As the sweltering purple sun rises over the old ruins, the comics in Yan and Nat's hands shrivel away and crumble to dust. With no food, no water, and nothing to read for today's episode, the end seems nigh for our brave adventurers, until… look! With a mighty cry, comic critic ML Kejera soars in on a biometallic pterodactyl holding aloft a glowing tome — "Arzach" by Mœbius!

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In this episode, Yan and Nat read the four original issues of Arzach.

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00:00 - Welcome to the show, ML!

06:41 - Unhinged 'Keje-rant': To Dream, Perchance to Draw

29:31 - Discussion — Issue #1

33:20 - Discussion — Issue #3

36:23 - Discussion — Issue #2

42:54 - Discussion — Issue #4

52:26 - Sharing of Dream Journals

55:32 - ML's Final Questions

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ML Kejera is a Gambian writer and comics critic currently based in Illinois. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and awarded a Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. He used to review comics for the AV Club, and both wrote and edited for the Eisner-winning journal of comics criticism, PanelxPanel.

ML has work published or forthcoming in The Nation, LA Review of Books Quarterly, The Comics Journal, Wasafiri, and the Cafe Irreal. Follow ML on Bluesky and Instagram, or email him at mlaminkejera [at] gmail [dot] com.

Comic Sans is an Andas Productions podcast hosted by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah, produced by Scott Lee Chua and Roshan Singh Sambhi. Edited by Maddy Searle (audio) and Kit Ling Leong (video). Cover art and motion graphics animation by Knikni Studio (Maryana Rudakova).

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