Simon and Edie readthrough “Battleship Potemkin” and discuss: Spice Girls fashion, pirating your own comics, environmental devastation humor, and Mafia Monarchies.
Ep 21: Love and War
Simon and Edie readthrough “Love and War” and discuss: who drives the narrative car, snappy dress uniforms, situational battle ethics, and Jena’s trauma-rama.
Ep 20: Interview Special: David Bishop
Simon and Edie interview DAVID BISHOP!
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Ep 19: The Rudinshtein Irregulars
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Rudinshtein Irregulars” and discuss: Ground troops in a future war, Jackie Daytona, Torture Castles, and agreeing with Dimitri?!
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Ep 18: Devil May Care 40th Anniversary Special
Simon and Edie RETURN FOR SEASON 2 and discuss: Simon being trapped overseas in fall 2021, definitely NOT the Black Widow, impossible architecture, and how to memorably propose to your fiancé.
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Ep 17: The Courtship of Jena Makarov Part 2
Simon and Edie readthrough the second half of “The Courtship of Jena Makarov” and discuss: Andreas “Coburn” Romanov, Edwin Star, how bricks don’t float, fridging, meaningful love-making, and...the end of season one.
Ep 16: The Courtship of Jena Makarov Part 1
Simon and Edie readthrough the first half of “The Courtship of Jena Makarov” and discuss: Drew Struzan, the inspiration for Julianna, communist body mods, and how Dante brings you back to the Prog.
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Ep 15: Cruel Requiem
Simon and Edie readthrough “Cruel Seas” and “Requiem for Lost Love” and discuss: Pulp novel sci-fi aesthetics, BURNS, Little Shop of Horrors-level villainy, whether Prima Nocta existed, and a distinct lack of Prussian Blue.
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Ep 14: Fists of the Dance
Simon and Edie readthrough “Fists of Fury” and “Last Dance on the Trans-Siberian Express” and discuss: a collective noun listener challenge, Dante’s influencer status, chewing ice ASMR, the best conveyor belt sushi restaurant in America, and how Prussian Blue is the saddest color.
Ep 13: The Hunting Party
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Hunting Party” and discuss: snowball rivalry, Nastasia getting grosser, daytime trash TV-spin offs, VC Andrews, progressive barbarians, Andy Clarke t-shirts, and more listener questions!
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Ep 12: The Cadre Infernale
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Cadre Infernale” and discuss: Gary’s airbrush madness, filthy pacifiers, whether half-aristocrats exist, faux-Luther Arkwright, sexy pandas, blood or taxes, Half-Life monsters, and an original line-work mystery!
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Ep 11: Tour of Duty
Simon and Edie readthrough “Tour of Duty” and discuss: Fabergé Space Egg, creatures from the Id, surprise Part Three, and Simon confirms who wears the pants in he and Robbie’s creative partnership in our first ever listener questions segment!
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Ep 10: The Movable Masque Feast
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Masque Of Dante” and “The Movable Feast” and discuss: getting 90s gossip wrong, competing with drawings, Incel Dante, Alex Toth-ian things, sex Snowpiercer, and the horrors of fighting with knives.
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Ep 9: The Octobriana Seduction
Simon and Edie readthrough the first half of “The Octobriana Seduction” and discuss: Antiquarian booksellers, bird cabins, nerdy Dune debates, cheesy teeth, and our first no-prize awards ceremony.
Ep 8: The Great Game Part 2
Simon and Edie readthrough the second half of “The Great Game” and discuss: toasting the end of an epic, defenestrating Dante, Gail Simone, grief as an actual black hole, and how not to win at class warfare.
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Ep 7: The Great Game Part 1
Simon and Edie readthrough the first half of “The Great Game” and discuss: secret earring origins, robot mustaches, thoughtful knee pillows, going full Jack Kirby and physics be damned!
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Ep 6: The Trouble with Cruel Britannia
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Trouble with Arbatovs” and “Cruel Britannia” and discuss: natural Arbatov selection, Shooty McGunwagons, regal rings, attack hot tubs, and the new British national anthem.
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Ep 5: The Gulag Apocalyptic
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Gulag Apocalyptic” and discuss: shower power plays, the lack of space-skirts, Kentucky space-guns, Red Guard industrial farming, and Romanov-branded merch.
Ep 4: Moscow Duellists
Simon and Edie readthrough “The Full Dante” and “Moscow Duellists” and discuss: Surprise Arkady, Italian pagan goddesses, a sentimental captain’s wheel, Face Palaces, baby elephant cuddles, and improbable chandeliers.
Some images we discussed in Ep 4:
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Triple Breasted Goddess of Frascati 5 and Andreas/Arkady.
Dickolai Nante, friends.
Face Palace! And what DOES this dirigible say?
Dante has grown! He’s fondly remembering Eudoxia!
Viktor has a snack.
The heiresses! A joy to behold.
In space, acrobats wear bustiers.
You just gotta see all these pachyderms. Here’s a sneak peak.
Jena loses a father figure.
Allison takes Dante to his black and white color scheme as we lose Caius.
Ep 3: The Gentleman Thief
Simon and Edie readthrough “Russia's Greatest Love Machine” and “The Gentleman Thief” and discuss: dirty comics at the Vatican, low-hanging cheese, mini-Anna Nicole, disappointing Dante, and the Arbatov drinking game.
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