Hi everyone, this is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another last stream. Today is May 30th 2022 and we're doing a comic book reading or comic book readings, sort of excerpts that we're going to do some readings of. I've been reading a lot of random comic books for the last few weeks, last few months really, and this is sort of the stack, the main stack I guess. There's a couple of other stacks going on somewhere else, smaller stacks, much smaller stacks. So there's a couple of stacks here and I pulled out some segments that I thought might be worth reading. Okay and there's a few comics here but before we go through this and ask the chats how we should go about this, read segments first or show you what I've been reading first. I'm going to do my little intro and while we wait for notifications to go out and people to roll in, Monday afternoon comic book reading. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Gang, if you want to know what this work is about, I am on Patreon, patreon.com forward slash chichou, c-h-y-c-h-o. I do also have a subscribe star page and a sub-stack page now. Okay, and I'll slowly start introducing those links as well in the intro, sort of switch it up because we're, we have sort of decentralized to a degree set up all the different platforms. So it is part of our decentralization program, something that will help us to stay anti-fragile. Oh my god, how are you doing? DC Monday, DC Monday. Is there more DC than Marvel? There's more independence in these piles than any of the big two. Pretty sure about that. Microtus, how are you doing? Look who it is indeed, in these facets. How are you doing? What's up guys? Welcome, welcome to another live stream. And gang, for those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon, thank you very much for your support. I hope you're enjoying the content. It is in large part because of the support we're getting on Patreon and Twitch that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. So gang, thank you very much for coming here, joining these live streams. Vasit, thank you very much for the subscribe tier one sub. Love this channel also. And first time chat, Scrumptv, hello chichou, glad I caught the stream. Awesome to have you. You got a nice one, nice chill. Let's enjoy some history, comic book history and sort of related to human history really. Human artifacts, that's the gig, right? Finnish dude, how are you doing? What happened? Four Finnish dudes was keeping us up to date regarding Finland and Canada playing hockey yesterday. And last, by the time I think we finished the stream, it was 3-3 Finland-Canada tie. And it looks like Finland won 4-3. So that must have been a game and a half. Must have been a game and a half. And that would have been May 29th, 2022, which was some kind of, it wasn't a friendly game. I think it was a tournament game. As far as, if I remember correctly, Finnish dude, microtwist can't believe Sweden lost to Canada when there were like 3 minutes left and I knew Canada was going to win in overtime. My god, gave the win away, gave the win away. Here's a question, microtwist. Would Sweden have beaten Finland? That's one of the things with sports, right? One team might beat another team in a sort of a elimination round, right? And they faced this team. Now this team, people would say could easily beat these guys, but this team would have lost to these guys. And when these guys lose to these guys and these guys, it's like, it sort of becomes a shame, but that is part of the game, right? Yeah, if you're supposed to be the best team, you should be able to beat everyone. And you should have a little bit of luck on your side. We can't do anything without luck. Sheryl, how are you doing? Sports ball or puck, has it maybe? Sports ball, puck, hockey. Microtwist. Well, they beat Finland the first time they met each other earlier and determined, oh really? So this was elimination round. Finland must have cheated. Finnish dude, Finland won every game except one, every game except one. What was Canada's record? What was Canada's record? And gang, we do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live and mine, we can't get a part of it. Big clouds and getter. And who knows which platforms we will join next. But we are sharing our multiple platforms. You can follow us on those platforms. For last streams, when we don't have any visuals, we do announce or we do upload the audio to SoundCloud.com as a podcast. And those podcasts are available and should be available on your favorite podcasting platform. So I'm seeing more and more CGC rated comics selling for silly money. Are people cashing in on comics that aren't worth CGC grades? Yeah, some of the prices are insane. But one thing with CGC graded comics, one of the reasons they're or graded comics that they're going for a lot, because it's costing a lot more money to get comics graded. So to a certain degree, it's you're buying the value added part of the comic.  So the hobby is kicked into a new, I'm not going to say it's a bubble because it's not a bubble. Collectibles is real assets. It is investing.  They're not worth very much. They lose their value over time. And a lot of hard assets are out of reach of many people, for example, real estate or gold or silver or crypto or whatever, because NFTs, the gas price of NFTs is insane. And those are a lot of digital. So people are looking towards parking their money in hard assets and they're not looking to flip to a certain degree. There's a certain flipping sector of the industry. And there always has been and there always will be. Otherwise the market just, what do you call it, the velocity of money will cease and then everything dies. So you need the trade. We see where it's going. We see where it's going. I just made some purchases online. I try to get a really good deal and I think I got a really good deal. But I've seen some stuff go for pretty high premium, where for me, as far as I'm concerned, and then a year later, I said, man, I wish I bought that comic because there are insider trading in the comic book industry. There are people who know, for example, in Hollywood and Netflix, Amazon, wherever these products are being made, there are people that know about a TV series, about a first appearance, about a movie, about a project that is going to be kicked up and it will propel a character into the spotlight. So they get on the ground floor. They get in early. And if you're tracking comic books, you'll notice movement in comic books before the revelations about a certain TV series, about a certain movie, about a certain first appearance. And you'll wonder what's happening. One of the best examples of this is Moon Knight. The first appearance of Moon Knight, okay, you could have picked up eight years ago, six years ago, five years ago for about 20% of what it's going for now. So that would have been a five-banger if you got an early five years ago with the first appearance of Moon Knight. There are other characters that this is happening to as well. So we'll see what the market does. But right now, everything is insane. Everything is insane. Bossman. Chicho. Since you don't love the new Star Wars shows like Mando and Boba Fett, the comics like the Darth Vader series are great and expand the lore in ways the movies don't get close to. I've heard, I've heard Baseman, but I haven't been reading. Actually, there's a, there's a Star Wars comic in this, in this lot, Dark Horse Presents that I read, which I enjoy. So I do read some older Star Wars comics. I haven't been buying, I bought some of the newer comics, Star Wars comics, but I didn't pick up any on my poll list. And I don't have a poll list now, so I won't be picking up anything new. Lark Bark, are you doing Chicho? My man, what's new? Reading comics. Scrumppy TV. I've never seen the comics for the question and century, but they're very interesting characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have the century here as well. Where's the century? Century. Nice read, right? Nice read. So I read some century. Good, heavier characters, right? Sort of, I like B characters a lot because B characters aren't pigeonholed as much as A characters, right? A creator can come and pick up a B character and propel it into the A list instantly, right? Instantly. I think C.G.C. is a good new commodity of collected rare guitars and synths for 30 years. I see comics as a good asset, me as well. And, of course, other things, such as guitars and synths and whatnot. Elder God, anyone using sovereign.media. I just joined. I don't know that one. Crack. How are you doing? Good afternoon. Did I see a Scouts comic? It's that yes, there are Scouts comics here as well. I think so anyway. Gang, as far as the intro goes, we will be loading this on all four video sharing platforms, Sensor 2, Bichu, Rumble and Odyssey. For those of you that have fallen to work there, thank you for the follows. If you want to know everything that we're uploading or at least sampling of what it is that we're sharing, all of it, you want to be on Bichu, Rumble and Odyssey because we don't load everything on Sensor 2. And we do have a Gilded page if you want to join a forum and participate in our discussions that we have. There's a lot of information being shared, including comic books and whatnot. Gang, I want to take this down. Let's get into the game at play today. Gang, these two stacks of comics. I'll show it to you guys. Basically, these two stacks of comics of what I've been reading for the last few months. I don't know how many months, but a few months. I'm just piling it. And what I did while I was going through these comics, this is what I've decided