrowski, good morning. I was just watching your video on demand, VOD. Now you can catch it live. We are live streaming on Twitch by the way, gang. If you want to be here during these live streams and participate in the chat, Twitch is where it's at. And for those of you who have been supporting this work through Patreon, thank you very much for the support. For those of you who are supporting this work through Twitch, following, subscribing, thank you for the support and the discussions and mod. Thank you for taking care of business eagles. Yeah, Prague is chilly and cloudy all day. Cozy couch winter weather, nice, nice. Rambo, thanks brother. I appreciate it. It might be the goatee or the tux or the comic book readings. VC, how are you doing? Did you see the new Batman trade? I have. Looks pretty good. I'm glad. What's his name? The other Batman's not in it. I forgot his name. We're getting some 417 Celsius now. These past few days, I don't like it. It's too soon. Yeah, lonely piggy. In the mornings, we're down to a 14. During the day, it's getting 1920, 21 degrees Celsius. I'm hoping for more, man. It got an amazing deal for Harbinger in the UK, but I'm trying to get a complete run of Simpsons comics and it's difficult at a good price. Harbinger is pretty good, man. I've noticed people coming in to the pub in jackets. Oh, no. Ben Affleck, yeah. Ben Affleck Batman? The worst Batman. So bad. So bad. Ben Affleck having a nervous breakdown. Catholic Traditions, good afternoon, folks. Hope you are having a blessed Sunday, you too, Catholic Traditionless Graham. I thought Ben Affleck was terrible. Yeah, me too, Graham. Me and you on the same page on that one was terrible. Rambo says it as well. By the way, gang, just a note. I don't want to dampen things or whatnot. Send the little thoughts and love to one of our mods, Kulio, that's probably not here right now. 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It's a comic book reading so safe for YouTube and everything goes on Bitshoot, of course, and you can support this work by following, subscribing, sharing, commenting, liking and if you're on YouTube by joining YouTube membership. Aside from that gang, welcome to another live stream. I like the combat of Ben Affleck's Batman, very brutal, very brutal. Do you think that Ben Affleck was worse than Clooney? Oh yeah, Clooney was pretty bad too but Ben Affleck, I just don't like him. He's brutal. Val Kilmer out in mind. Val Kilmer out in mind. Val Kilmer I think is a good actor. Clooney wasn't that good either. Clooney and Ben Affleck are on the same level. Their politics is brutal. If you remember Clooney in the times of Sudan going around and why is a Hollywood actor going around saying that Sudan must be broken up, and Ben Affleck is propaganda up the yin-yang, right? In Justice League Batman, it was just a side trucker. Trucker. Trucker. Trucker. Trucker. He had no power. I'm watching the series, The Boys. It's great so far. Yeah, The Boys is really good Rambo. Clooney was the worst. Ben Affleck was the worst. Clooney was right behind him. Hello everybody and Vius, how are you doing? Heath Ledger. Still the best. Heath Ledger was fantastic as a joker. Very, very good. Adam Weston, my bad. This is my bad, an ice-cream. Papaw. Papaw. New season comes in September. Nice. The Boys. Christian Bale is my man. What's his name? From the 1980s was really good. Oh, let me take these guys down. Best is Bale by far. Second comic stream in a row. Second comic book reading stream in a row. Nice, nice. Clooney was a bad visa card. He goes, yeah, most celebrities are pretty dang annoying when they share their insanely privileged opinions, indeed. Or they're just, what do you call it? They're part of Deep State. They are saying what they need, what they've been told to say. Yeah, Michael Keaton. I like Michael Keaton Batman. As far as I'm concerned, Michael Keaton Batman was, for me, was the best Batman. I like them. Christian Bale was the best. Yeah, a lot of people say Christian Bale. I don't know where to put the break. I have no idea. How are you doing? What? No. Love for Michael Keaton. Oh, Cheryl, you're Michael Keaton as well? I'm Michael Keaton. I think he was the best Batman. Keaton will return as Batman. No joke. Michael Keaton was awesome in the film. Mr. Mom. Strange, I watched Batman 1989 last night. I remember watching it at the cinema in a five-pound t-shirt. It's Indian. It's Indian. That's why. That's why I had a hard time pronouncing it. Michael Keaton was the best bird man too. Mr. Mom is awesome. Is it? I haven't seen Mr. Mom. I like Michael Keaton though. He was a good actor. Or he is a good actor. We don't want another major death in the acting. Keaton and Affleck are set to start in the upcoming flash movie. Really? Flashpoint? Wow. Going back in time. I don't know how big either of their roles will be though. Yeah, I can't see it being big. I think it depends on who you grew up watching. Me personally, I grew up with the Dark Knight trilogy so I prefer Bill. Yeah. Great 80s comedy, Mr. Mom. Oh, I think I've seen it. When... Yeah, yeah, he's taking care of the kids and stuff. I think so. I think I've seen it. I think we did Canadian Batman. What's his name? Jim Kirk. He'll take on Batman and sleep with Catwoman. We'll do a poll again for which comic we're reading. Yeah. Are we all in gang? We're 15 minutes in. Should we do a poll? We are forcing ourselves towards the cult. The cult. I know lots of discussion about the cult. Gang, here are the choices we have for this week's reading. We got Valiant Comics. First appearance of Exo Man of War. Jim Shooter, Bob Layton, Barry Winsor Smith Pencils. Important comic. Came out in 1992. We got Kid Colt. Marvel Comics. Script by Stan Lee. The cover art is Jack Kirby. The inking for the cover is Dick Hares. There's Dick Hares artwork in here. And Jack Keller artwork in here. All the scripts are by Stan Lee. And this one is 1962. We got Crime Does Not Pay from 1952. So we got Golden Age Silver Age, Modern Age Comics. 