Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of a Star Wars Alliance.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm your host Clay, and with me like
Speaker 2: every single week. Of course is Katie.
Speaker 3: It's it's my fancy new apartment. Guys, you know, super exciting. No,
Speaker 3: I'm we are closed on my house. I'm living in
Speaker 3: my mother's basement, so uh. And this is a pre
Speaker 3: programmed stream yard background that we will be using for
Speaker 3: the sable future.
Speaker 2: I am empty, not completely moved out yet, but this
Speaker 2: is the last Star Wars Alliance that I will be
Speaker 2: doing in this apartment.
Speaker 4: I am leaving next week.
Speaker 2: But because of the heck, heck, heck, chaos words chaos boom,
Speaker 2: that's an even better word, because of the chaos of moving.
Speaker 2: I told I was like, I want to get packed
Speaker 2: up as soon as possible. And if I record on
Speaker 2: the Wednesday, literally two days before we're leaving, it means
Speaker 2: that I have to force myself to not pack up
Speaker 2: my setup. I really and and because of how I
Speaker 2: literally mapped out like I did a little like brain
Speaker 2: map in my head of what the storage unit is
Speaker 2: to look like in the trailer, and my desk literally
Speaker 2: has to be up against the wall, the back wall,
Speaker 2: and yeah, so I'm like, I am not going to
Speaker 2: force us to not pack anything just to do that.
Speaker 3: And that's why last week, guys, there was a pre
Speaker 3: recorded episode. And next week we will be releasing episode
Speaker 3: two of our new Jedi order. Yes, book Club that
Speaker 3: has been Patreon exclusive, and we're gonna be releasing an
Speaker 3: episode of that for you guys next week.
Speaker 2: Yes, we did release Victor Prime back in November. Now
Speaker 2: it'll be onslaught on on next week on the twenty five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then the next week, the first week of July,
Speaker 2: we will be live again and we will be talking
Speaker 2: about it'll be the start of our High Republic retro,
Speaker 2: which we will be doing by reader grade, So we
Speaker 2: will be doing the young readers, then the middle grade,
Speaker 2: and then the adult novels one at a time, not
Speaker 2: one at a time as far as like individual books,
Speaker 2: but we will be reading the arcs and we will
Speaker 2: be talking about how they are a coherent story without
Speaker 2: reading anything else. It'll be interesting because I think we've
Speaker 2: already talked about how.
Speaker 4: By that third like it was still Phase one, but
Speaker 4: it was Wave three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wave three started to get a little convoluted, within
Speaker 2: their own like.
Speaker 4: Reading grade, so.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see how all of that comes together.
Speaker 2: So the first week of July will start that and
Speaker 2: then yeah, we have a whole bunch of stuff planned
Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. I am also working
Speaker 2: on solidifying more of our schedule, so that'll be fun
Speaker 2: as well. But speaking of a topic for today is
Speaker 2: going to be the Star Wars twenty twenty five run,
Speaker 2: which is only ten issues long, and all ten issues
Speaker 2: are collected in this volume one. Now, before we actually
Speaker 2: go on to that topic, we do have some other
Speaker 2: smaller topics. The last time we spoke live anyway, we
Speaker 2: were talking about how there was going to be more
Speaker 2: footage and more conversation around Zero Company. We finally got it.
Speaker 4: We got a.
Speaker 2: Whole bunch of stuff on Zero Company. But we also
Speaker 2: got a reveal. There is a character model. It is
Speaker 2: not yet confirmed if it will be a playable character,
Speaker 2: whether in the story or like post story mode or whatever, but.
Speaker 4: We have a character model for Anakin Skywalker the Clone Wars.
Speaker 2: He was the very last frame of the of the
Speaker 2: trailer during the games or sorry, not the Game Awards.
Speaker 2: It was during Summer games Fest, and it was awesome.
Speaker 2: This game looks so cool. There is so much customization
Speaker 2: that you can do with every single character that joins
Speaker 2: your team. And what this does is it legitimately puts
Speaker 2: you in a point of getting attached to these characters.
Speaker 2: Because the way that this developer has created their games
Speaker 2: in the past, x com you can you know, get
Speaker 2: attached to these characters and then they die.
Speaker 4: And then you like you just lose that character.
Speaker 2: It's not like, oh, they die for this round and
Speaker 2: then you know the very next round they'll come back.
Speaker 2: That's not how that works. Like, once they die, they
Speaker 2: die for the rest of your game.
Speaker 4: We've also seen uh.
Speaker 2: One of like because it was really cool, Like if
Speaker 2: you watch the trailer, and I think I'll have to
Speaker 2: just send it to you. If you watch the trailer,
Speaker 2: there's like a frame where like your team is like
Speaker 2: running into battle. But they did a really cool montage
Speaker 2: of like all the combinations of like different characters can
Speaker 2: be in your team, as well as the customization customization
Speaker 2: of like uh outfits and stuff. Yeah, Like they did
Speaker 2: a really really cool like montage of them running in
Speaker 2: all the characters changing all at once into multiple characters.
Speaker 2: But the last frame of that montage is literally every
Speaker 2: single one of your teammates can be droids.
Speaker 3: Oh that it sounds like fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like you can you can make them all
Speaker 2: our units. I think that is so cool. So I
Speaker 2: am very, very, very excited about this game. This game
Speaker 2: does have a release date. The release date for Zero Company.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, what was the release date for a zero Company?
Speaker 2: And let me look at it real quick. I forgot
Speaker 2: to write it down. Everything is releasing in September. Okay,
Speaker 2: I say everything, I mean like everything video game wise
Speaker 2: this year is releasing in September.
Speaker 3: And it's okay because all the romanticy stuff releases in
Speaker 3: September two.
Speaker 2: So well, like the reason why that is is because,
Speaker 2: and I know you're not a big gamer, but Grand
Speaker 2: Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto six is like the big
Speaker 2: that nobody wants to mess with.
Speaker 4: It is like the.
