Assault Of The 2-Headed Space Mules!

Assault Of The 2-Headed Space Mules! is a fringe pop-culture comedy show with the patience of a collector and the habits of a relaxed interview program. Its center of gravity is cult material: indie comics, old horror, strange records, genre fiction, and the creative lives orbiting them. Douglas Arthur often begins with a compact introduction, setting up a guest, a book, an album, or a pulp story before stepping back. The conversations then move at an easy pace. A 100th episode with Ken Reid becomes a memory lane tour of black-and-white indie comics, Mad, Heavy Metal, Creepy, Eerie, Cracked, and the smaller pre-superstar world of comic artists. An interview with Mike Spring turns into a practical discussion of writing comics, trusting an artist, page rhythm, humor, and scripting more like film. Music episodes have the same hands-on feel. Wall of Voodoo’s Call of the West is discussed through drum machines, character songs, blue-collar tension, and the odd history of a rhythm box connected to Dawes Butler. The show also makes room for literary performance. Its Halloween reading of Robert E. Howard’s Dig Me No Grave leans into old pulp dread, ancient gods, deathbed instructions, and madness-tinged horror. Not everything is genre excavation. A conversation with Melissa Braverman uses dating stories, awkward manners, and city life as comic social material. Jeff Hickmott appears as a familiar Gooch Squad presence, tied to music radio and podcast talk. Around the edges, the show keeps its own mythology alive with mock emergency intros, oddball sponsorship bits, storefront mentions, and joking sign-offs. The humor is scrappy and personal. The strongest moments come when fan memory meets maker logistics: how a comic gets drawn, how a campaign works, how a record tells a story, how a childhood encounter with an artist can stick. It is not a clean survey course. It is more like sitting near a knowledgeable fan who has kept the boxes, the back issues, and the weird albums, and still wants to know how they were made. That looseness is part of the identity. The show rewards curiosity more than completionism, especially when the subject is just outside the mainstream spotlight.