Dried Up Brain

It's the second half of Neilvember and we're talking about The Sandman: Overture.

Stay out of the Splash Zone™ because we got a real Wet Book™ on our hands! We're talking about Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also touch on the His Dark Materials trilogy and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

We've reached the end of The Saga of the Swamp Thing. Join as as we follow our big, green friend through the last leg of his journey home.

We're kicking off the official month of pumpkins, candy corn, and murderous monsters by talking about Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest. 

This episode is all about volume five of Saga of the Swamp Thing. We follow our floral hero out of the swamp and into the city of Gotham for a story about how struggle between love and an oppressive society can turn into a mythical battle between man and nature.

We're taking to the sea and talking about Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville. It's a surprisingly complex little story full of hot sailors and powerful punches. We also take a look at the 2019 Hugo Award Winners.

We're talking about the fourth volume of Swamp Thing and that means the boys are back in town. Of course by "the boys" I mean "Swamp Thing and John Constantine" and by "town" I mean "the path of an oncoming apocalypse".

For this episode we read The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys. It's a sequel of sorts to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and thus we must also tangle with the thorny legacy of HP Lovecraft.

There's a lot going on in the third volume of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run and we do are best top cover all of it. That means we're talking about vampires, werewolves, zombies, and the very first appearance of John Constantine.

Lie down on the couch and rest your vermiform appendix because it's time to talk about The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.