to do. I don't know if I'm going to do this all time, but I took out some of them with little segments which I found interesting, fun. It stood out or shared a little bit of info or portrayed the character or the comic in an interesting light. Sort of a good sampling of what that comic book was like. So we can go through these little segments. I don't know how long this will take us to go through. We might require it a full time. And the rest of this, or the rest of the comics I've gone through, read that I didn't highlight anything. So should I just zoom through these Speedy Gonzales, or should we just get to the readings ASAP? You guys let me know. What do you think? What do you think? Oh my God, it's a rare comic stream and the crack appears. Yeah, yeah. Crack! We're going to do more comic book streams. And for those of you that love the comic book content, apologies if I haven't been doing as many comic book readings. I've been crazy busy. And I've just been enjoying just reading the comics and stuff like this. And you know, we've needed to take care of some current events news because important stuff is going on, as well as economics and what not, right? But we're going to get way more into comics in the summer. Way more. We're going to try to do one a week. We'll see. Crack! Smell comics all the way in the prairies. Awesome. Lord worried. The question is a fantastic comic book character. Very, very nice. Very nice. And great stories being told. It's not just a character. It's the stories, right? So in this lot, I read four question comics, right? I read question number eight, number eleven, number twelve, and number eighteen. And the beauty of it is a lot of the older comics to a certain degree, they were standalone. They were connecting stories that they were telling from one comic to another, right? In the continuing series. But they usually told the story dealt with one issue per comic. So they're great just to pick up the random read. A lot of the newer comics, you have a hard time following the story. Some of the newer comics, you have a hard time following the story unless you read five continuous, back to back, right? Back to back. Readings ASAP. Okay, we go with the readings ASAP. Finish Dude. Canada had seven wins and three losses. Oh yeah, Finland deserved the win. Reading 100 points for the highlighted message. Finish Dude. Changed my mind. Haha. Crack. Glad to hear it, Chicho. I will always try to tune for future comic streams. Awesome crack. Would love to have you. You're well informed the comic book realm. Readings is my vote as well. We got double readings, gang. We're going on readings, okay? Let's go readings. There were good comics in here. Let's pile these guys away. We'll put these piles away. Let's get into some readings. Before we get into readings, Cheryl, are you still here? Are you still here? Are you still here? It's got to be, nope. Let me find one. Where is it? Or did I put it in here? Is it part of this? Maybe. Yep. Okay. Oh, I put it here. Nice. Awesome. Awesome. Okay. Cheryl, just in case you're going to step away. Girl talk. Number two, phantographic books. Okay. We'll read the question first, because I had that queued up first. The rest are random. The question I wanted to show first. It's a great series, the question. It should be way better known. Okay. Personally, in my collection, I would be proud. I would be proud, really. And I might try and do this if I get my hands on a nice sum of money or whatever. At one point, I would like to have every issue of the question graded and slabbed, all of them 9.8. And there's nothing wrong with building a collection like that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with building a collection like that. So check this out, Cheryl. This girl talk. This is a comic book that was put out by phantographics. And I believe all the stories are... everything here is from ladies, from women, right? Nice read. Interesting read. There's like how many stories here? There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Wow, I forgot there were six. Yeah, I guess seven stories in this. Okay.  I'm a victim by Vicky Robyn-Owski. Okay, look this up if you can track it down. This isn't an expensive comic. By the way, all of these comics that you're seeing right now, I picked up for 25 cents each, right? Like a couple of years ago when the comic book store was getting rid of a whole bunch of stuff. So 25 cents a pop. So fantastic reading, right? Cool. The art, Cheryl, it changes based on the person. Like it's phantographics, right? The art here, check this out. Here, it's a gatefold cover. Okay, right? It's a mishmash of stuff. But wow, crack, girl talk, nice pickup, not easy to find out there. Fanta put out some great stuff back then. Seems like it's just collections and hard covers now. Wow, 25, 25 cents each.  I can't show you any more pages. Okay, it's about, it's about rape. It was very little words until the end. Okay, it's just like six pages or something like this. This is probably the best, it was heavy. Like, whoa. This is the best depiction of a vile event, this vile event that I've ever seen in comic books. Okay. And that's the only thing I'm going to do with this. We're not going to read through this whole thing at this four pages. So gang, sorry, we're starting off with girl talk as far as comic book reading goes for this, for this stream. Okay. Mature readers only, gang. Okay. Mature readers only. Okay. Okay. Mature readers only. Okay. Girl talk from phantographic books. Okay. Sure. The one panel, Cheryl, the one panel is hint enough to the rest. Yeah, it gets heavier. Right. Aldo, God, can you post that on Gilded? Yeah, you know what? If you remind me, I'll take picks and post them on our Gilded comic book folder, comic book folder. Good idea, Aldo, God. Good idea. And it's a gatefold cover. Right. All the stories here are told by women, drawn, told by women. Girl talk, talks coming out party. Girl talks coming out party. Right. And it's the third story that is extremely powerful. I found powerful. The other ones were intriguing.  I'm a victim by Vicky Robono was, I don't know the name. And this was put out in 1995. 1995. Okay. Issue number two. I don't know how many issues this went for. Okay. So that's our first reading. Apologies if that was a surprise. Interesting. Phantographic comics books put out a lot of amazing comics. Okay. So what we're going to do, I want to put this here. We're going to read some excerpts from all of these comics. Okay. Let me show you what we got. The question. This is, this is funny. Okay. Snap, snapshot, image comics, DC comics, independent image comics, not bad, zero tolerance. And some of these I highlighted specifically. For example, this one has one of the best car chase sequences in comics, a fun car chase sequence in comics we're going to go through. Okay. Great detective story. So there's a whole bunch of stuff here. Okay. But let's start off with the question. Let's start off with the question. Let me have a sip. Crack says, I think there was only four issues of girl talk. I only have the last one.  It goes super cheap, which I'm amazed, really. And personally, if the comic book collecting industry continues to grow like this, there's going to be people wanting these independent comics and there aren't that many of them around. Okay. There aren't that many of them around. Gang, this is the question. Okay. 19, the series started off, this is question number 11. And this is dated 1987. So this series must have started in 1987. 1986. Okay. This is issue number 11. You know what? I'm going to take my video down. And we're just going to do the readings. So I'm going to take this guy down so we don't interfere with the readings. And I'm going to take the chat down as well. Where are we? And I'm going to take chat down as well. So that doesn't interfere with our readings. And I'm going to take notifications down as well. Okay. Okay. And I'm going to move this back. So this is put out the story. Put out by Dennis O'Neill. Okay. Art is by Denny Cowan and Rick Magyar. From 1987, actually 1987, right? November 1987. The question number 11. So just for mature readers, but we're not going to be reading anything that contains anything like what I showed you guys on Girl Talk. I'll make visions. Welcome to our live stream. And gang, this is spoiler warning here. I'm sorry. I didn't want to pick up something that it was towards the end of like a three issue story arc. But this is, or yeah, it's sort of self-containing, but this is the end of a story arc, right? And the artwork is beautiful. Let me check. Take a look at this, the cover. Beautiful artwork. And this is a depiction of the bad guy in the comic.  It's fun. And it's a good portrayal of the story. Okay. And it really doesn't have a lot to do with the question himself, the main guy. It's his partner. And his partner is key in the question series, right? So basically what's happened is the white guy is the bad guy. Okay, like a Bond villain type of person. And he's trying to get something accomplished, right? And this is where we've taken up the story. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And this is the question's partner. And he's been kidnapped. And the bad guy has brought him here to look at this device. Okay. You find no mistakes? The guy in the white suit asks. I didn't say that. I believe there is a slight error in the 15th trinomial equation, a matter of inverting the third integer and inserting a prime number sequence. But the basic work is astonishing. It could advance quantum physics tremendously, perhaps even provide the key to a unified field theory. My heart felt congratulations, he says. Thank you. But the work is not mine. The bad guy says it is his. And the person walking through right now is the bad guy's father. Someone that the question's partner had worked with in the past, which is sort of told in the beginning earlier, this issue. It's his. Hello, Ari. It's been a long time, he says. Rodrigo, Rodrigo, Gomez, how are you? Where have you been all these years? My son has kept me under lock and key, he says. He was ashamed of me. Oh, oh, more than that, much more. I was disgusted by you, revolted, the bad guy says.  