Hunter Ready to Write

TOPIC: Creative Costumes vs. Pushing Out Product

This week Dan and Merlin talk about how the legends and mythologies around creative people and beautiful losers can become such a destructive MacGuffin for us aspiring civilians.

Getting gakked out on Hunter S. Thompson's cocaine and buying Sylvia Plath's oven are unlikely to take you anyplace useful, interesting, or…creative.

Also: "BRIANMICHAELBENDIS!"

Links for this episode:

• List of Spider-Man Comics in Order to Amazing Spider-Man #700
  
• Template 1.2.0 · neocotic
  
• Daredevil Visionaries - Frank Miller, Vol. 2: Frank Miller: 9780785107712: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Nerdist Podcast: Warren Ellis « Nerdist
  
• Spider-Man Read Order
  
• [SPONSOR] Shutterstock
  
• [SPONSOR] Frank & Oak
  
• How to Start Reading Avengers Comics!
  
• Amazon.com: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human (9780812981384): Grant Morrison: Books
  
• Marvels: Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross: 9780785142867: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Spider-Man: Big Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Amazon.com: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human (9780812981384): Grant Morrison: Books
  
• Marvels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Twitter / ewanmorgan: A day in the life of Hunter ...
  
• Phil Noto - THUNDERBOLTS  This is the first image I drew of...
  
• The 1940s were super-weird. | kung fu grippe
  
• “Ha! Ha! Ha!” From Wonder Woman #6 (1943) I’ll... | kung fu grippe
  
• Warren Ellis on "writer's block"
  
• Twitter / ewanmorgan: A day in the life of Hunter ...
  
• Captain Marvel, Vol. 8 #1A in merlinmann's Comic Collector Connect collection
  
• The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2 #669G - Spider-Island - Part Three: Arachnotopia in merlinmann's Comic Collector Connect collection
  
• Ask • The Smiths - YouTube
  
• Norman Osborn's Hair
  
• Spider-Man: Big Time Ultimate Collection: Dan Slott, Humberto Ramos: 9780785162179: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Liz Hurley: Beauty and the beasts - Celeb News, Independent Woman - Independent.ie
  
• Warren Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Warren Ellis bibliography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Wire - Season One Opening Scene - YouTube
  
• Conversion disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Fugue state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) - IMDb
  
• William Faulkner: Trouble in Oxford
  
• Top 15 Great Alcoholic Writers - Listverse
  
• Buzz Bissinger: I Was Deluded to Believe Lance Armstrong When He Denied Doping - The Daily Beast
  
• Black Cat (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Kelly Sue DeConnick
  
• Warren Ellis
  
• .mattfraction
  
• J I N X W O R L D | The Official Site for Brian Michael Bendis
  
• Dominic West - IMDb
  
• Pandora One - Listen to Pandora with No Ads, Higher Quality Audio, and More
  
• Humberto Ramos Official Site
  
• MailChimp Annual Report
  
• Walt Simonson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Mighty Thor, Vol. 1, #348 (Oct. 1984) Okay,... | kung fu grippe
  
• [Brown-Haired Rapunzel Sampler]
  
• Tangled (2010) - IMDb
  
• [Rapunzel with awesome, short, choppy brown hair]
  
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - IMDb
  
• Dan Slott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Grant Morrison
  
• Grammar Girl : Ampersand :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™
  
• kung fu grippe - Current Back to Work lock screens
  
• Seven Inches of Bendis (Detail) [per] | kung fu grippe
  
• Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ladies. What? I needed a long-sleeved shirt.... | kung fu grippe
  

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