This 2018 concept album is about reckoning, celebrating, and reclaiming what it means to be American. We discuss how Monáe uses her platform to advocate for queer and black women while working with big record labels to also produce commercial success.

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• Dirty Computer

Additional Resources:

• Janelle Monáe Bends More Than Gender In Two New Videos From 'Dirty Computer'
• Why Janelle Monae’s ‘Dirty Computer’ Film Is a Timely New Sci-Fi Masterpiece
• Why Janelle Monáe Put Her Music on Hold to Take Hollywood by Storm
• Prince apparently wrote the synth line on Janelle Monáe’s new single
• How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice
• Janelle Monáe On Her Dirty, World-Dominating Year
• Unpacking the meaning of ‘Dirty Computer,’ in which Janelle Monáe finally gets to be herself
• Janelle Monáe on the meaning of "Dirty Computer" and what she promised her grandmother

This is a special repost of the first episode of our Patreon-only series, SuperKINGcontext.

Stephen King's first novel was adapted into this 1976 cautionary movie about adolescence, bullying, and female representation by a team of middle-aged men. How does the male gaze impact this story that is so often referred to as "feminist"?

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• Carrie

Additional Resources:

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/04/carrie-stephen-king-horror
• https://web.archive.org/web/20000510093031/http://www.briandepalma.net/carrie/carrint.htm
• http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/pj-soles-reminisces-about-the-original-carrie.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/03/carrie-stephen-king-brian-de-palma-horror-films-feminism
• https://cinephiliabeyond.org/four-decades-later-brian-de-palmas-carrie-stands-one-capably-crafted-horror-films-time/
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10474858/Carrie-the-growing-pains-of-a-horror-classic.html
• https://sites.google.com/site/cultoddities/home/carrie/carrie-1976/press/sissy-spacek-interviews
• https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/11/03/carries-prom-scene-an-oral-history-part-one
• https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/11/04/carries-prom-scene-an-oral-history-part-two

This political comedy podcast makes over a million dollars a year from its Patreon subscribers alone. We try to unpack how it gets made while learning more about the personal values associated with the "dirtbag left."

• Chapo Trap House podcast on Soundcloud

Additional Resources:

• Meet Chapo Trap House: The Funniest and Most F**ked Up New Podcast About Media and Politics
• THE RADICAL CHEEK OF 'CHAPO TRAP HOUSE'
• Chapo Trap House are the Vulgar, Brilliant Demigods of the New Progressive Left
• Explaining the ‘Chapo Trap House’ Podcast to the Uninitiated
• Liberals are making bank on a site called Patreon. The right calls it "hipster welfare."
• What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?
• Is This the Stupidest Book Ever Written About Socialism?
• Chapo Trap House subreddit quarantined for allegedly encouraging violence
• SOCIALISM IS BACK, AND THE KIDS ARE LOVING IT. Reason. Aug/Sep2019, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p55-52. 4p. 2
• 'The Voice of the Dirtbag Left': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House
• Chapo Trap House: Socialism for the Extremely Online

This 2015 comic mixes folklore and magic with science and technology. We discuss how each creator brings their own experimentation to the project, and how it's been received by the comic book industry and its more philosophical readers.

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• Injection

Additional Resources:

• Warren Ellis' Freaky Scifi Comic Series Injection Gets Optioned for TV
• Exclusive Interview with Injection’s Warren Ellis
• INTERVIEW: Warren Ellis talks about ‘Injection’ without crying
• AN INJECTION OF WARREN ELLIS IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
• Matt Chats: Declan Shalvey on Wolverine, Injection, Learning from Scripting Comics, and Why He Brings up ArtCred Less
• What's at Stake with Warren Ellis's 'Injection'
• INJECTION #1 TALK WITH WARREN ELLIS, DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE
• Take Control Of Your World: Revisiting ‘Injection’ By Ellis, Shalvey & Bellaire [Sci-Fi Week] Read More: Take Control Of Your World: Revisiting 'Injection' [Review] 
• https://injectioncomic.tumblr.com/
• BELLAIRE & SHALVEY: ART & COLOR, WORKING IN CONCERT [GALLERY]
• INJECTION #2: LETHAL DECOMPRESSION [CLOSE READ]
• Haug H. The Alchemical Singularity: Magic and Technology in Warren Ellis’s Injection. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 2019;48(132):22

This collection of non-fiction essays attempts to define two modes of storytelling by providing examples of each from popular culture. We talk about how Fisher's argument fits into our larger discussions of horror stories and how his definitions may be useful for considering the end of capitalism.

