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Super Pulp Science — 353 episodes

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353. The Place Where Mark Hamill Died

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352. The Problems of the Page

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351. Pressed Up Against a Deadline

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350. Movies! And Other Crap (SDCC 2026 Recap)

5

349. If I Don’t, I Won’t

6

348. Leg Day Comes For Us All

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347. Best Life, Best Lie (Story Break)

8

346. Defending the Effort, Not the Work

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345. Two Tanks and a Carmilla

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344. You’re a Bit of a Chimera

11

343. Do You Like Weird Stuff?

12

342. Our Biased Approach to Writing Sword and Sorcery

13

341. In the Firelight

14

340. The Limits of Genre (Live from Keycon!)

15

339. The Biggest Booth I’ve Ever Built

16

338. Enough Impossible Things

17

337. Now a Minor Motion Picture

18

336. How "The Bottom Line" Was Made (Story Break)

19

335. Post-Traumatic Kickstarter Syndrome

20

334. The Least Commercial Work We’ve Ever Done

21

333. In the Mud

22

332. It’s Just That Their Job is Different

23

331. The Opposite of Accidents

24

330. No Time For Feeling (Strange Brew Launch!)

25

329. Why Haven’t I Been Doing it That Way?

26

328. The Logger's View of the Forest

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327. Remind Them There's More

28

326. Look At The Stone, Not The Ripple

29

325. A Qualified Discerning Creative

30

324. Unintentional Advancements

31

323. Everything Suddenly, All At Once (2025 Year in Review in Review)

32

322. Writing Next to the Laundry Room

33

321. Why Would You Do This For Free?

34

320. I've Got The Worst Power! (How "Lifties" was made)

35

319. It's Not Gone, Just Changed

36

318. Aren't You Above This?

37

317. It’s a Big Event With a Lot of People (Winnipeg Comiccon 2025 Recap)

38

316. Don't Leave Yourself Time to Be Afraid

39

315. Solving New Problems All The Time

40

314. I Have To Unload My Dad’s New Spellbook!

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313. Oh No, I'm in a Bad Spot! (NYCC & Quebec Comiccon recap)

42

312. The Disaster That No One Sees Coming (A.K.A. The Mushy Middle)

43

311. In the Mainstream

44

310. Hitting the Target (a.k.a. The Hobbit Effect)

45

309. Get Everyone Together and Show That Comics Are Cool

46

308. Trying Too Hard to Think About the Franchise

47

307. One Impossible Thing at a Time (How “Power Line” was Made)

48

306. Weird Show! (Fan Expo 2025 recap)

49

305. What We Kept and What We Killed

50

304. Hide a Magician in Your Crowd

51

303. The Place You Grew Up In (SDCC recap pt. 2)

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302. Nobody Leaves at 7:00 (SDCC recap pt. 1)

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301. Maybe Aliens Show Up

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300. To Iceland!

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299. "This Could Be Higher..."

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298. So, Are You Excited?

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297. That's TCAF, Baby!

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296. Cool Outfits, Neat Weapons, and a Code

59

295. A Rubber Monster Slathered in Goo

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294. Barely Middling Weird

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293. Guardians of Fandom

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292. The Dark Section of the Show

63

291. Objects can be Protected from the Fall

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290. The Calgary Escapade - Transmissions from The Road (Warning: May Contain Snakes)

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289. Controlling Your Means of Production

66

288. Does the Audience Want to See It?

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287. As likely to have it go nowhere than somewhere

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286. Less Than a Crumb of Attention

69

285. This is my job!

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284. It will never be the way it was

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283. Privatizing the Portal to Hell

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282. What is "The Fight"?

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281. The Wobble Zone

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280. I don’t believe in ghosts, I am afraid they’re real.

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279. The Magic of Story

76

278. Why Not Just Give Up?

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277. The Saddest Profession

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276. Carefully Read Your Contract

79

275. The Servant of the Project

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274. Love The Process More Than The Outcome

81

273. If a certain kind of person hates it, then it’s for me!

82

272. Banging Your Head Against the Mainstream Comics Wall

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271. Tales from the Distillery

84

270. Building Your Personal Brand

85

269. I Don't Mean to Poopoo on Publishers

86

268. A Forty-Minute Endeavour (Winnipeg Comiccon recap)

87

267. The Dark Side of Creating Comics

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266. A Plethora of Prairie Comics Readers

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265. It's just fun to make up stories!

90

264. Building the airplane as we fly it

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263. The Distinguished Competition

92

262. A Library of Clouds and Rocks

93

261. Just One More

94

260. Excuses to casually make things

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259. Adventures on the bus (with a surprise story break!)

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258. Your style is the mistakes you can’t get rid of

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257. The Olympics of Attention Warfare

98

256. The Old Men and the Con

99

I used to be a Magical Girl

100

Poets, or Hot-take Jerks?

101

The Danger of Jargon

102

The 4 P's of Creativity: Putter, Plans, Projects, and Parts

103

We're Going to Art So Hard!

