Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Prolific artist and illustrator Steve Teare

– Steve’s work in The Nib, The Believer, Awry, Bright the Mag, Vice, and The New Yorker

– The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

– Subsequent representations of the TMNT: gritty, hyper-violent Manga, “Dawson’s Creek,” goofy, adult, film, more film, most film(?)

– “Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles”

– Three screen incarnations of the Batmobile: West, Keaton, and Bale

– Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp”

– Armond White’s review of The Dark Knight

– Struggle Session

– Sam Kieth’s “dreamy grungy masterpiece” The Maxx

– David Graeber’s book The Utopia of Rules

– Dave Sim, “misogynist comics wizard of type and word bubbles”

– Greil Marcus, “music and critic and mythologizer of all things American”

– Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent

– Hell House

– Robert Bly’s book Iron John

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