We talked about the movie Predator 2 earlier this week and the novelization by Simon Hawke came up a few times. To dig deeper into that, Pax is graciously allowing us to re-run the episode of I Read Movies where he explored the book and compared it to the movie.

Pax, Michael, and Rob continue their exploration of the Predator movies with Stephen Hopkins's Predator 2. Set 10 years after the first movie - and during another heatwave - a group of Predators come to Los Angeles to hunt drug gangs and maybe a maverick cop or four.

Jess and Michael talk about a novel by some guy named Richard Bachman. (*whisper* It's really Stephen King!) We're walking long this episode, but do we know why?

Having officially dubbed ourselves the After Lunch Irregulars, Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about another Sherlock Holmes movie. This one is Herbert Ross's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, written by Nicholas Meyer, starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Watson, and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud.

As Jess and Michael continue to explore Stephen King novels this year, they discuss one of their favorite of his books, The Shining.

Michael, Pax, and Rob finish this month's lounge talking about chocolate, Groundhog Day theories, writing, The Bride!, a new job, and Dark Horse Indiana Jones comics.

Expanding on our Spaceships Sweet 16 from Episode 398, we've temporarily narrowed the focus to the biggest vessels. Michael and Rob welcome sci-fi comics writer Corinna Bechko and fan extraordinaire Siskoid to help determine the greatest Large Spaceship of All Time. Future episodes will concentrate on Medium and Small ships, leading to the Ultimate match up where we'll pit our Final Fours from each size category against each other.

Michael, Pax, and Rob are back in the lounge a little early this month talking about Silver Age Etta Candy, Scream 7, Tom Selleck's memoir, how Les Misérables plays in 2026 Minneapolis, The Will of the Many by James Islington, and Tom Selleck movies.