Better Than Fiction Episode #112! Flex Mentallo!

Welcome back for #112! This week your hosts DLNelson and Scott Sackett welcome back Barry Burris. For this episode we each read Flex Mentallo. Did we all like it? No. Opinions vary on the quality of this Morrison/Quitely complicated tale. Also on this episode DL talks about "11:14" the movie. And we talk about the Academy's pick of "Spotlight" for Best Picture. Give us a listen!

Cover of "Flex Mentallo". 

"Hero of the Beach"

Cover of "Flex Mentallo" #4.

Pin-Up of Flex.

"11:14" poster.

Better Than Fiction Episode #111! Our interview with Brian "Buck" Berlin owner of New World Comics! (p.2)

Welcome back for another all-new episode! This week your hosts DLNelson and Scott Sackett continue their interview with Brian Berlin. Listen as Buck talks about Super Hero School giving back at the OK Kids Korral. After that we talk New World Con. Will there be one again this year? Find out here. Then we finish up with some weird stories from a comic book store! Enjoy!

Better Than Fiction Episode #110! Our interview with Brian "Buck" Berlin owner of New World Comics! (p.1)

Welcome back for another all-new episode! This week your hosts DLNelson and Scott Sackett are on the road. We stopped in at New World Comics in NW OKC and talked to the owner Brian "Buck" Berlin. This first half of our interview features Buck telling us stories of his early comic book collecting. After that, he goes into working at and acquiring the store. To finish up he talks about Super Hero School from it's genesis springing out of Free Comic Book Day to it's current iteration. Comic book fans give this engaging episode a listen!

New World Comics at 6219 N. Meridian Ave. OKC, OK.

Batman Day poster.

Buck Berlin owner of New World Comics.

Better Than Fiction Episode #109! WE3, Hip Flask, Hollywood Babylon and Bonaparte!

Welcome back for #109! This week your hosts (DLNelson and Scott Sackett) are back with guest Barry Burris. We have a slew of books to talk about this week. Scott has "Hollywood Babylon" by Kenneth Anger. DL talks Richard Starking's "Hip Flask Unnatural Selection" and "Elephantmen". Barry has three books with "WE3" by Morrison and Quitely, "Memories" by Mike McQuay and "Bonaparte" by Patrice Gueniffey. Enjoy!

"WE3" cover.

Interior page from "WE3".

Interior page from "WE3".

Cover of "Hollywood Babylon".

"Hip Flask Unnatural Selection" cover.

Interior page from "Hip Flask Unnatural Selection".

Interior page from "Elephantmen".

Cover of Mike McQuay's "Memories".

"Bonaparte" by Patrice Gueniffey.

Better Than Fiction Episode #108! The Killing Joke, Steve Jobs and more H.P. Lovecraft!

Episode #108! Barry Burris is back once again with your hosts DLNelson and Scott Sackett. This week Scott gives us an update on his online art class with some "Fight Club" pages. DL talk H.P. Lovecraft with "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" and "At The Mountains of Madness". Barry tells us why we should watch the movie "Steve Jobs". And Barry explains Grant Morrison's theory of the ending of "The Killing Joke". Give us a listen!

"The Killing Joke".

"The Killing Joke" interior page.

"The Killing Joke" final scene.

"Steve Jobs" teaser sheet.

"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

"At The Mountains Of Madness"

Art from Fight Club script. 

Art from Fight Club script.

Fight Club script.