Supercontext: an autopsy of media

This 12-year running comedy game show features celebrities from the entertainment industry celebrating their love of cinema. But it's also a fascinating intersection between business and marijuana culture. We discuss its trajectory alongside the legalization of the drug here in parts of the United States. Check out Doug Loves Movies here. Additional Resources: Podcast Review: Doug Loves Movies Listen Up: The 20 Best Comedy Podcasts Right Now https://tv.avclub.com/doug-benson-is-probably-high-right-now-1798258344 Doug Benson on comedy, high concepts and Doug Loves Movies Doug Benson's Total Scam of a Life Listen Notes Talk show host's stoner dream comes true, and it's high time Doug Benson On 420 Comedy, Post-Legalization

This controversial comic series about terrorism and identity politics predicts a dystopia that not everyone is willing to agree with. We look at the angry arguments from both Howard Chaykin and his detractors about whether this is artistic expression or just shock value. And... we ask what no one else seems to address. Does Chaykin's story successfully meet its intended goal? Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: The Divided States of Hysteria Black Kiss American Flagg The Homeland Directive Dead Babies Mr. A Additional Resources: The Divided States of Hysteria controversy, and what it means for trans characters in comics "Conversation" Sparked By Second Print Of 'Divided States Of Hysteria' Transmyscira: Why I'm Boycotting Image Comics On Free Speech, Censorship, And Howard Chaykin's Divided States Of Hysteria Howard Chaykin Responds To Controversy Image Comics & Chaykin respond to sensitivity feedback, pull THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA cover HOWARD CHAYKIN RESPONDS INTERVIEW: Howard Chaykin on 'Divided States of Hysteria' controversy There Is Absolutely No Excuse for Image Comics' Divided States of Hysteria Hate Crime Cover Let's All Calm Down Over Howard Chaykin's 'Divided States' Cover Art Swap

As long-time listeners know, one of our hosts is moving across the country, and our production schedule has been disrupted. To ease the transition, this week's Supercontext is a shortened, totally subjective chat about what media we have been consuming and enjoying. If anything caught your interest, please consider buying through our Amazon links below to support the show! PROSE Newsletters: Warren Ellis, Unladylike, Hot Pod, Jim Gibbons, Ken Lowery, Live Wire Men in the Off Hours AUDIO Jimmywine Majestic Until Your Heart Stops COMICS Shiver Juni Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu The Coldest City TV Hap and Leonard Legion Halt and Catch Fire MOVIES Alien: Covenant Atomic Blonde

We look into the story behind-the-scenes of this surprisingly profound comic: from Ferris' struggle with West Nile virus, to the book's seizure en route through the Panama Canal. In addition, we discuss Ferris' theme of "personal monster dilemmas" and how the process of creating this was like melting valuable dross from gold. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters How To Be Happy You And A Bike And A Road Why Art? Escape From Special Gravity's Rainbow Additional Resources: Fantagraphics Has Surprise Hit in Debut 'My Favorite Thing is Monsters' Bankrupt Shipping Company Causing Woes for Publishers Emil Ferris: 'I didn't want to be a woman – being a monster was the best solution' The Emil Ferris Interview: Monsters, Art and Stories (Part 2) The Bite That Changed My Life My Favorite Thing is Monsters Author Talks 2017's Buzziest Graphic Novel The Holocaust, Art, Chicago & Sickness: A 3,500-Word Interview with My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Mastermind Emil Ferris How Emil Ferris became the breakout graphic novelist of the year

This memoir by a music icon was expected to be a tell-all about scandal and betrayal. But we discuss how it's actually about defense mechanisms that give the illusion of cool confidence. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Girl in a Band 1991: The Year Punk Broke Sonic Youth The Messthetics Motherfucker The Purkinje Shift (live) Rap Damage Additional Resources: Kim Gordon's 'Girl in a Band' Mooallem, S. (2015). 60s KIM GORDON. Harper's Bazaar, 304-307. Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band FELSENTHAL, J. (2015). ONE-WOMAN SHOW. Marie Claire (US Edition), 22(3), 226. Even Kim Gordon Doesn't Have It All Weiner, J. (2015). Kim Gordon's New Noise. Rolling Stone, (1230), 18. Why Do Women's Music Memoirs Sell So Erratically? Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band

