Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.

And I'm Mark Gagliardi.

Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.

With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.

Best Fantastic Four member.

That's right.

Don't worry, everyone.

We got this. Podcast should have a theme song. Podcast should not have a theme song. Yes, they should. No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to skip past it. Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this. All right, Mark.

Yeah.

Now we're into comics.

Your favorite thing that you know the most about.

Here's the thing.

I don't know much at all about comics, but I feel like I'm having an extra childhood every time we do a comic book episode because that's when I get to devour a stack of comic books.

Yeah.

And so it's fun to play.

It's fun to be like, okay, let me call up a fictional never-existed eight-year-old Mark

and see what he's reading right now and see what story he wants to tell and listen to.

Yeah.

But I found myself inadequate to handle this, Hal.

There's no way that just the two of us are going to be able to tackle something as big as, I mean, it's decades of comics. What are we going to do? I mean, if we're going to talk about the Fantastic Four, there should be four of us in here. Yeah. The Fantastic Four movies coming out, which I'm very excited about, the fourth attempt getting a feature film version. I feel like this one's going

to stick. But filling out our four today, our producer, Ken Plume. Hello, Ken. Hello. And

returning guests, friend in real life and friend of the show, Scott Adset, is back.

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