Let's check this out. Make sure we're coming in live and there we are. Nice, nice. Hi everyone, this is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to the live stream. Today, today is October 24th, 2022, Monday afternoon, 1 30 p.m. and we're doing comic book reading and we're going to read excerpts of some of the comic books that I've been reading for the last few months. There's a lot more of them reading. Stacks, stacks, stacks like this. But these are some of the ones that I've sort of, when I'm going through, when I remember, sometimes I forget to put a little marker there where I say, oh, this is interesting. This would be fun to read. But these are the ones that I've sort of highlighted for us to go through. And this is what I'm doing. I'm sort of reading some comic books and I've got stacks going. And when I can, I put a little sticky tape in there, whatnot. And when it comes to time to do a reading, I sort of pull out the ones that I've highlighted that I thought would be a good idea to read excerpts of. Okay, now while we wait for notifications to go out for people, it's windy here again. So hopefully we won't lose the internet. But it's fall season, right? We're gonna get into the rainy season and the windy season. It was a great time to do readings. But sometimes we do lose the power and whatnot. Hopefully we won't. Okay. And hopefully it won't be too noisy. But it should be a lot of fun. I love doing these readings. And I think it's important for us to continue to do these readings in addition to doing current events, economics and whatnot. But we already know what the games play. So what we're gonna do is focus a little bit more on the joys of life instead of trying to make sure we understand the game at play and what's going on geopolitically, economically and whatnot. Because this is, you know, as the saying goes, you only get one shot at this. Might as well throw in a lot of fun. Okay. Aside from that, if you wonder what this work is about, I am on Patreon. Patreon.com. For those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon, on Substack and on Twitch. Gang, thank you very much for the support. It is a large part because of your support that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. And if you guys want to participate, oh, there we go. If you want to participate in the chat, Twitch is where we want to be at. Okay. Felix, howdy chichou, how's life? I'm currently working on a Walter White costume for Breaking Bad for Halloween. I'm hosting on Saturday. Nice, nice. Are you gonna have a big plate of blue on the counter for people to partake? I hope not. And I hope it's just jelly beans or something. Felix, and as always, making music, making music. Awesome, awesome. Correct. How are you doing? Afternoon all. That work, but listening in the background. Awesome, awesome. Correct. We've got some fun reads, man. We've got some fun reads. You'll enjoy it. Lots of, a couple of mainstream, but lots of indie, lots of indie. Okay. Svensson, Svens... I gotta pronounce this right. Svens, Stevenson. How are you doing? Hope you're doing well. Indeed, indeed. Having a good time. Birdie here. Welcome, welcome to another live stream. Oh, Lord God. Welcome, welcome. You're doing Sauron. Oh, Lord God's dressing up as Sauron. Are you doing Sauron from the Lord of Rings TV show? I'm actually enjoying that. I enjoyed it, even though season's season's over. Felix Chichou, I actually am. Awesome. I'm making alcoholic blue meth candy. Very nice, very nice. Crack. I'm looking forward to it, Chichou. Indie all the way, indie all the way. Crack. That's one thing we can crack. Definitely agree on. A lot of comic book aficionados are getting. There's stuff you can get in indie comic books that's authentic, that's real, that's brilliant. No minimal sensors. Just whatever the artist want to share, they share. And it's brilliant, really. If you've only read the big two Marvel and DC, expand, expand, expand your horizons, expand your horizons. Okay. Joe, Chichou, Chichou, did you get a chance to watch? No, I haven't watched Hot Fuzz yet. I've been doing stuff. I haven't listed to sample it, but we just finished Lord of Rings. The stuff that I'm watching, we just finished Lord of Rings. Watching Andor, enjoying Andor, actually, surprisingly. Watching Resident Alien, that's a fun show. But Hot Fuzz, I'm going to get to. I'm going to get to, for sure, for sure. I love the guy who did Shauna the Dead, right? So I'll definitely be watching it. Felix, to Allah, God. I'm ashamed to admit, but I haven't seen, you haven't seen Lord of Rings. You got to watch it. Cheryl, how are you doing? Happy Monday to you as well. Well, awesome, awesome. Hal Brand, Hal Brand. Oh my God, Rings of Power was terrible. I will pass on pay that sorrow. Hilarious, hilarious. I actually enjoyed it. I liked it. I liked it. Esoteric, how are you doing? He's saying he's agreeing. Esoteric is agreeing. Rings of Power is terrible. Hilarious. One of the only art forms where you can get ideas passed from one human being directly to another with no other hands in the mix if you choose to go that way. Indeed, and that is in the comics, really gang. Once you start getting into comic books, appreciating comic books, realizing that there's a lot there that you did not expect to be there, you will be hooked. You will be hooked and there's no going back. Once you read some of some of the greatest stories ever told, and they're not necessarily in the big two, and the ideas shared, you will never look at the world in comic books the same way again. Cheryl, it was a slow start, but I loved it. And Cheryl, how was you? I loved it. I really liked it.  It sure has its problems. One of the issues I read with people that were saying elves should not have short hair. I'm like, get over it. Okay. That is the complaint that people have. Elves were being portrayed with short hair. And I'm like, dude, there were other ones as well, but I loved it. I'm with Cheryl. I'm with Cheryl. I've been awake since the breaking of the first silence. That's a spoiler warning. Felix, you ever had a pair of Doc Martens? Yeah, yeah, for sure. I've been trying to break them in and my feet look like they've been in the grinder.   And it takes a while for them to break in. And it depends on the fit, man. Doc Martens have to be loose. I haven't had one for a long time, really. But Doc Martens are loose and they're not made for walking for miles upon miles upon miles. They're made for partying to a certain degree. Broken blister. Unbroken blisters can help. Spent House of Dragon on the Contra is a massive thing. We got that queued up to watch as well. The House of Dragon. El Dugas says it was not token. Okay, it was a prequel where it sort of told the story of the Rings of Power, how they may have come to be. I appreciated it. I appreciated it. Deep Flake, how are you doing? Gang, let's finish off our intro.  You can follow the work there. For live streams where we don't have any visuals, we do have visuals today. We've got comic books. We do upload the audio soundcloud.com forward slash chichou as a podcast. And those podcasts should be available in your favorite podcasting platform, Kudus Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and something else and something else. We will be uploading this full live stream to people where we censor tube to pitch you to rumble and to Odyssey. However, everything that we do is not being loaded on censor tube. So if you want to follow everything that we do, or at least have the opportunity to watch or listen to everything that we do, you want to be on pitch your rumble on Odyssey, censor tube is a censored platform. Very unfortunate, but it is what it is. And we do have a Gilded page. You are definitely welcome to join us on Gilded where you can participate in our community, share information, find new sources of information, challenge us, question us, share your ideas, uncensored forum where you can just be who you want to be. Gang, aside from that, let me take these guys down and decide what we're going to read. Cheryl, sorry Felix, you're in that rough officially into the they're breaking me in face. Yeah, maybe taking some time off to let your feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cheryl's right. Take some time off and let your feet yield a little bit. But don't let the leather, don't let the Doc Martens sit there for too long without wearing them. Heavy socks is okay. Make sure the Doc Martens aren't tight. Really, Doc Martens should not be tight, should not be tight. From what I remember anyway, mine weren't. You should just slip in, slip out. That's the way I wore my Martens. And they're good shoes, they're really good shoes, or they used to be anyway. Gang, let's talk comics. Okay, we got a whole bunch of stuff to read. Okay, Aldegoth, Sauron escaped to Mordor after Morgoth was defeated, much earlier than the Ring's creation, rant over. Here's the thing. Okay, spoiler warning gang, if you haven't washed Rings of Power, do not listen to this next few seconds, what I'm about to say. Okay, my take was this. Sauron required the knowledge of the elven blacksmith to be able to create the nine Rings of Power that he did. Right? So, sure, he directed the elven blacksmith. No, I liked it. It was great storytelling. It was fun. Sure, but maybe he came out to seek out that information. Right? Maybe he came out to be able to find out exactly where Mithril was. Right? Maybe he didn't know where Mithril was. Sauron was a master craftsman of the Valor. Okay, so let's assume he was a master craftsman. What if? What if? He required the information to find out where he could find Mithril. Right? Where he could find in which of the dwarven kingdoms the metal was hidden. Right? Possible? Possible? Possible? Possible? And no matter how good you are, whatever master, whatever talent you've mastered, you could always learn from another master. Right? That's also the case. That's also the case. Right? Possible. Possible. Right? Possible.  