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• The Weird and the Eerie

Additional Resources:

• The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie
• Eugene Thacker – Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: A Review of “The Weird and the Eerie” by Mark Fisher
• Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie”
• In Memoriam: Mark Fisher
• why we quit: tariq goddard on leaving zero books
• Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Thank you to our Co-producer patron Kevin Wetter for selecting this week's topic!

This 2009 TV show, helmed by Joss Whedon, was meant to be a thematic exploration of identity and sexuality but many have argued about its problematic story. Was that because of corporate interference or Whedon's own issues with feminist representation?

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• Dollhouse, Season 1

Additional Resources:

• Adams, Pippa. Women in Science Fiction: Opportunities and Constraints of Representations in Postfeminist Worlds
• Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre
• JOSS WHEDON TALKS FIREFLY, DOLLHOUSE AND LEAVING TELEVISION
• The Mind-Transplant Script Whedon Wrote Before Dollhouse
• Anderson, D. (2016). Echoes of Frankenstein: Shelley’s Masterpiece in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse and Our Relationship with Technology. Slayage, 43, 1
• Kitchens, J. (2016). Object Entanglements: From Postmodern Subjectivity to Posthuman Thingness in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Studies in Popular Culture, 38(2), 1.
• Rogers, S. (2011). Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse and Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 22(2), 153.
• Avni, S. (2008). Inside the Dollhouse. Mother Jones, 33(6), 88–89.
• Jensen, J. (2008). Welcome to the “Dollhouse” Fan Frenzy. Entertainment Weekly, (997), 14.
• The Expired Feminism of Joss Whedon
• In defence of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
• Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity, edited by Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, Heather M. Porter
• • “Fantasy Is His Business, but It Is Not His Purpose” by Alyson R. Buckman
• The Fascinating No-Consent Fantasia of Dollhouse and Mad Men
• POSTMORTEM: WHY WE HATED DOLLHOUSE. AND WHY WE LOVED IT.

THIS IS A REPOST OF A 2016 EPISODE. As the release of the film JOKER looms, we revisit our discussion about Batman, the Joker, and ambiguity.

Looking back on the Batman film “The Dark Knight,” does it stand for anything? Or does it simply soak up whatever morals we bring to it? Christopher Nolan’s intentions remain mysterious, but we do our best to figure them out.  

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• The Dark Knight

Additional Resources:

• JOHNSON, V. (2014). ‘It’s What You Do that Defines You:’ Christopher Nolan’s Batman as Moral Philosopher. Journal Of Popular Culture, 47(5), 952. doi:10.1111/jpcu.12181
• The Dark Knight of the American Empire
• Hunting The Dark Knight : Twenty-First Century Batman. London: I.B.Tauris
• Dive Deep Into the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy With This Documentary

Thank you to our Co-producer patron Miriam Meaney for selecting this week's topic!

This 1985 Peter Greenaway film approaches storytelling with the perspective that there is no meaning to reality despite our organized attempts to create it. We talk about how Greenaway uses the traditions of Dutch paintings and anatomical animal studies to get this message across or frustrate us by trying.

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• A Zed and Two Noughts

Additional Resources:

• Symmetry and Structure in Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts
• Organizing the ZOO: Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts
• Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill
• Alemany-Galway, M., & Willoquet-Maricondi, P. (2008). Peter Greenaway’s Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema (Vol. Rev. ed). Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.
• De Beauregard, R. C. (2010). Green Apples and Red Prawns: The Colour of Time in Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts ( Z.0.0.). Journal of British Cinema & Television, 7(1), 82.

Thank you to our Co-producer patron Chris Marlton for selecting this week's topic!

This 2002 Japanese art film is slow, meticulously shot, and has wonderful, ornate costumes. We discuss how it was influenced by a form of traditional puppetry but should be approached more like a meditative painting.

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• Dolls

Additional Resources:

• Finding Love in Loss and Tragedy
• Dolls
• Dolls by Takeshi Kitano (Review)
• The cult Japanese movies outfitted by Yohji Yamamoto
• Inviolable Attachments: Takeshi Kitano’s Dolls
• Dolls (2002)
• Redmond, S. (2013). The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano : Flowering Blood. London: WallFlower Press.
• Sherman Hollar. (2012). Kitano Takeshi. Britannica Biographies, 1.

In this 1978 non-fiction book, Gardner argues that art and writing should be moral and that his peers in the literary community are immoral for failing to uphold this tradition. We discuss Gardner's tragic life story while trying to process this debate and whether he was right, wrong or just an asshole.

