No reboot, just evolution: Matthew Rosenberg on Spawn and 'If Destruction Be Our Lot'

About this episode

Matthew Rosenberg discusses his creator-owned book 'If Destruction Be Our Lot' and its themes of connection and purpose amidst a post-human world.

On this week’s AIPT Comics Podcast, we’re joined by Matthew Rosenberg to talk about one of the most ambitious creator-owned books on the horizon: If Destruction Be Our Lot. For a story about the end of humanity, this one is surprisingly full of life. We dig into how the series came together, from its strange and instantly compelling premise of a robotic Abraham Lincoln wandering a post-human world, to the deeper themes driving it. Rosenberg opens up about how the book grew out of his own creative evolution, how it responds to the current moment for artists, and why this isn’t a bleak dystopia so much as a story about connection, purpose, and trying to find meaning when the system no longer makes sense. Of course, we also talk Spawn and what it means to step into that world, but the heart of this conversation is If Destruction Be Our Lot and why it might be Rosenberg’s most personal and layered work yet.

People in this episode

Guest: Matthew Rosenberg

Topics covered

• If Destruction Be Our Lot
• Matthew Rosenberg
• Spawn
• creator-owned books
• post-human world
• artistic evolution
• connection
• purpose

Keywords

• end of humanity
• robotic Abraham Lincoln
• dystopia
• artistic response

Mentioned in this episode

Products: If Destruction Be Our Lot

Books & works: Spawn, If Destruction Be Our Lot

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