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Jordan Morris

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332 total appearances

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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

Okay, we're going to meet at Lampost Pizza.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

What?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

Where I went after all my t-ball games.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

I'm there.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

Yeah, I am going to talk about a new comic book series that you can pick up at your local comic shop.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

This is Royals.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It is a really, really cool kind of supernatural heist comic from two great creators.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

Derek Kirk Kim is the writer and Jacob Perez does the art.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It is the story of two kind of mismatched brothers.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

You have kind of a more introverted one, and then you have a cool, handsome, popular guy.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

And they have a psychic connection, and they use that psychic connection to cheat at poker.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

So they enter all these high-stakes poker games and use the psychic connection to cheat.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

And this, as you might imagine, gets them wrapped up in some mafia stuff.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It is so funny.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It is so fun to look at.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It has these kind of beautiful, cartoony, expressive characters.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

It is set in Seoul, South Korea, so it has this great setting.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

And yeah, I'm just having a blast with it.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

I think if you are someone who doesn't read a ton of comics, this is a great one to jump into.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Mortal Kombat II and What’s Making Us Happy

Yeah, but I think also if you are a regular comics reader, this is a blast.