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Midnight Pals: Black Phone 2
🕑 Added 2025-11-14 19:46:46 +0000 UTCJoe Hill: but if you think THAT'S scary
Hill: wait until you hear about the tale of the black phone 2
Hill: oh hero, named Finn
Hill: like Stranger Things!
Hill: is now in the 80s
Hill: like Stranger Things!
Hill: but get ready
Hill: cuz the sequel is going to be even more KING-ESQUE
Barker: does it take place in maine
Hill: NO
Hill: i mean that it harnesses the power of modern American myth-making
Barker:
Hill: there's a girl on a horse
Hill: there's going to be MORE psychic kids with prophetic dreams
Hill: MORE bluecollar alcoholic dad
Hill: and this time
Hill: i'm throwing in some sanctimonious Christians
Poe: truly joe hill is our more king-esque writer
King: that's my boy!!!
Hill: so after defeating the grabber (see black phone 1- ed.)
Hill: finn is having trouble adjusting to normal life again
Hill: but what he doesn't know is that the saga of the black phone isn't over
Hill: because the grabber is back from hell
Hill: and he's grabbing again
Hill: so this guy ernie invites the psychic sister to a Duran Duran concert
Hill: you know, Duran Duran?
Hill: that famous band from the 80s?
King: you know they're still around?
King: you should get them to do the soundtrack
Hill: well i don't think that duran duran would be right for this
King: they just did a whole Halloween album
King: really spooky stuff!
King: you could use some of those songs
Hill: dad, i have a soundtrack in mind
Koontz: i like the song they did about the wolf
King: oh yeah, hungry like the wolf?
Koontz: i am kinda hungry, now that you mention it
Hill: OH MY GOD
Hill: WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT DURAN DURAN
Barker: her name is rio and she-
Hill: CHRIST
Barker: ha ha ha
Joe Hill: they'll be gone for two weeks
King: at a Duran Duran concert?
Hill: no! they're going to a camp in the mountains!
Poe: wait, is the duran duran concert at this camp?
Hill: no! it's unrelated!
Hill: ernie is taking them there, tho
Barker: the guy who invited her to the Duran Duran concert?
Hill: yes
Barker: so the guy who invited the sister to the Duran Duran concert
Barker: shows up in front of their house
Barker: and the sister is all "bye, we're going somewhere"
Barker: and we're supposed to know that it's NOT to the Duran Duran concert?
Hill: yes
Hill: why are you all so obsessed with Duran Duran?
Hill: they haven't even been any good since Medazzaland
Mary Shelley: you fuckin take that back, joe hill!!!
Shelley: you fuckin' take that back right now!!
Shelley: i saw them in at the Soverign Bank Avena in Trenton, New Jersey 1999 and THEY ROCKED!!
Barker: oh i did not know mary was a duranee
Barker: that was a twist i was not anticipating
Comments
Gary McCammon
Here's an idea: a Duran Duran cover band from Thailand called Durian Durian 😐 I'm assuming everyone knows where they got that name from
Shirley R
The lead character being the woman. I love Fireman, he was great.
Shirley R
OMG! Did not see that twist coming, either! Love it. Also, read "The Fireman" recently, and I hated the lead character so much that I kinda hate Hill for it, so this is extra funny for me, lol. It's the only Joe Hill book I've read. I've seen "NOS4A2", but I haven't read it. Not really inclined to, now.
