Hi, I'm Jay Edadon, and I'm Miles Stokes, and you're listening to Hawk Talk,

where we talk, Hawks. Now, normally, if you were subscribed to this podcast,

you'd be listening to an episode of Jay and Miles explain the ex-then-a-weekly podcast

about the ins, outs, retcons, clones, and time travel of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

But once every four weeks, we take a week and we record an entirely unedited, unprepared,

unrehearsed, unoutlined, unlistenable pile of nonsense that we refer to as Hawk Talk,

and right now, these are all rewards for folks who donated to a quality Florida back in April.

So, we're still working our way through those. Miles, what are this week's Hawks?

Well, thanks to our listener and generous donor, Gindian and Jones.

This week's Hawks are comic book advertisements.

You're saying advertisements now, but you kept on just saying ads when we were talking about it

before, and something about the connection made it sound like you were saying ads,

and so I was thinking about comic book ads, and I kind of want to talk about those.

Oh, well, I mean, I'm re-talking like A-U-N-T, ads, or A-N-T-S.

Both. Both.

Are there any ads who are ads?

Probably.

Probably. I haven't read much Ant-Man, so I bet there are in there.

No, I suspect part of why it was hard to understand me.

So, I listeners, I work in IT as my day job, as some of you probably know.

And sometimes, one of the less glamorous parts of IT is rooting around behind various hardware.

I mean, vast quantities of dust to find serial numbers and stuff, which was something I was doing today.

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