Speaker 2: Of like it's it's it's the Infinity War or the
Speaker 2: end game of this year. Ye, nobody wants to compete
Speaker 2: with it. So literally all of September is jam packed
Speaker 2: with like thirty games.
Speaker 4: It's kind of insane.
Speaker 3: But because Grant that Auto have been delayed like seven
Speaker 3: or eight times.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh, it's been delayed quite a bit, but this
Speaker 2: is like a solidified like, hey, we are going to
Speaker 2: release on this date, which is November. But actually zero
Speaker 2: Company actually has a release date of August twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: so right before September, so in literally one month, no,
Speaker 2: two months and a week, eight days, so a week
Speaker 2: in eight.
Speaker 3: Years, he said, eight days twenty What was the.
Speaker 4: Date again, August twenty seventh, so seventh, two months.
Speaker 3: I'll put that on our release calendar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two months, one week and one day, which is
Speaker 2: gonna be super super fun.
Speaker 4: I am probably.
Speaker 2: Uh and I will have my entire setup yeah when
Speaker 2: I move, but it'll be like more established. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try and stream a little bit more when I'm down
Speaker 2: back in Texas.
Speaker 3: That'd be fun because well.
Speaker 2: Abby mentioned because I mentioned about how many games are
Speaker 2: releasing in September and how many to buy in September,
Speaker 2: and she's like, didn't you just tell me that you
Speaker 2: had like a whole bunch.
Speaker 4: Of games that you have yet to play or yet
Speaker 4: to be I.
Speaker 2: Was like, technically yes, And the thing is I bought
Speaker 2: like almost ten years ago. Now I'm oh, my gosh,
Speaker 2: Actually it's twenty twenty six not ten years, eight years.
Speaker 2: I bought a giant steam like bundle.
Speaker 4: Of Star Wars games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and those are games that I have not played
Speaker 2: in almost twenty years. So I am going to be
Speaker 2: playing a lot of those games, which I think would
Speaker 2: be really fun to highlight some of that. And so
Speaker 2: once I'm down there, I'll start promoting my Twitch channel
Speaker 2: a little bit more and I have a little fun
Speaker 2: with that. But yeah, the other news that we got
Speaker 2: in gaming is a Fate of the Old Republic.
Speaker 4: Not Knights of the Old Republic, but Fate of the
Speaker 4: Old Republic.
Speaker 2: Is the newer game that was announced that was like
Speaker 2: the biggest bomb at the Game Awards last year.
Speaker 4: We now have.
Speaker 2: A narrative director who was the writer of Cyberpunk twenty
Speaker 2: seventy SEVENNKY seven had a a little bit of a
Speaker 2: rocky start when it was released as far as the
Speaker 2: video game.
Speaker 4: Goes, but I have heard very, very very good.
Speaker 2: Things on the writing of that video game, So this
Speaker 2: is something that people are really excited about. I have
Speaker 2: no history with this writer, so for him to be
Speaker 2: a narrative director is you know, pretty interesting. So we
Speaker 2: will keep you guys updated, uh with all of the
Speaker 2: fate of the old public updates, and I do apologize.
Speaker 2: This room is super hot and I was not going
Speaker 2: to turn off my AC so if you guys can
Speaker 2: hear that, I apologize. That is all of the gaming
Speaker 2: news that we have gotten in the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: But Katie, I did send you a message about a
Speaker 4: really nice looking book that is coming out fairly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously we have feelings about special editions and
Speaker 3: delecte editions, Clay more so than I do. But the
Speaker 3: book in question, this is a little bit early for Ron,
Speaker 3: but they Star Wars is choosing to celebrate Drown's tenure
Speaker 3: anniversary slightly early with a stunning deluxe edition with complete
Speaker 3: with slipcover and everything. Let me see if it'll let
Speaker 3: me share this.
Speaker 2: Share. I don't even know that there was a YouTube
Speaker 2: video on it until I open the article.
Speaker 3: So this is the slip cover that is going to
Speaker 3: go alongside it, and then you can kind of see here,
Speaker 3: Oh I'm that is loud. Okay, now it's sharing my
Speaker 3: screen play, so you can see the sprayed edges with
Speaker 3: the Imperial logo, the little slip cover with the chest
Speaker 3: ascendency on the end, and like how he's cut out
Speaker 3: with a star destroyer. It's so pretty in the back. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's so nice looking. Oh this even got in papers.
Speaker 3: I love in papers. Anyways, that's it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this releases in October with a price tag
Speaker 2: of fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: It's fifty bucks.
Speaker 4: Yes, it says right here. At a steep price of
Speaker 4: fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Deluxe edition of Thron appears to be more of a
Speaker 2: collector's so they're they're kind of comparing it to Revenge
Speaker 2: of the Sith, the deluxe edition from the past year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like they didn't. There's no notations or anything
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's literally just a deluxe edition.
Speaker 3: I could see like forty bucks fifty in this economy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love you.
Speaker 3: It's I love your random house worlds. That's not an
Speaker 3: automatic purchase for me as much as I love Thron.
Speaker 2: Now, I will have to double check because I wasn't
Speaker 2: opening it. But when I was showing you my signed
Speaker 2: copies of my Tron Tron, my Throng trilogy, remember one
Speaker 2: of like the very first pages of.
Speaker 4: One of the books was falling out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it was Thron, if it was the first book,
Speaker 2: I could see myself saying I need to replace it anyway,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's nothing a little glue can't fix.
Speaker 2: True, true, and honest, honestly, with the amount of times
Speaker 2: that I will most likely not be going back to
Speaker 2: that book to constantly be opening and reading it, I
Speaker 2: could honestly just go to a random bookstore and grab
Speaker 2: another copy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I love the sprayed edges. It's a gorgeous
Speaker 3: looking book.
Speaker 4: But again they're.
Speaker 2: They're saying they're saying it in the article like this
Speaker 2: is more of like a hey, this is to be
Speaker 2: on your shelf for decoration. Yeah, you know, and I
Speaker 2: applaud everybody who does do like I I've seen people on.