My biggest issue with that was, my biggest issue with that was the elven elders would have detected Sauron's energy. That's my take. The main issue I had with that was when Sauron went to the elven kingdom, whatever it was, not a ribbon. I forget. Anyway, I'm bad with names. The elven elders should have detected his darkness. Okay. That's possible. The dwarves were created in a secret way from Morgoth and were impervious to the Ring's power. But the dwarves also had rings of power, seven of them, I think, or something. I forget. Cheryl, which heart, heart foot was your favorite to Elder God, he says? And gang, do not forget. Before we get into the readings, free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange, a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileast.org, defend.wikileast.org, or Julian Assange and wikileast playlist on censor 2. Gang, we're 15 minutes in. Let's do some comic book readings. We've got some choices here. Okay. We have this thing, indie comic, go die, by Mark Peasley. It's sort of like comic strips, like shorts. Okay. I highlighted a few. Okay. It's pretty, pretty fun read. We could start with this. Okay. We could start with this. Let me give you some choices at the beginning. Okay. We have a comic book. Okay. Nathaniel Dusk, private investigator. It's like a PI comic book. And it's by Don McGregor and Gene Cullen. And Gene Cullen is huge, huge. And Don McGregor is huge as well. Okay. Don McGregor was actually credited a British writer. He's credited by a baseman. How are you doing? Good to see you. Good to see you as well, baseman. He's credited by being one of the first graphic novel creators in the comic book medium was Saber, the graphic novel that came out. Right? In 1970, 1982, 81. Late 1970s, early 1980s. Okay. Elder God. They got seven, but were not corrupted by the weak men. And even the elves had to remove them. Cool, cool, cool. That's regarding the doors, by the way. And Gene Cullen, huge. Lots for Marvel, lots of everything, since the golden age of comics, really, or the golden age of comics. Okay. So we've got a detective story. It's sort of a chase, gun chase scene that we got here. We have just a image comics. Okay. Zero. It's very trippy. Same writer, different artists for all the issues. I think it was like 17 issue run or something like this. I just have one fight scene here that I thought was cool. And this is the only three that I've read. And by the way, again, all of these comics, 25 cents. I picked all of these comics up last year when the comic book store was doing a 25 cent sale on comic books. And I went and picked up like three short, three long boxes of comics and just, and I'm going through those and it's phenomenal, like 25 cents of comic, 25 cents of comic, and I've been just gorging on them. Right. And it's over a year now that I've been gorging on them. Right. Baseman, love rings of power. Doors had rings, but they weren't under Soran's influence. Just the interest of their own breed, which attracted the dragons. Ha ha. Okay, cool, cool. Crack. 1978 is the date of Saber, according to my... Okay, cool. 1978 then. Okay. The Saber graphic novel. Is that the Saber series? It was Eclipse comics. I believe it was Eclipse Eclipse. The series came out in 1978. I don't know when the graphic novel came out though. Right. Baseman. Despite the deviation from Tolkien's text, it was not, not all bad. I agree. It wasn't all bad. Baseman. All the gods says the fellow Tolkien purists. Yes, Eclipse comics. So we have zero here. It's, it's interesting. It's a nice fight scene. Very little. No text, actually. No text. Nicholas, how are you doing? Hey Chad. Awesome. Comic stream, comic stream. Graphic novel is dated. Oh, the graphic novel is dated 1978. Series was after that. Oh, what? Crack. The graphic novel came out before the series? I didn't know that. Oh man, that's cool. That's cool. I've been, again, I picked up a whole bunch of saga. I've read some saga before, but I picked up a whole bunch of saga issues for, again, 25 cents. And I just read them. And I have like three highlighted here that we can read. So you guys decide which ones, which one you want to read first. Okay. Here's now comics and now comics. Gang, now comics from 1980s. That's the one I know most about. And they're awesome. Awesome. So, so many cool comics. Very, some of them very rough, okay. But the only thing I want to read from this is a little note from the art director regarding censorship. Okay. So it's pretty cool. It's, I tend to read a lot of these, the notes in front of comics and the back of comics and stuff like this when I have the time. And it was really cool coming across this. Okay. And this is Siphons. It's sort of a X-Men superhero, sort of a group, pretty rough artwork, but super fun. Good to see you again.   I've been out a while with an injury. Oh, no. Yaga. Yeah, we did the, we took the cannabis down last week. I'll have it up this week. In the next few days, I'll have it up on CensorTube, Bitchu, Rumble, and Odyssey. Okay. Here is a comic British writer. Okay. From 2000 AD, really, writers in this, or the creators in this. The stainless steel rat number one, but we're not going to read the stainless steel rat number one. There's a backup story here, which I thought was super fun. And it's called Super Bean. Okay.  There is this series that came out last year, a couple of years ago, Barrier. Okay. And it was pretty cool. Now I read, I picked this up. I think I picked up number one and number two. And when I was pulling the comics, but I didn't get a chance to read them. So I picked these up for a dollar. I missed, it was only five issue run. I don't have number two here. Right? So I didn't read number two, but that's okay. I highlighted a section. Basically, we're going to flip through all of number three. It's a silent issue. Beautiful artwork. Beautiful artwork. Okay. Beautiful artwork. Really cool artwork. Okay. Beautiful colors. So these are the ones I have. These ones we'll put aside. If we go through all of these, we've got these ones from Dark Horse Comics, Crucial, Fiction, and what do you call it, Megaton Man. I don't think we'll read the Megaton Man. It's sort of, yeah, anyway, I don't think we'll read it. Okay. So I'm going to put these ones aside. Which one do you guys want to read first? Which one do you guys want to go through first? Really? Up to you guys. We could start off with the comic strips, just funny stuff. We could do a longer detective one. We could look at something, a fight scene, no words. We could read like three excerpts from Saga. We could read a little write-up regarding censorship. Superbean, funny, a little side story. And again, another sort of silent issue. Beautiful artwork. You guys decide which one you want to read. What do you call it? Whoever comes up first, if you want to read it, and if we get a second, we do. Okay. I'll hold off. Give us a little bit more time for people to pop in. The shortest read would be the Saga ones. The most dystopian one. The most dystopian one would be censorship. Let's read the little text. No, where's the censorship? The censorship is here. Should we read the censorship first? Did I pick a dystopian? You know what? These are, well, there's fight scenes and violent, but there isn't too much dystopia in this one, in these sets. Let's read a little note regarding censorship. Okay, let's bring this out here. And this is Siphon. Who did these actually? 990. During the bubonic plague of 1347, kings of Sadism took full opportunity to slaughter already weakened groups of undesired people across all of Europe, see what men of the sword do, and are capable of hiding deep within themselves their ideologies and rulers via massacre. What's this? What's this from? What's the description of this from? Is it from one of these? I don't think it's from one of these in comics. 990. Now this is now comic symphony. And story and art is Alan Kurtis, Inc's by R. Davis, B. Thomas. Okay, now I don't know if the incur was the same for all of these. And you can tell the covers, I don't know why the covers ended up being so brutal for these. The artwork is, it has its problems, but it's not bad. I like the storytelling in this. Really, it was a fun comic, right? You're studying European history, right? Not hilarious. Brutal. European history is brutal. But let's read this game. This is sort of a little write-up. And did he have a write-up in all of these? Yeah, there's a little write-up in all of these. But this one stood out to me, right? And it's regarding censorship, okay? So this is Siphon's number six, okay? Let's see if I'll focus. Siphon's number six. And it came out in 1987, okay? Came out in 1987, published every other month by now comic. So by monthly, right? Okay. First time chat. How are you doing, Max? Why? How are you? You've been here before. Why is this first time chat? It says Hichon Chat. Finally have time to catch a live stream. I deactivated my Twitch for a while, but glad to be back. Glad to have you back, Max. Glad to have you back. So here's a little write-up, okay? Check this out. Now, this is, remember, this is from 1987, right? 1987. And this is what centralized power has tried to do forever, right? Which is censorship, controlling information, tracking you, right? So somebody's watching you and you don't even care, right? Let's read this little write-up. Tchoo. Bastion of safe family humor, end quote, that they once were, to which I respond, quote, when, show me the great strips, the strips that are remembered were not safe.  They tell us the amazing Spider-Man is, quote, blatant violence running rampant, end quote, unlike, unlike one assumes the, quote, safe family strips, end quote, of days gone by like Popeye or Dick Tracy. They tell us haggard or horrible, quote, promotes poor manners, end quote, and quote, presents bad role models for young men and women, end quote. They tell us Dennis the Menace is, quote, an obvious attempt to subvert authority figures, end quote. Not all strips are bad, of course. Their list of positive strips include Marvin, Garfield, and the Muppets. But my, my, oh my, let's look at these approved strips. Marvin teaches children how to manipulate their parents. Garfield promotes slovenness, slovenness, apathy, rudeness, and overreacting, all together in a whiny voice, quote, but he's a cute kitty cat, end quote, and the Muppet shows interspecies intercourse as gas harmless. Now, I realize that in this particular form, I'm preaching to the already converted, but the time has come to get, to get up off your couches and fight back against these are arbiters of decency. What will it take to wake you all up? It's, it's them or us, and you can't stick your bull, bull, bulbous heads in the sand and see, say they won't notice us, or that they'll eventually go away, or that if we give, give in and put ratings on our craft, they'll leave us alone. These people are organized. They're small, but they're vocal and they're organized. While the comics community can't get together enough to agree that there is a threat, this is your art, your business, your lives that these people are mocking, mocking about with. Signet Ash, art director, now comics. I thought that was important to read. Okay. I thought that was important to point out that those organizations, those individuals that have been trying to censor humanity are not people that are just appearing now, right? Even not have they have so much power censoring information online in schools, in public places, in media, right? They have been trying to do this forever and it didn't begin in 1987 or 80, when was this 1987? Okay. It didn't begin with the golden age of comics, doing the golden age of comics with the seduction of the innocent. This is centralized power trying to control humanity. Okay, gang. And as this art director states, as this art director states, where is it? These people are organized. They're small, but they're vocal and they're organized.  