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• On Moral Fiction

Additional Resources:

• John Gardner, Pugilist at Rest
• Moral Fiction
• John Gardner raided the castle of American fiction, a bit like Grendel. By David Stanton
• Getting the Elephant off the Baby: A Look Back at John Gardner’s On Moral Fiction
• John Gardner’s Tricksy Death and Tangled Legacy
• On Moral Fiction, By John Gardner, Analysis by Christian Author Lorilyn Roberts
• John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy
• What Do You Mean, 'Moral' Fiction?
• An Interview with John Gardner
• John Gardner

This podcast started in 2012 as a fictional update from a strange, supernatural town. With guest Dave Moore, we discuss how this successful production is made while unpacking the utopian ideal it creates with a kind of drab mundanity.

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• Welcome to Nightvale

Additional Resources:

• Welcome To 'Night Vale' — Watch Out For The Tarantulas
• Welcome to Night Vale: Eerie, witty podcast has Texas ties
• Celebrating Their Corpse-Strewn Future: Welcome to Night Vale
• 10 Reasons to Listen to Welcome to Night Vale
• Welcome to Oakland, ‘Welcome to Night Vale’
• Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor on Welcome To Night Vale
• Why Welcome to Night Vale is Important
• Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: Religious Colonialism in Welcome to Night Vale
• America's Most Popular Podcast: What The Internet Did To "Welcome to Night Vale"
• Fan-created transcripts make it even easier to get into “Night Vale
• FX To Develop ‘Welcome To Night Vale’ Podcast For TV; Harper Perennial Orders Two New Books

This 2005 video game tried to capture the atmosphere and experience of H. P. Lovecraft's mythos. It is now called a commercial failure and a cult classic. We discuss its unique, immersive gameplay, and its Lovecraftian approach to knowledge as a thing to fear.

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• Call of Cthulhu (RPG)

Additional resources:

• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Interview 2
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Q&A
• The making of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
• Owen, D. (2017). Player and Avatar : The Affective Potential of Videogames. Jefferson, UNITED STATES: McFarland.
• Horror is Knowledge: The Presentation of Fear in 'Call of Cthulhu

This 1986 horror film adapted an H.P. Lovecraft story into a transgressive "video nasty" about repressed sexuality. We learn about the production methods that brought its "pineal glands" to life, while discussing Lovecraft's fear of sex in contrast with From Beyond's smashing of taboos.

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• From Beyond

Additional Resources:

• 30 YEARS LATER, FROM BEYOND IS LOVECRAFT AT HIS KINKIEST
• The Cult 80s Horror Movie That Foretold Our Augmented Future
• Corliss, Richard. TIME Magazine; 12/1/1986, Vol. 128 Issue 22, p74, 
• Sharrett, C. (2015). Lovecraft Today. Cineaste, 41(1), 27–78.
• A Man’s Home…
• Transgressive Sexuality and Slimy Creatures 'From Beyond (Collector's Edition)'
• Stuart Gordon’s Shock Treatment
• Race, Sexuality, and Procreation in H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations
• The Posthumous Pornification of H. P. Lovecraft
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman
• Wisker G. (2013) “Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women. In: Simmons D. (eds) New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft.

This 2016 novel explores sci-fi and horror in the 1950s from the perspective of an African-American family already accustomed to prejudice and dread. We have an uncomfortable conversation about how it addresses H.P. Lovecraft's racism and the question of whether a white author should tell stories about the black experience.

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• Lovecraft Country

Additional Resources:

• Matt Ruff's "Lovecraft Country," where the horror is racism (not racist)
• The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
• Shadows Over America: Matt Ruff and Victor LaValle Take on Lovecraft and Race
• Talking with Matt Ruff about science fiction’s racist past
• Cthulhu Gon’ Slay: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Real-world and mythical terrors get equal billing in Lovecraft Country

This 1988 Japanese anime film broke the bank with its high production budget, but it is still remembered for its masterful artwork and deep themes about adolescence and post-war dystopia.

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• Akira

Additional Resources:

• Akira: The Story Behind The Film
• ‘Akira’: Looking back at the future
• Akira: The Tortured History of the Unmade Live-Action Adaptation
• 30 Years of Akira: The Triumph and Legacy of a Legendary Film
• ‘Akira’ Is Frequently Cited as Influential. Why Is That?
• How 'Akira' Has Influenced All Your Favourite TV, Film and Music

This album from 2000 came out more than 20 years into the career of this genre fusing music group. We look at their commercial apex and their struggles with racist expectations to understand what led to this attempt at a new beginning.

