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Welcome!

Best Issue Ever is a podcast about comics. This series is for talking about issues we love. You can get lots of new recommendations from this pod while hearing some of your favorite creators talk about why comics are awesome. Win-win!

If you would like to support the podcast, the best way to do that is to subscribe directly through the Ko-fi, where you will get a lot of extra episodes and some updates to the behind-the-scenes of creating the podcast.

This is far from Sara's first foray into podcasts! She co-founded QueerSpec Publishing, which released the Decoded Pride speculative fiction anthology three years in a row. She helms the narrative horror podcasts Decoded Horror Channel and Medusa Mask. She is a co-host of the Bitches On Comics pop culture podcast. She has written MANY articles - you can look up links to her work on her website.

Sara is a horror writer, so you can pick up any number of her books through her Amazon author page. If you'd prefer to avoid Amazon and directly support small publishers (this helps small presses thrive so thank you if so), she has appeared in multiple releases you can buy directly from Weirdpunk Books. This includes her short story collection A Small Light & Other Stories, as well as great Weirdpunk anthologies like The New Flesh and Feral Architecture. Some Weirdpunk authors will be appearing on this podcast, so definitely check them out.

Finally, the best way to get updates from Sara is through her newsletter! She sends it out a few times a year and it's packed with random projects and pet anecdotes.

If you have questions or comments, send to deepdreamspodcast@gmail.com.

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A short statement on why I pulled Episode 44. Here are the articles referenced in the announcement:

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/buddhist-teacher-quit-shambhala-in-protest-before-his-own-sexual-misconduct-allegation-went-public-c7b85ceb36e2/

https://shambhala.report/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WOVEN-Leaving-Shambhala-%E2%80%93-ENTROPY.pdf

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A short statement on why I pulled Episode 44. Here are the articles referenced in the announcement:

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/buddhist-teacher-quit-shambhala-in-protest-before-his-own-sexual-misconduct-allegation-went-public-c7b85ceb36e2/

https://shambhala.report/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WOVEN-Leaving-Shambhala-%E2%80%93-ENTROPY.pdf