Don't give these people an inch. Don't give the censors an inch. Gang. Okay. Don't give the censors an inch. That's enough preaching for me. Mr. Yizukaya just popped in and said, Chicho, do the crab apples need to be soft for them to make them into jam? No, no. Actually, the harder the better. Not better, but you don't want them to be too ripe. Making too ripe fruit into jam is very difficult or crab apple butter. Okay. Have I been reading any manga? No, not lately. Not lately. Check this out. Okay. Let's read. Let's read. Let's read some saga. Okay. Let's have a read through a little bit of saga. Just short excerpts. Okay. Short excerpts. Now, if you haven't read saga, read saga. I haven't read the whole thing. Okay. It's Brian K. Vaughn. Okay. And Fiona Staples. And this is one of the quintessential comic book series runs that has come out in last, when did it first come out? In the last 15 years or so. It came out in the mid 2000s, I believe. Hold on. This is 2000. So this is saga number, chapter number 20. So issue number 20. And it's dated as 2014. So if they put out 12, if they put out 12 per year, let's say 11 per year, you can go back one and a half years. So saga began in mid, maybe I shouldn't show that one. Mid, what do you call it? I lost my train of thought. Early 2000s. Early 2000. There we go. 2012. Thank you very much, Krai. It was the first issue of saga. 2012. Early 2010. So 2012. Now, let me... Good. I'm going to skip that page. So we're going to read two pages, two pages from Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples, saga number 20. And I'll get a couple of more segments we're going to read. This is just two pages we're going to read from here. I'm here for you, but thank you very much, Krai. Okay. Now, saga is more a mature read. Okay. You don't want eight year olds to read this unless they're mature. Okay. Nine year olds, I'm not 10 year olds to read this unless they're mature. Okay. So, and this is okay to show because you know, there's no nudity and stuff in it, but it can be a little bit on the harsher side. Okay. So, and these people, the stage is set. This is the, this is sort of a whore house. Okay. And a royalty has, is visiting. This is a space opera, by the way. If you don't know anything about saga, it's a space opera.  Right. And there's a lot of stuff going on, a lot of side stories and whatnot, but we'll read this little segment because I thought it was hilarious. I know you're watching me and that's the prince talking to the management and I want more. Right. And the prince has got, he's participating in what the establishment offers. Okay. Oh, wait a second. I'm going to take my video down. I'm going to take my thing down. I'm going to take the chat down as well. Okay. Apologies for keeping this up. Let's take the chat down. Is bone a pretty adult? No, bone is a, bone is a, is good for kids. Why do I remember it being in my elementary? No, no, bone is, is all ages. It's good to read. Okay. Bone is, is fine. So let me take these down and let me take down my, my camera as well. I'll come back up after we finish all these readings. Okay. So check this out. So the prince is participating in what the place has to offer. And this is the madam that's in charge of the place. Okay. You heard the man send down another three sales associates added to his tab. The madam says, ma'am, ma'am son, how much longer are we going to let him stay? The blue blood is clearly unwell. Right. And what's going on? This prince, there's sort of the centralized power or the power they're looking for him. Okay. It's six trillion kid.  Yeah, but they're not all missing persons. He says, shouldn't we tell someone in the robot kingdom? We know where Prince four is. You know the rules. Our customers privacy is sank, sank, sank, sank, at least until the credit runs dry. And he's showing the, the newspaper, right? It's a boy, but where's dad, right? And he's, he's a new father as well. But the prince has a newborn, the helper says, right?  That's probably why he's here. Nothing drives a man to new pussy faster than seeing a kid come out of the old one. I just thought that was a fantastic, fantastic punchline. I don't agree with it. I don't agree with it. However, however, I thought that little segment was okay to share, okay to share. And you can tell that, like I said, this is a mature series. This is a mature series of controllers and it's like, love, love, true. I like saying, I love this idea with some more, never seen something like this. Keep up the good work. Thank you very much, Alex. We're enjoying things. We're enjoying things. Here's another segment from, what's this one about? Oh, this is about reading. This is great. This is great. I'm stealing that. This is my Facebook status. All the God says. So this is from, again, Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughn, right? This is 34, issue number 34. And this is about reading. This is, this was brilliant as well. This was really brilliant. I really like this. And the story here is this girl is one of the main characters. Okay. She's sort of the narrator of the story to a certain degree. And this is her teacher. And she has revealed something about herself to the teacher and the teacher ended up fainting and hitting her head. And then she got admitted to the hospital. And the teacher is really good. And she's keeping her secret. Okay. And she's visiting her in the hospital to share something with her. Okay. And she's a great teacher. She's a great teacher. Right. She's a great teacher. You're sweet to worry, but my mother-in-law is watching the boys. The warden wants to keep me here overnight for observations, mostly to make sure I don't sue. I'm sure. Well, I'm real sorry I made you fall down. So I brought you a present, she says. It's my, it's my parents' favorite. The Oswald Heist. A nighttime smoke. That's a saucy cover, saucy cover. Granny loves it too. So she got a bunch for our library, she says. But that one's from a book swap. So she said I could give it to you since it's got too many grown-up parts for me anyway. This is very kind, Hazel. I haven't read any heists since high school, the teacher says. The man who wrote it is pretty much how my mom and dad decided to make me. Let's see if it'll focus. Do you think he's the best writer ever too? Hazel asks. The teacher's reply. He's very clever, but I don't think artists should be ranked like race horses and no offense to the rest of your family, the teacher says. But anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books. And then Hazel, Hazel narrates. Right? Of the many things my first teacher taught me, that's the one that's stuck. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. These are the, and this is one of the reasons Saga has become very respected series in the comic book medium, right?  And that's Signature Brian K. Vaughn. That's Signature Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples doing the artwork is magic, right? But brilliant, but brilliant. Okay. I thought that was super cool. Crazy bro Athens, welcome to our live stream. Lots of love, lots of love. Cheryl, Cheryl, just what every teacher wants to receive from a student. Ha, the trauma, the trauma. Here's another, this is a longer little segment, okay? This is Saga issue number 43, and this little segment is about abortion. Considering our current predicament in the world, I thought this was important to share as well. Okay. Welcome to abortion town. What the F? What the F? Let's check it out. How are these strangers? Looks like he's the sheriff in town of abortion town. Welcome to abortion town. A very pleasant morning to you, Dr. Sheriff. My name is Earl Robot, Ally. I don't know what the symbol of the Roman numeral for that is. Hey, come on, focus. Ally. And I have, and I was hoping you good people would be able to assist one of my young soldiers with her situation. And check this out. She's like crazy pregnant, and she's one of the main characters. She's Hazel's mum. Okay. The little girl that we saw, her mum. Well, albeit you don't get much royalty this far out west, but of course, we're here to help all women in their time of need. Thank you, Hazel sense. Not Hazel, Hazel's mum sense. Sorry, sir. I'm going to have to ask you to stay outside city limits abortion town is only for ladies and their immediate family. Man, this gentleman is family. He's the father of my child, she says, but I didn't think this kind of kind and and wings could, you know, the sheriff says, I get there we go. We were under the same belief, but let me assure you that procreation between our races in us is unquestionably possible. Still, our unplanned offspring will likely suffer horrific mutations. So for the good of both our worlds, we need to, we need the fetus terminated and it's remains discreetly disposed of. Uh, how far along are you, darling? About eight months, she replies. Your third trimester? I'm powerful, powerful. Sorry, but there ain't a thing we can do for you.  Simmer down, Earl, she says. Wish it weren't the case, but we're under landfall jurisdiction. You don't like their rules for a woman's body? You can take it up with the wings, elected officials, most of whom ain't women, mind you, she says. This isn't about your utterly banal political sentiments. This is about our lives, he says. Please, we came as soon as we could, but we were very far away from the only planet that offers this procedure. Isn't there anything you can do? The sheriff thinks. On the other side of this rock, there's a place called Badlands. Hell of a dangerous trip, but the doctors out there, out that way, are willing to do just about anything. No questions asked, but you all didn't hear that from me, she walks away. We'll read the next page as well. Never fear, never fear, Alana. No matter how long it takes, we will journey to these Badlands and finish what we aren't going doing shit, sir robot.  But where am I supposed to go, he says? I don't give a good goddamn. All I know is I never want to see you, your face again. And then this is Hazel narrating the girl again, right? My name's Hazel, and this is my mother, but that's not me in there. And this is definitely not my father. It's like a long story, but I can get you up to speed. And then it sort of continues and stuff like this, sort of narration, gives you a little intro or whatnot. Pretty cool. So it's, it was interesting that even in a space opera, and this is, this came out, 43 came out. What year did it come out? It was before this whole row versus weight thing exploded in the United States. Let's see, it came out in 2017. Okay, saga number 43, May 2017. Just because, you know, the row versus weight thing was happening in the United States, I thought that was worth sharing.  