I greatly enjoyed watching something so hideous, read and pain. This is the father talking to the son. And the guy's like, what?  I said I was. Didn't I? He replies. The father says, quite true, I suppose. I have personally tortured to death over 2,000 men, 2,000 people, men, women, children, babies, grandmothers. I have studied the monsters of history. Torcamil, Mada, Nero, Mangal. And none was as relentlessly, persistently, imaginatively cruel as I. You boast. Yeah, certainly. But I also state facts, he replies. There is another fact, Professor Rodor. If our experiment fails, I shall put you to the torture, both of you. I shall use all I have learned to cause you agony, such as no man has ever endured before. You will be months dying. It thrills me to think of it. What are you doing, Ari? The father asks, inverting the third integer and inserting a prime number sequence, he replies. And this is, right now, the question coming in here. Señor Gomez, The men knows. Speak English. We have guests. We find intruder, Charlie. And that's the question that they're bringing in. You know him? A rescuer. Good, good. He will be another subject for me, should we fail tonight. Damn drug, limbs like jelly, can't get my act together, the questions thinking. We begin then. Tonight, gentlemen, in just a few moments, we shall witness one of two events. And this is something that he possesses. That's important for this experiment. The ultimate vindication of mankind's highest aspirations, proof that the things of the spirit exist. Or yet another of the dismal failures in our pathetic attempts to prove that we are more than mud. The instruments are being turned on. Fine tuned. The button being pressed and a huge engine rumbles into life, causing the fort above to tremble as though caught in an earthquake, causing tremors in them. Bear it a mile away. Barrio a mile away. Atoms hurl through miles of curving tunnels, boosted along by radio waves until they travel almost at the speed of light. To be funneled into a cylinder and arrive finally, microseconds after they began their journey at their destination. To change atoms broken, electrons stripped from nuclei. Protons sundered from neutrons. Protons and neutrons shattered into showers of moons, neutrinos, canals, photons, bosons, mesons, gravitons. The stuff, non-stuff, maybe stuff of the universe spinning and bouncing and whirling. A mad dance. We're going to get their facial expressions. The skeleton focused. Picks his arm slowly and already smiles. And then nothing. The question asks him, are you there? Taught. What happened, man? Answer me. Damn it. Got to get you out of here, he says, grabs him. The question picks him up. Question is a great fighter, by the way. He's trained a lot. He's pretty strong, right? Gomez? Gomez's stag is taught. But don't worry. They're all just looting. They aren't interested in us. They're copping the goods. Salem, get rich. Corrupting youth. American way. Santa Presca way. I mean, world's way, I guess. Did some reading on the plane know who Saint Presca was taught? Virgin Martyr. Supposed to have lived during the reign of Claudius, first century. But here comes the good part. She never really existed. Somebody made her up. Of course, that doesn't mean she was a bad person. Basically, he carries him. Okay. All the way. All the way flies him all the way home. And this guy is still his buddy. Still remains sort of, doesn't say anything. Doesn't say anything. Okay. And the question feeds him, takes care of him, right? For how long you see the beard grow, he takes him home, and he's still just not saying anything. Not saying anything. Not saying anything. Not saying anything. The question just keeps on asking him, right?  Fairy tales have their uses, Charlie. Taught, he finally speaks. And some questions don't have answers. And what happened with this story? This device was supposed to give this person a sort of immortality to a certain degree.  Right? So he programmed them in a way that it would just kill him, eliminate him. So that's a good representation of this series. Crack might have something else to say about that, or anybody that's read this series. But that's sort of the storytelling that you encounter in the question. There's, you know, it's not like punches being blown. It's not like a superhero comic book series, even though it is considered superhero comic book series. It's more along the lines of very much Halblazer. And this is a series that came out in 1988, I believe, which is absolutely amazing to read. Jamie Delano and John Rigway, or 1986 Halblazer, maybe. Fun. Fun. Should we check out something else? Crack says, I've only read random question books. It's been one of my lists to dig in for a while. Yeah, I've been, I've read certain runs, not runs, but certain issues back to back. But I can't, I can't remember how many issues I've read, but I've never read it from beginning to end, which I hope to do one day. Here's an independent comic book. And this, this is a comic strips compilation of comic strips, a comic strips. This is I Beam. Okay. I Beam by Sam Hurt. And it's I Beam number five. And if you'd like, and I didn't know about I Beam, when I picked this up, I picked this up for 25 cents as well, like bins, right? Might have crossed my path, but I don't remember. But I Beam is sort of a comic strip, like newspaper comic strip. And this is a compilation of some of the comics that he put out. And this is I Beam number five, the complete collection from 1978 to 1989, Double Diamond Press, Austin Technist, Texas. And I don't know if, I don't think this issue would have compiled 11 years of comics. I think this is number five of a compilation like this. So I'm assuming there might be collected works of this somewhere out there. Okay. So I Beam Slime and Bone Pie, it's just random stuff, you know, random comic book strip things, right? Yeah. He does the lettering, cracks as he likes the lettering on this. He does the lettering in different types of ways inside as well. And I didn't know this as well either, right? So it basically gets into and there's a story, I forget where it is, where I read it. I wish you were here. I hope you're enjoying the other stuff. I had a fun drawing. Okay. Here's a message from Sam. But basically he was a, he was a comic strip artist for University Magazine. Okay. And once he graduated university, he got picked up. So the comic strip got syndicated. And this is basically him putting it together. And I had never heard of I Beam as a comic strip. So it must have been the United States. But here's a message from Sam. Sam Hurt. Okay. All readers, all readers, what does Sam Hurt has to say? Let's see if this is going to be, let's see if I'm going to read this. It's black. So it's going to be shining a lot. Having a great time. Wish you were here. Hope you're enjoying this I Beam stuff. I had fun drawing it. This issue gets into some noteworthy rod, stud muffins, and bath material. It also contains, it also contains historic first appearance of Peaches. Before she was Queen of the, Queen of the Universe. Speaking of that strip, I reactivated the time machine therein and included two pages herein. In addition, I found some smoldering moldies. That is to say, something ancient. Ancient, some ancient artifacts of my earlier career, which I hope you will find interesting. Meanwhile, fare thee well. Just a message to his readers. And when I started reading this, it was just the first time I've read anything by hand. Then it's fun. The characters are cool. They're fun characters. There's a nice humor in here. But I went to two pages where I found interesting. And it's basically, this is one of the characters. I forgot their names already. So we're going to read these. And it's about dating advice. So I thought it would be fun to take a look at. And there's two parts to it. So let's read this from the beginning. Let's see if we can do this property. So its focus is easy. I'm having a hard time getting these things to focus today. Let's see. What should I wear today? Wait a minute. Something's wrong. There's nothing but bell bottoms in here. Ask not for whom the bell bottoms swing. It swings for you. Why I'd rather defy fate or even be out of fashion. I guess the worst thing about keeping business hours is knowing some people don't have to. And this guy, this is Ibeam. And this guy are roommates. And he's unemployed, this guy. And he works a lot. And the girl we're about to see come is Ibeam's this guy's girlfriend. Oh hi Ratliff. Ratliff is this dude. So Ratliff. I was just in the neighborhood. Thought I'd drop in and say hi. Nice office. Say you didn't have to get all dressed up. He's wearing a robe. Oh he he. Well it's hard to get overly motivated on Mondays. So what really brings you here? Ever have one of those days when you just can't get to sleep? Ratliff. You know Ibeam sometimes I wonder if the nature of man is basically good or evil. How come? Ratliff asks. Well I hate to sound negative but sometimes it seems like deep down we're all rotten. What makes you think that? Ibeam asks.  