104

My Brain is an Angry Pile of Squirrels

105

Story breaking 'Science Water' - an eco-friendly Creature Feature

106

What makes a Dire Beast?

107

Has Thermos Technology Gone Too Far?

108

The 3 F's of Calgary Expo

109

Schrodinger's Convention

110

The Intangibles of Traditional Publishing

111

The grass is always greener where there aren’t cowboys.

112

The Hydra starts to eat itself

113

When your ideas are jealous of each other

114

Damn, that's not art!

115

You're Clipboad Guy now

116

An Alien Queen on the side (Justin's origin story)

117

How dare I not try? (Gregory's origin story)

118

Handing in your homework twice

119

Dan and the Fantastics

120

Cozy Introvert Mode

121

Would you buy my ashcan?

122

The Two M’s in Life: Marriage and Mortgage

123

‘My Disgust at the New York Comic Con Artist Alley’: Chasing Artwork on NYCC 2023

124

From Here to Tom Hardy

125

Figure out what your thing is

126

The Bottom of the Iceberg

127

How the Muse Arrives

128

The Skip Over Effect

129

Disappointment is that gap between what you want and what’s happening

130

Building resilience in a creative field

131

You’re locked in here with me (How Blood Vault was made)

132

Making Comics the Steven Way

133

Consolation Con (SDCC & Pemmi-Con postmortem)

134

Why would you do an anime convention? (Ai-kon 2023 recap)

135

'We've never made a book': a conversation with Friesens printing

136

There is a danger in getting big

137

I'm making comic books, calm down!

138

A secret plan revolving around a platform

139

This little glimmer that makes you want to know more

140

I Gamble Every Day, I'm in Publishing!

141

The Moment Dictates Difference

142

Not in control of certain aspects of your ascension

143

Bnb Bros (Calgary & Saskatoon recap)

144

So, why comics?

145

Every project is a stepping stone

146

I made a thing, and I don’t know what to do!

147

Do you think you’re still hungry?

148

When does art become design?

149

First Con of the Year!

150

Love You to Death

151

A Danger in the Details

152

A Crappy Part of the Internet

153

My idea's good, I promise!

154

Letting the imagination run wild

155

Your best ideas happen when you have no time

156

What to do in the age of uncertainty

157

The Year of 2022 (Writing the Wrong Way collab)

158

The detritus of our careers

159

Sometimes you need visual excitement

160

Creating something cool

161

I'll make that mean something

162

How 'Meathouse' was made (Live at FanQuest!)

163

There's a checklist...

164

24 Hours of Comics

165

One Weird Thing

166

Degree and not a category

167

The Werewolf Guy

168

Ego as Object

169

Sparrow Among the Peacocks (Fan Expo debrief)

170

The Mountain

171

Damn convention, I'm doing it myself!

172

Comets on the brain

173

The year that all conventions are coming back

174

The Monster has its own rules

175

Blinded by your own vision (Montreal Comiccon postmortem)

176

The Literati

177

Love It Enough To Work Hard On It

178

Ghost T-Rex is the Scariest Ghost

179

Together Again... Again

180

The Things That Happen With Internships

181

Under Promise, Over Deliver: the Cori Jaye Way

182

Journeys & Destinations with Scott B. Henderson

183

The Exquisite Corpse (Dead Work Kickstarter Funded!)

184

Your Project Might Become 10 Times Cooler (Dead Work Anthology Kickstarter ends soon!)

185

Our Dead Work will live again!

186

This Author is a Real Person

187

Professionalism the Wrong Way with Jonathan Ball, PhD

188

His Name is Jonas

189

Creating Connections and Viking Werewolves

190

New Experiences

191

Not Finishing is Failure

192

“Not in an evil way…”

193

First Con in a Long Time...

194

The New Art Book is Here!

195

Where's my Booth Setup? (Live from Winnipeg Comiccon!)

196

Creating the Eye Collector with Jonathan Ball (Part 2)

197

The Pros and Cons of returning to Cons

198

156. Return of the Living Hosts

199

155. Endings and beginnings

200

154. Flip Your Compositions

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153. Pictures of Strangers

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152. Vancouver Ruth

203

151. The "Double The" Edition

204

150. Fairytale Ending

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149. The More You Do It...

206

148. Takes More Than It's Worth

207

147. Back-and-forthing

208

146. Just make something new!

209

145. The Last Witch

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144. Gregory Dollars

211

143. Something Special About Europa

212

142. The FanQuest Panel of Horror!

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141. A New Appreciation for Restrictions

214

140. Get a job, but plant a garden

215

Bonus Episode: A Reading from The Automatic Age

216

139. Gregory, How Can You help?

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138. We Built a Blood Cannon

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137. We want to sell the stories we make

219

136. A Mistake That You Make All The Time

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135. Man, this texture is so nice!