Let's look at a silent comic. Let's look at a silent comic and then we'll read some excerpts. Okay, this one, actually, let's do, you know what? Let's do the fight scene, because the fight scene is super cool. The fight scene is super cool. This is from zero. Okay, from image comics. I've only read three issues of zero. Okay, I picked these up for 25 cents a pop, right? And I don't know too much about the series. It's trippy. It's extremely trippy. The writer for this series is, don't be this guy. Let's check it out. Alice Knot, cut, at least cut, Ailes Kott, Ailes Kott. Okay, really, I don't know too much about the series. The three issues, these three issues that I read were sort of disjointed. Okay, they were trippy. I love all the artists for all issues are different. And I believe there's like 17 issues or 16 issues. I love this cover, mushroom cover. Super cool. The artwork inside is like, wow. Again, it's different artists for each issue. So it's, I believe, for each issue. So it's pretty trippy. Here's another one, but I don't think we're gonna read this one. But let's look at this one. And it's sort of a fight scene. I think it was well done. Okay, and this one is about this guy. And I think the story is mainly about this guy. Okay. What do you call it? Check this out. Edward Zero was a secret agent. He quit the agency.  And this character just appears at the beginning of it. Sarah, there we go. Sarah Cook runs the agency, right? And the artist for this is Alberto Ponticili. Okay. And again, Ailes Cott is the writer. Alberto Ponticili is the artist. Jordi Baller is the colorist. And I believe Clayton Cowles is the letterer for this. And again, it's sort of a silent issue, except for this beginning little dialogue. Oh yeah, what issue number is this? This is issue number 13. Okay. Issue number 13. And it came out. And, and, where's the fine print on this? Okay, we don't know when it came out. It came out recently. Oh, here we go. Issue number 13, 2014. Okay. So it's a recent, no, I guess it's not that recent anymore. Eight years ago. Right? Eight years ago. The ship you gun in the drawer, she says. I'll go burn the documents.  This guy's a badass. He's got his gun. Presses the button for the elevator. The door is opening up. And it looks like there might be someone in there. The soldier says big guns, big guns. Pull up their guns, try to shoot them. I guess it's out of bullets. I'll show you guys the cover of the, so elevators going down. They're just going at it.  That's a blood. Oh, thank you very much for the sub 39 months straight. He's choking him. Look at this. Love the gun coming in. He sees it. Pulls back. Brings in the other guy's head of the gun. Hold the gun. He's got the other guy. Put his eyes on this new guy. Wow. The guy with the helmet, right? Pointing gun towards him. There goes his face. Where should I say his whole head? Shotgun will do that at a blank range, right? And they got blups. I think the fight's out of this guy. They both look at it. Who's first to react? Hero elbows him in the face. Look at this brutality. Awesome. Look at this. Just carnage. Just carnage. Let's look at these panels. Let's look at these panels. Make sure we're focused. It's beautiful. This guy uses elbows a lot. He puts it across. Then again, there's the kicker. The guy's lovin' it. Lovin' the fight.  Goes in. Then the guy dodges. Look at this. Let's see. There. He dodges it. Graves the wrist. Oh, and someone grabs your wrist like that. It's not a good thing. That's not gonna end well for that wrist. And twist and break. There goes the bone. Keep on twistin'. Hit the pressure with the thumb. Create a hinge. Crack. Ah, the guy says, ah, that hurts. Hurts. Oh, and takes out the elbow. Right there. Let's get this focus goin'. Get this focus. Look at them both standin' there. They're lookin' at each other. What is this guy sayin'? What does this guy say? Fuck.  Nothing. Nothing stops us. Brought it upon yourselves.    He's goin' for the head, but he's goin' for the head, but he's goin' for the head, but he's goin' full speed. Oh, no you don't. Jams his fist down his throat. Right down his throat. Right down his throat. Just jiggle it in there. Not recommended, by the way.  But it's for great action. This guy's done. This guy's done. Look at that. Yep, he's done. Where's the door? I have no idea what that means, but yes, he is my brother. One more guy to go through. He was my brother. This one looks like it'll be a tough fight. Fun fight scene. Fun fight scene. And someone asked earlier, this is the comic. Cheryl mentioned that it was Saga, but what's not Saga? This is Zero. I'm gonna put this back where... So this is the comic Zero that came out in 2014 from Image Comics. I thought it was worth checking it out. First time chat. Sam, the Sikh. The Sikh. Hey, brother. Glad that I can catch you over here. Glad to have you here. Fun place to stream. Fun place to stream. Okay, I just read three issues from this, and I grabbed the menu because of the mushroom cover. Super cool cover. Super cool cover. A trippy artwork. Like, you saw the artwork and that, right? And again, different artist. Different art style. Like, look at this. Different art style. And again, a different art style in this one as well. Oh my God, it says Torq Snap. Greetings, Cheryl. Sorry. No worries, Cheryl. Much violence. Much violence. After that violence gang. This one is a total silent issue. Okay, but let's skip that. Let's do some reading. Let's do some reading from this Goudai. It's a funny, funny strip, really. Okay. It's like, you know, Sunday Funnies or something like this. And I didn't, I don't know this guy. I'd never read anything from this person. And it's called, this is Goudai number one. It was just a one, one issue, sort of compilation, a bunch of comic strips that this guy had put out. Okay. So Goudai number one came out in 1993. Came out in 1993. Where is it? There it is. From Threshold Press. And the artist for this is Mark Peasley. Okay. And I couldn't, I tried to look up who Mark Peasley was. I came across someone that needed to go funny because he was having health issues. I don't know if it's the same Mark Peasley. I think it is actually. So there isn't, I couldn't find too much information about him. Okay. But let's read this little intro for it. Okay. Goudai number one, 1993 published by Threshold Press 502 East John, Champagne, Illinois. Okay. 61820. All characters are copyright 1990, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by Mark Peasley. So I'm assuming these are strips that came out starting from 1990. Okay. The characters Bob and Dave copyright 1993 Dave King. All other characters and their distinctive likeliness thereof are copyright Mark Peasley. The Threshold Press name and logo as well as the comic cavalcade name and logo are copyright comic cavalcade. No similarities of any person or enterprises. Enterprises is intentional. Well, at least not in a mean sort of way. All rights reserved. Goudai. Let's read this as well. Let's see. Forward by Bob, Bob and Dave. What does this say? How they wrong? We're here to introduce this book. Where should we stand? Where should we stand? Just spread out and act natural and we'll appreciate it if you hold these. Congratulations for buying Mark Peasley's new book, Goudai. This book is bound in seal skin and produced by underpaid migrant workers. It's entirely politically incorrect.  They're actually, what do you call it? Targets. Targets. And this kid, the kid that you see here, he appears a lot in the funnies. Damn. Miss both. Damn. Miss both these targets. Could we try that again? This kid is just chaos. It's so funny. So random stuff. And again, this is not for kids. This is for mature readers. Just letting you know. Okay. I highlighted. So we're going to read these two from this page. Okay. Let me take these guys down. Let's take these guys down. Why gracious me. It's the devil himself. Hi, Ron. Tell me your soul, the devil says. What's it worth to you? Ron says. Ron asks. Anything. Anything in the whole world the devil says. Money, sex, fame, power, drug, sex. Anything. Your little heart desires. Ron replies. Could I get you to move out of the way of the TV? And the dog. His dog is hilarious right there. The dog says get some smokes too. Right. And the devil smacks himself. This job is nowhere near as much fun as it used to be. And then the next strip that continues. Cheer off Satan. It can't be that bad, Ron says. It's just no fun anymore. I don't even have to try. People will sell their souls for a dime. There's no job satisfaction. And this whole heavy metal thing.  There, there, Ron says. I just like that because this is 1993 and heavy metal scene. There was a lot of kids doing their thing. Right. Let's read these three and this guy from this one. Let me take these guys down. And this one as well. Again, gang. This is not, this is not for kids. Okay. You know, on TV, so Ron and the dog, they fight a lot. Right. Or Ron, some of the dog a fair bit and dog does his own thing with Ron and whatnot. Right. So Ron's chasing the dog. He grabs them. You know, on TV, people tune into those shows week after week to find out if characters who hate each other are really supposed, suppressing hidden passions for one another. The dog says, really? Ron asks. Sure. They get it on cheers and moonlighting. And who's the boss? And, and then a little time later, deeply ashamed, Ron says. And the dog says, come to think, think of it. I don't recall this ever happening on the odd couple. There's a lot of relationship things going on here. Okay. Here's another one. So this is like that guy with a knife in his head and his wife is right there. Her body's censored. Right. So that guy's thinking, she's pissed. Turns to her and says, what's the matter, honey? Nothing she says. No, really. Something I did? He asks. You mean you don't know she yells? Oh, good Lord, man. Think what could it possibly be? He says, hey, that guy, what's up? Ron asks. I thought everybody peed in the shower. He replies. So here's the family, Ron, the kid and the dog ready to munch down on dinner. Right. On your marks, get set, ding in. Right. So they just go crazy. They're eating, they're eating like mad, eating like mad.  All you see is this skeleton on his body.  