So what did you do? I deliberately failed to return an overdue library book. I fear for the human race. Ibeam says. So it's very innocent humor. Sally could you help me with my love life? What's the problem Ratliff? It's non-existent. Oh yeah she says. Anyway I figured with your special expertise you could give me some pointers. Wait a minute. What special expertise? She asks.  He whispers. Oh yeah she says. So he's a very innocent guy right? So you need tips on your relationship with the opposite sex eh? I just thought it would be nice to get things rolling before I reach retirement age. Well what areas are you having difficulty with? Just about every area except maybe their eyebrows huh? I mean oh never mind. I'm still not sure where we should start. Could we go ahead and start with elbows just to play it safe? He says. So basically the trick is to just be yourself. That's it? He asks. What will get me? That will get me a girl? Eventually she replies. Take it from me. Those macho games don't appeal to women. Hmm. I'll be darned. I'll be darned. And then this guy. This is another character that appears. He's very macho right? What in heaven's name is going on here? He asks. Ratliff asks me for a few tips on how to appeal to women she says. But he already knows I showed her Ratliff. So you've been going to Rod for help too? She asks. Hey baby. This could be your lucky night. Now. Now. Now sound like you mean it. Remember your God's gift to women. Right. So basically I found this part to be it. I mean these three I found to be super funny. These three right?  These are four or three actually. Three segments. We understood this guy's character. We understood this guy. We got a feel for this guy. And in one strip we got the full blown character of this guy. Right? Very well done. Very well done. Great humor. Great humor. Okay. I highlighted this section too because I think let's read this. Okay. And then let's read this bottle one. Okay. Beard slinger. Thank you very much for the tier one sub. Oi. Cheryl says with all my Iverdue, Iverdue library books. Ipeop. Their list for sure. That's funny. Ten months. Thank you very much. Beard slinger. Ten months in a row. And Cheryl says 95 percent. Oh my God. I know a guy like this. He's the real artist. Oh boy. Cheryl says. Let's continue this. So this guy's advice is for Ratliff to say this. Hey baby, could this be your lucky night? Hey baby, this could be your lucky night. And the guy says, need it. Right? And then it continues. Look, this just isn't going to work. She says. Damn right it isn't. He replies. Hey, I was just trying to get the benefit of advice from two experts. Ratliff says. But he's trying to teach you to be a fake and condescending towards women. And then he replies. And she's trying to make you sensitive and consider it. You're trying to get a girl not become one. And they both look at each other. You know, you're beautiful when you're angry. And they're both like sigh. Oh my God. Too funny. Too funny. Seriously. Those, this combination. This one. And this one with the buildup of the character of who this guy is and she is. I think that's brilliant. I thought it was very well done. I thought it was very well done. Okay. And then it continues and then Ratliff ends up dating somebody. So it's very much a continuing story, right? But I think we should read this one. I can't remember what this one was. Comic strips like this you have to read multiple times, right? Boy, the pigs you meet in these bars. I love to think of new ways to freak them out, she says. Or she's thinking. Here comes one now. Ratliff walks up. Hi. Mind if I join you? He asks. Fine. But I feel I must warn you. I'm a little kinky. That's fine. Completely straight. Straight would be too. As long as you shampoo. No way. What? No. What? No. What do you mean? Was it a tricycle? Why? That's sick. He's thinking of a tricycle. Too funny. Too funny. Too funny. Too funny. Okay. This was really good. That is hysterical. Totally hysterical. Like seriously. At some point I'm going to try to get my hands on all of this. Okay. I looked online. I couldn't find a set. But I'm going to look it up again because this is cracking me up even more than the first time. Actually not just as much as the first time. So funny. So funny. And then he's got a whole bunch of stuff which is cool. Which is cool. Okay. Should we read the back as well? Crack our nose. Cheryl's like that is hysterical. Too funny. So Ratliff and what do you call it? Eyebeam. Right? You know eyebeam? You have tons of fantasies. Sometimes I wonder if you can keep track of where reality runs out and your imagination begins. Well Ratliff and a dinosaur comes over and eats him. Everything is relative. Funny. Funny. Cheryl says I need to find that to share with the kids as a cautionary devil. What year was this comic again? What year was this comic? Let's check it out. Good question Elder God. What year was this comic? This comic. This comic. This comic. When did this come out? When did this come out? You know what? That's a good question because I think I have to look it up online to find out when this came up. Because it didn't have to date. Oh no it does. There it is. There it is. All contents. So here's a fine print. Eyebeam published quarterly by Double Diamond Press, Northgate Boulevard, Austin Techless, Texas. This publication copyright 1992 by Double Diamond Press. All rights reserved under international copyright conventions. All content 1983, 1991, 1992 by Samher. So 1992 came out. This is 1992. Okay. And I don't remember seeing this on my comic raps when I was buying comics. Cool. Crack says 1990 to 1992. So this would have been, I think this might have been the last issue. I think. I think. Okay. Should we take a look at an image book? Should we? Should we take a look at an image book? Why did I highlight this? Oh yeah. Check this out. Okay. This is issue number four. It's a snapshot. Andy Giggle wrote it and Jock did the artwork for it. I don't know the first name. Okay. Issue number four four. Again, again, this is going to be spoilers. This is towards the end of this. It's a four issue mini series, right? From Image Comics. And it's towards the end of issue number four. So it's giving away the story, right? And this came out in 2000 and May 2013. Okay. May 2013. Snapshot number four. And this story, basically what this is, I'm going to give you guys the full story. It's basically someone finds a phone and the phone is hot and it belongs to someone that had information and there's GPS on it and the bad guys try to track down and they do track down the people with the phone. Okay. So this is when a whole bunch of stuff has already happened. Okay. And I highlighted this because this is sort of relates to politics. New World Order. Okay. So I just put New World Order for myself to let me know it's politics, deep state or what not. And what's happened in the story so far is this is one of the bad guys. First time we're meeting them, really, this guy. And this is the main guy. Okay. And he's been captured after a lot of things that have happened. And we're about to get a little story from the bad guy of how the world works. Okay. So he's been held up in this mansion. He was just, he was drugged and brought here. So he's just waking up to what's going on. Mr. Dobson, you'll see you now. Let me guess, you're the bad guy, he says. To your way of thinking, I suppose I probably am. In truth, I represent the collection of mutual interests. You may call me McGarratt. McGarratt. McGarratt. My way of thinking, he says, or he asks.  You believe in social justice that the system will locate and punish wrongdoers. But what you fail to understand is this. We do not exist to serve the people. The people exist to serve us. We are the system, banks, media, government.  I have no idea what you're talking about. Why am I even here? He asks. Think of it as a self healing organism. Remove one rogue cell from the body politic, a witness, a whistleblower, and the system corrects itself. It absorbs the anomaly and moves on, the bad guy says. Absorbs the anomaly? That's a hell of a euphorism for murder, he says. He's been beaten up through the sordial. What about those people at the camp in the woods? Have they been absorbed?  There is no camp. There are no people the bad guy says. Bullshit, I saw them. What you saw is irrelevant. What you say is irrelevant, the bad guy says. Yeah, so what's to stop me going straight to the cops? He asks. You already did. And what did that achieve? Three more deaths on your conscience. Perception is all that matters and we control the public discourse.  You are incapable of threatening us, he says. In point of fact, Mr. Dobson, it is extraordinary that you have made us notice you at all. You should be proud, he says.  Here, perhaps this will help you to understand. Handsome, something. What is it? He asks. Jesus, he picks it up. It's a finger. So this thing that he had though? That's a finger. Jesus. Jonathan Twain, pick it up. I'm not. I don't pick it up. Pick it up, he says. Put it with his wife. Oh my, oh my God, he says. Look at all the fingers. Robert Jones, Jonathan Twain, Justin Ishmael, something. Are these all people you've killed? Some of them, he says. We've been at it a while. Look at that. Look at that. Killer was one of our most trusted agents, but it would seem that he nurtured ambition above his station. He fooled us for years, faking assassinations and pressing our would-be victims into a lifetime of indenture servitude, the work farm, he says. The world is a work farm, Mr. Dobson. Your misconception is merely one of scale. Keller understood that. Now better than ever. See for yourself. He points to the stairs going down. Callie, Jake. That's the other good person that the bad people were chasing. She, they found each other through the series. Callie, Jake. She runs tourism.  