And so it came to pass that Episode 14 is an episode with a man from the very heart of my own pop-culture existence: Mr Shannon Wheeler - cartoonist extraordinaire and creator of the most anti-hero of all anti-heroes in the shape of Too Much Coffee Man.

It’s entirely possible that you’ve never heard of Too Much Coffee Man - and I'm here to tell you, you really missed out - it was after all the underground of the underground but for a brief period in the mid nineties - which is when music started to suck but all of the things that satellite around it where better than ever - TMCM was a real find. Damn these comics were hard to find in the UK but somehow, much like all those banned movies we weren’t supposed to see and the Japanese album releases with different tracks on board, there was always a way.

Anyway, in this episode we discuss - amongst other things - shooting comics with guns, the Black Panthers, the cult leader Jim Jones, indie publishing, photocopiers and the harrowing story of the kid with a micro-penis. Yep - you read that correctly.

You can find Shannon's website here, his substack here and his Etsy store here where you can grab yourself a pdf version of the first nine issues of Too Much Coffee Man for less than £10. If you want to find him on social media, you'll have to find those yourself.

Oh... and Starfish got itself a new theme tune. Things are looking up!