How Did This Get Made?

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Paul Scheer

The speaker mentioned that people were still ordering autographed hardcovers and paperbacks of this book, which is about the speaker's childhood. Orders could be placed through the speaker's website, which also helped support Chevalier's bookstore in Los Angeles.

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I want to say thank you to everybody who is still getting autographed books, uh, hardcovers and paperbacks of Joyful Recollections of Trauma. You can always just go right to my website and order the books right there.

Astro City Metrobook Vol. 1

Kurt Busiek

The book was highly recommended as a beautifully told, long-running comic that focuses on the people living in a city full of superheroes, not just the heroes themselves. The art, particularly the covers by Alex Ross, was noted as gorgeous.

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It is so big. It's such you could do so many elements of it. You could do elements of Astro City, you know, because Astro City. Astro. I mean, if people haven't read the Kurt Busiek book Astro City, there's many, many, many volumes of it.

Represent

June Diane Raphael

June Diane Raphael's book was highly recommended; listeners were encouraged to buy it for women they know who should run for office, or for themselves.

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And if you have not picked up June's book, go and get it. It's called Represent, A Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World. It is fantastic. Give it to a woman in your life who you think should run for office. Or if you are that woman, pick up the book.

The Hunter

Richard Stark

The series was mentioned as an example of the best prose to comics adaptation, comparable to Marvel's Oz adaptations.

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They rank with Darwin Cook's Parker series as the best prose to comics adaptation ever published.

Paper Girls

Brian K. Vaughan

Jason Mantzoukas highly recommended the Amazon Prime series, which is based on the comic book by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chang. He mentioned that he appears as a bad guy in it.

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I cannot recommend highly enough the Amazon Prime series Paper Girls.

Communion

Whitley Strieber

The podcast discussed Whitley Strieber's book, Communion, which details his alleged alien encounters. The book was mentioned as the basis for the movie of the same name and the author's views on the film adaptation were discussed.

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Based on a true story Written by the man who had the encounter

The Running Man

Stephen King

Paul Scheer mentioned recently finishing Stephen King's "The Running Man", noting it was a full book, unlike his initial impression, and expressing his enjoyment.

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Was the running man, the original Stephen King.

Cocaine and Rhinestones

Tyler Mahan Coe

The book "Cocaine and Rhinestones" was mentioned as something the speaker enjoyed recently.

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I'll shout out cocaine and rhinestones.

Davy and the Goblin

Charles E. Carryl

This book was mentioned as the title of a book read by Grandpa Seth to Joshua in the movie; the book's content was not discussed further.

Vegetables Illustrated

America's Test Kitchen

A children's book about cooking vegetables was mentioned as the title of the book the father in the movie was reading; it was noted for its flip-book format and suggested to have contributed to the father's sleepiness.

Save the Cat!

Blake Snyder

The podcast hosts discussed the "Save the Cat" book and its concept of a protagonist's "save the cat moment", using the film 'Swordfish' as an example. They debated whether the scene where Hugh Jackman pushes Halle Berry was intended as this moment.

Beautiful Disaster

Jamie McGuire

The podcast discussed the movie "Beautiful Wedding," a sequel to a movie based on the first book of McGuire's "Beautiful" series. The first movie was described as a "rom-com fight club."