Like the dog smokes a lot. The dog smokes a lot. Okay. Oh yeah, we're going to read this one too. Let's read this one as well. This one's funny. Ron says, Arr, somebody broke in and stole my stereo. That does it. I'm going to go buy a gun, he says. Comes back with a pink blaster. Does this baby scream home protection or what? Later. Arr, somebody broke in and stole my gun. All right. Funny, funny, funny. Funny, funny, funny. Oh yeah. Let's read these two. Let's read these two. Let's read these two. Let's read these two. Cheryl, I knew you'd love that one. I thought it was so funny. Let's take this down. We'll put it back in later. Check this out. You did what, Ron asks? I put a personal ad in the paper. Look, it's right here, the dog says. Answered seeks HB for IE or TW, BS more, send P, BN and SS to PO box 7002. Okay.  Some kind of code, Ron asks. The dog replies.  Send photo brief, send a photo, brief note and stool sample to post office box 702. So that's supposed to mean ASWD. The next strip. The next strip. Ding dong, Ron's sitting on his chair. Who are you? I've come about the ad. The ad.  Send panties, beer nuts, some soap to PO box 702. Spoon, he says to Ron. And the dog's name is Spoon, right? Hilarious, hilarious. So funny, so funny. That's great humor. That's awesome humor. So let's read these two guys from this. Okay, let's read these two guys. And let's check this out. Ron says, excuse me, but what are you doing? I'm making a sandwich, the cop says. I can see that. Why are you making it in my kitchen, Ron asks. I'm a white cop, buddy. I can do whatever I want. Do you have any Dijon mustard? No, Ron yells.   Say you're not on that PCP stuff, are you? You might scare me. I really do scare quite easily, you know. That's the cop. This is the 90s, 1993, right? We're in 2022. 30 years later. That's still pretty relevant. Still pretty relevant. The next strip. Let's check it out. Good evening. Tonight's Top Stories. The Vatican announced today that priests found to be molesting altar boys or chorus members would still not be allowed to use condoms. I thought that was relevant. Maybe not funny, but relevant. Okay, let's read from here all the way here. So that's five strips. So that would be a weak, weak worth of, if this was being published in the paper, weak worth of funnies. Let's read a weak worth of funnies. Check it out. Let's check it out. Hey, the rent check bounced again, Ron says. We've got to come out with some money fast, or we're going to get evicted. And then the TV in the bottom right there, what's the TV saying?  And the dog's watching the TV with Ron as well, right? Does your child seem different, the TV says? Solon angry out of control? Ron turns to the dog. Are you listening to me? The TV continues. Call the happy times chemical dependency clinic now. Before is too late. Uh-oh. Ron says, there's a little light bulb on top of the dog's head. Pink. My son refused to mow the lawn. Could he be smoking crack? The TV says commercial. The dog says, I haven't, I have a plan. That's why Ron's going, uh-oh. Right. A smile on the dog's face. What's the dog's plan? Let's check this out. Let's check this out. Let's check this out. A rehab center. We don't know how to deal with troubled kids, Ron says. We don't have to. We're going to convince parents to drag in perfectly normal, healthy honors roles types. Here, this pamphlet we've, we've been mailing, mailing out, should explain, explain just about everything. Spoon has the pamphlet to Ron. Whoa. Do you really think that the drug hysteria in this country is intense enough for parents to accept, quote, an organized sock drawer and quote, as evidence of substance abuse? Oh my God. My baby's on drugs.  Right. Let's continue. Let's continue. So how long have you been using drugs, Jimmy? I don't use drugs, Jimmy says. Then why are you here? I don't know. I don't use drugs, Jimmy says. You know, for someone who doesn't use drugs, you sure talk about them a lot. But Jimmy says, but, but you do admit to having an organized sock drawer. Don't you? Spoon says, okay, okay. I go by color, but I can quit anytime, anytime I want. God, you're a good spoon. The dog thinks, right? How goes parent night at the rehab center? Ron asks, it's cake. Even the vaguest threat of drug use kills off all logic in the parent, parental mind. They're eating out of our paws. They're in the other room right now, happily writing us $400 checks for a month of counseling their kids don't, don't even need. It makes them feel like concerned, caring parents, bravely confronting the tough issues of child rearing today. Ron, Ron asks, so you don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with what you're doing? Spoon replies, nah, hey, why, why don't you come watch me explain how their kids use these for free, free base cocaine, the toilet plunger. Let's check it out. Let's continue. Spoon, what do you look at? Would you look at all these checks? They're paying us to make them afraid of their own furniture now. Spoon, what? I can't get the kids to pee in the cups. Spoon replies, they're kids.  Ron goes, look at the kids eyes. Okay, now Bobby, toes on the line, aim for bucket number three. Right? I thought this was again relevant to our society because this is exactly really what happens and what has been happening in our societies for a long time. It's scary. Let's read this, this, this and this. Okay, 1993. Do you think these could be published now? With the council culture, so prevalent, right? Could these be published now? Could these be published now? Let's check this out. So the teacher asks, did everybody do their assignment? Billy, why don't you read us your essay? Yes, man, Billy replies. What I did on my summer vacation by Billy, I spent my summer catching baby rabbits, tearing their heads off and preserving them between the pages of an encyclopedia. The teacher's like, what? The teacher replies, show and tell will be canceled until further noticed. Billy replies, I have over a hundred, right? And Billy's psychotic, right? And here's Billy, look at this one too. There's spoon, the dog, Billy, heel, right? Here's another one. It says here they're going to start handing out condoms at Billy's school today. Spoon replies, really? And this is what the kids are doing. The teacher's got a banana in her hand.  Pink zip snap. Okay, kids going ballistic with it. Funny, funny, funny. Let's read this one too. We'll read this one, this one and this one, okay? Because this again is sort of relevant, right? Billy, I don't know what you've been told at school, but I think it's important that you understand the facts of life in open and honest terms.   Straight up. I'm not going to read this one just because it's, should we read it? Should we read it to continue? Let's read it to continue. Let's do it. So Spoon has given him advice. So Billy's basically going around, it's about sex education in schools, right? We're starting with the condoms, and Billy's getting advice from all types of people, right? Even the dog. Billy, I don't know what you've been hearing about sex, so I want to make sure that you've got the facts right. When two people fall in love, the man takes the woman to the drive-in, drive-in theater, and hits her over the head with a loaf of French bread. He then pokes her in the ribs with an overripe zucchini until she screams for help. Then and only then does a gentleman let the live crickets out of the glove compartment. Understand? And then Spoon, the dog is thinking, I just hope I live to see him date. Let's read this one, that guy's advice. While Billy, when a man and a woman get drunk, they tell each other that they are in love to alleviate the guilt that they feel when they rub glands together. Then the woman gets pregnant, they get married, go into debt, and settle down into a life of quiet despair and emotional deceit. That's what America is all about, Billy. Values. Now this one. All else fails, get a family advice from a priest, right?  Billy, sex is a natural and beautiful part of life, but it can be confusing and scary if it is entered into without proper spiritual guidance.  Yes father, Billy replies. Good. Let me start by saying that you've got quite a perky pair of buttics there young man, right? Sex advice from a priest. Okay, let's read this one, this one here. Okay, this is Ron trying to date. So Ron's out and about, right? Excuse me, he says to the lady holding the drink. Get lost, you're not my type. Ron's like, huh? The lady's like, oh my god, what's that smell? Ron's like, I said excuse. He's hilarious, hilarious. So funny, so funny, so funny. We'll skip the rest of that one, we got a few to read here. Let's read this one, and this one, okay? And this one, for all cat lovers, for all you cat lovers, abortion should be illegal, lesbian, feminist, and rock music are ruining the moral fabric of this country.   So who's spinning? Hi Ron, look at Ron's face.  Nothing? You want something? Nope, just hi, Ron says. Is life, if life was that much fun, do you really think it would still be legal? Open up, this is the police. Cheryl, you want a copy of this one? Hilarious. If you remind me, I'll take a picture of it and post it around Gilded Server, okay? If you remind me, I'm gonna, yeah, I got the thing right there. If you remind me, I'll do it. I'll post it on our Gilded Server, or maybe try to find a full page. And this is the last one. Let's read this last one. Awesome. I thought it was hilarious.  This is a great way to end it, okay? This is a great way to end it. Okay, go die, pass, fail. Let's see this. What is this? Oh, he's doing the unthinkable, right? 1992. It hits the apple on top of Spoon's head. So Ron's out in the bout again. All right, let's check it out. Come on, focus. Come, come. Camera's usually pretty good focusing with black and white. Let's see, here we go. Well, here goes. Ron's walking up to a lady, bowling his drink, right? Aren't you in my calculus class, he's thinking? Aren't you in my calculus class, he's thinking? Practicing. Darn goo in my alfalfa house, Ron says. That's what he was thinking to say, and that's what really came up. Oh my god, the girl says. Right? Oh my god. What, Ron asks? You're so awkward. Wow. Thanks, Ron replies. Don't take that the wrong way. I think it's really cute, she replies. You do? Sure. And your voice, it's so irritating, she says. What? Irritating. It's kind of nasal and whiny. Very grating. I find that really attractive, she says. Not only that, but you have almost no physical presence at all. Wow. I've got goose bumps, huh? Ron thinks. You don't have a single muscle on your whole body, do you? Hey, let's not, get Ron says.  Wait here, I'll go get my coat. Ron says, I need another beer. All right, hilarious. I thought that was so funny. I thought that was funny. This was great. This was great to pick up, really. This was great to pick up. The gems you find, the gems you find in 25 cent comic book bins. 25 cents is the lowest I've ever found, right? Usually they're dollar bins, even a dollar. Like this thing's well worth it. Fantastic, great. Super fun, super fun. Super fun, super fun. A good laugh indeed, a good laugh.  