In this episode we take a look at a cornerstone of hardboiled crime fiction with James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice.

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Episode 74 - Home of Slipknot

It's the incredibly meta end of our time with Animal Man.

Episode 73 - The Infinite Memory of the Back Issue Bin

In this episode, we explore Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard.

Episode 72 - Functionally A Regular Baby

Things somehow get weirder and also more political in Animal Man Vol. 2.

Episode 71 - Ocean Jeans

We're getting meta all over again as we explore The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

Episode 70 - Saved by Purple Ducks

Things get real heavy and real metafictional in volume 3 of Animal Man.

Episode 69 - Chekov's Tigerilla

Join us on a journey through the timestream as we tackle This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Episode 68 - Do You Eat Food

We're talking about Emil Ferris's absolute masterpiece of a comic, My Favorite Thing is Monsters.

Episode 67 - Little Werewolf Detective

In this episode, we dig into Ragnarock, AS Byatt's metafictional exploration of Norse mythology.

Episode 66 - Odin's Large Adult Son

It was Dried Up Brain in the dining room. Yes, you got us we did record an episode about Dash Shaw's Clue: Candlestick and we did, in fact, record it in a dining room. Guilty as charged but can you blame us? It's a good comic.

Episode 65 - The Candlestick is the Hero

In this episode, we talk about Patternmaster by Octavia Butler. If you like brain fights this one is for you.

Episode 64 - I Never Want to Bite Through My Own Tongue

In this episode, we discuss Eleanor Davis's How to Be Happy.   Theme Music: 10 by HOME

Episode 63 - Oh F#ck I'm In The Universe

We're tackling The Third Man, the lesser-known novella that Graham Greene wrote to help him develop the story for the classic noir thriller of the same name. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

Episode 62 - Anti-Casablanca

We've finally reached volume nine of The Wicked + The Divine and thus the end of our third comics series. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

Episode 61 - A Baller Eulogy

Pour yourself a glass of smoking bishop because we're talking about THE Christmas classic, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

Episode 60 - Candles Are An Important Part Of Society.mp3

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