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Xtinction Agenda

373 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Post apocalyptic introspection, looking at pictures. And pictures that sometimes move. Grant Morrison. 90s Image, Doug Moench. Junji Ito. Old Vertigo Stuff. Avatar Press. We take the piss out of the things those other people enjoy. And enjoy what is only ours. You and we, dear listener. We drink the same water and share the same soul, don't we? DON'T WE?

You like Terminator? Takashi Miike? Sniper? Fight Club?

Do you like to criticize capital while engaging in enthusiastic consumption?

We got your medicine.

Best there is at what we do. Weekly.

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Episodes

Rambo

May 11, 2024 01:17 - 55 minutes - 29.6 MB

Bore of a gun wide fires metal through bone and flesh, leaving hanging bits of red and white. Down in the green they die. Or in the mud. He does this so that John can go up close and pull Sarah to the safety of the pathway home. Away from this bitter war. Toward peace and the valley. "That we're like animals! It's in the blood! It's natural! Peace? That's an accident! It's what is!"

On Carnage

May 04, 2024 00:38 - 49 minutes - 26.3 MB

Splatters of black, flowing and bubbling over rich red, floating islands where the only law is all against all. We have to keep this from getting out. Razor edge filaments tendril 'round wrists, slithering upwards and under your eyes into your mind. We have to keep this from getting in.  Contain it before it contaminates us. Contain it, if we can. "I'm chaos Mistah Kurtz, chaos--and the rest of the world won't admit that it's just like me."

Ed Piskor - X-Men: Grand Design

April 27, 2024 13:44 - 1 hour - 44 MB

Panels beckoned him, Black boarders of potential, Now blank, silent, white. Ed Piskor (1982-2024) "You're all familiar with the Z'nox scenario?"

Dennis O'Neil - Justice League of America #73-74

April 20, 2024 12:57 - 47 minutes - 25.6 MB

Dollarama is the source of all cheap comics. But Dollarama is primarily owned by Bain Capital. So is it that Mitt Romney put Crisis on Multiple Earths Volume 2 in our hands? Do we have the Republican establishment to thank for bringing Dennis O'Neil deeper into our lives? Would that establishment take kindly to the message broadcast through these weird tales of sublimated sexual confusion and desire? No one can answer these questions. We know only the bounty of Dollarama and give thanks to B...

Mike White - The White Lotus: Season 2

April 13, 2024 14:13 - 1 hour - 36 MB

What pleasure is there in waging war against the world's evils? Indeed, what pleasure is there to be found in pleasure itself? We stand impatiently or we strive, waiting for the moment of elation, hopeful that this time, just this one time, time will simultaneously cease and last forever. The high without the low. Or, even better, without the medium in between, where life is without passion. Doctors say it is good for us to drain the sack daily. Let life be the judge of that. "You spend ...

Rambo 3

April 06, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour - 36.2 MB

Rambo won. There isn't anything more to say, is there? Rambo won. Single handed, he symbolized the fall of the communist bloc and the end of history. But, if this is so (and it is), what follows? Does it follow that Rambo is also the spectre that skewered the New Deal order? That Rambo crept into the administrations of Bill Clinton and Dubyah? That Rambo was the force pushing social services away from a 'kremlin mentality' towards the so-called free market? Yes. Rambo won and we all lost. ...

On Gambit

March 29, 2024 13:56 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB

The teef be lookin' to steal somethin' sweet, mon cher. A soft kiss or golden portrait. Nothin' compare to your beauty 'do. You be the sweetest 'ting Gambit ever see.  Perhaps you discuss with Gambit over candle light? And silk sheets... Next week: Rambo III

John Byrne - Fantastic Four

March 23, 2024 01:45 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB

Doom resurrects the fallen herald of an alien god, setting him loose upon his enemies, the Curious Quartet! Wait, that isn't right... Let's try that again. ...his enemies, the Heroic Household!  Wait, that isn't it either... Hold on, it'll come to me in a minute.... "How else can I plead but... guilty!"

Jonathan Glazer - Birth (2004)

March 15, 2024 16:39 - 1 hour - 27.8 MB

Before the fantastic arrives like a bird on our shoulder, the world is all matter and atoms and coincidence. But then the little bird sings to us in that space between the uncanny and the marvelous, a sweet song of 'what if?' and 'just maybe'. And we doubt. Anna learned this one day, years after the death of her beloved Sean, when a copy of him emerged from the dead, seemingly intact, tantalizingly incomplete. She says that she was not responsible for what then occurred. Couple audio gli...