It's, oh, we only got 15 minutes left. What are we gonna read? Oh no. Oh, this is a whole silence. This is beautiful. Gang, quick question. Wow, this one won't be able to read. It's too long. We can read a short story from the back of this or take a look at a full silent issue. Take a look at a full silent issue. Yeah, see that? There were, like last year, one of my local comic shops had 25 cent bins. It was blowing out tens of thousands of comics. And I went in there and grabbed like three large boxes for 25 cents a pop. This is what, all of these are 25 cents a pop that I picked up. So it was just like nothing really, right? Should we take a look at a silent issue? Should we take a look at a silent issue game? Let's take a look at a silent issue. Let's take a look at a silent issue. Should we read through those? Let's see. Wow, we had a funny. We just read a funny. So let's, because this one is funny, the back issue. So let's put these guys here. We'll read those on the next reading. And this is a barrier. Okay. I picked up issue number one, three, four and five, right? Number two was missing. So I haven't read issue number two of this, but the story made sense with skipping one of the issues. Okay. And this is Brian K. Vaughn. Okay. And we already looked at Saga with Brian K. Vaughn, Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin doing the artwork. And it's called Barrier. And I picked up the first couple of issues of this when it first came out. But I didn't read it. I just love the artwork. I flipped through it. I don't like comics that are set like this. They open up like this. They're all the readings like this. I like comic books that I read like this, right? But I can see why they did it this way. Okay. So let's just look at this beautiful artwork and skip through, flip through this whole issue and just take a look at it. Right? So this is issue number three, Barrier, Brian K. Vaughn. And it came out in 2018. So wow, it's been four years since this came out. I remember picking this up. Where is it? There it is. Come on, focus. There it is. 2018. I can't believe it's been four years. Right? Let's take a look. And gang, before we take a look at this, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see WikiLeast.org, defend.wikileast.org, or our Julian Assange and WikiLeast playlist on censor 2.  And right now she's having a dream. So she was picked up by spaceships abducted.  Some people say illegal aliens, someone crossing into the United States illegally. And his path is going to cross with hers as well, also out of there. He's trying to figure out where he is, finds his bag. He's so happy. He calls an hour. He comes across the alien. The alien speaks and his ear bleeds. She's inside the ship as well. Trying to break out the hatch opens above her. She smiles. She speaks but there's, I can't hear the words. There's whatever's inside out. What have we got? We've got cola, charger, phone, toothbrush, lighter, smokes, sandals, jacket. She goes for the cola. Bracks it open. Look, look, look, look, look, look. Drinks away. That book, red book has been precious to the guy. Okay. Important for him. Checks the phone. No signal. Cigarettes. And a lighter. Belmont. I don't know if that's a legit cigarette. They were not. He's like, yeah, light it up. As soon as the lighter lights, the whole place just goes crazy. What's going on? The lighter's right there. Beautiful panel work, by the way. Beautiful panel work. She lights it again. The spaceship, wherever they are, just goes crazy again. So fire does something. She checks it out. What can they light on fire? Checks the shoes. Can't light the shoes on fire. Gonna catch. Is that underwear? I guess it's underwear. A cloth. Looks over. He hugs the book. He doesn't want to give up the book. It's precious to him. She says, come on, or implies it. He's like, no, let me show you. He says, super apa versus dino mech. And this is the first time in the story that we see this. Raw. Ayudhi, super papa. He says, no si priokopen amigos. So she's like, what, is that yours? And it's not. It's not. This is kids. All right, that's why it's so precious to him. His kids died or is no longer with him. So it's really precious to him. It shows a tattoo. Roberto, she's like, oh, I feel you. My heart goes out to you. But look at where we are. Look at where we are. He's like, okay, hands over the book. Look at where they are. Alien ship. And those are the aliens, right? Beautiful colors. And they like the book on fire. Aliens go crazy. What the F? Look on fire. Aliens are talking to each other.  What's going on? She's happy. The gate opens up. The hatch. Eyes are popping. Liquid drops in. Puts at the fire. They're being submerged. They reach for each other. And that's the last page. Awesome storytelling. Awesome storytelling. Beautiful artwork. Awesome colors. The only complaint I have about this series was that the text, there was a reason for it. Some of it is in English. Some of it is in Spanish. So the Spanish sections, this is from issue number one. If you don't read Spanish, you don't know what they're saying, right? But as you continue reading this story, going through this, you realize what's happening. And then parts of it are in English. So I wish they had a little translation of the text for the Spanish. And I think that's one of the reasons maybe the series. I'm not sure how well it did. And Zare, welcome to another live stream. This was Barrier. This was Barrier. We did some readings and some other readings as well. Let me bring back the chats, the notifications. Let me bring back my video. Wait, come on. Nice. So we did go over, right? What time is it? Yeah, we're over time. We're over time. I hope that was fun, gang. Good readings. Good readings. I even brought out another series just in case we went through those. I'm reading Forgotten Realms as well. Super fun. Super fun from DC Comics from 1980s, 90s, from 1990s, 1991, 1990, 1990, 1991, 1992, so forth. This has been fun reading it. I have a few issues with those. But I ended up reading a few things here. Anything with a little piece of paper in it. We ended up reading. So that was fun. And what I'm going to do is put these in the piles of things that we're reading. And we still have some stuff that we didn't read these guys. And I'll keep on adding to the piles as I read more comic books. And we'll do more segment readings. Or at some point we'll do a full reading of another comic book when I delve into some series or whatnot. Aside from that, gang, thank you for being here. Fun to do. Fun to do. We've got to do more of these in math videos and whatnot. And if you want to know what this work is about, gang, I am on Patreon, page on the gulf word slash chichou, ch-y-c-h-o. 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a warm welcome to the tenth lecture on the subject of wavelets and multirate digital signal processing. Recall that in the previous lecture, we had established the intimate connection between the scaling function, the wavelet function, I mean the continuous time scaling function, the wavelet functions and the two channel filter bank about which we had been discussing in a few lectures before that. Towards the end of the previous lecture, we were convinced that there is an intimate connection between designing a two band filter bank and designing a multi resolution analysis. In fact, the connection is so strong that when one knows the impulse response of the low pass filter in the filter banks that we have been looking at, one can by iterative convolution obtain the scaling function and having obtained the scaling function, one can obtain the wavelet function. So, it is a very powerful reason to study the two channel filter bank in great depth and that is exactly what we intend to do today. Let me put before you the theme of the lecture today. So, today we intend to talk about the z domain analysis of the multirate filter bank and to do that, we shall begin by considering the basic operations of the multirate system. Namely, down sampling and up sampling. The rest of it is known to us from a basic exposure to discrete time systems, but how to deal with multirate operations is what we need to understand much more carefully in the next few minutes. So, let us once again draw the structure of the two channel filter bank, which we have been looking at in some of the previous lectures. Recall that the two channel filter bank has an analysis component and a synthesis component. We had given the following nomenclature for the analysis and the synthesis side. I shall just recapitulate that. So, on the analysis side, we have two filters, the low pass analysis filter and the high pass analysis filter followed by down sampling operations. On the synthesis side, we have first the up sampling operation followed by the synthesis low pass filter and the synthesis high pass filter. And you will recall that the outputs of these two were added and this constituted the overall output. So, we have the input here and the output here. To recall, this is going towards the ideal discrete time low pass filter with a cutoff of pi by 2 on the normalized angular frequency axis and so is this. This is going towards the discrete time ideal high pass filter with the cutoff of pi by 2 again and so is this. This is what we call the analysis side of the filter bank up to here and this is what we call the synthesis side. When I mark this, I mean all this. So, maybe we should put a dotted boundary around. So, this is all the synthesis side and this is the analysis side. Anyway, with this little recall of what we did in the previous lecture, let us identify what it is in this filter bank, which is unusual, which is beyond what one normally is exposed to in a basic course on discrete time systems. If you look at it carefully, there are two unusual blocks here and they are the down sampler and the up sampler. So, the unusual or the new blocks, the down sampler and you know what the down sampler did. When you had a sequence indexed by the integers, so let us say it is indexed by 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on and of course, minus 1, minus 2, minus 3 and so on on this side. The down sampler lets the 0 sample go to the point 0, the 2 sample to the point 1, the 4 sample to the point 2 and so on so forth and on this side, the minus 2 sample comes to the point minus 1 and so on so forth. So, in a certain sense, the down sampler is both a remover of some samples and a compressor of the remaining samples. There are two steps in down sampling, if you think about it and we shall in fact, analyze the down sampler treating it as a