Dried Up Brain

This episode is all about volume 2 of Saga of the Swamp Thing and it's a weird one. It's got demons, aliens, old comic strips, reincarnation, undead acrobats, and psychedelic tubers.

This jam-packed episode includes a lengthy discussion of The World for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin and a post-mortem on Andrea's Hugo Award winner reading project as well as many of those delightful tangents that podcast listeners crave. 

The Sandman is officially behind us and it's time to move on to another comic series. This time we're tackling the first volume of Alan Moore's classic Swamp Thing run. I hope you're taking notes because it's time for The Anatomy Lesson.

For this episode, we read What Kind of Day Did You Have? by Saul Bellow. We wrestle with the grumpy, male intellectual and defend the honor of M*A*S*H (the movie not the show). If you can get through all that then your reward is a pleaseant chat about A People's Future of the United States.

We've come to the end of our series on The Sandman. Join us at The Wake.

Technical difficulties have forced us to dip back in the vaults for this episode and in said we vaults we found our discussion of Night Master, the first book in Tanith Lee's Flat Earth Cycle. It's a compelling slice of mythic 70s fantasy and well worth your time.

In this episode, we tackle Sandman Vol. 9 The Kindly Ones. It's the big climax of the series and the longest single story arc yet. It's a weird, dense, mythic tragedy and we do our best to untangle it.

We're discussing Thee Blind Mice by Agatha Christie, a story about nursery rhymes, bad cops, and busybodies.

We're talking about The Sandman Vol. 8 World's End but also a whole lot of other stuff like teen presidents, fairy rogues, and helpful hedgehogs.

Join us as we try and figure out if Thomas Pynchon thinks he's funny as we tackle his 1966 postmodern mystery, The Crying of Lot 49.