Speaker 4: On uh Instagram and on TikTok that like have an.
Speaker 2: Entire backdrop of their bookshelf and it's all sprayed.
Speaker 3: Edges, which is totally fine. But also a lot of
Speaker 3: those sprayed edges right now, like they're vary from like
Speaker 3: twenty to thirty bucks because Amazon and other places tend
Speaker 3: to have the special edition on sale. That's why I
Speaker 3: have so many sprayed edges is because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't really care about like a book like that much.
Speaker 3: I just want a copy of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't.
Speaker 3: Need a special edition. But the regular edition is thirty
Speaker 3: two dollars in the special edition like I got, I
Speaker 3: got right to the startlingk the deluxe edition for eighteen dollars,
Speaker 3: like I wonder.
Speaker 2: So here's here's the thing, though, is this gonna be
Speaker 2: a book that you could see going on sale very
Speaker 2: very soon after because of the fact that in this
Speaker 2: economy it may not fly off the shelf, you know.
Speaker 3: No, because it's probably very limited copies, and so they
Speaker 3: will probably at least I would say, hold the price
Speaker 3: until after the holidays, just because of that. Yeah, I like,
Speaker 3: because people might go, like I have plenty of people
Speaker 3: in my life who have bought me a random Star
Speaker 3: Wars book that was a special edition because they know
Speaker 3: that I'm not typically a special edition person, but they
Speaker 3: think that I would appreciate it. Yeah, and I'm not
Speaker 3: saying I don't, but that's just not something that I
Speaker 3: typically gravitate towards unless I'm like super in love with
Speaker 3: the book. Now, my one problem is that I have
Speaker 3: issues in all my books have to match in a series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So now it's it's a little bit of OCD
Speaker 2: for a lot of people who do collect books.
Speaker 4: So it's that joke of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like my Shield one, you know, yeah, you gotta
Speaker 2: buy it a fread, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. But yeah, because like Rights of Starling
Speaker 3: is book two, they didn't make a standard edition. They
Speaker 3: only made the sprayed edges. Yeah, and so I bought
Speaker 3: Shield of Sparrows because I fell in love with Rates
Speaker 3: and Starling. So I was like, okay, I need Rates
Speaker 3: in Starling, but then I also need book one. Book
Speaker 3: one only came with plane edges, so it's like shame, shame.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure as soon as the anniversary comes up,
Speaker 2: they'll they'll throw out a spray Edges one for sure.
Speaker 4: Now our final small.
Speaker 3: Topic, well, hang on because I did find I was
Speaker 3: looking at the Utenei release schedule and there's another paper
Speaker 3: Cuts graphic novel being released and it's actually coming out
Speaker 3: July twenty first six, and it's by Delilah S. Dawson,
Speaker 3: who we love as an author. But this is actually
Speaker 3: a Mandalarian and Grogu prequel graphic novel where the Anzellins,
Speaker 3: Mando and Grogu have to join together to stop a
Speaker 3: hidden danger that looms deep beneath the surface of Navarro
Speaker 3: says Denjarn and his foundly venture into the lava tubes
Speaker 3: underneath the city to diffuse a crashed pirate ship, facing
Speaker 3: creepy creatures and periless obstacles along the way, but with
Speaker 3: the planet safety on the line, can Grogust learn to
Speaker 3: listen to Mando's guidance and can man do balance teaching
Speaker 3: Grogu with letting the little guys lead? So it looks
Speaker 3: like art is by Mario del Panino and Ariana Fluorine.
Speaker 4: This looks to be now. Uh it does say.
Speaker 2: Issue one, but these are usually graphic novels, so it's
Speaker 2: probably only going to be one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it says graphic novel.
Speaker 2: So but the really cool thing about paper Cuts, which
Speaker 2: is kind of why I love them so much because
Speaker 2: they're graphic novels, they're also doing alternate covers. So I
Speaker 2: will actually share my screen here and show you guys.
Speaker 2: This is cover a by Brent's shoon Over.
Speaker 4: Let's just.
Speaker 3: That's a six ninety nine, which makes me think it
Speaker 3: is a singular issue.
Speaker 2: Uh, they may have changed their format, but this is
Speaker 2: coming from the paper Cuts website because this isn't Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's original one shot comic. Okay, so it is. It
Speaker 2: is a small forty page. So so you have Brent Schooner,
Speaker 2: then you have Ariana Florine on cover B. Then you
Speaker 2: have Raymond russ Onas on cover C, which I think
Speaker 2: this is my favorite one, and then you have cover D.
Speaker 4: Juni Bah.
Speaker 2: Is more of like an action cover with yeah lava
Speaker 2: and them swinging over it. I think Cover C is
Speaker 2: my favorite. It looks very cartoonish, very silly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I I love paper Cuts. I've gushed about
Speaker 4: them before.
Speaker 2: I've worked with them several times in my previous job.
Speaker 2: Really great company and I will always shout them out
Speaker 2: when I can. But yeah, oven that they're doing more
Speaker 2: Star Wars content. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the other piece is that Hyperspace Stories Mace has
Speaker 3: gotten a release date. Oh and this is as a reminder.
Speaker 3: This is by just you Know Ireland. The art is
Speaker 3: by Jorge Duarte. I want to say, and this is
Speaker 3: available on Amazon, but uh, this is a trade paperback.
Speaker 3: This was a big announcement in like I think twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two that dark Horse was going to start doing
Speaker 3: this and then they all proceeded to get delayed. So
Speaker 3: this is Justina Ireland's last Star Wars work that is
Speaker 3: in the work. She said that she was done with
Speaker 3: Star Wars after this. We don't know if that like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're taking a break from Star Wars or just done
Speaker 3: done in general. So definitely will be a pickup for
Speaker 3: me because I'm excited to see her get to write
Speaker 3: Mace Findu.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've we enjoyed the other two Hyperspace stories
Speaker 2: with being Grievous and Quai gon In. They were relatively
Speaker 2: they were just there was there was there was small
Speaker 2: little grapes that we had, but you know, they were still,
Speaker 2: like you said, decently written and and uh and created.
Speaker 4: So looking forward to it. Anything else on the book side.
Speaker 3: Of things, Nope, that's it. So all we got left
Speaker 3: to talk about is box office.
Speaker 4: Box office for the Mandalorian in Grogu.
Speaker 2: Now, Katie, we had a conversation the last time we
Speaker 2: spoke on this on if this movie was.
Speaker 4: Going to hit five hundred million.
Speaker 3: We said, it's not going to hit five hundred.
Speaker 4: We both agreed on that. We said it wasn't going
Speaker 4: to hit five hundred.
Speaker 3: You said it wasn't going to hit three hundred.
Speaker 2: It hit three hundred, It hit three hundred. It's not
Speaker 2: hitting four. I don't know if it's going to hit
Speaker 2: for It is currently at three hundred and sixteen million,
Speaker 2: six hundred and forty four thousand, fifty eight dollars on
Speaker 2: its twenty technically twenty seventh day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still top. Like it just fell out of
Speaker 3: the top five at the box office. In this past week.
Speaker 3: It didn't experience as drastic of drop. It It was
Speaker 3: like holding a little more steady because I think so
Speaker 3: week two at the box office it dropped seventy percent,
Speaker 3: Week three it dropped fifty percent, So not as I
Speaker 3: have a drop, not as bad. Yeah, Internationally, we've got
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars, excuse me. And then domestically we've got
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty six Sorry, that's that's my mother's dog.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you.
Speaker 4: Hear him that. It's hilarious.
Speaker 3: He likes to get light outside and then everybody he
Speaker 3: he thinks everybody left him. Anyways, domestic we have one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty six point six million dollars. I can
Speaker 3: see through fifty. I don't see four hundred at this point.
Speaker 2: I don't see four hundred either and the reason being
Speaker 2: is tomorrow you have the start of Toy Story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you have Toy Stories start tomorrow, then you.
Speaker 4: Have superl is Supergirl.
Speaker 3: And then after that is Odyssey.
Speaker 2: You have Odyssey and then next month, guys, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you knew this, Katie.
Speaker 4: Spider Man Spider Man spider Man.
Speaker 2: Trailer dropped with the uh ticket sales being open mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I in good favor of Star Wars Alliance cannot go
Speaker 2: to the Wednesday showing because we record on Wednesdays and
Speaker 2: the Wednesday showing is at seven pm, so could not
Speaker 2: could not go there. All of the Wednesday and all
Speaker 2: of the Thursday showings are all sold out.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we knew, We knew Spider Man was gonna
Speaker 3: was gonna show.
Speaker 2: So I think Mandalorian Grogu probably should kind of and
Speaker 2: it I know it's not going to be, but realistically
Speaker 2: probably should be out of the conversation by this week
Speaker 2: with with Toy Story because then it's just so many
Speaker 2: big movies at the end of the summer that it
Speaker 2: that's coming out.
Speaker 3: Let's see in my area, there's one theater in my
Speaker 3: in my new area. Guys, let's see the Thursday, if
Speaker 3: I were to go see it at nine thirty is
Speaker 3: still no, it's not sold out at all whatsoever. There's
Speaker 3: like three there's three seats taken in the nine thirty
Speaker 3: see seven.
Speaker 4: I say sold out.
Speaker 2: All of the like first showings of the day are
Speaker 2: sold out because of course, everybody wants to be the
Speaker 2: first one to watch it, because nobody wants to be spoiled.
Speaker 2: And that's usually how I go about things, as I
Speaker 2: try to go to the very first showing of whatever
Speaker 2: it is, with the current situation of me moving and
Speaker 2: everything else, I was like, hey, we're gonna be spending
Speaker 2: a crep ton of money on gas all the way
Speaker 2: to Texas.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, hey, I'm just gonna wait until the
Speaker 4: day and if or or even like maybe in like
Speaker 4: two weeks.
Speaker 2: If I just buy like the last showing of the
Speaker 2: first day, yeah, I think I'll be fine.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 2: Mandalorian Grogu had a good run.
Speaker 4: With it.
Speaker 2: Possibly, you know, Katie just said three point fifty. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say, with it only making eight hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars yesterday, you.
Speaker 3: Gotta say three twenty five.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say three twenty five possible. What is the
Speaker 4: usual theater run for these movies.
Speaker 3: Nowadays forty five to sixty days.
Speaker 4: Forty five to sixty days. Ooh, so it might, it might,
Speaker 4: Actually it might.
Speaker 3: I can see three fifty.
Speaker 2: So if that's the case, let's say that eight sixty
Speaker 2: five eighty five, eight sixty five eighty five is the
Speaker 2: new normal for the remaining twenty days, because it's on
Speaker 2: day twenty seven now, so forty five days. Let's say
Speaker 2: that that's an additional seventeen million, and it is currently
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixteen million. Ooh, that's three hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty three million. Yeah, So it has to stay consistent
Speaker 2: mm hmm with eight hundred and sixty five thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a day for the next twenty days to get past
Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3: But remember, your weekends are going to be higher. We
Speaker 3: we thks are.
Speaker 2: Going to be a little higher. So technically, looking at
Speaker 2: the weekend on Saturday and Sunday, it made uh more
Speaker 2: than one point five million, yeah, and both on both
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday, so you have you still have those
Speaker 2: those those little spikes, So it's.
Speaker 4: Possible it's totally possible to get three fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think some of the things that people
Speaker 3: aren't necessarily bringing into consideration with this movie is the
Speaker 3: merchandise sale. You paid how much to manufacture merchandise, and
Speaker 3: you're gonna profit roughly three hundred percent probably off the merchandise.
Speaker 3: So box office is one thing, your merchandise is another. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be fine. They might over knowing Disney,
Speaker 3: they'll still probably overreact, but you know.
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see, all right. Well, that takes us
Speaker 2: to our main topic today being Star Wars Volume one.
Speaker 2: This is the twenty twenty five series, issues one through ten, Katie,
Speaker 2: and this.
Speaker 3: Was written by Alex Sigura, who wrote the Battle of
Speaker 3: Jack Who Yes Volume, So a lot of the characters
Speaker 3: and everything in here. This is kind of like Battle
Speaker 3: of Jack Who Volume but they didn't want to call
Speaker 3: it that. So your artists philm Noto does one through
Speaker 3: six in the free Comic Book Day issue, Pete Woods
Speaker 3: does seven and eight, Ramon Rosanas does issue nine, and
Speaker 3: Luke Ross does issue ten. Your color artists are film
Speaker 3: Noo for the previously stated comics, Pete Woods for seven
Speaker 3: and eight, and Chris Soto mayor for nine and ten.
Speaker 3: Your letter is VC's Clayton Cowell's cover art is film Noo,
Speaker 3: and the assistant editors Mikey J. Basso and Drew Baumgartner.
Speaker 3: Editor is Mark Panacea or Panccia. I will say the
Speaker 3: art for issue seven and eight. I very much disliked.
Speaker 4: It was so jarring.
Speaker 2: It was it was so because I was I was
Speaker 2: on the app reading this, so I'm just reading one.
Speaker 4: Through six, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: The moment I opened seven, I had Now let me
Speaker 2: go ahead and say before I say this comment seven
Speaker 2: and eight. If the book started with that art, yes,
Speaker 2: it would have been great. Going from issue six to
Speaker 2: issue seven, I had the most disgusted look on my face.
Speaker 3: Because I mean, the dang screen, it's this, It's Luke
Speaker 3: Skywalker with purple eyes.
Speaker 4: I will bring it up.
Speaker 2: I will bring it up because I will bring it
Speaker 2: up on my Marble and limited issue number seven.
Speaker 4: Let's see here, Where are we at? Where are we at?
Speaker 3: It's still And also like some of the art with Leah,
Speaker 3: I get that Leah has all these different hair styles.
Speaker 2: When when they opened up her in the blue dress
Speaker 2: with her wedding hair, yeah, I said no. I said,
Speaker 2: nahuh no, you can't. You can't discontinue continuity like that.
Speaker 2: The continuity of the entire series had her in her
Speaker 2: her top ponytail hair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: I very much disliked it. I said, nahuh mm hmmm, So.
Speaker 3: It was it was super strange.
Speaker 4: And this photo right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, purple eye Luke Skywalker mm hmm. And it's purple
Speaker 3: there right, It's not just like the way mine was printed.
Speaker 2: It's I can see like a hint of blue that's purple.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it looks very purple. And I think
Speaker 2: it's because of the way he wanted to do the lighting.
Speaker 2: But there's also issue number.
Speaker 4: Is it eight.
Speaker 3: I'm also very attached to Philonoo as an artist. I
Speaker 3: think he did an incredible job. He does an incredible
Speaker 3: job with the covers, and so getting to see him
Speaker 3: do the actual art on the page was really really
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 4: I really really enjoyed it. That was like, okay, so
Speaker 4: this is the moment where I bashed the book.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry this there's a reason. Okay, hold on, let
Speaker 2: me let me grab all my thoughts because this is
Speaker 2: more going to be a stab at Marvel, not at
Speaker 2: Star Wars Marvel, And this is happening across multiple comics
Speaker 2: right now. It's not just Star Wars.
Speaker 4: Marvel. If you.
Speaker 2: Want a book to be out in an ongoing series,
Speaker 2: you need to release an ongoing series. You cannot decide
Speaker 2: on issue seven. Oh, well, this is a penny short
Speaker 2: of making my Giant Bank account even richer. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and cancel it. That is bullshit.
Speaker 4: Sorry, it is.
Speaker 2: You can definitely tell at issue seven. Oh they are
Speaker 2: now instantly rushing this entire story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very clear that this was set up for
Speaker 3: the long term, and I love what Alex Sigora was
Speaker 3: able to write in this and try to make it work.
Speaker 3: I think issues one through six are phenomenal and a
Speaker 3: really good set up point for an ongoing series. The
Speaker 3: minute this was cut, you can tell. And it's like,
Speaker 3: immediately tell it, because remember when this was announced, we
Speaker 3: were like, Okay, ongoing series, cool, Alex Sigora is taking
Speaker 3: over the ongoing series for Star Wars, like because that's
Speaker 3: just what it's called and stuff.
Speaker 2: But like I said, this is also happening with other stories.
Speaker 2: They announced a new ongoing x men A couple months ago,
Speaker 2: almost a year ago now that is also ending at
Speaker 2: issue ten yeap. These publishers, and I saw somebody, and
Speaker 2: this is more so on the back end of stuff.
Speaker 2: I follow a lot of my fellow comic book individuals,
Speaker 2: a lot of the higher publishers, the CEOs, all of
Speaker 2: the big wigs in the industry. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that to be like ahaha, It's just the way my
Speaker 2: job was back in the day, and of course what
Speaker 2: I'm trying.
Speaker 4: To do with volume comics.
Speaker 2: So I'm in the conversation with everybody, and I saw
Speaker 2: somebody say like, oh, you know, it's very unfortunate, but
Speaker 2: the way that comic books are created is essentially these
Speaker 2: publishers are gambling. They are needing to make these very
Speaker 2: quick decision aka bets on series and they either come
Speaker 2: out very well or they don't. And it's not all cutting,
Speaker 2: you know, cut and dry. And I understand that to
Speaker 2: a point. If you are going to be a publisher
Speaker 2: and willing to say hey, especially as big as Marvel,
Speaker 2: because Marvel, yeah sorry, you have literally no excuse as
Speaker 2: far as the money goes.
Speaker 3: No, And it, like like you said, it boils down
Speaker 3: to like the money, but also like today's culture, like
Speaker 3: everyone and everybody that doesn't make sense. Everyone and everything
Speaker 3: is trying to go viral right now to catch the
Speaker 3: next big thing, and so people are like, if you
Speaker 3: can't catch attention in the first ten seconds of a read,
Speaker 3: you're pointless. I should have never published you. Basically is
Speaker 3: what it boils down to from the executive side of things.
Speaker 3: And it's dumb because people people need time to get
Speaker 3: into things. People need to be able to read, people
Speaker 3: need to be able to watch and say, you know what,
Speaker 3: I want more of this, and so we get the
Speaker 3: second season, we get more issues of the comic and
Speaker 3: that's just people are dumb nowadays.
Speaker 2: But in a very serious conversation also, especially with the
Speaker 2: last two years and for right now continuously because we
Speaker 2: don't know when this is going to end, there is
Speaker 2: a very serious conversation with hey, people are needing to
Speaker 2: choose wisely on am I going to pick up the
Speaker 2: next Star Wars issue or I'm am I going to
Speaker 2: buy food for the week? M and comic book publishers
Speaker 2: need to not be brain dead on this conversation. It's
Speaker 2: for one, canceling a book means that you're canceling a
Speaker 2: contract with a writer, you are now taking that writer
Speaker 2: off of a job in a economy that is very hurting.
Speaker 2: And these writers were already struggling before this economy was
Speaker 2: starting to get to where it is today, and now
Speaker 2: you're kicking them off of books.
Speaker 4: Not a great book, not a.
Speaker 2: Great you know, a business yeah, style for these publishers.
Speaker 3: And I think like, especially as somebody who prefers the
Speaker 3: graphic novel, I think that's also something that comic publishers
Speaker 3: should take into consideration, is there's a lot less people nowadays.
Speaker 3: I feel like, who what the single issue comic on
Speaker 3: their shelves? Like, yes, it's great, but you know, you know,
Speaker 3: Mike Toddler can tear into this book and this is
Speaker 3: a lot harder than a single issue.
Speaker 2: But that conversation is an entirely different conversation. It's something
Speaker 2: that the publishers will definitely need a little bit more
Speaker 2: time with, which is stupid, I understand. Like, for instance,
Speaker 2: Marvel and DC. I think Marvel is very new to
Speaker 2: it right now, whereas DZ has been doing it for
Speaker 2: the past three years. The compact comics is something that
Speaker 2: Marvel or sorry that DC has been doing for quite
Speaker 2: some time, Like I said, three years, Compact Comics, they
Speaker 2: are essentially trying to do what the Asian countries are
Speaker 2: doing for manga. So weekly shown in jump issues. So
Speaker 2: let's take a very famous manga. Let's say.
Speaker 3: My hero Academia.
Speaker 2: My hero Academia. Okay, that is already over, but it
Speaker 2: was being published in a magazine.
Speaker 4: That is weekly.
Speaker 2: So there was a new issue of My hero Academia
Speaker 2: every week, whereas in comics Star Wars would be coming
Speaker 2: out every month. Okay, yeah, so there's a difference there. Again,
Speaker 2: manga is in black and white American comics and color.
Speaker 4: There's a whole process to it.
Speaker 2: But the weekly Shun and Jump comes out every week,
Speaker 2: and then they would put their volumes in a small
Speaker 2: compacted book that is very very cheap. DC finally started
Speaker 2: copying this mentality and started calling them Compact Comics.
Speaker 4: And what they did is they got.
Speaker 2: Their top fifty graphic novels, okay, and they started to
Speaker 2: collect them in small compacted Yeah, graphic novels. It's cheaper paper,
Speaker 2: so that way they are able to make the price
Speaker 2: tag smaller. So normal graphic novels can be anywhere between
Speaker 2: fifteen ninety nine to as high as thirty dollars, depending
Speaker 2: on the card stock, depending on the hardcover.
Speaker 4: All of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Right, Compact comics are ten dollars, it's nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And it's because they noticed, Hey, a lot of people
Speaker 2: are already just waiting for the volume, So why don't
Speaker 2: we create something that they're already looking for, a cheap
Speaker 2: way to just carry around these books and read them
Speaker 2: on the go and everything else. They need to hurry
Speaker 2: up and get to a point where they're doing this
Speaker 2: for modern stuff that's coming out right yep.
Speaker 4: And I think what they need to do is maybe just.
Speaker 2: I keep I'm so used to the camera being right here.
Speaker 2: I keep looking right here at the camera. The camera
Speaker 2: is now over here. Marvel, DC, all of the publishers
Speaker 2: that are currently out there in America. I don't care
Speaker 2: if you're copying their homework. Start making your comics in
Speaker 2: black and white, make your ink and color versions.
Speaker 4: As a premium.
Speaker 2: To make it the same price as you always do.
Speaker 2: You can then shorten the or you can shrink the
Speaker 2: price of the black and white, and then you can
Speaker 2: come out with the modern compact stuff quicker.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: You can actually, because I can almost guarantee. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say guarantee. Looking at Star Wars twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: I am almost willing to say that two things happened.
Speaker 2: One cells were not as great as they thought that
Speaker 2: they were going to be. Again, economy is shit, So
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: And you put off telling you put off telling a
Speaker 3: past return of the Jedi's story for way too long.