Or worse, they made me watch, she says. Watch. Watch what? Keller. Oh God, he says.  And this person that we see here is one of the top assassins for the bad organization, right? That was tasked for finding the phone and eliminating the girl. Okay, that found the phone. And then the guy. And it was revealed that he was other, he was skimming from the top from the bad guy. So they grabbed him and are torturing him. So there's the torturer. You have the right stuff, Mr. Dobson. All that we now require for closure is a degree of incrimination.  Hands in the gun. And if I don't, what then? My friends, my family, to begin.  Please, please. He's begging to be shot. He's begging to be shot. So he puts the gun to the assassin's head, right? And then they set them free. And if you notice, they're videotaping him doing this. So that's the incrimination, right? Degree of incrimination. I thought that was worthwhile. I thought that was worthwhile. It was a good story. It was a good story. And the artist, I should have, here we go. And Andy Diggle has done a lot of work, okay? So the writer for the series is Andy Diggle, art and cover by Jock, letter by Clem Robinson. Snapshot comics. Let's take a look at another one, gang. Let's take a look at another one. Now, before we do this, I'm gonna just do one thing. I gotta do a little tape of a wire here because we've probably heard it as hitting the comics, making a scraping sound. For, I don't know, a fourth reading, fourth little segment reading. This is a mini-series. I think it was a mini-series anyway. Zero tolerance from... Let's see if we can focus on it. First publishing, okay? 1990. And first was around. I'm not sure how long they stuck around. But this is from 1990. They're independent publisher. And they did a few comic books. They did, I think, Badger as well. And a few other comic books, sort of independent titles, right? Independent comic book publishing company. So, oh yeah, limited series, part one of four, right? So it's sort of a sci-fi series. And I like this cover because it sort of portrays one of the best car scenes, sort of sales, one of the best car scenes I've read, car chase scenes I've read in comic books, okay? And the artist for this is Tim Vigil. The writer was Tim Vigil. Let me find the name. This came out in 1990, okay? Zero tolerance, zero tolerance, volume one, number one, October 1990. And created by, here we go, created by David Barber. Writer are Tim Vigil. So the writer is David Barber. Tim Vigil and Gary Amor. Amor are the pencils. Tim, Tyler, the Inker, Willie Schubert and Clem Robbins. Letter and Ray Morleau-Coloris with Bob Garcia, the editor. Zero tolerance, number one, from 1990. And it's nice artwork, beautiful artwork. Lots of story, lots of reading, heavy text, heavy text, right? But we're gonna read a section that is less heavy text, okay? And beautiful coloring, like, I love it. Vibrant characters. This is the main character, by the way. These are two main characters, okay? This is, I forget his name, right? But fun, fun. This is, and again, this is a corporate bad world, right? Bunch of elites, media, rich people. This is the president in the United States. They conspire to, you know, do what it is that, you know, those people are doing right now, really, but in the scientific realm, right?  They want, they want investigation into all these corruptions and stuff like this. So the president of the United States puts together a committee, like a new task force, right? Police task force, just to let off a little steam, calm the masses. So the masses don't come to bring out the guillotine for these people, right? And this is sort of the task force coming together. This is the head of the task force, okay?  Yes, sir.  And she is the police chief's daughter. Oh yeah, first publication has put out Grimjack as well. Actually, if I have a Grimjack, I might have one or two copy issues, but nothing more. I need to get more Grimjack, right?  And they're supposed to, the police chief, I guess, for this department, is having a meeting with, he partnered up all the cops. So all the cops have partners, they're going to go out into the field, and he partnered up his daughter with the main guy, because he's like the best cop out there, right? And she's like, oh, what are you, why did I get partnered with this guy? Why the Jesus? And he's explaining all this, right? And he's late to the meeting, this guy, late to the meeting, and he just steps in, right? So he comes in and says, what does she say? We'll read these panels, right? Look, and I'm speaking as your uncle now. Oh, sorry, uncle, not father, uncle now. I put you with Turk, and that's the cop's name, Turk, because he's the best chance I have of getting you home to your mother for Christmas. It's going to get dangerous out there, he says. And she's like, oh man, you put me together with this male chauvinist, this macho dude, right? And you may not believe this, but despite his many faults, Turk is still the single best agent of recruit. And then Turk walks in, thanks for the vote of confidence chief, means a lot coming from you. Car chase, I put a little note for myself, car chase. So he joins the meeting late. Sorry I was late. Sorry I was late. Been rereading all those notes I took at the meetings this morning, which he didn't even probably show up. So he comes in with a pad, right? And puts the pad on the table, and he wouldn't have taken any notes, and the chief would have known that, right? So that was a hint, okay? And he points to the pad. Ground air outside window, watching, probably listening. Does Brod know how to fly at ground air? If so, then she's like, Brod, right? Fly ground air. If so, get her to grab one, fly up, and we'll nail the bastards. And then the chief turns to her niece, I guess, says, Ms. McKnight, would you be good enough to let me have a few words with Turk all alone, please? Certainly chief, Grusky. I'll be in the cafeteria if you need me, she replies. See you later, she says, turd, and then she runs over to one of these hover cars, which is basically what's pictured here, right? It's a hover car, right, on the cover. What is it? Ground air units, classified personnel only. Yeah, those were the good old days, chief. Too bad, the old boner saved the world and made himself God, and he's talking about the president of the United States, right? Now, don't talk about our beloved president like that, the chief says. And the president has become president for life, so it's a dictatorship. Sorry, chief.  Got to go. He sees the hover car come up, right? Got to go. The chief says, what? Let's focus this. Let's see if we'll focus. Turk, wait. The chief says, Turk, wait. He's got a big smile on his face, right? Grin. Eat, rub, chief, and duck. Dock me for the window, bam. Blows out the window, right? Hey, crack. You watching? Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, blows out the window.  Nice panel, or splash page. And then he jumps out.  Damn it. You'd better catch up after this. I don't. What did she say? I don't believe it, she says. Woof. He lands in the plane. Don't tell me. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, right? She says.  You waited. Hell you waiting for. Let's go. Relax, Commando. We're right on his tail. And I've got a radar lock. Do you jump out of windows often? She asks. Yeah, but it's usually because the husband's home early. Yeah, right, she says. He's got his leg hanging on the windshield.  Sure, you can pilot this crate. So it's a partner cop, partner story, right? Only me and about 500 other people have been trained on these. Most people still think ground airst are outmoded, hovercrafts, rich people fly on weekends. Obviously, you've never been in one, she says. Gee. Gee, guess I'm just an underprivileged child.  I'm engaging target lock on an exhaust port. Should force it down. If I can hit it. I don't know how that's sad to fact read. Shcock, shcock fires and kills a bird in the process. Oops. Great shot. That seagull will be shitting lava for days.  You know that she replies. And then this is the center full pace. So it gives you a low down on the universe. It is the year 2017, zero tolerance. They believe in truth, justice. They believe in truth, justice, America and all the right stuff. Their beliefs may get them killed. New color series by Tim Vigil. So it gives you a little low down of what this is all about, but we're going to continue with the car chase. And here's the panel, the car chase panel flying up towards the top of the skyscraper. Never seen a GA move like this must be modified. Whoever's flying it is real pro. Got to start anticipating his moves or I'll lose them. She's thinking, come on, you're losing them. 120 miles per hour. Will you let me concentrate?   She yells. Training was never like this. Never even tried these maneuvers in the similar. Whoa, where do you think you're going? She thinks and he's like, whoa. Okay. This guy knows he's not going to ditch me just by speed alone. Wait. He's breaking, breaking, turning. He's going to fire. Brooks building. So he turns around. Zoom. Stomach. Turk says, look out. So let's do a loop-to-loop. Atop the Brooks building in the city lights restaurant, famous for its spectacular view of the San Francisco skyline. Let me tell you, babe, the music business is wacky, but I love it. Turk and Molly find themselves on the defensive, swinging and twisting in a circular pattern, trying to avoid the pulse burst from the spy ship. What's this guy thinking? What's going on? Excuse me. Can I get a doggy back?  