Dried Up Brain

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

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

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

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

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

Things get real heavy and real metafictional in volume 1 of Animal Man.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We're reached the penultimate volume of The Wicked + The Divine. It's called Old is the New New and it gets us ready for the end by showing us some glimpses of the past.   Note: Grant Morrison is referenced briefly and referred to by masculine pronouns because this episode was recorded weeks before the release of the interview in which they came out as non-binary. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

This episode tackle Michael Chabon's historical adventure story Gentlemen of the Road, a book with a lot of action and elephants.

We're inching ever closer to the end of The Wicked + The Divine but first, we have to take about Vol. 7: Mothering Invention and it's a wild one.

To celebrate the spookiest month of the year we're traveling back to the spookiest decade of all time...the 90s. We're reading Say Cheese and Die! the fourth entry in RL Stine's classic Goosebumps series

We read The Wicked + The Divine Volume 6: Imperial Phase Part 2 and honestly it's a lot to process. There are some truly wild revelations in this one.   Theme Music: 10 by HOME

It's back to school season so we decided to tackle a book about how much school sucks. We read Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse.

Our journey through The Wicked + Divine counties with a look at volume 5, the first half of the Imperial Phase duology.   Theme Music: 10 by HOME

We're taking a look at Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote as well as the movie based on it.   Theme Music: 10 by HOME

Join us as we dig into the action-packed fourth volume of The Wicked + Divine.

For our 50th episode, we tunnel back in time 50 years to talk Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox as well as the Wes Anderson movie based on it.

The third volume of The Wicked + Divine is a bit of a breather after the breakneck plotting of the first two. So in this episode, we get to slow things down and spend some time with these characters and their world.

In this episode, we dig into recent Hugo finalist Becky Chamber's To Be Taught If Fortunate.

We continue our exploration of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + Divine by digging into Volume 2: Fandemonium.

In this episode, we tackle the very first of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet.

We're starting a new comic series. For the next nine months, we're gonna be covering The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. We kick things off in this episode by taking a look at Vol. 1 The Faust Act. 1 2 3 4 SNAP

In this episode, we read two Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard, The Frost Giant's Daughter and Rogues in the House. Spoiler Alert: Conan is rad..

In this episode, we delve into Becky Cloonan's By Chance or Providence, a collection of three moody tales about doomed lovers.

In this episode, we discuss The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers. It's a story about how much love stinks that includes irresistible ear wiggling, deaths from tainted pork, and a protracted tragic wrestling match. In short, it's a masterpiece.

We're talking about Destroyer by Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith, an action-packed Frankenstein story for our complicated modern age.

We're dipping into some classic sci-fi and discussing Samuel R. Delany's The Star Pit.

The Cortex is a supplement to our usual discussion-based content. In the Cortex, we flip things around and instead of discussing other people's fiction we serve up some original fiction of our own. Our first story was written by Nate and it's about space, life, and the passage of time. Music: 10 by Home

In this episode, we cover two comics by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason namely his literary heist story The Left Bank Gang and his sci-fi action, love story I Killed Adolf Hitler.

This is an episode description. It's where the podcasters might elaborate on the premise of the episode and provide you with further information that you wouldn't be able to glean from the title alone. It might also contain some jokes. This description will give you some info but it will contain no jokes. This description is going to tell you that this episode is all about metafiction. It's also about "Lost in the Funhouse" by John Barth and "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" by David Foster Wallace.

It's still December, we're still firmly ensconced in our sweaters and now we're talking about Grant Morrison and Dan Mora's Klaus. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

It's December. We've already put on our sweaters and chugged frankly criminal amounts of eggnog. Now it's time to talk about The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.

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.

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.