221

134. A Style Experiment

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133. Chasing How it Used to Be

223

132. The Hot Pepper Thing

224

131. The Idea of an Enduring Story

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130. The Failure is Not Finishing

226

129. The Repulsive Essentials

227

128. Truth in Advertising

228

127. The Kings of Kickstarter

229

126. I Fought for Gertie

230

125. Pretend That It's Normal

231

124. Gotta be able to pivot

232

123. Building a new Kickstarter

233

122. And Along Came Hannah

234

121. The Gift of Story

235

120. Good Robots Glow Blue

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119. Remix of a bunch of stuff I used to do

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118. Creativity Is My Drug

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117. The Danger of Nostalgia

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116. A Forgery of Your Own Painting

240

115. A Book Has a Long Life

241

114. Can You Hear Me?

242

113. The Heart of the Story

243

112. Literally Join the Fight

244

111. The King's Metal

245

110. Social Distancing

246

109. A World of Overlapping Deadlines

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108. Intent Matters

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107. Oh Yeah, Conventions Are Fun!

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106. A Goatee is Not a Beard

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105. Angry About the Fish in the Pond

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104. I Like Krampus

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103. Something From Nothing

253

102. The Machine Gears Turning

254

101. My Thought Chamber

255

100. One Hundred Episodes!

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99. If they hate the books, that's fine too.

257

98. Banking the Gumption

258

97. Day One Work

259

96. Thieves of Joy

260

95. Suddenly, Computers!

261

94. Just Add Puppies

262

93. Meaningful Struggle

263

92. Always Reply (or: How to Follow Up after a Big Con)

264

91. Hey You! (NYCC Recap)

265

90. Weird Baby Art

266

89. Our Heart Grew Three Sizes That Day

267

88. The Three Page Curse

268

87. The Things That Don't Work

269

86. It's the Singer, Not the Song

270

85. You're Not Big, But You're Small

271

84. Fail Upwards

272

83. Plant Fiction (or how 'Dead Head' was made)

273

82. First Idea, Worst Idea

274

81. Free Lanyards! (SDCC 2019 recap)

275

80. Greens vs. Reds (or How 'Green Thumb' was made)

276

79. Ted the Shield Tester

277

78. Listen Twice As Much As You Speak

278

77. Always Use the Whole Word

279

76. You Always Deserve To Die

280

75. Deep and Shallow

281

74. The Heel Pivot

282

73. The Amount of Life You Spend (PechaKucha 37)

283

72. The Last Time You Did Something for the First Time

284

71. As We Know It

285

70. The History You Decide

286

69. Airwolf

287

68. The Balance Between Chaos and Order

288

67. Business Hats On

289

66. Fairly Unreachable

290

65. Future Me Will Worry About That

291

64. Now You're the Expert

292

63. Here I Am, I'm Great!

293

62. Everything's a Circle

294

61. The Nonsense You Say As Advice

295

60. Red Earth: The Thought Bubble

296

59. The Hokey Pokey Dance

297

58. Breaking Story (or How 'Heirlock' Was Made)

298

57. Just Trust It

299

56. Nobody Wants You to Write

300

55. Little Brain Poots

301

54. Jumping on the Bandwagon

302

53. The House Fire Inside

303

52. This Is What You're Looking For

304

51. Everything's a Miracle

305

50. #NaNoWriMo

306

49. Fool's Gold (or Terrible People Giving Each Other Advice)

307

48. The Life of Drake

308

47. Labour Has Its Own Value

309

46. Not a Straight Path

310

45. Enter the Crunch

311

44. Big vs. Small (NYCC 2018)

312

43. Build Your Own Tower

313

42. A Haunted Church

314

41. On the Road

315

40. Money Always Wins

316

39. Meet the Buddha, Kill the Buddha

317

38. Let's Make It Super Sad

318

37. Too Much Freedom Can Be a Bad Thing

319

36. How Conventions Get Made

320

35. Threads of Disparate Conversations (post FanQuest Day 1)

321

34. The Film is In Charge

322

33. A Twisted Murder Plot

323

32. You Can Fix Bad Words, But You Can't Fix No Words

324

31. Some Problems With Success

325

30. How to Fail Gracefully

326

29. Take Opportunities as they Arrive

327

28. Us vs. Them (Mirror Universe Podcast)

328

27. The Haunted Dress

329

26. A First Show Experience Again

330

25. Keep Rolling Those Dice

331

24. Pantsing With Structure

332

23. Make Stuff and Get it Out There

333

22. The Democratization of Art

334

21. Viking Helmets Didn't Have Horns

335

20. Just Arrive and Respond (and make lists)

336

19. Is This Where I'm Meant to Be?

337

18. The Unparalleled Feeling of Putting Something Out There

338

17. Cthulhu Graffiti

339

16. The Best Kind of Sickness

340

15. We Should Totally Write A Comic

341

14. The Power of Images -or- "What did Dave do here?"

342

13. A Non-Subjective Perspective

343

12. Embracing the Darkness

344

11. Know When To Say No

345

10. The Truth Pyramid

346

9. Advice To Our Younger Selves

347

8. All Things Being Equal

348

7. Giant Ziggurat

349

6. Jump Now, Or You'll Never Jump

350

5. Chasing the Fear

351

4. The Spark

352

3. Destination Oblivion

353

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