1952. It's a John Dillinger story in here. Lev Gleason. It's one of the main titles that came out during the Golden Age of comic books. They would sell millions of copies of these. And we got Batman the Cult. It's part one of a four-part mini-series. Prestige format that was released in 1988. And the story is by Jim Starlin. And the artwork is Bernie Ritzen. And Bill Ray that colors for this. Those are our choices. No, we're going to knock these ones down before we bring more choices in unless I do a comic book haul where people say we should read and then we read. Because we do need to read these. These are in these comic books. Aside from this one, this one was from the Kid Colt was from a comic book haul. Someone mentioned that we should do a reading on it. So we got it off for a choice for reading. But these three comic books, The Cult, Crime Does Not Pay, and Exo Man of War are from our reading set number four that we announced like two, three years ago that we're slowly trying to make our way through. But as soon as we finish reading these four, I'll bring out another five and we do. Unless I introduce from a comic book haul another one to top it up or whatnot. Yeah, new Batman is pretty skinny. But I'm okay with skinny. One thing I'll mention, I'm tired of big bulky superhero. Like Batman being all puffed up like a steroid junkie and stuff like this. To me, that's not the way it would be. Like one of the greatest fighters in history, human history was Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was not a muscle bound steroid junkie. He was a fighter. Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest fighters there was. Tyson, given he was a tank, powerhouse. One of the things I really don't like is that's one of the reasons I loved All Star Superman with Grant Morrison. Because they didn't draw Superman as this bulky muscle bound person. Right? Superman doesn't need to be that. His little pinky could take out anyone. So when I see Superman taking a fly and punch towards someone, I'm like, dude, you know what you're doing? That will knock a planet out of orbit. So I personally am not a huge fan favorite of bulky superheroes, unless they're meant to be bulky. Right? Graham, Chico, could we ever do a comic book reading like we do the movie club where we throw, I'll suggest it for sure. For sure. The problem is my comic books aren't organized very well. So if by the way, this is an open invitation game. When we do comic book haul videos, if there's any comic books that you would like read from those comic book haul videos, keep in mind, we do have comic books we've selected previously that we want to read. But if there's any comic books that you guys want read, like for example, this is from a comic book haul and we've done these before, let me know. Just make a comment and if we can, we'll add it to our reading list and we'll read. Right? I do love reading my comic book haul. So if there's anything that we do that you like it, let us know and we'll do it. It's Vince. How are you doing? Daredevil wasn't buffed and he was fucking amazing. Agreed? Agreed. Right? He was amazing. What I loved about this Batman is that he doesn't know how to stop. Bulk is a negative to fully fighting ability. Elurgot, I agree with Elurgot, 100%. The bulky people, the endurance isn't very good. Okay, they're not very flexible in general. Not all. There are some very flexible bulky people that I've known, but it doesn't help. Right? Cheryl, poll is ready. Let me know when you'd like to. Okay, awesome Cheryl. Gang, should we do? Should we do? I do want to see Venom Legends of the Dark Knight number 2. I just ramble and be ready for an earthquake in Canada. Ramble, just let one go. Everyone hold on tight. I'm living proof. Very bulky and not able to fight. Oh, really obvious. Need a petite cannon. Gang, let's do a poll. Cheryl, should we run it? Run it. Let's do it. Let's see what we're going to read today. Let's see what we're going to... Comic book. That's it. The poll is up, gang. You want to place in your bets? Place in your bets. Spider-Man, how's it going? Anything Spider-Man is good for me. Poll time. Let's see what we got. We got the cult with one vote. We got crime does not pay. Oh, cult is three votes. Crime does not pay. Cult is four votes. Crime does not pay is two votes. And we got XO with one vote. And poor Kid Colt is sitting in the gates. We got four and four for crime does not pay. And the cult, wow, wow, wow. Crime does not pay is making it up. Cult is at number five. Cult has got five votes going in. Wow, wow. Six and five. Six for cult five for crime does not pay. Look at this, look at this. And XO sitting at one and Kid Colt is just chilling in the gates, chilling in the gates. Look at this, look at this. I'm casting vote, my vote, gang. I'm going with XO. XO's got two. Give XO another little bit more love, right? So we're sitting at six votes for the cult. Five votes for crime does not pay and two for XO. Okay. And crime does not, and the cult is Jim Starland and Bernie Wrightson. XO's got three now. Okay. Crime does not pay is Lev Gleason publications and from 1952. So we've got a golden age versus a modern age from 1988. Or actually, 1988 is Bronze Age, I believe. Is it not? So we've got a Bronze Age. So right now in our polls, in our selection, we've got Golden Age. We've got Silver Age. We've got Bronze Age. We've got Modern Age. What a selection. Kid Colt gets one vote. Very nice, very nice. Kid Colt is at one. XO's at three. Crime does not pay is at five and Batman is at six. Okay. Old versus modern. Very much so. And the cult wins it. Comes down to the wire. So we had six for the cult. Five for crime does not pay, three for XO and one for Kid Colt. And the cult takes it. All that Batman talk. It was going to be the cult. It was, well, almost the cult. Almost the cult. Nice. And here's the close call. Very close call. Very close call. And by the way, here's the covers for the rest of them. Okay. This is book two. I'll show you guys once we get into the reading. Finally, my favorite Batman story. Nice, nice, nice. And I think we're going to have to start doing these comic book readings a little bit later on during the day, because the sun is coming up later now and it's coming through the side windows and hitting us. So we'll try to figure things out. I was just thinking that you might, you must be over the moon. The Elder God. Oh yeah, because he loves the cult. Batman. And this is, it's amazing. Amazing, amazing story arc. What a Batman's favorite best story arcs. Okay. Jim Starlin, Bernie Wright's son. You guys are in for a treat. Elder God, are you, so Catholic Jesus has to Elder God, are you sure you would not rather hear another Super Mario Brothers reading instead? Envious. Can you tell again when the comic was released first? This one was 1988. Okay. 1988. And we'll talk about it as soon as we get into the reading. I'll do the intro for it. My birthday. Right on, Envious. Right on. Happy birthday. What month was this in? I don't have the month down for this, actually. So, so gang, I'm going to turn off notifications. I'm going to have a sip of tea first, by the way. Yeah. Happy, happy year birthday, Envious. 1988. I'm not sure what month this was released in, and you're an October, October baby. So let me turn off our notifications. I'm going to let the chat go gang. Okay. And the chat's down. I'm going to take my camera out. And I'll see you guys after the reading. Fun. We've got the glare going on. Got the glare going on. Let me do this as well. And we're about half an hour in, which is great. Which is good timing. Gives us plenty of time to read Batman, The Cult. Hi, everyone. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading. Today is August 30th, 2020. And we're doing our second comic book reading in two days. We did one yesterday and we're doing one today. We're live streaming this and we did a poll and we had a choice between four books and Batman, The Cult was the winner. So we're going to read Batman, The Cult, number one. Okay. Book one. It is a prestige format. Okay. Mini series that came out in 1998. And the writer for this is Jim Starland. The artist is Bernie Riteson. The colors were done by Bill Ray and the lettering was done by John Costanza. Okay. And Jim Starland is huge, huge, huge. If you like the Infinity Gauntlet, you got Jim Starland to thank for the Infinity Gauntlet. Okay. He was basically the brains behind that. We're going to take this out so it doesn't get the glare too much. There we go. Get the camera to focus on it. Okay. And he done a lot of work, a lot of Batman stories, a lot of Captain Marvel stories. He created, he worked on Epic Illustrated a lot, right? He created Dread Star and again, Infinity Gauntlet, Adam Warlock. He co-created a lot of characters, including Drax and Gomorrah and Thanos. Okay. Bernie Riteson, a legend. One of the greatest horror artists there is and there ever will be. He was huge in making Swathing popular. He did a tremendous amount of work. He did a lot of work for House of Mystery, House of Secrets, a lot of horror stuff, Frankenstein. Okay. I'm not, I don't know about Bill Ray very much, how many books he's colored and stuff like this, but this is issue number one and each of these books had its own name. This one is referred to as Ordeal, Book One Ordeal and these are the covers for issue number two and you can get this on the Cheap Gang. Okay. If you want a fantastic Batman story and you want the original first prints of the story, Batman the Cult, relatively speaking, it's going for a lower price than it was in the late 1980s, early 1990s. Okay. So you should be able to get a really good deal on this. This is Batman the Cult number two. Beautiful covers. This is Batman the Cult number three and number two is referred to as Capture. Number three is Escape and this is the cover for it. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful and number four is and again a beautiful cover and Batman looks like he's holding a shotgun. Oh my, oh my. Is Batman losing it? And yeah, these comic books someone's mentioning that these comics are in mint condition. Indeed they are. They're beautiful condition. I do have another set of this that was my reading set I believe, but it's buried somewhere in one of the boxes. So we're going to read a mint copy of Batman the Cult. Let me put issue number two, three and four on one side and this one again came out in 1988. So let's crack it open. I wish I had my own grading company. After reading we just put it in a slab and grade it. Look at this. What a beautiful copy. What a beautiful book. What a beautiful book. And this is like there's you go along the spine. There's no dense it's let me show it to you this way. Maybe it shows better. The glare on this thing is absolutely beautiful and again it's a thick format book. This would be graded at at least a 9.8. 9.8, 9.9 and what is a 10? That's the beauty of having your own collection right? You can read mint, mint, beautiful copy books. And for these live streams we do, we do, we do, we do. Look at that. What a beautiful book. What a beautiful book. Love it. Love it. And this is the back cover. What does that say? My present reality is not a pretty sight. It is a thing of agony and delirium. Welcome to Batman's world. Right? Welcome to Batman's world. Maybe because of this we give it a 9.9. Batman is not having a good day. Shattered. Now we're just gonna straight out read this book. We're not gonna flip through it but we are gonna like this thing. This thing is gonna be hard to read like this. Oh my god. You're gonna hear cracks on this. Let's read the fine print. Wow. Oh wow, this is signed. I didn't know this was a signed book. Is that a Jim Starland signature? It looks like a Jim Starland signature game. Oh snap. Let me check number two and number three and number four. Are these gonna be signed? Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Awesome. This one's in the same shape like amazing book. Okay, this one's not signed. So we got number one signed here. Okay. And that's the kicker. I have some books signed and stuff by artists and I don't know which ones are signed or not because I really didn't chase signed books very much. So wow, wow, wow. We're reading a cult number one signed by Bernie Ratsen. And check out the price on this, right? This thing came out in 1988 and the cover price on it was 350 US, 475 Canadian. And it is a beautiful cover. Gotham City Sewers District 9-1. Would the next one be a 1? Beautiful cover. Look at the footprints. Bloodstained foot prints. Bloodstained hand prints. Very nice cover. And classic Batman. What Batman does, he's kneeled over, crushed over the manhole, right? Just looking at it, analyzing it because Batman is truly a detective first and foremost, right? And this is embossed. So these are like this that you see here is embossed so it's raised. So when you run your finger through it's Batman's glove is raised up and the manhole covers are raised up. Okay. And the writing on the manhole is raised up. And same with the cult, the logo is raised up. Okay. So the manhole is raised up, the glove is raised up and the logo is raised up. Oh my, this is going to be a tough read. Let's check it out. Batman created by Bob Kane, the cult. Let's read the fine print. Published? Published by DC Comics. Copyright 1988, DC Comics Incorporated, Art of Rights Reserve. The story characters and incidents featured in this publication are entirely fictional. Batman and all related characters and the distinctive likeliness thereof and all related Indica, Indicia, Indicia are trademarks of DC Comics Incorporated. DC Comics Incorporated, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10103. A Warner communication company printed in Canada. First printing. Cover painted by Bernie Wrightson. Publication design by Keith Wilson. Cool. Oh my, how are we going to do this? Look at that. Here we go again. Let's read Batman, the cult. This is insane. Old house on a hill and there's a guy coming up the path. Look at the path. There's a guy coming up the path. We don't know who that is yet. This is insane. I don't remember ever having seen this house before, even though I've passed this way many times. It's a ghastly apparition. It doesn't belong here on Wayne Estates. It's crazy, almost surreal. I know I should run to my father, report the strange trespass, but something within the house beckons me. I'm enthralled by this irresistible allure. I can feel the sweat trickle down my back. My heart's pounding within my chest. I don't belong here. Perhaps it's that sweat, sweet taste of the forbidden that entices me to stay at the four long panels. Beautiful. And we see this type of panel structure is basically tying us passing by. There's danger here. Death. I savor this fear that tries to overwhelm me. I can't hurt. It can't hurt me. I'm young and invulnerable. I'm a great adventurer seeking to unlock a deep mystery. It's just like in the storybooks. I'll discover the hidden secret and live happily ever after. Won't I? Beautiful artwork. Look at the details there. The door at the end of the hall makes me begin to doubt this absolute truth. There's something sinister behind it. Something cold and infinite awaits me. My spirit breaks and screams for me to run. To my horror, I open the door instead. I can't help myself. Compulsion. Each step downwards bring me closer to fear. It was only toying with me before. I know that now. Why did I come to this dreadful place? Why was I so foolish? Unless questions now. The fear waits. Useless questions now. The fear waits. There's a little dungeon door right there. Beautiful perspective. The only thing I have to decide now is whether to face the fear head on or no. I can't open it himself. No, it doesn't. The door just opens up, I guess. It doesn't matter. Ah, look at this. The Joker balances up. No matter where you run, fear will seek you out. It is undeniable, unstoppable, merciless. All about joke. My, what have we got here? Such a cute little boy. Just my type. No reason to be scared of all uncle Joker. He's only here to educate and entertain you, just like Sesame Street. Today we're going to study science. We're going to learn something about biology. Let's find out what affects 30 exploding sticks of dynamite have on the human body. It blows out the lighter. Oh, don't be such a wet blanket, Brucey. Lay back and enjoy. Everyone loves a good fireworks display. No, Bruce. So now we know what's Bruce Wayne, right? Good Bruce's eye. The Joker. How beautiful. Ah, he sees a skeleton. So Joker. April fools. You say it is in April first? Guess the joke's on me. Ha, ha, ha. Beautiful. Magical. Oh boy. You should have seen your face, Lordy. I wish I caught that on videotape. You're a very sick individual, Bruce says. You shouldn't have done that Joker. He's transforming into the bat. I've taken more than enough of your garbage. Too many people have died because of you. Those poor souls haunt my nightmares. No more. No more. No more. Oh, son, these guts. I think that's a bad one. Oh no, it's not as bad as an axe. Enough madness. Enough death. Enough. Enough. Enough. Bad man. It feels great. Why did I wait so long? If I'd known it would be so satisfying, I would have done this a long time ago. It just takes down the Joker. Look at that. He's hacking away at the Joker. I would have done this a long time ago. A long time ago. Long time ago. Time ago. Too bad. It's just a dream. Too bad. It's just a dream. The same damnable dream I've been having all week. If I were superstitious, I might think it an omen. But I don't believe in such things. Bruce Wayne firmly rooted to reality. That's me. I know a dream when I see it, Bruce says. Or thinks. He's totally bloody. Look at that. The coloring is absolutely beautiful. So previous to this, he said, I know a dream when I see it. I don't, he says. No matter how, no matter how hard you try, it always comes back to the now. My present reality, not a pre-sight, is a thing of our agony and delirium. I've been down here in the sewers at least a week, maybe longer. Hard to tell. No sunrise or sunset. Just pain and the drowning. And these two, the present reality, reality is not a pre-sight. It's a thing of agony and delirium. So it's been tortured. And these two is what we read at the back cover. Right? They took it out of this. Beautiful color work. Look at that. Look at the detail in that. And the color work changes. Don't know their real names. I call this one rat face. They live over a thousand years ago. These Indians call themselves the Mayagani, the people. They were fools. God had sent them a heavenly messenger, Savior, but these heathens were too blind to see the glory that was theirs. The savages thought they're shaman, an evil and cruel man, a tyrant. They couldn't face. They couldn't accept the all fathers strict discipline. Troublemakers within the tribe fond fan the flames of this content. They turned their band away from the light. A hardcore group of dissenters joined with chief pale bear, demanding that the shaman leave the tribe. The chief was jealous of the shaman's power, but the shaman would not be silenced. He was the chosen one. His word and gods were one. His word and gods were one. The almighty's anger struck down the chief. Unfortunately, the dark forces were powerful that day. The shaman tried to rally his powers, but the blasphemers, numbers were too great. His light faded. They hit him over the head with the axe as well. Shooting with arrows and then the spear comes out, but stubbornly refused to be extinguished all together. That is an infuriating nature of righteousness. Even the corrupt fool soon realized that they could not murder the truth. So they chose to bury it from view. They hoped that a hidden truth would be a forgotten truth. He tried to warn them of the folly of their ways. Even then, he would have forgiven them. They take him into a cave and tie him up, the spear sticking out of him. But the shaman was truly a merciful man, but the treacherous braves turned the deaf ear to him. They block him into the cave. That was their gravest air. That was their blackest sin. The totem was erected in front of the shaman's tomb. It warned that evil spirits were buried within the ultimate irony. No, no. But the heathens would not succeed in their base villainry. The glory of shaman blackfire refused to remain in tune. Shaman blackfire, is it? Do you really expect me to buy into that load of Batman says? It would be best if you did, the little rat man says. It is the word and it is good. Feels like a kalte. Very cool. The longer you resist the truth, the greater will be your pain. Patience my son, someone says in the background. Those who have not seen the light must be given time to accept the divine nobility of our cause. Do the shadow, he's speaking. Don't you recall your own skepticism when you first join the