This place was full of weirdos and they're flying towards the restaurant. Look at that. Guns blaring or blasting. Playing an old fashioned game of chicken in an effort to get the mystery craft off her back. Molly makes two mistakes. The first is not knowing about his famous restaurant.  Run. It's going to hit us. The second, waiting a fraction of a second too long before pulling up.  People fly and everywhere. Glass shattered. But fortunately, she locates the exit. Boom. Comes out the other side. Jesus, that was close. Hope no one got hurt. Look at Turk's mouth. It looks like he's about to vomit. I don't know if that was intentional or not. Great panel work, by the way. Great panel work. You feel like you're there. Like there's movement involved with it. Chomp, chomp. Oh no, he's eating. That's right. He was eating a burger. He picked up a burger. Where's the burger? I forgot about that. There it is. He's munching on a burger. He's not hurling. He picked up a burger from the restaurant. Ha ha. Right. Fine. Munch, munch. Chomp, chomp. They'll be all right. Chomp. Didn't see you. See you. Nail anyone. Just a little chomp. Shook up. That's all. They, hey, these things are good. Chomp, chomp. Want one? Talking about the burger. You're unbelievable, she says. Great. We've got company on our tail, gaining fast. So someone's coming up behind them, firing at them as well. What are you doing? He stands up, pulls out his gun.  He says the rocketeering vehicle swoop over the metropolitan sprawl of towering skyscrapers and bolt back down zigzagging in a blur of motion that human eye can scarcely follow.  Tailgating is illegal. It's like fully concentrating. No, I'm not going to give you a ticket this time, but consider this. Boom. Boom. But consider this a warning. Blows up the car. Look at that. And the car smacks into the building. Nice shooting, she says. The car goes, this is the main car that they've been chasing. Yeah, you're flying ain't that bad either. Now they got respect for each other, right? Their first sort of meeting. Now they got respect for each other. Car chase continues. For a broad, he says. Not bad for a broad, eh? Suddenly, the desperate spy craft takes advantage of the setting sun's glaring rays, turns around and fires at them. Pow! Nails them.  Damn, should have known what he was going to do. Right stabilizers gone, she says. McKnight, do you see that building in front of us? Yes. Then why are you flying into it? Turk asks. It's on top of the skyscrapers. Flying around, he turns around, shoots at them. Nails them. The right stabilizer's gone and they're flying towards the building.  Ah, Turk is like, knows they're gonna crash. Explosion comes out the other end. Hover car is like destroyed. Zigzag is along on fire. Splashes into the bay. Poo for the ocean, I guess. San Francisco. There's extremely risky. This is extremely risky, Senator. Do you really think zero tolerance will help us get tid well off the island? We'll never find out unless we test the waters. Now we, now will we. Nice car chase scene. And then here is a brief history of the United States, 1997 to 2017. Let us build, you know, the lore, the history of the universe. Yeah, yeah, first publications. First publishing. Okay. Also did Dread Star, right? Dread Star's fantastic. Okay. Badger is a great read. Dread Star. Grimjack I don't have. If I have, I have maybe two copies or something. Lone Wolf and Cub. Awesome. Nexus as well. Awesome. Chief Irvin Grosky, a revered national hero appointed to zero tolerance, suspected suspects as much on this. Now all he has to do is prove it. The president has a powerful unseen ally determined to remain in the shadows. Zero tolerance has turk and molly. The president is in big trouble. Total cop buddy movie. And one thing I liked about this car chase, by the way, it felt like very much like a movie scene where you see the big picture and it flashes to the faces saying things. You felt the motion of the whole thing. Explosions. And there's like flow happening, right? So well done. Well done. Well done. Well done. Oh wow, gang. We're down to 15 minutes. Is that what it is? Oh wow, we got 15 minutes left. We got all these. Look at this. Maybe we do another reading next week to read up on some of these ones. Yeah, what are you guys saying? This one? I'll give you a lowdown on these just in case we don't get to them. Check this out. This one out. Crazy bro happens. Alolo. Let me bring back the chat as well. Oh yes, please. Okay, let's try this because I don't want to rush through these but I'll give you a little lowdown. I'm going to bring up the chat again. Bring out the browser and I'm going to bring my camera back. Asylum. Oh, crack. Asylum. I just read the first two issues the other night. Nice, not. Very good, eh? Not bad. So check this out. Check this out. I need more Alagon says. This was a compilation of different stories. I crack. Did you like it? Crack. Did you like it? Beautiful artwork. It's like a horror series, right? Mini stories. Beautiful artwork. Like this is one of the... I was actually going to read you guys this one. Okay, pretty cool. And then another set of artists come on here and the artwork changes. Lonely Piggy, how are you doing? I really like, yeah, crack. I figured you would and I really liked it as well. It was a nice read. And then, you know, they're shorts. And then another. This was really fun as well. This was great, actually. This one was really good. The Edgar Allen Poe one, it was okay. Okay. And this one was interesting as well, right? So this is sort of a horror compilation or sci-fi. The first story was Bolton art is stellar, stellar. Indeed. Fantastic. John Bolton, Nick Weistitha? John Bolton illustrator, yeah. So Nick, Nick Weis was the writer and the writing was good. But John Bolton, wow. Phenomenal artwork. Phenomenal artwork, right? Jumped on the comic. We talked about a few streams ago, Chicho. Got one for a good deal. All things considered. Really happy to be getting it soon. Cool. Which comic? I forget which comic it was, Lonely Piggy. Evil to Hope. Hello. How are you doing? You're joining us towards the end of our comic book stream. This series. This I was very pleasantly surprised about. I'm surprised they did the pixel artwork. Okay. Like really, because the inside artwork, it was really, I love this artwork. And it's a detective story. You'll just have to extend it another 24 hours. Nice. I wouldn't be able to read that long. So it's a sort of a detective story and it's her detective agency. Right. And I didn't really pick out anything too much to read. Oh, I guess I just picked out this page just to start reading from this segment. Oh, the first Jason Todd.  Awesome. Batman 635. That's right. That's right. Awesome. Issue two opens with Neil Gaiman and Mark Birmingham. Yeah, I noticed. Neil Gaiman is the next one. Right. For issue number two. Like I was intrigued with this. I don't have issue number two. I don't think I do anyway. And I picked this up for 25 cents. Right. Great read. But this one was a great, great story. Really. I really enjoyed this. Fantastic science fiction detective story. Really well done and beautiful artwork. Beautiful artwork. So I wouldn't mind tracking more of this down. It's from IDW. Read only memories. Right. Read only memories. And this came out when this one came out. 2019. This came out in 2019. An asylum came out in the 90s. It's got to be in the 90s. I had a hard time finding the date for this. I think it was in 1990s that this came out. I think I had to look it up online. 1993 or so. Okay. I think it's on the guy had it on here. And then I couldn't find it anywhere else. Great detective story. Mark Birmingham for issue number two. Cool. Lonely Piggy. I bought a graded one. 9.8. You bought a 9.8? Batman 635. That must have cost you a mint. My wallet suffered. But like I said, it was a better deal than most I found. Okay. Awesome. How much did it set you back, brother? Batman 635. First appearance of Jason Todd as Red Hood. That must have set you back serious. A few hundred bucks, I'm assuming. Now the guy says 1990s was my favorite comic. It was a great period. This comic is crazy. Because it's Megaton Man. Okay. The un-categorizable X plus them. Right. So Megaton Man. Lonely Piggy. So 500 Canadian including shipping. Okay. So cost you 500 bucks Canadian to buy Batman 635 graded, CGC graded 9.8. As soon as it was CGC. So it was black and white. It had humor. Dark humor. And it's got like lots of beautiful, beautiful splash pages. Definitely not politically correct. Definitely not politically correct. I do not remember Megaton Man being this darkish to a certain degree because there's dark humor involved in here. Right. And this is from Kitchen Sink. Okay. Publications. Kitchen Sink comics. And there's actually a couple of scenes in here which I don't even know if I would do it. Read it for you guys. It's on the verge of... Crazy. Lonely Piggy. It's only going to be my current holy grail. Red Hood is my favorite character. So purchasing the issue was necessary. Yeah, it was. When you said it was your favorite character, indeed. This one, Icon Devil. I really enjoyed this book. Icon Devil. And these are these guys from BC from my part of the world. And I think it was a... I forget how many issues they put out. I think they put out three or four issues. That's it. And Penticton, British Columbia. Okay. And who was the person? I forget their names. Neil Hansen. Right. This was a great series or great comic. I really... As far as independence go, this was really beautifully done. I was going to just read you this much of it starting from here. I just wrote down great read and beautiful artwork. Really. Really nice artwork. I really enjoyed the artwork in