"The Publishers and the so-called Purveyors of "Fine Art" have conspired to keep the public in the dark about the true potential of comics!"

Rick Veitch is joined by artists Shawn McManus, Jim Fern, Stan Woch, and Tom Yeates for a bit of monkey shines in Swamp Thing Annual #3 entitled "Distant Cousins." Erik Hanson from the Cradle to the Grave podcast returns to help discuss this issue as we try to make sense of the all the madness of this issue and put it in context.

Reader: Erik Hanson

Original Music: Jim Laczkowski of Now Playing Network

Logo: Nat Almirall of Where the Long Tail Ends

Dedicated to the Memory of John Bierly