Speaker 3: You're trying to fill in all these gaps. People are
Speaker 3: now like, oh, well, they're telling the same boring story
Speaker 3: all over again. Yes, fresh stories for one, Yes, and
Speaker 3: then two film note was in some big wig suits
Speaker 3: opinion taking too long m hm, and decided to hire
Speaker 3: all these other multiple artists, which I hate. I hate
Speaker 3: reading a book, or specifically a comic book knowing that
Speaker 3: it's one volume, but every like every issue or close
Speaker 3: to every issue is somebody different. Because that was the
Speaker 3: confusing thing. Right when we put first put this on
Speaker 3: the schedule, you were like, okay, so this is one
Speaker 3: through five, and I was like, according to Amazon, it's
Speaker 3: one through ten, and we were like, uh what yeah,
Speaker 3: like and you can tell how much time and like
Speaker 3: the filtering that Phil Noa was able to do with
Speaker 3: the artwork on his pages versus some of the other ones,
Speaker 3: like like look at you can't look at the vibrancy
Speaker 3: on this because of stupid background. But like this, this
Speaker 3: is one of the early issues, and it's like one
Speaker 3: of the flashbacks for Han and Lando with uh garev
Speaker 3: yes and the lengths in the bar and you've got purples,
Speaker 3: got oranges, you've got black, white, blue, pink. Like it's
Speaker 3: so vibrant and detailed. Yep, that that one exactly. And
Speaker 3: then you look at something like this, which is I
Speaker 3: believe issue number eight, and it's with Bassion and she's
Speaker 3: interrogating one of the assassins for like, hey, where is
Speaker 3: this guy? What's your real name? Like trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what the heck is going on. It's all purple.
Speaker 3: There's no reason it needed to be all purple in this,
Speaker 3: Like the drawing is sharp, but you can see that
Speaker 3: there's just a difference in like how they were drawing
Speaker 3: in this and changing it up harsher lines. It just
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense. It's very abrupt. It's issue number
Speaker 3: seven actually, but yeah, it's just it's very different. And
Speaker 3: I think the writing is the best thing in this
Speaker 3: book by far. I love film Noto as an artist,
Speaker 3: and I think I think Pete Woods, again, if it
Speaker 3: had been where he had his own volume, or if
Speaker 3: this was a different comic, I don't think I would
Speaker 3: have had as big a problem with his art. But
Speaker 3: the fact in the matter is is that you put
Speaker 3: it next to film Noto and it's very different and
Speaker 3: it's jarring and it's absurd. I also, so I don't
Speaker 3: I don't hate Pete Wood's art, I hate where it's
Speaker 3: at in this book. Basically.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So who was the artist for issue number nine?
Speaker 3: Ramon Rostanas, Okay, I just want.
Speaker 2: To say this I think was one of the most
Speaker 2: jarring again because you're changing from not only from five
Speaker 2: to seven or six to seven, but then you change
Speaker 2: from eight to nine as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you get used to one artist.
Speaker 3: And they impolitely turn into.
Speaker 2: This and I'm just like, why why are you doing
Speaker 2: this to me? Why is it so different? It doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be that jarring, It doesn't need to be
Speaker 2: that different. And again the reason being is they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: this isn't a this isn't a good story because people
Speaker 2: aren't buying it. Let's just rush the art Hey, get
Speaker 2: somebody else on it while this person is completing issues
Speaker 2: seven and eight, will hire this person to.
Speaker 4: Do nine and ten. Yeah, and it's just like, guys.
Speaker 3: Because somebody else did the art or issue ten. Luke
Speaker 3: Ross did ten, and then they brought in so Phil
Speaker 3: Noo and Pete Woods colored their own stuff, and then
Speaker 3: Chris Sotomayor colored Ramon Rosanas issued number nine, and then
Speaker 3: Luke Ross is issue in number ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Like, there's just so many moving parts that just
Speaker 4: make it a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of a excuse my language, a little bit of
Speaker 2: a clusterfuck.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't need to be like that. I think
Speaker 2: Star Wars, and I think we've talked about this before,
Speaker 2: star Wars can legitimately be a forever ongoing series with
Speaker 2: mini series on the side. You can literally make this
Speaker 2: an entire Like that's how Marvel should be thinking. So
Speaker 2: Marvel has an imprint for their like superhero genre. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they have an imprint for twentieth Century Fox.
Speaker 2: What they need to start doing is adding Lucasfilm as
Speaker 2: their own imprint.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They need to just say, hey, we're going to push
Speaker 2: this off. It's gonna be its own thing. They have
Speaker 2: an ongoing series of the main title and then you
Speaker 2: do other mini series and other small stuff to go
Speaker 2: along with it.
Speaker 3: And I think that makes the most sense, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what they were trying to do. But then
Speaker 3: the the like big cross series, I think that threw
Speaker 3: things off where people were not a fan of those
Speaker 3: and so they were like, Okay, we have to switch
Speaker 3: things up again. No, you should have just gone back
Speaker 3: to an ongoing Star Wars series and then had other
Speaker 3: series you can bring people in. But you did not
Speaker 3: need to cross over four series at a time for that.
Speaker 3: That was insanity.
Speaker 2: I think one of the biggest issues is again and
Speaker 2: you just made a comment on it earlier saying like, oh,
Speaker 2: you waited too long to do a post return of
Speaker 2: the Jedi. Right, We've already been introduced to a new hero,
Speaker 2: Race Skywalker. You just need to have a heavy conversation
Speaker 2: with Lucasfilm saying hey, we need Race Skywalker stories in
Speaker 2: the comics.
Speaker 4: That's just what you need to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially because like and we look at like
Speaker 3: Galaxies Edge for instance, because Galaxies they're doing a mini
Speaker 3: series right now introducing Batu into the Empire era, and
Speaker 3: like Rebellion all this stuff, why do we keep going backwards.
Speaker 2: Again? It's it's this idea me. It's it's this idea
Speaker 2: that they keep wanting to like, oh, there's a gap here,
Speaker 2: we can tell a story here. And they just literally
Speaker 2: need to say like, hey, like we understand that, you know,
Speaker 2: and and I I some like not somehow like I
Speaker 2: do have to break it to people.
Speaker 4: Star Wars is.
