Deconstructing Comics

Strangehaven is a series started by Gary Spencer Millidge in 1995. As he does everything himself (including publishing, for the first 18 issues), it has come out on an irregular schedule, but the content has been compelling. Kumar talks with him about how far he might be from completing the series, his process, his life-Strangehaven balance, and more. Brought to you by: Wayne Manor Memoirs podcast Our supporters on Patreon

A man in Portland, Oregon, finds himself turning into some kind of neck-biting monster (a blue vampire who doesn't mind sunlight?), but he can't remember anything about who he is. What's causing this? Past drug use? Psychiatric issues? Tim and Jason discuss Tatu Heikkinen's Scion of Night #1: "The City of Roses."

Jack Kirby's final Fourth World story is the 1984 graphic novel The Hunger Dogs, which continues some of the themes we saw in Even Gods Must Die, such as the encroachment of technology. Tim and Emmet complete their reading of the Fourth World and ponder how aware George Lucas may have been of the New Gods. Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our supporters on Patreon

One of our favorite indie creators has long been Amsterdam-based Chad Bilyeu, who's back with the start of a new series, The Re-Up. Chad tends to deal in nonfiction and memoir, and this time is no different: he reminisces here about the time he took over a marijuana retail business in Washington, DC. Of course, a new book from Chad brings Mulele temporarily out of podcast retirement, and he joins Tim this time to discuss Chad's new offering. Brought to you by: To the Batpoles! podcast Our

Longtime web cartoonist Don Ahé has asked us to look at his new story Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril, about a boy with some bionic body parts who's stranded on an island. Tim and Adam looked around on the rest of his site and found both gag-a-day and serialized work in his Road Apples Almanac strip, and some nice art and good comic timing.