Better Than Fiction Episode #576! Our Best of 2025!

 Episode #576! Our Best of 2025! Better late than never. Our top 5 favorite things from 2025. This episode your hosts Scott Sackett and DLNelson count down their favorite pop culture items (mostly books) they enjoyed last year. Five items. Honorable mentions. Check it out!  

Honorable mention #1

Honorable mention #2

Honorable mention 

Scott's #5

DL's #5

DL's #4

Scott's #4

Scott's #3

DL's #3

DL's #2

Scott's #2

Scott's #1

DL's #1

This episode can be heard here:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/betterthanfictionpodcast/episodes/2026-03-05T12_54_33-08_00

Better Than Fiction Episode #575! From Shadow To Light, Hero At Large and Brain Damage!

 Episode #575! From Shadow To Light, Hero At Large and Brain Damage! Welcome back! This episode Scott brings a couple of comic book creator biographies to the table. N.C. Christopher Couch's Jerry Robinson Ambassador of Comics focuses on the art and career of The Joker and Robin co-creator. From Shadow To Light The Life and Art of Mort Meskin by Steven Brower takes a look at one of the masters from the golden age of comics. DL bring Shintaro Kago's horror manga Brain Damage to the table. Also this week Scott has the 1980 John Ritter movie Hero At Large. Plus Fantagraphics Donald Duck vol's 3 & 4 from Carl Barks. Check it out! 

This episode can be heard here:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/betterthanfictionpodcast/episodes/2026-02-19T09_39_31-08_00

Better Than Fiction Episode #574! Cryptology and The Fatal Bullet!

 Episode #574! Cryptology and The Fatal Bullet! This week we look at Cryptology magazine #1. This issue features articles on Bernie Wrightson, The Munsters, The Addams Family, pre-code horror comics and has classic horror movie reviews. Also this week we have Rick Geary's The Fatal Bullet which tells the story of the assassination of President James A. Garfield. And we talk about the first two seasons of Yellowjackets from Showtime and Pluribus from Apple TV. Check it out! 

This episode can be found here:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/betterthanfictionpodcast/episodes/2026-02-05T14_47_54-08_00