cascade of two steps. So, to state it clearly, a down sampler first kills some samples. So, for example, if I go back to the same indexing 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on here and minus 1, minus 2, minus 3, minus 4 and so on there, then 0 is as it is, 1 is reduced to 0, 2 is as it is. So, when I write the number in brackets, what I mean is this sample is brought forth as it is and when I write 0 here, what I mean is this sample is made 0. So, this is made 0, 4 as it is, 5 is made 0, minus 1 made 0, minus 2 as it is, minus 3 made 0, minus 4 as it is and so on so forth. This is the first step. The second step is to compress. So, it first kills some samples, then the second step is compresses the resultant. So, you have 0 where it was, then a 0, 2 where it was and then a 0, 4 where it was and then a 0 and so on so forth here. You have a 0 in place of minus 1, then a minus 2 where it was, 0 in place of minus 3 and so on so forth here and the compression brings 0 to the 0.0, this to the 0.1, 4 to the 0.2 and so on so forth and here it brings minus 2 to the 0.1 and so on so forth. So, there is a so called compression taking place, a removal of the unwanted zeros. Now, when we do a z domain analysis of this, we shall do it precisely in these two steps. Let us, before we proceed to the z domain analysis, look at the second unusual block here. So, second unusual block is the up sampler and we have denoted up sampler by up arrow followed by 2 and you know what the up sampler does. If you have a sequence indexed by 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on so forth and of course, to continue minus 1, minus 2, minus 3 and so on so forth on this side, the 0 sample goes where it is to 0, the 1 sample goes to 2, the 2 sample goes to 4, the minus 1 sample goes to minus 2, the minus 2 to minus 4 and so on so forth. So, what we will do is, we will put these in brackets now and we insert zeros in between. So, in other words, we expand in some sense and up sampler also expands in some sense. So, some people like to call it as a spander also because it in some sense out does this last step that a down sampler does. You know, if you think about it, this last step which a down sampler does namely compresses by removing zeros is out done by the up sampler. We should make a note of that, it is important. The up sampler out does the last compression step of a down sampler. Hence, it is also called an expander. Now, I must emphasize that the up sampling operation is invertible. So, even the original sequence is unaffected by the process of up sampling. You can get back the original sequence after up sampling it. The same is not true of down sampling. When you down sample, you lose some information forever. So, in a certain sense, you know down sampling first as I said kills some samples and then also compresses in some sense covers up that killing part, if you want to call it that by removing evidence of the zeros that have been created. What the up sampler does is to put back the zeros where they were as if you are recreating the evidence of killing in a lighter vein of course. Whatever it be, the up sampler takes you from a lower rate system to a higher rate system and the down sampler takes you from a higher rate system to a lower rate system. So, when you down sample, you are actually changing the effective sampling rate. You know if you think about it, in down sampling what are you doing? You are retaining one out of every two samples and in principle what time you allocate to processing each of these samples after down sampling is up to you. What is practically done in most discrete time systems is when down sampling takes place, one allows more time to process samples after down sampling. So, in a certain sense that down sampling and up sampling operation is taken care of by having different clocking rates at different points in the system. You know what we are saying in effect is the same system has different effective sampling rates at different points and to emphasize this point let us go back once again to that two channel filter bank that we drew a few minutes before. You know if you look back at this two channel filter bank here, what we are effectively saying is that there is one sampling rate operating here at the input and the same sampling rate operates here at the output. However, although those sampling the sampling rate here and the sampling rate here which are the same also operate after these filters and before and after these filters. They do not operate here you know. So, at this point after the down sampler and before the up sampler and after the down sampler here and before the up sampler we have effectively a different sampling rate. In fact, the sampling rate here is in principle one half of the sampling rate here and that is why this is called a multirate system. Now it is clear why we are talking about multirate systems. We have two different sampling rates in the same system. Now one can generalize this you can have more than two sampling rates in the same system. In fact, you know you might have different kinds of down sampling and up sampling operators. So, let us expand our view in that sense now. So, in general one could be talking about up sampling and down sampling by a factor of m. So, to speak and that is not too difficult to understand now that we have written down what down sampling by two means and what up sampling by two means. So, let us write down down sampling by m in general which of course, we denote by down followed by m. So, let us again take an example for clarity. Suppose we take m equal to say 5 you know to bring in some variety. So, I have these samples here 0 1 2 3 4. Now what I am writing here please remember are the indices of the samples not the values of the samples. So, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 and so on. And similarly on this side minus 1 minus 2 minus 3 minus 4 minus 5 and so on. What do we do in down sampling by a factor of 5? The first step is to kill some of the samples. So, 0 sample is kept where it is the 5 sample is kept where it is the 10 sample is kept where it is the minus 5 sample is kept where it is, but all the other samples the 1 sample 2 sample 3 sample 4 sample the sample number 6 7 8 9 are all reduced to 0. So, also minus 1 minus 2 minus 3 minus 4 all of these are reduced to 0. So, this is the killing step. So, to speak and then the compression step. So, the compression step would bring the 0 sample to the position 0 the 5 sample to the position 1 the 10 sample to the position 2 the minus 5 sample to the position minus 1 and so on so forth here. And remember there are 0's in between here which are simply thrown away 0's thrown away. So, now we understand how to generalize down sampling. In a similar way we can generalize up sampling. So, suppose we have up sampling by m which we did not up arrow followed by m and once again for variety let us take the example of m equal to 7. So, you have this sequence 0 with indices I mean 0 1 2 3 4 and so on so forth and minus 1 minus 2 minus 3 and so on so forth here. When you up sample by 7 the 0 sample goes where it is to 0 the 1 sample would go to 7 the 2 sample to 14 and so on so forth the 3 sample to 21 the 4 sample to 28 and the minus 1 sample would go to minus 7 minus 2 to minus 14 and so on so forth. And of course, in between. So, I will put brackets around these just for clarity here in between you would insert 0's. So, how many 0's would you insert here 6 0's here to 6 0's in between here also 6 0's and so on. So, this is up sampling by a factor of 7. We understand now how we can generalize both down sampling and up sampling and now what we need to do is to analyze these operations from a transform perspective. So, in the transform domain which transform of course, we will first begin with the z transform because it is easier to understand the effect in the z domain and then go into the frequency domain by substituting z equal to erase the power j omega. Now, you know it is easier to understand the effect of up sampling in fact by a general factor of m in the z domain. So, let us begin with that let us consider a general factor of m up sampling by m most generally. What we do when we up sample by m that is easy you see the original sequence is x of n. So, this is the input after up sampling by m let the sequence become x u of n. Now, we can write down x u of n explicitly in terms of x of n. In fact, instead of doing that let us straight away go into the z domain. So, let us consider the z transform of x u n that is easy summation n going from minus infinity to plus infinity x u n z raise the power minus n and the only catch is among all these n's only those n's have a non-zero sample which are multiples of capital M. And therefore, we can rewrite this summation here as summation again let us say k going from minus to plus infinity x of k. Now, remember x of k occurs at the point m times k in x u m. And therefore, here we have z raise the power minus capital M times k coming up. Now, this is a familiar expression this is very light the z transform of x except that you have replaced z by z raise the power capital M. So, in fact there we have a very simple relationship for x u z to x z indeed the z transform of the sequence x u n namely x u z capital X u z is the z transform of the sequence x u n x with z replace by z raise the power M simple. Now, in fact this also brings before us very clearly the invertibility. So, just as you can say x of x u of z is x of z raise to the power capital M you can also say capital X of z is x u z raise the power 1 by z raise by M. So, what we are saying in effect is that this operation of sampling by M you know this operation is invertible clearly shown here clearly evident whether we look at it in the time domain or whether we look at it in the z domain this property is evident the invertibility very soon we shall look at the down sampling operation and there we shall also see the non invertibility evident in the z domain perhaps not as evident, but evident all the same. So, let us now go to down sampling now as I said down sampling is a concatenation of two processes in one process we kill some samples in the second process we compress the so called partially killed sequence this process of killing some samples is what requires a little bit of effort to express in the z domain and here we shall not attempt straight away to jump to generalization to any capital M we shall instead take capital M equal to 2 illustrate the idea and then allow for a generalization to any other capital M. So, let us proceed then with down sampling by a factor of 2 now first. So, here we are when we wish to down sample by a factor of 2 what we are saying in effect is we are killing every other sample and how do we kill