fold? You must also remember that Batman is soon to be an underworld brother, Deacon says. Shaman blackfire, that's him. Deacon Joseph blackfire, he looks like the redeemer. He pretends to be powerful, confident, could almost believe. No, I can't allow myself to think that way, to even consider the possibility. That's what blackfire wants. He wants me to doubt, to weaken. If that happens, he's won. Then, blackfire shelter for the homeless. I remember the first time I saw him. His crime, crime ally mission, alien mission, had just opened that day. The Deacon had chosen a tough neighborhood to set up his shelter. Thought I'd keep an eye on it. See, he didn't run into any trouble. There's Batman. Keeping tabs on the Deacon. But as it turned out, the shelter got along fine without any help from me. I soon forgot about it. Of course, it was about then that I started having trouble of my own. There's Commissioner Gordon, right? So that's Commissioner Gordon Batman. Checking over corpse, someone's been killed. This is the sixth hood who's been worked over in the last week. Everyone thinks as you're doing. Not guilty, Commissioner Batman's house. So maybe that guy's not dead, just worked over. I've been busy stopping a burglary at the Art Museum. Your own men will back me up on that. I didn't mean I, Commissioner says. Did this biker see his attacker? No. He got hit from behind. Attackers? Aw, he said, plural, Batman. Did this biker see his attackers? No. He got hit from behind. And then Commissioner Gordon asked, Attackers? There's lots of footprints on the snow here. Check it out. From what I can tell from these footprints, I'd say there were at least four of them. Odd, the heels on all these shoes are heavily worn down. Was the victim robbed? Batman asks. No, Commissioner says. And there's a homeless guy carrying his belongings with him, dragging his belongings with him, right? Then my guess is that you've got someone, other than me, trying to clean up these streets. Wonder who they are, Batman says. Now he's back in the cave or back in the sewers. I was like him when I first came here. Didn't want to hear squat. Of course, I was kind of heavy into the sauce back then, the guy says. Thought my old drinking buddies was crazy, hauling me down here into the sewers. It's the homeless guy going into the sewers. Was afraid they was going to kill me from my shoes. Then I finds out it ain't that at all. Still, I don't want to hear none of it. They had someone else tie it up. It's the old man or the homeless guy that was just talking, right, or thinking, remembering. But the truth turned out to be stronger than my obstentious nature. The word finally touched me. I now, now revel in the deacons' holy grace. I is saved, he says. I keep my mouth shut this round. Of course, I've heard it all before, Batman, thanks. It's the classical recruiting method for all so-called religious cults. Oh, look at Deacon. He gives the, he gives the homeless guy, holds his hands, and gets close. Shows him love. First, you separate the mark from all familiar surroundings. Then you starve him a while to lower his resistance. Disorientation sets in, maybe followed by hallucinations. That leaves the victim terribly vulnerable to suggestion. It's not long before he experiences revelations. Enlightenment. That's how Blackfire obviously gets his disciples. Stand, standard brainwashing technique. But it won't work on me, Batman. My sense of reality is too strong, too strong, too strong, too strong, too strong, too strong should be very proud. Gotham is the first major city in this country to have solved this homelessness problem, homeless people problem. Good morning, Gotham. How can you claim that, Councilman? Councilman homes? I see the homeless walking the streets constantly. Sure, you see them walking the streets, but you don't see them sleeping there anymore. You don't see no shantytown setups. But this city's own figures show there are not enough public shelters to handle all of Gotham's homeless individuals. We seem to have a major discrepancy here. Would you care to explain how this can be, Councilman? Gladly, it's obvious that the private sector is taking care of the overflow. Besides, I think once we check into it better, we'll find that the problem wasn't as bad as everyone thought. Big smiles from the Councilman. What a salesman, what a salesman. I find that hard to believe. So did I. That's gotta be Bruce. But then again, I hadn't come across anyone sleeping on the streets during any of my recent night patrols. The question remained, where were all the homeless people going at night? Now, we're back into the present with Batman and the sewers tied up. The Mayagari Indians scuffed at the truth also. They paid for their disbelief. The maize in the field died unharvested. The game in the woods disappeared. The Mayagari finally had to pack up and look for new homes. But they weren't going to get off that easy. Two days into their exodus, they ran afoul another tribe. No one escaped the slaughter. Thus did they pay for their sins. All those who doubt the word must share their fate. Let the heavens rejoice. Let evil beware. Evil beware. Then it was about a week ago. A riverside warehouse Batman remembers. They were evil. They deserved to die. Absolutely fantastic. The watchman had a wife and two kids. The hijackers didn't want to leave any witnesses behind. Crewmen killed the watchman in a warehouse, I guess. Who's that? Who's that? The night's prophets were all they cared about. VCRs worth a grand, a unit on the streets. 200 units. 200,000 split four ways for two hours work. Not bad. What's the name of the box? Famous names, FN. Ha ha. Home video recorder. A knife comes out. Look at this. Look at this. There's people watching them. The eyes and the knife. Sandwiched the robbers. Oh, it's the homeless people. Look at that. Not bad at all. 200,000 dollars. About to pay the price for that. The slaughter here. Wow, look at the slaughter. I showed up on the crime scene the next morning. No one suggested that this might be my doing. Once again, footprints, plain footprints, plainly told the true story. Look at all the bloody footprints, right? They made no effort to obliterate the evidence. It was as if they didn't care who knew. Maybe they didn't. To butcher four humans the way they did, they had. I figured they had to be pretty far gone. They couldn't be hearing the same music the rest of us were. I was more than mildly surprised by where the trail ended. And all going into the sewers, right? Linking up with the cover. Beautiful. Got to love comic books where the cover is part of the story. Beautiful coloring. Different coloring for different periods. Fantastic, beautiful storytelling. No way to track them from here, from there. They had escaped into what I was soon to learn was the underworld's empire. The Dutch landed in 1609. One group of these pioneers landed at what would eventually become Gotham City. They were surprised to find no Indians in this area. Because of this, they thought it would be safe to start two separate colonies. One by the shore, the other further inland, where the farming would be better. Unfortunately for them, the latter group chose the lands of the long dead Mayagani to settle on. It was inevitable that they stumbled upon the Shaman's tomb. Of course, they didn't understand the tomb's warning message. It wasn't the call of heavenly glory that made these settlers unseal the Shaman's tomb. These Dutchmen were more in tune with the truth than were the Mayagani. They thought the cave would make a good root cellar and storage area. They were fools. Of course, Shaman Blackfyre sensed the vokati, of these men's souls. He dealt with them accordingly. It's been about a million years since the last, since I last ate. They fed me the bare minimum required to maintain life. No wonder there's constant buzzing in my head. The food tastes rancid, like wall paste. I'm beginning to think they're putting something in it. Might just be my imagination though. Who cares? He's eating it. Then it was foggy that night. All the ugly little pieces weren't in place yet, but it was beginning to see the picture. Disappearing homeless people, vigilante murderers escaping down sewers, questions without answers, connections that needed filling in. There's Batman up top, flying over from one rooftop to the other. Cool. The sound of a .45 caliber interrupted. Two teenage punks with guns. One middle-aged street vendor. The odds needed evening. What was he selling? Pretzels. Oh, hot pretzels. They killed a guy who was selling hot pretzels. Oh, I've seen their type before. Creatures without conscience or remorse. They don't think other people matter at all. The only thing in life they care about is their own kicks. All the faces, all the players, four people in the scenario. No conscience, no remorse, fear and anger, joy and satisfaction in the burglar's face. I haven't killed them yet. They just shot them. But they're still young. Maybe they'll learn Batman things. So I decided to take it easy on them. Oh, there's a Batman coming in from behind, from the shadows. Beautiful. Oh, just takes one of. But not too easy. I want them to remember to come out with one punch and one kick. I was anxious to get back to the down and outer. I've been shadowing. I've got careless. I paid for it. Oh, there's a guy behind them in the shadows with a gun. Look at that. Look at that. Didn't know there was a third person. Careless, careless. I want to hit some dumb, dumb man falls. Look at that. And he's pissed off at himself. The vendor decided he wasn't up to returning the favor. I just did him. Oh, the vendor runs away. There's an old saying, no good deed shall ever go unpunished. The other two punks are getting up. It's got Batman opportunity to kill the Batman, to take out the Batman. Something happens. It's a lie. Oh, someone stabs him in the back. Look at the two punks running away in the background, right? His friends abandoned the guy that just got stabbed in the back. Who's this guy? I try to get up to thank my rescuer, but that falls apart. And this is the image from the back as well, right? This right here that we saw here, and those were the words that we read before, right? And the person drags Batman away. Let's see the graffiti, the tags. Rules. 022. Ah, rules. Ozzy. Ozzy rules, I guess. VOT. OVT. I don't know what OVT stands for. And there's Batman coming to, he blacked out and he's coming out of it now, right? Slowly, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more is revealed, right? Beautiful panel work. Beautiful panel work. There's the deacon. That was the last thing I expected to see when I came to. All my questions answered. Behold, the underworld empire Batman. God has sent you to us. The deacon says. And there's all his disciples right there. I welcome you, gives Batman a kiss. And I was not happy about the kiss. Look at that. The office of police commissioner James Gordon. Say you say, so you say you haven't heard from Batman in over a week, commissioner asks. He's disappeared for several days at a time in the past while working on a case, but never this long. Not without hearing some word from him. It's like an epidemic, Robin. Oh, is that Robin? Oh, that is Robin. Look at that. He's got the capon, right? And he's got the gloves. You can see it right there. So that's Robin. It's like an epidemic, Robin. What do you mean? He asked the commissioner. People are disappearing all over town. And we haven't a clue to where they're going. I tell you, Klaus is really scary out there. Unnatural. Two cops talking. This time of night, the square should be packed. Yeah, he says. It should be wall-to-wall pimps, hookers, dealers, and other assorted hustlers out there. It ain't, though. Just look it out there. Cops are surprised. Look at this. Nobody around. Let's get out of here. Even the cops don't want to stick around. Look at this. The cops are out of there. They burn out, drive off. Looks like it's snowing. Look at that. In the light, either raining or snowing, I guess. I would say snowing based on what we see on the tree and the bushes. Look at this. Beautiful color work. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Peep show. The little thing there says peep show. There's a guy standing in the doorway. Someone walking by. Crack, ludes, reefer. No thanks. The guy walking by says, shithead. The dealer says, and look at that. Three hands coming out to grab him. So there's got to be at least two people there, right? And whoop. There goes the drug dealer. Done. So we're back to the pioneer time. The next day, two men from the shore side settlement found the inland village deserted. Not a soul was to be found. There were signs of violence. There was blood. But there were no bodies. The only clue to ever surface about this mystery was a statement made by a trapper later that same day. There's a trapper. He claimed to have seen a marked a naked Indian walking through the woods coming from the settlement. There's a naked Indian right there. Back in the sewers. Let me guess. The naked man, it was big, bad, deacon black fire. Right? Batman says, the rat guy says, this one has no respect for the word. We tell him the parables and he laughs. I have had enough of his mocking blasphemy. He must be shown the error of his ways. Batman knows what's coming. The torturing Batman and deacons listening. Have the doc look at him. We don't want him. Want that burn. Getting infected. Hang in there, man. You've got to hold it together, Batman says. Hold it together and it just softs into another memory. Where's the bitch? Been waiting here in an hour. Of course she'll have some lame excuse. She always does. Ain't going to hear none of that bull this time. Going to black in the trampside. Maybe I'll... so this must be the pimp. Maybe I'll... Hey you. Isetro. Isitro. Look at his hair. Who wants to know? Me, I guess, person says. And who are you, old man? Awesome homeless guy. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Look at the faces on here. Beautiful artwork. Beautiful artwork. No one really. What you want? Got a message from Sally. The old man says Sally. I don't know, no. Oh yeah, Sally. What's that? Whore wants. Righteous vengeance, the old man says. Madre Dios. What? I'm surrounded by three people. Oh, this guy's numbers up. As the numbers up. Look at this beautiful panel work. My god. So good. Got a pinkish tint to it. They're just off them. Never seen so many missing person reports in one week, Commissioner. How many does that make now, Sergeant Dillion? Over 500, sir. And that's Robin too, sitting on the desk. Been doing some checking on these missing persons. Came up with some interesting facts about them, like what Commissioner asks. Almost all the subjects of these reports have police records. Most of the people who reported them missing have rap sheets too. Interesting, no? The police officer asks. Crooks coming to the police asking them to find other crooks is more than interesting, Commissioner Gordon says. It's weird. It's got to be really bad out on those streets for the predators to be coming to us for help. The Commissioner's looking out the window. Something very scary is going on out there. Personally, I think the situation is terrific. The crooks have owned the streets long enough. It's about time, honest folks, got a break in this city. Whoever's responsible for this situation has my vote. Police are still mystified by the sudden and radical drop in crime, the reporter says. Rumors around why this decrease in the crime rate has occurred. Just rumors, no solid answers. When asked, a police spokesman said he couldn't comment on any ongoing investigation which confirms, at least to my satisfaction, that an investigation has been started concerning these matters or this matter. I never thought I'd see the day that the police would be worried about there not being enough crime and Gotham. We'll be keeping a close watch on this very unusual story as it continues to unfold. Isidro was my pimp. Oh, this is Sally, the prostitute, right? Isidro was my pimp, she says. I was in his stable for more than two years. I worked hard for the man. But then he came home all coped up one night. He accused me of holding on on him. I tried to convince him he was wrong. He wouldn't listen, listen to spaced out. That's when he pulled out his straight razor. Oh my god, Batman says. And you see Sally's face just totally cut up. Oh, he cut off her two fingers too. Look at Batman's face. Isidro Dominga, the spoiler of young women will never harm anyone again. You murdered him, Batman asks. No, we executed him. It was the only just thing to do. No, it's wrong, Batman says. What do you have us do? Leave the animal to run free? He would have surely killed next time. Should have gone to the police. They would have. Batman says. They would. He slapped his hand, have slapped his hand, and told him not to do it again, he can says. That pimp would be back on the streets before Sally's blood even dried. Not like that, Batman says. Every person here can tell you a similar story, Deacon says. The system doesn't work for the poor and unfortunate innocents. But, but, Batman, how many low lives have you busted, only to have them walk on the on a technicality? How many vile criminals are stalking these streets, free and unpunished? Some, but. The hoodlums have taken over the city. It's a cesspool out there, Deacon says. No, there are still good people out there. And they must be protected, Deacon says. That is why God sent me here. God, Batman asks. Every vice imaginable runs amuck in the city. Dope prostitution, murder, you name it. The police can no longer handle the situation. But, Batman is trying to, trying to explain. Weak liberal laws have crippled law enforcement in this country. The degenerate animals are also aided by inhuman money hungry lawyers without conscience. Batman, yes, but. Man cannot handle the evil that amasses against him. But God can, Deacon says. This city, this country, is at the same crossroads of destiny that Sodom and Gomorrah were. Back in biblical times, they must turn away or be insult by the darkness, engulfed by insult. They must, they must turn away or be engulfed by the darkness. It is not a choice they can make on their own, Deacon says. I have been sent to help that decision. You have been chosen to aid me in this endeavor. I think he just pulled Batman with a, I think so, some kind of drug because Batman is dozing out again. What did you, you, you, passes out. Be not afraid, my son, that the glory be revealed to you. It's gotta be all lucid genetic. It's trippin' all. You must realize by now that you and I are on the same side in this battle against evil. The only sensible thing for us to do is to join forces. They're freeing Batman. He's been totally drugged, so he's harmless. It's true our methods of operation differ slightly, Deacon says. But I'm sure I can show you why my way is better. It's only a small step over the line which separates us. Take that step, my friend, you'll feel better. Believe me, I don't begrudge you, you, your doubt, my son. Divine purpose is a difficult pill to swallow. Look at Batman. He's melting. But the light of truth shall open your eyes. I am the messenger of the Almighty. I am the herald of Greek change and of the shadows. Look you upon the proof of my words. Look and behold the unquestionable cosmic truth. My dear, look at the totem and drugged out as all homeless guys kneeling, praying. The totem is the symbol of of and servant to my power. It has grown over the centuries as has my might, great totem. I have a non-believer with me. Though infidel he be, he still wishes enlightenment. Open his eyes to the grandeur. Grant him revelations. Look at the smile on the Deacon's face and the horror on Batman's face. The totem looks like it's moving. Eyes glowing as hallucinating. The gate into infinity opens. The wordless message reaches me. I am saved, Batman says. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, my son. Speak to me. The Deacon says, see, see, Batman says. I see happiness in him. He's saved. He falls down onto the ground in front of the Deacon. Take him away. He has been converted, they say, where the Deacon says. Big smiles on the Deacon's face. Look at this. Got Batman joining his cult. Who wouldn't be happy about that? Every cult leader needs Batman. The streets again. Don Perry walks through one of Gotham's less well-to-do neighborhoods. Neither the environment nor the late hour bother him overly. His crown to adolescence on these mean streets. He knows how to survive them. Oh, he's grown to adolescence on these mean streets. He knows how to survive them. It's not always easy to do that in a place like this. Sometimes you've got to bend the law a little to get by. What's he doing? Don Perry doesn't consider himself a criminal. Being a bag man for a number runner ain't no big deal. Ah, bag man, that's what he's doing. He's taking the money and the numbers. He's gambling. Right, right there. It's not been easy since dad took off. Hardly ever see mom anymore because of her job at the restaurant. The numbers help keep food on the table. Maybe they'll also provide a ticket out of this hellhole outside. Some of the papers from his sketchbook. There's a sketchbook. So papers are falling out. Look at that. He's a comic book artist. Don wants to be an artist someday. Folks tell him he's got talent. Don Perry. He hopes to save up enough money to go to art school someday. He don't blow his cash on dope or anything stupid like that. It collects his pages off the ground. Look at that. When Don gets older, he wants to become a famous comic book artist. Just like Jack Kirby. Yes. That's his dream. 1988 Jack Kirby drop. Unfortunately dreams don't always come true. Oh no, look at the sticks they have. They got nails on them. Sometimes unexpected reality gets in the way. Oh no, look at them. Surrounded. They beat him to a pulp. Don Perry. It all begun. It all begins to fall into place, Jake. The competition is weakening while our own strength grows immensely. Only if we can keep your band of religious zealots in line. Who's this person? That's your job to keep an eye on them, Jake. I'm depending on you. Oh, it's all a show. It's all a show. Just like most cults say. I convert them, you control them. That's the deal. You sure you did a good job on the Batman? You should have seen his eyes, Jake. He's broken. He believes. You know I've spent a dozen lifetimes preparing for this day. I'm not about to let some mass vigilantes stand in my way. Shall we take a quick look? The deacon says. I've watched the city grow, Jake, even though I've always been an outsider. I felt this my whole, this my, was my town. Felt like I owned it. Of course that's only been a fantasy. Always a dream. Not real, the deacon says. Here's Gotham, top view. But all that's about to change. The most famous cities in the world. The pages of comic books. Awesome, awesome, awesome. What a great read. And that's just issue number one. Let's see this. DC Comics Janet Kahn, President and Publisher. Let's see who was in play while this was going on. DC Comics, Janet Kahn, President and Publisher, Dick Giardano, VP Executive Editor, Den O'Neill Editor, Daniel Raspbler, Assistant Editor, Richard Brunning, Art Director, Terry Cunningham, Manager Editorial Edmund, Pat Bastien, Manager Editorial Coordinator, Bob Razacki, Production Director, Paul Levitz, Executive VP, Joe Orlando, VP Creative Director, Bruce Bristow, Marketing Director, Matt Ragon, Circulation Director, Pat Calden, Controller. Very cool, very cool. And Story by Jim Starlin. And Art by Bernie Riteson. And Coloring by Bill Ray. And, and if you came here in the middle of the reading, if you're watching this live, this was a signed copy of the cult book number one by Jim Starlin that we just read. And it's a beautiful copy. And I think we took enough care of it, where it probably, grade-wise probably went down from a 10 to a 9.9. Or 10 to a 9.8. Beautiful, beautiful copy. We should be putting this in Mylar and I will be after this reading. Awesome, fantastic read game. What an amazing, I hadn't read this for a long time. It's been 30 years since I read this. And holy Kamolis, I forgot how awesome it was. What a fantastic read. What a fantastic read, right? And here is book number two, right? Continuation of the story. Capture. So this one was called Ordeal, book number one. Book number two is Capture. And then book number three is Escape. And book number four is called Combat. Fantastic, fantastic. Yeah, I haven't read this since I picked it up, but I have another copy. I believe this was copies that I bought just to put, just to keep because they were so beautiful. I'm pretty sure I have additional copies, another set at least, in the boxes I have. But we ended up reading the signed copy. I got to make sure I make a little note here that this guy signed. Gang, if you're watching this as a video, thank you for being here for the reading. What we're going to do now is go back to the live stream and I'm going to turn on the notifications and the chat and I'm going to turn on my camera. What a great read, what a great read, what a great read. And we're only a few minutes over. Only a few minutes over. 15 minutes over our scheduled timing, right? Fantastic. Very fun read, very fantastic read. Batman the Colt, look at this, look at this. Batman the Colt. You can pick this up for the cheap if you want to read the set. You should be able to. Okay, I've seen sets of Batman the Colt, one, two, three and four selling for ten dollars. Okay, that was worth the wait. It's been a long time since I read that, yeah, Elder God, me too, man, me too. And I forgot how vibrant, how brilliant the coloring was. I forgot how amazing, amazing the panel work is. I forgot how brilliant the writing is. Absolutely magnificent. Absolutely magnificent. The greatest Batman stories have never been told, have never been portrayed in film. Okay, the greatest Batman stories, if you want to read a Batman story, all the great ones are in comic books. The comic book stories blow away any Batman movies or anything that's come out. Okay, except maybe for the Batman animated series from the 1990s, the Batman animated series was absolutely beautiful. Okay, especially the Joker. Okay, so Batman animated series comes close to the stories told in the comic books. All the movies and stuff, they're fun, but this blows them away. Absolutely blows them away, in my opinion. Gang, should we call the stream? Let's call the stream. Tomorrow morning, we're doing music lyrics and on Wednesday we're doing a cooking live stream and we're going to talk about nostalgia, right, which is sort of related to comic books as well. Welcome to Discord. It looks like there are people joining Discord and for those of you who are joining Discord, welcome to Discord. 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