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• Fishbone albums

Additional Resources:

• The Red Hot Days of Fabulous, Funky Fishbone
• HAY, C. (2000). “Psychotic” Fishbone Goes Hollywood. Billboard, 112(9), 12.
• Fishbone & the Familyhood Nextperience
• FISHBONE "Fishbone &
• Fishbone Back on Its Mission
• FISHBONE Seminal funk game-changers in town
• Ska-Punk Rockers, Way Ahead of the Curve
• LIFSON, A. (2011). A Fish Story. Humanities, 32(1), 6.
• Fricke, D. (1991). Black and bruised. Rolling Stone, (614), 68.
• Biggs, Jimmie. “Growing Up Black in the White Punk Scene.” New York Amsterdam News. 6/30/2005, Vol. 96 Issue 27, p17-17.

This 2017 Netflix television show is a critically acclaimed fictional depiction of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling that were popular in the 1980s. We discuss how the show's creators handle representation of stereotypes while also criticizing the worst of America's fears.

Additional resources:

• Get in the Ring: How ‘GLOW’ Recreates the Golden Age of Lady-Wrestling TV
• Why ‘GLOW’ Creators Made Women’s Wrestling Series
• How the Original G.L.O.W. Wrestlers Helped Shape the Netflix Hit
• ‘GLOW’ Fight Coordinator Chavo Guerrero Jr. on Getting Wrestling Right
• Obsessed With ‘GLOW’? Meet The Real Female Wrestlers Who Inspired The Show
• How accurate is Netflix GLOW series? Original GLOW girl Tina Ferrari weighs in
• What GLOW Gets Right About Pro Wrestling
• “The Slow and Sudden Rise of Marc Maron,” Newsweek Global. 6/29/2018, Vol. 170 Issue 24, p26-33.
• Glowing Past: Netflix's "GLOW" costume designer on '80s trends and the evolution of sneakers, FN: Footwear News. 7/16/2018, Vol. 74 Issue 22, p10-1

This 2014 collection of short horror stories shows a prolific author experimenting with different tropes and genres to find wonder in making sense of the world. We discuss Jones’s unique writing process to understand the importance he gives horror.

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• After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Additional Resources:

• Book Review: After the People Lights Have Gone Off – Author Stephen Graham Jones
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
• Stephen Graham Jones ~ After the People Lights Have Gone Off
• Haunted Reading
• Interview: Stephen Graham Jones
• Stephen Graham Jones on writing horror and its inverse, romance
• Interview: Stephen Graham Jones on The Weird
• One Month of Reading Stephen Graham Jones: A Primer
• Consuming, Incarcerating, and "Transmoting" Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor's Bearheart and Jones's The Fast Red Road[1]
• We are Stephen Graham Jones, author of AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF and Richard Thomas, Editor-in-Chief of Dark House Press—this is our AMA, so ASK US ANYTHING!
• In Convo With Stephen Graham Jones
• Senses All Turned Up: An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones
• Curbside Splendor Under Fire by Authors, Goes On Publishing Hiatus
• Native American literature’s shapeshifter

This 1985 fantasy film is remembered fondly by our generation, but may not hold up under re-examination. We look at the studio process it was made under, while thinking about how it tries to subvert our expectations of fairy tales.

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• Ladyhawke

Additional Resources:

• 20 Crazy Details Behind The Making Of Ladyhawke
• History, Fantasy, and Weird Armor: Ladyhawke
• Is Ladyhawke the Best Fairy Tale of Them All?
• The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke
• In Defense of ‘Ladyhawke’
• Lessons Every Filmmaker Can Learn From Richard Donner
• The Wolf, the Hawk and the Avant-garde Musician: Interview with Andrew Powell

This 1998 horror manga depicts a Japanese town that plunges into chaos in the face of the symbolic spiral. We look at how Ito conceived Uzumaki, while struggling with big philosophical ideas like nihilism, rationalism and routine, meticulous dread in the face of our cosmic insignificance.

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• Uzumaki

Additional Resources:

• The Junji Ito Interview: A conversation with the creator of Uzumaki
• Black illumination: the unhuman world of Junji Ito
• The Horrific Mechanations of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki
• Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Uzumaki
• Uzumaki: Junji Ito’s Phenomenal Art and Lackluster Storytelling
• Into the Spiral: A Conversation with Japanese Horror Maestro Junji Ito
• The Grotesque Tales of Junji Ito — Part 3: Uzumaki
• “Uzumaki” Is a Horror Classic That Will Leave You Spinning
• THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THOUGHTS ON LOVECRAFTIAN SPIRALITY AND ITO’S UZUMAKI
• INTERVIEW: THE LEGENDARY JUNJI ITO TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW ANIME COLLECTION AND MORE

This 2018 spy thriller is praised for its humor and subversion by critics and audiences alike. We discuss how it represents female and queer identities without pinning down either as templates or tropes.