one way to kill is to multiply by a killing sequence so to speak. So, when we consider down sampling by a factor of 2 the first killing step can be viewed as a modulation step or multiplication by another sequence by killing sequence let us call it instead of giving such a violent name maybe we should call this a window sequence that is a milder name you know what does a window do a window allows you to see a certain part of the scene outside in a certain sense when we retain some samples and destroy all others that is exactly what we are doing we are allowing those samples that are retained to be passed through the window and those that are destroyed to be stopped. So, if you wish we can call this sequence that keeps some and removes the others as a window, but a window periodic sequence you know I use the word window periodic sequence because the window sequence name has also been used in the design of finite impulse response filters and the window periodic sequence has the following pattern at the point 0 it takes the value 1 at the point 1 it has the value 0 and then periodically thus and the same on the negative side periodically continued on both sides. So, you know you can think of it as a periodic window where wherever there is a 1 you are allowing the scene to pass and wherever there is a 0 you are stopping the scene. Let us call this periodic window sequence p w n where the p is to denote periodic and the w subscript is to denote the window behavior. So, this is a window periodic sequence for down sampling by 2, but you can have a similar window periodic sequence for down sampling by any other factor. So, suppose you were to down sample by m in general again let us take the example now of a variety of m equal to 4 this time then the corresponding p w n would be 1 located at 0 then 3 0s 1 located at 4 then 3 0s again 1 located at 8 and so on on this side and of course 3 0s and then 1 and so on on this side periodically continued continued this way continued this way. So, what we are saying in effect is the process of killing the killing process is essentially multiplication by p w n for the appropriate m. So, if you want to down sample by 2 you have an appropriate p w n periodic with a period of 2 with 1s located at all multiples of 2 and 0s elsewhere. In general when you want to down sample by m you have a periodic sequence p w n with a period of capital M 1s located at all multiples of capital M and 0s everywhere else simple enough what about the compression step the compression step can be viewed as an inverse expander an inverse upsampling step. So, maybe we should say down sampling by m means or in the words let us actually put down sequences here let us say x n has been down sampled to produce x d n and that means x n has first been multiplied by p w n p w n for down sampling by m for m in brief and then now now look here you know what we are saying is x d n is here I am saying up sample by m, but this way that means it is an reverse or it is an inverse upsampling operation. Now, if we view the down sampling operation this way it is again very clear why it is not invertible this part is invertible, but this part is not because you cannot divide by p w n p w n has 0s in it you cannot divide by them that is another way of viewing it and of course, this will also get manifested in the z domain, but certainly now you know to manifest this in the z domain this operation of multiplication by a sequence is difficult to capture in the z domain. So, what we need to do is to translate this multiplication by p w n into multiplication by other sequences which are easy to interpret in the z domain. Now, the only convenient multiplication by sequence operation which can be handled in the z domain is multiplication by an exponential. So, what we need to do is to replace this multiplication by p w n by a linear combination of multiplications by exponentials how do we do that? So, let me put down our objective little more clearly this multiplication by p w n needs to be replaced by x n multiplied by exponential alpha 1 to the power of n. So, I think maybe you know I will say multiply by alpha 1 to the power n plus say alpha q to the power n q such terms same x n. So, you know multiplication by alpha 1 to the power of n or alpha to the power of n in general is easy to handle in the z domain. So, the other way of saying it is we need to express we need to express p w n as a linear combination let us say c k times alpha k to the power n. Let us say c k times alpha k to the power n k going from let us say 1 to q now you know this is not at all difficult to do. In fact, if you think about it that is exactly what the discrete Fourier transform does in discrete time signal processing the discrete time Fourier transform essentially expresses a sequence. In fact, a periodic time limited sequence as a combination of exponentials. Let me just to refresh our ideas put the expression for the inverse discrete Fourier transform before us. So, if you recall you know if you have a limited a time limited sequence let us say it has capital N samples. So, you know you have let us give the sequence a name b 0 to b n you know or b n minus 1 to be more precise. So, if this is the time limited sequence of capital N samples it is discrete Fourier transform if you recall is essentially capital B of k. Of course, k also running from 0 to capital N minus 1 with capital B of k defined by summation n going from 0 to capital N minus 1 b n e raised the power minus j 2 pi by n capital N times n k. And then we can reduce the time limit we construct b n from its discrete Fourier transform that is easy b n is 1 by n summation k going from 0 to N minus 1 capital B of k e raised the power j 2 pi by n k n. Now, this is true for again n going from 0 to capital N minus 1. But after all if you recall what we have here in the discrete Fourier transform expression and in this expression which is essentially an inverse discrete Fourier transform. Recall that the discrete Fourier transform is often abbreviated by DFT and the inverse discrete Fourier transform by IDFT. In the IDFT we have exactly the kind of expansion or expression that we desire. We are expressing that limited sequence of capital N samples in terms of its DFT components and exponentials here. So, we have exactly what we want. Now, we can exploit this you see what is to be noted here is that although we have talked about a limited sequence actually you can periodically extend that sequence in capital N. And whatever expression we have here to reconstruct the b n from capital B of k. So, b n is reconstructed from capital B of k here seemingly only at n equal to 0 to capital N minus 1. But even if you apply the same expression for all integer n you get a periodically repeated sequence whatever is between 0 and n minus 1 is periodically repeated in every interval of n successively and before. And that is easily seen if you substitute n by n plus any multiple of capital N here noting that e raise the power j 2 pi by n times capital N is 1. Let me do that just for completeness. So, what I am saying is if we use this expression the expression summation k going from 0 to capital N minus 1 capital B of k e raise the power j 2 pi by n k n generates a periodic sequence. So, let us call this expression as a function of n be till day n. It is very clear that be till day n plus l times capital N is essentially summation k going from 0 to capital N minus 1 B k e raise the power j 2 pi by capital N k n plus l times capital N. And this can be simplified if k going from 0 to capital N minus 1 B k e raise the power j 2 pi by capital N k n times e raise the power j 2 pi l and this is essentially 1. So, this is essentially 1. So, you may remove this term and leave this and that is the same as be till day n. And therefore, what we are saying is in effect be till day n plus l times capital N is be till day n for all n and therefore, periodic with period capital N. So, here we have a mechanism for generating a periodic sequence by using a combination of exponentials. Let us exploit that. So, let us now take the case of capital M equal to 2. There it is easy. We need the periodic sequence well 1, 0, 1, 0 and so on and so forth. And we exploit just one period here and we construct the discrete Fourier transform of this. That is easy. It is 1 times e raise the power minus j 2 pi by 2 times you know of course, a discrete Fourier transform is a function of the frequency index k. So, this is 0 times k plus 0. So, in fact, B of k is 1 for k equal to 0 and 1. And how do we reconstruct the sequence? The periodic sequence P w n then for M equal to 2 is reconstructed using the inverse discrete Fourier transform. So, it is summation k going from 0 to 1, B k e raise the power j 2 pi by 2 times k n and that is easy to do. That is half summation k going from 0 to 1, 1 times e raise the power j 2 pi by 2 is j pi k n. So, in fact, let us expand it explicitly. So, that is half with k equal to 0 it is 1 raise the power of n plus minus 1 raise the power of n. And now, we are well set. In fact, we are almost there. Indeed, what we are saying is if you have x n and if you are multiplying this by this sequence and you wish to obtain the z transform here, all that you need to do is to say express the following expression n going from minus to plus infinity x n into half 1 raise the power of n plus minus 1 raise the power of n times z raise the power of minus n in the z domain which is easily seen to be summation n going from minus to plus infinity of course, half can be brought out everywhere x n z raise the power of n plus half summation overall n from minus to plus infinity x n minus z raise the power minus n. So, we have done our job. Indeed, these are very familiar expressions. This is just the z transform of x and this is the z transform of x with z replaced by minus z. So, we have this is essentially equal to capital X evaluated at z plus capital X evaluated at minus z multiplied by half. So, we have done our job. Now, all that we need to do is to note that this goes through an inverse up sample up sampler by 2. So, to speak and therefore, if we put these together we have the final result x n with z transform capital X of z when it goes through a down sampling by 2 becomes in the z domain x d n with the correspondence of x d n with the corresponding z transform given by half x z raise to the half plus x minus z raise to the half. We have done what we wanted to in this lecture. We have established the z transforms of the basic multirate operations in terms of the original z transforms of the sequences. We shall build on this further in the next lecture to carry out the complete analysis of the two channel filter bank. With that then we conclude this lecture and look forward to the complete analysis. Thank you.