*Youth Group* is Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's new and delightful graphic novel from Firstsecond. It's a charming tale of 1990s ennui, cringe Sunday School - and demon hunting.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250789235/youthgroup
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This is set in the 1990s, and the word "cringe" hasn't yet entered our lexicon as an adjective, but *boy* is the youth group *cringe*.
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As the nature of the new demonic incursion becomes clearer, it falls on Kay and her pals to overcome these sectarian divisions over the protests of their guitar-strumming, magic-wielding leader.
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr
Morris is also half of Jordan, Jesse Go!, the long-running podcast where he and Jesse Thorn do a weekly ha-ha-only-serious goofball schtick that never fails to smuggle in really clever and insightful ideas amidst the poop jokes.
https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/jordan-jesse-go/
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