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• Killing Eve, Season 1

Additional Resources:

• ‘It’s anarchic’: the cast of Killing Eve on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s killer thriller
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge Twists the Spy Genre With BBC America’s Thriller ‘Killing Eve’
• ‘Killing Eve’ Showrunner: ‘All Obsession Is Sexual’
• All About Killing Eve: The BBC spy drama that's already a US hit
• Killing Eve and the Riddle of Why Women Kill
• The Queer Ambiguity of ‘Killing Eve’
• ‘Killing Eve’: TV’s Newest Assassin Subverts Storytelling Cliches, Which Makes Her Scary as Hell
• Feminist thriller "Killing Eve" has proven a perfect show for the #MeToo era
• BBC Buys Into Award-Winning U.K. Drama Producer Sid Gentle Films

This repost of our two Nick Cave episodes is a mess of grief, awe, love, and aspiration.

Part 1: Nick Cave's Lament

In anticipation of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album “Skeleton Tree” and its accompanying documentary “One More Time With Feeling,” we discuss the tragedy of losing a child and its effect on art, performance and persona.

Part 2: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree

By becoming a more vulnerable frontman, Nick Cave has transformed after a major tragedy. To understand this better, we cover his latest album Skeleton Tree, the companion film One More Time With Feeling and the Bad Seeds' latest North American tour.

Additional Resources:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Nick Cave
• I Am the Real Nick Cave
• The Love and Terror of Nick Cave
• Nick Cave Finally Tells His Most Painful Story
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds x Hingston Studio – Skeleton Tree
• All Songs +1: A Devastating New Film About Nick Cave
• Nick Cave Talks About Living and Writing Through Grief
• Nick Cave Will Never Be Forgotten
• THE IMMENSE GRIEF OF NICK CAVE’S ‘SKELETON TREE’
• Nick Cave financed the documentary One More Time with Feeling so that he would not have to speak with journalists about the death of his son

THIS IS A REPOST OF A 2016 EPISODE.

In an unusually giddy, slaphappy episode, Charlie & Christian try to understand how Game of Thrones' sixth season was made. When does an adaptation stop being an adaptation? What happens when it passes -- and surpasses -- its source material?

Additional Resources:

• Last Year (Winds of Winter) post by George R.R. Martin

Thank you to our Co-Producer patron Chris Marlton for selecting this week's topic!

This 1997 Australian alternative rock record was a massive success in its home country, but is something we (the hosts) were totally unfamiliar with. We look at how music subjectively builds identity for some "young people" to understand why Unit is so important to adults looking back on their outsider adolescence.

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• Unit

Additional Resources:

• Polyester genius: reflecting on the boundary-pushing perfection of Regurgitator’s 1997 classic, Unit
• MUSIC REVIEW | Regurgitator – Unit (1997)
• ! (The Song Formerly Known As) by Regurgitator – towering electronic fuzz
• Jade Lazarevic. (2012, September 8). The way we were. Newcastle Herald, The (Includes the Central Coast Herald), p. 12.
• ELIZABETH LORD. (2012). Regurgitator relive retro. Mercury, The (Hobart), 6.
• Regurgitator has always pleased itself — and fans are happy to tag along Andrew M c Millen. (2018, August 2). Band of outsiders. Australian, The, p. 15.
• Regurgitator crowd still partying like it's 1999 By: Craig Platt, Age, The (Melbourne), 03126307, Aug 13, 2018
• Brain uploading, warts and elaborate subterfuge: a chat with Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator

This 2015 Vertigo comic by Tom King and Mitch Gerads sets a murder mystery in the Iraq War in 2004. We discuss how the creators strived for accuracy and reverence with this complex story while struggling with our own distaste for violence, glorification, and authority.

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• The Sheriff of Babylon

Additional Resources:

• One of comics’ best writers is a former CIA agent
• Inside 'The Sheriff of Babylon,' DC Comics' Wartime Crime Drama
• Comic-Con: DC's Vertigo Imprint to Launch 12 New Series Before End of Year
• Why the CIA Has to Read This Comic Before You Can
• The Best Retelling of the Iraq War Story Is a Comic Book
• 15 Reasons Why You Should Be Reading The Sheriff Of Babylon
• https://twiststreet.tumblr.com/post/181648879026
• Did Batman’s Tom King Work For the CIA? Yes, Yes He Did.
• PERSPECTIVES ON A CRIME: TOM KING AND MITCH GERADS ON ‘THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON’