S7E47: Bad Dream Scenario with Brandon Graham
Added 2024-01-09 05:02:14 +0000 UTCComic book writer/illustrator Brandon Graham and Bret discuss awkward pinup calendars, getting lost on the unmapped road to redemption and the dangers of becoming someone's online project. Patreon Season 7 finale.
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Bret might enjoy a dive into what happened to comic creator Ed Piskor this past Spring. The cancel mob and comic book press drove Ed to suicide after two allegations made the rounds.
Joshua Nativio
2024-12-23 22:29:26 +0000 UTCFabulous guys …
PETER GREER
2024-01-26 19:09:32 +0000 UTCTrue description of the current state of our PCNW
M Robbins
2024-01-25 18:24:14 +0000 UTCNick Cage would be an amazing pod guest 🤦🏻♂️
Nick @
2024-01-25 15:47:11 +0000 UTCSo he is into chicks with dicks?
Marko Mancic
2024-01-22 07:19:04 +0000 UTCDave Chapelle made a mediocre special that could have been called “ I love trans people” and yet he was trashed as a transphobe. The trans movement became a refuge for insane males.
Jorge Espinha
2024-01-18 16:18:27 +0000 UTCBret really loves porn….
Jorge Espinha
2024-01-18 13:39:30 +0000 UTCHe called her an "Uncle Tom"! Ha ha ha... that is so funny!
Ben
2024-01-17 20:37:46 +0000 UTCEnjoying the pod. One thing: the ideology cloaked in good intentions is not coming from the left but liberals. Liberals do spectacle in place of politics. What calls itself the left is a censorious liberal phenomenon. Look at NOBS (Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome) in a book called The End of the End of History.
Liam Lenihan
2024-01-17 15:37:09 +0000 UTCOh gosh, he'd be completely disappointed in Seattle's current graffiti, it's pitiful.
Ben
2024-01-16 04:37:31 +0000 UTCGood podcast 👍🏼.
Erick
2024-01-16 00:56:34 +0000 UTCWoof. That was a tough listen. Time to get Nick back and goad him into shitting all over TD S4.
BrienPiechos
2024-01-15 20:37:03 +0000 UTCHoly cow - I couldn't last 10 min. 😴😴😴
Michael Kramer
2024-01-15 17:34:17 +0000 UTCThe next dream I am going to tell you about is the one where George H.W. Bush throws the first pitch at a Texas Rangers game. It begins when H.W. throws a heater from the stretch low but within the strike zone that paints the outside corner. Heat from the ball scorches its seams. The crowd is stunned, including the Ranger’s manager, who in the dream is played by Forest Whitaker who is doing an Oscar-worthy impersonation of Dusty Baker if Dusty Baker had been born in the Hill District of Pittsburgh during the intermission of an August Wilson play. Astonished by the velocity and control of H.W.’s pitch, Dusty Baker phones the bullpen and names H.W. the Ranger’s starting hurler, which proves to be the best decision of Baker’s career because not only is H.W. unhittable that night but he throws a perfect game. Till the top of the ninth when a bee wanders into the ballpark from off the street and bites H.W. on the neck. The 41st President collapses. Within minutes he’s pronounced dead by the Ranger’s physician. Pandemonium. From the pulpit, at the funeral, George W. argues that his father is no more dead than he was in the Oval Office because how many times do I have to tell you people life is a simulation.
Sam Leuenberger
2024-01-14 11:40:17 +0000 UTCThe dreams I’m going to tell you about were among the top 50 tracks on SoundCloud for like a month and that’s including streams by 500lbbaby & Backyard Cave Guide, so hold on to your butts. I am fishing for men at the snack bar on campus at Living Treasures Wildlife Park. The park is busy because it’s their tortoise’s birthday. At noon everyone, including Dolly Parton’s stand-in on the set of 9 to 5, threatens to sing the tortoise (the extended edition of) Happy Birthday. I have a drooling problem. I am trying to present the gospel to these men in an irresistibly winsome yet straightforward fashion, but the saliva is pouring down my chin and shirt. One of the guys is at the park on sabbatical from the Appalachian Trial. He’s the only one who’ll hear me out and that’s because the other night he had unprotected sex with a deceased conifer, “So now I not only feel bad,” the hiker reports, “my penis is starting to rust.” As we are talking the xerox of a hummingbird draws sustenance (a mixture of sugar, water, & cerebrospinal fluid) from the guy’s ear. In less than 24 hours this man’s legs and arms will separate from his body in search of a new host. The man’s bride-to-be is on the phone. She wants to comfort her fiancé but the truth won’t allow it. That night the man’s face resembles the birthmark covering more than half the surface area of the moon. We are going to put him on the prayer chain.
Sam Leuenberger
2024-01-14 11:39:48 +0000 UTCMamet please!
Moz
2024-01-13 14:24:35 +0000 UTCBest guests next season, even if they don’t show up: David Mamet & David Robert Mitchell.
Ski Milius
2024-01-13 02:40:21 +0000 UTCa real "live by the sword, die by the sword" style cancellation
Notch
2024-01-12 20:58:47 +0000 UTCGreat episode! Brandon’s work is brilliant. Highly recommended it
Daniel Freedman
2024-01-12 13:56:42 +0000 UTCLame guest
Chase
2024-01-12 11:18:17 +0000 UTCI can clear a portion of the confusion up as I've spent some time in comics and am familiar with the guest. Brandon Graham is a writer and artist who specializes in European style science fiction comics. He doesn't work for Marvel or DC. He mostly works with Image Comics where creators can publish their own stories and whose publishing deal can be very lucrative if you have a successful series. There is a very famous artist in comics named Jean Giraud AKA Moebius who is considered a godfather of sorts in comics for his sci-fi stories and is hugely influential. Brandon Graham is very much a protege of this school of comic art. It is true that comics can be extremely volatile when it comes to political/social issues, even worse than film/tv as the lack of money in it causes even more extreme viewpoints, couple that with a community of lots of extremely shy introverts with a few firebrands and the scenario he describes is pretty plausible, but just for full disclosure I know nothing about his situation or lack thereof. From what I can tell he is still a pretty respected name in comics and is getting on with his career. I've actually heard Graham interviewed a number of times and am actually a fan of a podcast he used to co-host. I've got to give props to Bret as I've heard Graham talk a lot and never knew a single detail about his personal life, so this was pretty interesting.
Alex Waller
2024-01-11 04:13:51 +0000 UTCI listened to this twice through and still don’t understand 1) what this guy did to get cancelled (it has to be more than what he said, right?) 2) if he’s trans or only dates trans women or what and 3). What exactly is it that he does? Comic books I know but I didn’t understand what any of the sub genres were. A complete and total mystery
Happyhead
2024-01-10 23:01:37 +0000 UTCOne of my favorites of 2023.
Justin
2024-01-10 20:18:58 +0000 UTCDream scenario was so good
Christian
2024-01-10 17:53:41 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2024-01-10 17:00:29 +0000 UTCI understood every single English word that this guest said but I have no idea what this guy was trying to say. Bret was working really hard here. Adam with the Omega Mu reference saved the episode for me at the end. He’s the best. See you all next season! 🫡
Patrick
2024-01-10 01:30:37 +0000 UTCWhat is Bret most horrified by? Needle in the dick ? Relationship with tranny ? Porn work? No, it’s spending ten years in Canada. (Where in Canada? Not mentioned. )
Keith campbell
2024-01-09 20:59:21 +0000 UTCUpped my tier to hear this.
Patrick Kindlon
2024-01-09 20:22:45 +0000 UTC