Mark Millar - Civil War

March 08, 2024 15:49 - 1 hour - 25.3 MB

These atomic powers and super suits are like guns, maaaan. And those super science types, they're, like, working for the government, dude. So we gotta stop them from taking our powers and make sure that we're free to save lives and serve justice, you know what I mean? They take our powers from us and we're lookin' down the barrel of a freakin' police state! I mean, whose side are you even on?! "Somebody said we should go on strike if they mess with us like this. Does anybody else think tha...

Ed Brubaker - Captain America: The Winter Soldier

February 29, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB

History is the nightmare from which we cannot awake. That's what they say, anyway. For Captain America, these words are twice as true. He is a dream born of nightmare. Living in the world of here, he remains there, serving the kingdom as a paladin in a world of dark illusions. History is a long told lie in which truth struggles to be born. Luckily there is a soldier out there guiding us to freedom. "Keep your satisfaction to yourself, sadist."

Rambo: First Blood Part II

February 24, 2024 13:53 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB

Cut free from the oppressive straps of hypocrisy and cowardice. Technology will not keep you safe. Not in the jungle. You can't trust anyone out there in the jungle. To survive the jungle you must become the jungle, become the creeping vines and the mud walls and swallow up your enemies. Ideology is the enemy of truth. And truth can only be found in the mind.  "You may scream. There is no shame."

Kihachi Okamoto - The Sword of Doom

February 17, 2024 01:30 - 1 hour - 27.2 MB

Come on in, we have no tea. You are in the house of an evil mind now, a theatre of misery, cruelty, and violence. The sword style of this house is empty. Nothing can defeat it because it isn't really there. We stand among the unfurnished interiors, all design, no content. Remember that this is the point. The emptiness is the depth. Remember and disappear. "Don't think about winning or surviving. Be prepared to die. Risk everything, and you might have a chance."

X-Men: X-Cutioner's Song

February 11, 2024 01:06 - 1 hour - 24.8 MB

The man in the wheelchair is shot by a pervert kidnapper. He lay poisoned by the future. Later, when the threads of then and now entwine and leave the present seemingly tied, the student will show that the open hand can injure just as well as the closed fist. Is this why the big guy up there won't cut him some slack?  All we can say with certainty is that a baleful song haunts the valley of death. We'd better look after that cough. "Why has Apocalypse been awakened in an unfinished state...

J Michael Straczynski - Captain America #1-5

February 03, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 14.7 MB

Born of destitution and sickness, he arises from the cold womb, from ice as hard as the grave of his long lost mother. This is Captain America. Living between two worlds - worlds of war and inequality; for him, every period is an ever present now. He's seen it all. He's seen it all and continues to stand, a sentinel of liberty, fighting so that no one else need ever be born from ice. "Got your master race right here, pal!"

Michael Mann - Thief / Manhunter

January 28, 2024 14:08 - 1 hour - 24.4 MB

No browns or reds allowed on set. Tonight, we are in Michael Mann territory. We are at the intersection of music videos, gangster movies, and critical literature. We are in the swirling, pastel vortex of Hollywood becoming. If one does what Michael Mann does enough times, one will become as Michael Mann is. "Did it ever occur to you, to try to work for a living? Take down your own scores?"

Art Spiegelman - Maus

January 12, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour - 22.5 MB

In what way did humanity persist within the camps? In what way after? What lessons are to be learned? Why did we ever do this? And why does it seem so likely that we one day will again? It's a bundle of laughs over at the Xtinction Agenda this week. Transform yourself into an anthropomorphized animal nationality and pull up a seat. Today, Vladek will tell us his story. "I've just gotta write this conversation down before I forget it!"

Peter Milligan / Mike Allred - X-Cellent

January 05, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes - 19.2 MB

For their image to be carried swiftly around the globe, many have paid a terrible price and many will again. Dignity, privacy, humanity, everything for sale just so long as a person in line at the grocery store knows their name.  Fame and celebrity name a ritual act, a sacrifice. They are the keys to the kingdom, a means of ascension. But also a gateway to omnipotent madness. "For someone who calls himself Mr. Sensitive, that was totally tactless."

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

December 29, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 21.8 MB

 “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Strikes Again

December 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 22.7 MB

Tyranny is a collage of small, empty voices, false faces that talk and talk and talk, responding constantly to each other but never saying anything, never standing for anything, never seeing. Blind perspectives and holographic authority, these are the servants of the secret rulers, the fat men and horrors. We live in the world they created.  Who will save us from this? What force can wrench us free? And where do they get such wonderful toys...? "Babes? Hey. I do babes."

