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Episode 33: Ask not for whom the naut juggers; it juggers for thee

Will's got Werewolf by Night: New Wolf Rising, Conan the Barbarian: Into the Crucible, Juggernaut: No Stopping Now, and Fantastic Four: Antithesis. Steve, when not distracted by baseball, is on that Gnomon train, with chapter 9, which changes everything. Links, as promised: Rats sharing a brain via wire, 3000 miles away | Reading dreams from your mind using a machine.

Episode 32: Handshake meme: Nick Harkaway | Current Marvel Comics | Obliquely Nitpicking at the MCU

Will's a twitch affiliate! He also read three books with tangential MCU connections: Shang-Chi vol 1: Brothers and Sisters, Eternals: To Defy the Apocalypse, and Marvel Zombies: Resurrections. Steve read chapter 9 of Gnomon and promised to link the poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion" by W.B. Yeats in this here description, so there you go.

Episode 31: The Finite Stones

In case you all missed Will's first stream as a Twitch affiliate, (http://twitch.tv/sylverdreamer) it was a rollicking good time. ROLLICKING!

Podwise, this week we've got Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky vol 5: Truth/Dare, Captain America by Ta-Nehisi Coates vol 4: All Die Young pt 1, and Sword Master vol 2: God of War on Will's docket. Steve finishes Gnomon chapter ,6 then throws in chapters 7 and 8 for good measure.

Episode30: Age of Khonshu, Age of Brexit

First: go check Will out on Twitch every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday evening at http://twitch.tv/sylverdreamer

With that out of the way, in this mighty fine episode Will wades into Spider-Man: Bloodline, Strange Academy: First Class, and Avengers by Jason Aaron vol 7: Age of Khonshu. Steve jumps on Gnomon chapter 6, A New Set of Colors, and the boys talk about their adult work jobs, but like, in an interesting way.

Episode 29: Hatsune Mecha, or Will‘s Big Data Megalomania Moment

First things first: Will's a streamer! Go hop on http://twitch.tv/sylverdreamer to take a gander.

Back to the pod: Will chewed through Immortal Hulk vol 8: The Keeper of the Door, Aero vol 2: The Mystery of Madame Huang, and Black Cat vol 3: All Dressed Up. Steve powered on for chapter 5 of Gnomon, and more delectable big data dystopia conversations with Will, plus some poetry. Here's the link to the long poem, as promised.

Episode 28: When being a weeb makes you prepared for Gnomon

Will is in on Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider vol 2: Impossible Year, Falcon & Winter Soldier: Cut off One Head, and Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer vol 10: Green Goblin Returns. Steve sets out on chapter 4 of Gnomon, with yet another narrator and subplot.

Episode 27: Eat sins, not human flesh (above the 49th parallel)

Back to our old tricks. Will spills the beans on Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown, Spider-Man Noir: Twilight in Babylon, Hawkeye: Freefall, and Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer vol 9: Sins Rising (all from 2020). Steve gabbed about another (short) chapter of Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, giving us plenty of time for a larger conversation on the book, and also a bonus "treat" of Alpha Flight vol 2 #6-12 (1998) and Alpha Flight and Inhumans Annual 1998.

PS: Check out Will's new Twitch stream at http://twitch.tv/sylverdreamer (coming soon!)

Episode 26: 50 Shades of Nate Gray, feat. Dimitrios Fragiskatos

Dimitrios Fragiskatos says he hates comics, but he can't escape them either. As a retailer, he owns Anyone Comics, as a publisher, he helped put out Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community 2020-2021, and as a writer he co-created Millennials: You Are Special. We picked his brain about all those projects, but he proceeded to blow our mind about X-Man, then joined us for a Dawn of X big picture discussion.

Episode 25: Giant-Sized Dawn of X Podcast #5

It's our 25th episode, and in true comics style we celebrated that nice round number with another Giant-Sized Dawn of X Pod! Here we close out Dawn of X, the opening act of Jonathan Hickman's X-Men era, and talk about such other wonderful topics as Mojo vs Donald Trump, the importance of spandex, and Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon.

Episode 24: Empyre Empyre, hair on fire

Rough week for Will: first his hair caught on fire, then a friend said he wasn't a host of this podcast. Luckily, he got to read some lovely Empyre side-stories: Lords of Empyre, Empyre: Captain America and the Avengers, Captain Marvel vol 4: Accused, Fantastic Four by Dan Slott vol 6: Empyre, and Empyre: X-Men (all from 2020) — the last one joined by Steve, who's also got another knotted chapter of Gnomon by Nick Harkaway to untangle.