323. Everything Suddenly, All At Once (2025 Year in Review in Review)

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Gregory reveals how a friend's sudden death reshaped his approach to creative work and personal connections.

It starts as a bit. The host treats the year-end episode like a knowingly overdone finale, with sponsor-style callbacks and the familiar civic summons to Super Pulp Science. Then the joke gives way to the question that actually matters in the room. Lennon Rechanga answers both ways, Justin Curry says he crushed it, and Jonathan Ball kicks the winner-or-failure frame all the way into 2027. Fair enough. The episode keeps circling the awkward math of a creative year: work done, energy spent, family in the background, and publication schedules that never behave as neatly as the plan. Nobody sounds fully convinced by their own answer, which is part of the charm. A riff about being younger turns sharper than expected. In your twenties, someone asks too much and you just stay up until three and do it. Then age shows up with its clipboard. Time still exists, but it comes with fatigue now. The mood gets quiet when a daughter turning 26 makes the speaker feel oddly closer to his old self and farther from it at the same time. So the takeaway shifts. Vital force is still there, but it needs protection. Focus helps. So does a little pessimism, if it keeps the calendar honest. Then Blood Letters complicates the lesson by arriving early. The publisher had a window, the book was close enough, and suddenly later became now. The rush somehow still felt like plenty of time, which says a lot about how creative deadlines feel from inside the machine. By the end, the sentiment is earned. The host thanks the dear listener for the letters, support, and presence that make this annual check-in feel shared, not staged.

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A reflective year-end comics conversation about creative limits, ambition, and wins arriving early.

Superpulp Science turns its year-end ritual into a thoughtful accounting of creative life: who gets to call 2025 a win, what failure can still teach, and how time changes the shape of ambition.

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