Rambo: First Blood

December 18, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour - 22.4 MB

He brought the war back home to them, back to all those sweaty little men who got their kicks from telling Leroy to sling that paint, boy. He brought a war like they wouldn't have believed. And the world watched. They watched when at first there were lies and then again when only the awful truth remained. They watched the colonel bring the war hero to justice, closing the loop, sealing the wound so that it could be once again forgotten. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off...

Batman / Judge Dredd

December 08, 2023 12:48 - 57 minutes - 19.5 MB

Justice before the dark mirror is not anti-justice. It is death and insanity. And every principle of goodness requires a strong man. Or, in this instance, two strong men. And a telepathic woman. Persons willing to get their hands dirty in order to set things right, to battle death and enclose madness, to save the hedonists from themselves.  "Let the dead fluidsss flow!"

Garth Ennis - Punisher MAX #1-12

December 01, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 24.9 MB

The Devil whispered into the young Captain's ear, "I just want you to think big, Frank, for Christ’s sake!" The young Captain, overrun, turned his mind to the hunger inside him and to the vision set before his eyes and he said 'yes'. He thought as big and wide as one could manage and then grabbed the sixty. It was time to finish them. All of them. Every god damned last one of them. "Not every day you meet your polar opposite."

Mike Baron - The Punisher Vol. 2 #10-11

November 25, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 20.1 MB

People are creeps. Just a bunch of creeps crawling around with their tongues out licking the ground for food. Frank knows this. He hunts for the biggest creep he can find and gives him what for. Tries to anyway. The man in red, overcoming the barrel roll, carries the creep off to justice. In response, Frank does drugs in Mexico. "I'll need my uzi to handle this mob."

Jason Aaron - The Punisher

November 24, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 5.14 MB

Put on The National. We are sad dads. Sad dads who cannot be glad. Who cannot be glad about being dads.  It's dark, bro. Give us a day or two to post a new episode. Please. 24 hours. Something. Just put the gun down. We are doing it for Maria and the kids.

Tournament of Hacks 2023

November 17, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 38 MB

Even if the improvisation of serialized fiction is eternal, nothing stays the same. All is change. The mainstream comics world has new blood, writers who have entered the scene since 2017. We decided to find out who they were and then pit them against each other. We wanted blood. And we got blood. A river of it.  Gerry Duggan vs. Tini Howard, Kelly/Lanzing vs. Tom Taylor, Kelly Thompson vs. Saladin Ahmed, Steve Orlando vs. Philip Kennedy Johnson, Zeb Wells vs. Jed MacKay, Leah Williams vs....

Grant Morrison - JLA #8-9

November 10, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes - 18.8 MB

Reality is bending. If we wake up, it breaks. Or does it? Does it matter if The Key finally slides into The Lock? Or has it already happened? Would we know the difference if a drug addled, megalomaniacal lunatic merged with the fabric of being itself?  The punch is spiked, the phone is back on the hook, and we are spinning wildly three years into the past. Tie us up before we cause too much harm. It's showtime! "Wreck it completely!"

Let The Right One In (2008)

October 31, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 14.8 MB

She's been twelve for a long time, under the care of her own inept Renfield. Now she is alone. Meanwhile, he's been building his quiet rage, preparing himself for the pleasures of murder. Outcasts both, they find each other, tapping kisses into the pine.  Twenty five years earlier, Tony Scott makes an extended music video. Somehow these are both vampire movies. Find out why! [Sarah smiles, shakes her head, and then spills wine on her top]

Nightcrawler (2014)

October 27, 2023 09:00 - 53 minutes - 18.4 MB

This one goes out to Swedish Noble, Jake Gyllenhaal. The Swifties done did him dirty. Like, maybe he was a mean boyfriend to Taylor Swift at the tender age of twenty. Maybe he didn't hold her hand at that party. So what? GROW UP. Jake is a phenom who will not be stopped by some clingy, stupid little girl. He's got movies to make. Movies like Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler. Movies that expose America for what it is. Not like you, Taylor, not like you at all.  #teamjake #erastoursux #alltoowell #...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

October 20, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 21.4 MB

There is nothing better than sport, is there? Sport and school dances. Those transformative rituals that are the true magic of life. Press-ganged into prison-like enclosures, we battle each other and face our fears. We learn to 'grow up'. Sometimes we even grow up to be important. And, in rare instances, we grow up to be something more than important. Sometimes we grow up to be a hero, a lightning-scarred hero destined to battle the ultimate evil. So let's hear it, shall we? Three cheers f...