this. Right. It's too bad that I don't know too much about these people involved in this. I haven't looked them up. Okay. So nice read. Pleasant surprise. Scout. Scout. Timothy Truman. Scout. Number 21. And this is beautiful artwork. Okay. Nice story. Heavy, mature. Okay. Like, beautiful panel work. Beautiful splash pages. Nice writing. Okay. I've read a few of these. It's sort of futuristic. And what did I highlight to read? I can't remember. Oh, I was going to read this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is about U.S. Constitution. It wasn't even the main story. Right. And this is Eclipse Comics. And Eclipse Comics is a very political comic book series. It had a lot of political comic books out there. Okay. Scout is classic. Yeah. Elder God says the lonely thingy. That's a good price. I love Jason Todd. I voted to save him. Hilarious in the 1980s, I think. That was what, when it came out. DC Comics, one of the comic books, a comic book saying, you know, should we save Jason Todd or kill him? And people voted to kill him. Right. Crack says, I think Icon Devil only went two issues. I have that one as well, but never knew it was Canadian. Yeah. BC. Penticton, BC. Penticton, BC. Only two issues. Hey, I got to get the second one. I wouldn't mind. Like, I personally would like to get these. Grated Slap 9.8. That would be like one of a kind. Or five of a kind, maybe. Right. Really well done. I enjoyed it. Dark Horse presents. Right. Concrete. I was gonna give you guys a read of a concrete story. Right. Concrete is a fantastic character. Okay. Very good. Chadwick. What's his name? Yeah. Paul Chadwick is the creator of Concrete. Very nice. And this isn't Star Wars, but sort of Star Wars related. Dark Horse presents. Yeah. Dark Horse presents put out a lot of Star Wars comics. I've read stories. I've read some. There's some first appearances there. I can't remember if this was supposed to be Star Wars. No, this isn't Star Wars. This is more futuristic. Okay. And then it's Boris Baer's story. Funny. The only thing it says, I'm honestly glad that people decided to get rid of Jason. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten red.  Paul Chadwick. Concrete is great. I agree with Crack. Right. And this is independent. Phantographic. Okay. Phantographic books. And Phantographic is mature. This is called Crucial Fiction. Okay. And this is number three. Issue number three. And there's no way I could read you the first story. And I didn't really enjoy the first story too much, but I like the backup story on this, in this meeting. The artwork is very reminiscent of the cares and stuff. Like, it's beautiful artwork. So when we get a chance, maybe we do this as well. And I'm going to keep on reading a lot of these independence and a lot of these books just randoms that I've picked up on the cheap, cheap 25 cents a pop. And that's what I'm really reading right now. I'm jumping around all over the place. I'm enjoying the variety of stuff. Al Fida. Hello, Chicho. Hope you're doing well. Thank you very much, Fida. Dunhuang. You're catching us at the end of the stream. But thank you for popping in. Crack. Great selection, Chicho. Got to run. See you next time. See you next time, Crack. 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A storyline in which the Joker brutally beat Jason Todd with a crowbar within a literal inch of his life, and readers were given a phone number to call, hey, this was 1988, to vote on whether DC should go that last inch or not. With 10,614 votes tallied and a slim 72-vote difference, Robin died. I didn't know the numbers, that's crazy. So 10,614 people called in to cast their vote, and 72 more said, off with his head, and they killed Jason Todd. Cool, cool, Lonely Piggy, I'll have to watch the reading of today on YouTube. Cool. Or BitShoot, Rumble, and Odyssey, right? Seeing as I came in here at the end, cool, cool, cool. Come to Gilded Server, gang. Lonely Piggy, Death in the Family is top tier stores, top tier reading, top tier reading, deep flake, hey, long time no see, long time no see, deep flake, we gotta go, thanks for popping in. 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It's the holiday season and every holiday there's so many cookies to eat and just thinking about it I'm imagining the ultimate jam cookie. It's rich and sweet, full of homemade jelly and dusted with a nice layer of powdered sugar and served with nice warm tea. But then again there's so many other cookies to choose from. So this year I've made an Excel spreadsheet to help me decide. I have chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, macaroons and linser. There's just too many to choose from. So let's do some cookie mining. Now I already showed you my collection of cookies but I can also try to load it into orange and then I can ask chat GPT to make some descriptions. Now I'll convert this data into a text corpus so that each cookie has its own description. Then embedding will convert these descriptions into a set of numbers which we can use for clustering for example. We find the coconut cookies are clustered together and so are some of the more traditional European cookies, the spiculas and the vanilla ketfer. Now I don't even know how to pronounce that let alone what that cookie is. I'm going to need some pictures. Now luckily I actually have a bunch of named images of each of my cookies. So let's try to add all of these into our workflow as well. Okay I'll merge the descriptions with the images and then feed this data into my clustering again. So here we go, the European cookies, the pecan cookies, all the funny looking cookies. Now I can even ask Orange to describe the cluster so using chat GPT I can type in something like what is specific to the following list of cookies in the start and answer with up to five words in the end to make sure chat GPT doesn't get too wordy. Now here's what it says about the European cluster and here's what it says about the peanut cluster and what it says about the chocolate cluster. Now let's instead try to describe what kind of cookie I want to eat. For example right now I feel like eating a soft cookie with pecans. So I'll use text embedding again and try to find some matches. There they are, all the pecan cookies from my database. Maybe instead I feel like eating cookies filled with jam. Wow, they really do look great. Now I could really do this all day. I could even maybe use t-sne to map all the cookies or try to use a bag of words and then keyword extraction. Or maybe I could extract some features using GPT and use them for predictions. But I won't do that right now.  Happy holidays everyone and I hope you have a great new year.


To understand Synecdoche, you need to first understand the concepts of metaphor and metonymy. If you don't have a solid grasp of metaphor and metonymy, videos on both of those concepts are available through the Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms. Metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche are all kinds of figurative language that use one thing to help us understand something else. A metonym, as you know, replaces something you want to characterize with something else associated with it. A synecdoche is a kind of metonym, but the associated thing is actually a component part, a piece of whatever you are characterizing. When we talk about getting boots on the ground, we're using a synecdoche. By boots, we mean soldiers. But boots are part of the soldiers, at least when they are dressed. So this expression is really a synecdoche rather than just a metonym. The super classic example of synecdoche, the one you'll find on every website, is 50 keels plowed the deep, 50 ships are sailing on the ocean, represented by their keels, a component part of the vessel, thus standing for the whole. The poet Allen Ginsberg was a great lover of synecdoche. Two examples are afforded by his poem, Supermarket in California, and understanding these examples helps us interpret Ginsberg's themes. In the poem, the narrator fantasizes about following the 19th century poet Walt Whitman around a mid-20th century grocery store. He overhears Whitman ask the grocer in the meat section, who killed the pork chops? That's a synecdoche. It was, of course, the pig, not the pork chop that was killed. The pork chop is the fragmented part that stands for the whole. A few lines later, the narrator addresses Whitman as his dear father, Graybeard, lonely old courage teacher. Graybeard here is also a synecdoche. Ginsberg affectionately invokes Whitman's famous beard to stand for the whole man and to indicate how Whitman's wise example gives him courage. How can tracking Ginsberg's use of synecdoche help us interpret the poem? This is a verse in which the narrator struggles with feelings of connection and disconnection. He feels connected to Whitman, but isn't sure that Whitman's optimistic vision of society applies to the dismantled post-World War II culture in which Ginsberg lives. The first synecdoche about the pork chops is horrifying and a little gross. It's meant to shock and to capture a world in which we think only in terms of cut-up commodities that we purchase, pork chops. The second synecdoche does the opposite. It creates an affectionate, tender, and reverential connection between Ginsberg and Whitman by referring to the earlier poet as Ginsberg's Graybeard, his wise and older source of inspiration. As a supermarket in California, then, synecdoche is used to establish both moods of the poem, that of fragmentation and that of connectivity. To see the synecdoche is not just to see the clever use of a particular kind of literary language, but to encounter the central themes of the poem as a whole.


