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Time Codes: 00:00:30 - Introduction 00:02:34 - Our table at HeroesCon! 00:04:42 - Nothing Lasts Forever 00:30:37 - What Is a Glacier? 00:43:50 - Revenger and the Fog 01:04:30 - Wrap up 01:05:37 - Contact us This week the Two Guys with PhDs review three recent releases, two of which are autobiographical in nature. They begin with Sina Grace's Nothing Lasts Forever (Image Comics). This follows a couple of other autobiographical works from Grace including Not My Bag (2012) and Self-Obsessed (2015), but this latest work has a looser feel to it. Written in diary form when the author was suffering from a rare esophageal condition, the book reveals Grace's struggles with his health, his romantic/sexual relationships, and his art. Indeed, as both Andy and Derek point out, it's his emphasis on the latter, along with the pencil art, that makes this such an intimate text. Next, the guys turn to What Is a Glacier?, a short autobiographical piece from Sophie Yanow (Retrofit/Big Planet Comics). In this wor