Episode 173 – City of Glass

The Comics Canon

Content warning: Suicide, mental illness and explicit language (one F-word).

Film noir and hardboiled crime fiction get refracted through a postmodern lens in Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass! A mysterious late-night phone call leads mystery novelist Daniel Quinn to assume the identity of private detective Paul Auster and investigate a case whose bizarre patterns and revelations cause Quinn to confront unanswerable questions about the nature of existence itself! Can Quinn hold onto his sanity and find refuge in that Naked City known as ... The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

• Understanding Comics
• An homage to Watchmen
• Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book
• Double Indemnity
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Book of Illusions
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Join us in two weeks as switch gears with a vengeance, careening headlong into Bone Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race!

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