As long-time listeners know, one of our hosts is moving across the country, and our production schedule has been disrupted. To ease the transition, this week's Supercontext is a shortened, totally subjective chat about what media we have been consuming and enjoying. If anything caught your interest, please consider buying through our Amazon links below to support the show! PROSE After The People Lights Have Gone Off The Ones That Got Away Steering the Craft My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs Commonwealth COMICS Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier (The Man On The Wall) AUDIO Mothership Connection Maggot Brain Cluster & Eno Jericho Sirens The Binge Mode podcast TV Taboo Peaky Blinders Longmire Hard Sun Puffin Rock MOVIES They Remain Coco Charlotte's Web Moana

This 2017 film, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is trying to be a respectful crime drama set on a Native American reservation. We discuss Sheridan's mission and choices, as well as the criticism and praise it received for its depiction. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Wind River Skinwalkers Stephen Graham Jones Longmire Additional Resources: Wind River Is an Overwritten Mystery-Thriller With a Crazily Powerful Ending The Moody, Mixed Messages of Wind River The Truth Behind This Year's Most Shocking Film, Wind River 'Wind River': Taylor Sheridan on Why He Needed to Make This Modern Western Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"' What's So Hard About Casting Indian Actors in Indian Roles? Movie Review: Taylor Sheridan's 'Wind River' is Gripping, Realistic and Beautifully-Crafted Three Billboards, Wind River and Hollywood's Representation Problem Why do white writers keep making films about Indian Country? Sundance: Weinstein Company to No Longer Distribute Jeremy Renner's 'Wind River' Weinstein Name Stripped From 'Wind River'; Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Financiers To Pay For Oscar Campaign Taylor Sheridan Got the Weinstein Company Scrubbed From Wind River With an Ultimatum Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation

Jen Kirkman is a prolific comedian, known for her acerbic, dry wit. We look at her 2015 Netflix special and wonder what it says about mainstream lifestyles and life after forty. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine) The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Nikki Glaser Morgan Murphy April Richardson Michelle Wolff Additional Resources: Jen Kirkman responds to Louis C.K. allegations: He's 'no longer' a friend Jen Kirkman sets the record straight on Louis CK and those sexual misconduct rumors Jen Kirkman on Election-Night Anxiety, Touring as a Woman, and Dealing With Rumors Jen Kirkman: 'Joan Rivers was my comedy mother' Jen Kirkman Talks Trump, Mental Health, and Overthinking Comedy Jen Kirkman on feminism, Hallmark Christmas movies and — yes — Louis C.K. In her first Netflix special, Jen Kirkman airs her grievances on a world gone dumb Jen Kirkman Finds Material in the Single Life in 'I'm Gonna Die Alone' I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine): An Interview with Jen Kirkman How Morrissey's Moping and the Bee Gees' Style Inspired Jen Kirkman's Standup Special

This graphic novel, by one of the elder statesmen of comics, pushed the medium into new formats, genres and methods of distribution. We discuss how Eisner used a very personal tragedy to create it, as well as its unique representation of Jewish American identity. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: A Contract With God The Spirit Comics and Sequential Art Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative Hubert Selby, Jr. Additional Resources: Eisner's A Contract with God Is the First Graphic Novel. By: Plummer, Marguerite R., Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2013 The 'God' father THE ANATOMY OF EXPRESSION: WILL EISNER AND 'A CONTRACT WITH GOD' Scott McCloud's Introduction to Will Eisner's A Contract With God — the Centennial Edition Royal, D. P. (2011). Sequential Sketches of Ethnic Identity: Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" as Graphic Cycle. College Literature, 38(3), 150-167.

This animated adult comedy from Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon is on a mission to violate boundaries, while indulging in themes of nihilism and toxicity. We discuss how it's written and animated, along with its representation of women and its non-unionized production team. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Rick and Morty Community Ren and Stimpy The Auteur Stella Children's Hospital T. C. Boyle Stories Additional Resources: Social Commentary in "Rick and Morty" Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland talk bringing absurd to 'Rick and Morty' Talking to Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland About Their New Adult Swim Show, 'Rick and Morty' 'Rick And Morty' Is Better When It Embraces Its Strong Women 'Rick and Morty' Creators: How Hiring Female Writers Made Season 3 the Best Yet Rick and Morty co-creator addresses toxicity among fanbase Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland on Rick and Morty, How Community Is Like Star Trek, and Puberty