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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #234: An Office Space
A while ago I took at look at the first issue of Mark Russel, Steve Lieber, Dave Stewart, and Dave Sharpe’s One-Star Squadron and its approach to a heroic office comedy. At the time, the book was this oddity of a mini-series: Red Tornado, Power Girl, and a collection of z-tier characters from the DC Universe get involved in… Continue reading
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#588: A Discussion of Kathleen Alcott’s Emergency, with Samantha Nickerson
This week, I speak with Samantha Nickerson and I discuss the themes of friendship, relationships, depression, and death, and the craft of Kathleen Alcott in creating stories that are difficult to put down in the new short story collection, Emergency. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #428: The Killer Must Kill Again
Edwige, my long lost kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, leaped toward Razor Fangs, an S&M member of the Goose Lord Gang. Before she had a chance to strike, Razor Fangs swung a piece of the broken sink at Edwige. The porcelain hit her in the stomach and she crashed into the disabled… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #60
I am in a content, devoted marriage. That’s not the problem. I recently saw a documentary about a man who is married to fifteen inflatable pool animals and was struck with a sense of profound loneliness. This man, with his whale and turtle and unicorn, has a bigger smile than my husband has ever given… Continue reading
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#587: A Discussion of Myhouse.wad for Doom, with Michael Merriam!
This week, I speak with game designer Michael Merriam about the mysterious, recent addition to the world of Doomology that is the Myhouse.wad, a retro-fitted narrative freak out to one of the earliest first person shooters in video game history. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Here are Myhouse.wad play-through videos I enjoyed watching in researching this episode.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #427: The Devil Has Seven Faces
Edwige, my long lost kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, and Razor Fangs, a feral man clad in stitched leather, were tussling in the trashed bathroom of the Museum of Schlock. Edwige tossed him into one of the standing urinals and it shattered. Water spritzed everywhere. The punk in the blue bandana slipped… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #232: Tied Up
Tie-in comics occupy a weird space in the medium. While the Bionicle comics from the early 2000s that came with my issues of Lego Magazine were the first comics that I consistently read as a kid, there were always other tie-ins hanging around. Either prequels to movies, set-ups for shows or games, or even panel-by-panel re-tellings of… Continue reading
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#586: Sarah Viren!
This week, I speak with Sarah Viren about memoir, the social structures of academic work, philosophy, and asking serious questions. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on anything you purchase… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #426: Beast
Beast Edwige, my long lost kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, had returned to me. She was hopping up and down atop a dislodged restroom stall door. Underneath that stall door was the punk in the red bandana, now reduced to a crimson, pulpy mess. The punk in the blue bandana screamed as… Continue reading
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