Speaker 2: A cult classic, meaning like, yeah, it's fun, but it
Speaker 2: does not hold up to this generation's ideas of what
Speaker 2: a movie should be. It doesn't like it just it
Speaker 2: just doesn't. When you introduce Star Wars Tomara eventually watching
Speaker 2: episodes four, five, and six, she is probably going to
Speaker 2: love it, but she is going to be more wow
Speaker 2: and like, oh my gosh to newer things. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just the way it is. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was more wowed and like foaming at
Speaker 2: the mouth when I watched Phantom, Menace and Revenge of
Speaker 2: the Sith, And I was just.
Speaker 3: Gonna say, if if you wanted to stay in the
Speaker 3: same like comfort zone with the original trilogy and the
Speaker 3: prequel trilogy, go to the prequel trilogy. There's plenty of
Speaker 3: stories there to be told.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tell more Obi.
Speaker 3: Wan and Anakin Padawan stories, Like, there's a very easy
Speaker 3: ongoing series there that will bring in a bunch of
Speaker 3: people because everybody loves Opi Wan and Anakin a little.
Speaker 4: We just talked about literally Jedi Knights.
Speaker 2: Jedi Knights sounded like such a good idea, and then
Speaker 2: they just said, hey, here's a Qui Gongen story instead, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they are just they're fumbling the ball when literally.
Speaker 4: The goal is taped to their forehead. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like so, and we've kind of talked around this comment. Guys.
Speaker 3: It is a very easy story that does have a
Speaker 3: lot of good moments in it that we are kind
Speaker 3: of running out of time to do because apparently I'm
Speaker 3: being summoned to put my dog in to bed. It's
Speaker 3: got a lot of good, easy moments that delve into
Speaker 3: the politics of the New Republic, and there's adventure scenes,
Speaker 3: there's space fighting scenes, there's lightsaber moments, There's all these things.
Speaker 3: They really make this comic shine. And again, Alex Sigoura
Speaker 3: is a phenomenal storyteller that deserves more of these stories.
Speaker 3: His Spider Man story, guys, I don't know if you
Speaker 3: guys have read that. That's a great novel. There's a
Speaker 3: young adult Spider Man's story. He did a great job
Speaker 3: with it, so he he really does a fantastic job.
Speaker 3: I would highly recommend if you can get past the
Speaker 3: changing art between six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I think
Speaker 3: this is absolutely a pickup at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: if you were.
Speaker 2: If you were invested in the Battle of Jaku and
Speaker 2: you're like, hey, this entered on a cliffhanger, what happens next?
Speaker 2: Pick up this story. It does shed light on what
Speaker 2: they were trying to do. And I still have like
Speaker 2: a little bit of like towards the ending of the story,
Speaker 2: but I see the vision, I see where it was going,
Speaker 2: and so I was like, yeah, this is really fun.
Speaker 2: It's just unfortunate that this book turned out the way
Speaker 2: it did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think the other thing too, that's important
Speaker 3: to mention here is I think Oscar Rina Oscar phenomenal villain.
Speaker 3: I love the concept. I love like delving into like, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: they actually suck the life out of people and that's
Speaker 3: how they stay young and beautiful.
Speaker 4: Creepy, but a little bit of a negative take on that.
Speaker 2: But I well, it's just like the the idea of
Speaker 2: how it was resolved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a little punky dory, but but I
Speaker 3: think it's because of how the series got canceled.
Speaker 5: Yes, and like it was the the the ending of
Speaker 5: that whole debacle, I think was a victim of the
Speaker 5: fact that this story needed to be cut.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's how you end her if this
Speaker 2: story keeps going, Yeah, I just don't. But yeah, like
Speaker 2: the the idea, like, because again I'm always the champion
Speaker 2: for like, hey, Star Wars needs to go a little
Speaker 2: bit more sci fi, it needs to get a little
Speaker 2: bit more weird, it needs to go a little bit
Speaker 2: more supernatural. I liked it, but the ending, I was
Speaker 2: just like, m that was not sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the Anzati are actually from Star Wars legends,
Speaker 3: and I think we had said that with the Battle
Speaker 3: of jack Who. But yeah, because this was really their
Speaker 3: first introduction into Star Wars was Alex sigour tale, So
Speaker 3: I really dug it. I wish he had had more time,
Speaker 3: for sure, because I do think things would have ended
Speaker 3: just a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and and just like how we do
Speaker 2: our novel reviews, guys, like it's best to just try
Speaker 2: it out yourself. So again, if you were invested in
Speaker 2: Battle of JACKU, if you're a Star Wars fan, which
Speaker 2: I hope you are because you are listening to this podcast,
Speaker 2: then yeah, pick it up as a continuation of that
Speaker 2: story and form your own opinion. But that is going
Speaker 2: to be it for this review. We do have a
Speaker 2: pre recorded Patreon exclusive setup for next week. It's got
Speaker 2: People number two of the New Jedi Order series that
Speaker 2: we are doing on Patreon. That'll be next week. We
Speaker 2: will be live again the first week of July when
Speaker 2: I am all settled into my new place in Texas.
Speaker 2: So of course you can always find me at Fanboy
Speaker 2: Clay on Twitter or not Twitter, sorry.
Speaker 4: On Instagram and on threads.
Speaker 2: Which does remind me because I will be doing all
Speaker 2: of that stuff in Texas.
Speaker 4: I will finally have more time.
Speaker 2: To create more content for our Instagram, for our threads
Speaker 2: accounts and all of that jazz.
Speaker 4: So go follow us and check us out there. But Katie,
Speaker 4: what about.
Speaker 3: You, y'all? You can find me on Emotionals, most social
Speaker 3: media plot forms at Slice Katie. I am also relatively
Speaker 3: in limbo right now, but I am a little more
Speaker 3: stable than Clay. Is at least at the moment, so
Speaker 3: uh yeah. I still have not posting on social media
Speaker 3: as much, but I do pay attention and I will
Speaker 3: get back to you guys as soon as I can.
Speaker 3: So with that, I want to watch everyone a great
Speaker 3: day or night, whatever time a day you're listening or watching,
Speaker 3: and we will see you next time. May the Force
Speaker 3: be with you.