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Brandy Wills with your headlines from around the fleet. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recently announced the names of the Navy's next Arleigh Burke class destroyers. USS Paul Ignatius and USS Daniel Inouye are named to honor former Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense Ignatius and former Hawaiian Senator Inouye. They will be the first naval ships to bear these names. Naval Support Activity Panama City was recently announced as a winner of the 2013 Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installation Excellence. Each winning installation, representing all five branches of service, succeed in providing excellent working, housing and recreational conditions. You can read more about these stories at Navy.mil. From All Hands Update, thanks for watching.


Everyone, well Kent from Wiki Education here talking about making data more collaborative. I'm presenting with my colleague Ian Gill from San Francisco MoMA. And I want to talk to you about setting up a project on wiki data, specifically opening up data to the rest of the community to allow everyone to do it. So Ian is going to talk to you about his project specifically and I'll be using some examples from all of his MoMA work but the main idea is that if you represent a set of data or you come from an institution and you want to share that with wiki data it's a kind of complicated process to share all of that data on wiki data. And so I teach these wiki data classes that orient anyone who attends to the fundamentals of wiki data, how to use specific tools, and how to query wiki data and get the data that you want out of it, so that you can share your data, understand what's going on with it, and kind of fill in gaps from there. And so Ian took this course in mind with sharing data from SF MoMA's collection, and specifically he wanted to look at traveling exhibits that SF MoMA had hosted over the years which was a set of data that was kind of sparse and had a lot of gaps. And so the easiest way to deal with these gaps was to kind of build a query. And just to give you an idea of how complicated queries can be I'll share my screen. And there's a lot to parse here, and it's not always clear what you're looking at what you want to know so this is a query that Ian wrote. In the course we spend time unpacking a lot of what these variables mean how to construct these queries what happens when one breaks. It's wonderful when they work, but sometimes they don't and it's not always clear why they don't so we explore which kind of items to use how to phrase the querying. And then when you run the query which I can do by pushing this blue play button you can see a set of results, and you can understand what they mean, and what to do with them after that. What I want to focus on is wiki data is very large and it's not always clear what we're talking about so, for example, I want to focus on this little bit of phrasing from this query about location. I've pulled up this property page on wiki data and I want to share it with you. I'd like to point out that it's kind of confusing because there are a lot of different location properties on wiki data and this is the one that specifically speaks to the location of art and artworks. But there's also P 131 which has to do with geographical location, among many other properties that describe location, and it's not immediately clear but if you click on this discussion tab up at the top. So you can read all about how this property works and so what we do is we spend time building out these queries, running them to understand how all of these different properties relate to different items on wiki data. And this is useful because it helps frame a project really really well. And so Ian was able to do was build out this query, apply it to his set of data from SF mama, and then come to some concrete conclusions about that data. Which, if we go back to the query tab, is that you can see all of these traveling exhibits when they came to SF mama, when they left. And if there were any gaps he was able to fill them in with their local data. And additionally what this means is that other museums now can take this data and apply it to their traveling exhibits so you could actually track one piece of art as it traveled across the country from in this case it looks like we're looking at the 30s, but you can imagine if more museums add this kind of data we could have a much fuller picture. You could have a collection data, but you can apply this to other aspects of a collection to so you can run queries about artists, their works where they're located. You can analyze gender balance, you can analyze time period. So there are all these different variables that you can take a look at, based on very similar queries. And so once you have that one kind of query down and you understand the way that the parts work. You can really hit the ground running if you want to do a deeper analysis of your collection. And a lot of this comes from just spending time in a course, kind of setting the stage understanding the fundamentals, and then being able to apply those fundamentals to the specific research questions that your institution might have. So that's one way that you can help make data a little bit more collaborative and I'll now turn it over to my colleague Ian who will talk about more specifics about this particular project. Thanks for listening. Here to the introduction will. My name is Ian Gill, and I'm the documentation associate at S of mama. My responsibilities at the museum include working with the museum's collections management system, conducting research to augment the database and working to share our data in the online collection. In 2019 I took wills introduction to wiki data course hoping to learn more about the platform and how we could contribute to it. So here are a few things that I've worked on since then. I've illustrated the first project I worked on related to the museum's exhibition history, which at that point was available as a PDF on the website. It looked like this. I took the exported data from our CMS and use the quick statements tool to make it suitable for upload, ensuring that each entry pointed back to the museum website as a reference. And, as you can see here, we now have over 3200 entries on wiki data. As of uploading, I noticed that other wiki data users had already started adding to them, which I thought was super cool. So moving beyond exhibitions, this is the S of mama online collection, which we frequently add new works to. You'll see that there are a lot of different records for just various artworks in the collection. And then there are also corresponding artist records. So one of the things that we wanted to do was really just see how we could translate this information to wiki data. Currently, my primary focus is indicating the artists in the S of mama collection. Once an artist is listed as in the collection, I can query them and gather artist information from wiki data. Using data exported from our CMS in conjunction with the program open refine. I had the following statements to artist records has artworks in the collection of used in conjunction with the S of mama entry and the S of mama artist ID, which draws from the unique identifier used by the online collection. For all of this information, I include references that point back to the museum website. So for example, here's the record for Ruth Asawa, the Japanese American sculptor. You'll see there's a whole lot of information in this one. This is a particularly robust article. When you scroll through, you'll see there it is. So Ruth Asawa has works in the S of mama collection, and there's the references. And then if you scroll even further down, you'll see the S of mama artist ID. Let's see. There it is. So you can open up that and then see the references. And then if you click on the name, it'll take you back to the online collection page. So this is how we are indicating artists on wiki data. Once artists are indicated on wiki data, they will show up in the query that we've built, which if you look at it right now, we have a little bit over 2200 artists in the museum collection reflected on wiki data. Once an artist is listed as in the collection, you can then amend your query to include other sort of information that you're looking for. So for example, here's a query that will help me create, which includes the artists in the S of mama collection, as well as any associated ethnicity information and references. So if we run this query, you'll see here the results. So it's a list of all of the artists in the collection that have associated ethnicity information. So here let's click on the record for Alma Thomas, the expressionist painter. Let's see if you scroll down here. So here's the ethnic group statement as well as the value African Americans. And then you'll see that so there's a reference to the Getty Union list of artists names. There's a reference to the African American visual arts database and then a publication notable black American women by amending the query. We are able to search wiki data for specific information, which we can then use to augment our own records and aid with research projects. One such project is the artist identity project where staff are looking to research identity information about the artists collected and acquired by the museum. Things such as ethnicity, gender or national identity. By tracking this information, SF mama hopes to be better able to interpret the art we acquire or exhibit and also generate metrics with the aim of becoming a more inclusive institution. Anyway, thank you for joining us today at wiki mania 2021. For anyone interested in learning more, I started a wiki project SF mama page that lists the specific statements and data that we're working with. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate and thank you again.