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Heroes Never Rust #61 by Sean Ironman The Golden Age That Never Was Last week, I finished reading Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, which...
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View ArticleHeroes Never Rust #65: Feed the Beast
Heroes Never Rust #65 by Sean Ironman Feed the Beast: What a Man Must Become to Survive Vietnam Many of the Marvel Comics characters created in the 1960s have their origin tied to war. The Fantastic...
View ArticleHeroes Never Rust #75: None of Us Angels
Heroes Never Rust #75 by Sean Ironman None of Us Angels Garth Ennis loves to write about war. His comics are filled with violence—Preacher, The Punisher, The Boys, etc. A few years back, he created a...
View ArticleHeroes Never Rust #76: Dodgin’ D-Day
Heroes Never Rust #76 by Sean Ironman Dodgin’ D-Day Garth Ennis’s and John Higgins’s War Story: D-Day Dodgers follows Second Lieutenant Ross, a British soldier joining up with B Company in Italy. The...
View ArticleHeroes Never Rust #77: “Down” Time
Heroes Never Rust #77 by Sean Ironman “Down” Time The war in Europe winds down. Germans surrender. U.S. soldiers wait on the decision of whether they are heading home or heading to the war in the...
View ArticleThe Curator of Schlock #187: First Blood
The Curator of Schlock #187 by Jeff Shuster First Blood They’re not hunting him. He’s hunting them! Sorry if I freaked out a bit last week. Maybe it’s my delicate sensibilities, but a movie where a...
View ArticleEpisode 330: Kurt Vonnegut Roundtable!
Episode 330 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I am joined by Chris...
View ArticleEpisode 351: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 351of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I speak with the war...
View ArticleComics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #19: Trauma
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #19 by Drew Barth Trauma Comics can, and should, be a space in which a multitude of subject matters and issues should be tackled. Comics are a medium in which the...
View ArticleEpisode 397: Tim O’Brien, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd!
Episode 397 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On today’s show, I share two interviews. The...
View ArticleEpisode 446: Phil Klay!
Episode 446 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if...
View ArticleEpisode #551: Elliot Ackerman!
Episode 551 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, I talk to the fiction...
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