Poo-tee-weet! In the year 2031, Renren Galeno feels herself slipping back in time to that one cool evening when she introduced Yan and Nat to the graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", by Ryan North and Albert Monteys.

Things go exactly how they always do. Yan considers buying a chicken. Nat sings the Pipeline Song in a funny voice. This episode airs. You listen to it on the train home. You have your dinner. Then one cool evening, you pick up a pencil and start to draw.

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In this episode, Yan and Nat read the whole graphic novel.

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00:00 - Welcome to the show, Renren!

06:43 - 'Rant-ren' Galeno: Adapt the Things You Cannot Change

12:58 - Yan Recaps "Slaughterhouse-Five"

13:59 - Discussion

49:55 - Yan's Final Questions

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Renren Galeno is a visual artist from Davao City, Philippines. Her debut graphic novel "Sa Wala" won the Philippine National Book Award for Comics in English, and has been translated into multiple languages. She also illustrated the 2024 Pulitzer-nominated Searching for Maura for the Washington Post.

Buy Sa Wala in the United States, Philippines, or Germany. Read Renren's short comics for free on komiks.space. Follow her on Instagram and Bluesky.

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