Stormwatch: Team Achilles (2002)

October 13, 2023 09:00 - 52 minutes - 18.2 MB

One adolescent male power fantasy seeks to put the other in its place. John Wayne ain't dead and Russia is on the move. Nothing changes.  Come see what people through was cool in a post 9/11 environment. It's woodcuts as far as the eye can see. "The idiot. As if I would turn back from the one military act which will unite Russia's voters behind me once and for all."

Chip Zdarsky - Daredevil (2019)

October 06, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 23.7 MB

God stole the sight of a boy. And in the pews, the boy leaned into hate. But then, through alchemy unknown, God became man. And the hatred followed. The self-hatred. The pain. The loss of direction. Chip, who stands before us like Virgil, leads us along the path the devil trod to return to God. Strangely, he wears a Spider-Man costume. And it kinda works. "I use violence, but also compassion."

Total Recall (1990)

September 29, 2023 11:40 - 1 hour - 21.3 MB

We all go to the brain butchers from time to time. There is no harm. A pleasant memory, a map instead of terrain. Scalpel incision replacing lost luggage and delayed flights. Dig deep, dig deep dear brain butchers and sing us to sleep with a pretty dream. Give us all what we can never have. "A man is defined by his actions, not his memory."

Doug Moench/Paul Gulacy - Six from Sirius

September 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

"And the brunt of lacerating particles, needle-fine sandstorms driven by nuclear force, is absorbed by something spawned and sent by the dread... but not before Jakosa tastes life in the past tense, hosting an eternal instant of ashen death in mind, soul, and body. Riven, his irradiated flesh disintegrates."             - Doug Moench, Noted Bard

Hiroshi Hirata - Blood Stumps Samurai

September 15, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 12.6 MB

Through a very unfortunate series of authorial missteps, the subaltern has been transformed into a murderous freak and given very few redeeming qualities. Frankly, it's a mess. We apologize for this intrusion into your good taste. But also we don't.  "As long as there are people like you who shame us by looking into our backgrounds there can be no progress!"

Mark Waid - JLA: Tower of Babel

September 08, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 22.8 MB

Mcmorgy pognosty manman, syntegra bok kogo... I don't know how long I can keep the channel open. You have to listen. We're under attack! The Demon's Head is back and he has stolen something important. He's stolen the plans of ... clingo dag dingo manman. Blerk zeek manman. Shemangi dip tip bip, manman... "Splendid. Whoever said that a picture is worth a thousand words..."

Alan Moore - Top 10

September 01, 2023 15:40 - 1 hour - 25.8 MB

Cops, man. Cops. Policing all over the place, back alleys and outerspace. The cops, maaan, they leave their trace, spray that mace, punch you right in your law abiding face. Living on the street? They displace. There ain't nothing they distaste more than the stink of waste. They eat from a trough and have super powers in a post-war Nazi project paperclip metropolis that turns gold into lead. Flat dead. Blood red. Must shed and become.... police. "Good. Do not weep. Being is enough."

Tim Vigil - Faust/777: The Wrath (1998-1999)

August 28, 2023 20:39 - 53 minutes - 17.9 MB

Avatar August 2023 reaches around to jerk itself off. Tim Vigil and David Quinn accommodate. They hammer-f&*k all the c$nts to the wall, teaching hornypu$$y the meaning of well-endowed. It is definitely something to observe. "I play because I play."

Garth Ennis - Rover Red Charlie / Grant Morrison - We3

August 25, 2023 02:53 - 1 hour - 22.6 MB

From the horrors of the lab or the end of the world, the great journey to freedom begins. Either to shuck off the heavy weight of programming and metal or to shed the skin of conditioning, we must go. Animals we are. Smelling the summer breeze, we travel far into the unknown country, encountering danger and loss. Fighting back, no matter the cost. "1 know 0"

Takashi Miike - Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samuari

August 18, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 14.4 MB

Honour is two things. Honour is social capital tied to material wealth. In this mode, when you lose your honour, you sometimes lose your house. This does not mean, however, that you also lose the second thing that honour is: dignity and self-reliance, the willingness to sacrifice for what you love and what you represent. The first type of honour buries and represses the second type, concealing its face from the lord and master. But we always know that it is there, haunting the hollow red a...

Warren Ellis - Supergod

August 16, 2023 14:40 - 35 minutes - 12.2 MB

Monkeys that sway to fire want fire to walk. Fire to command. Fire to burn away the impurities of monkey speak and monkey life. But when fire walks, the fire commands the destruction of all that monkeys had once been. Until there is only naked monkey. Drugged. Rambling. Telling us the story of how fire came to be. "We should have realised, at this late juncture, that neither our knowledge nor our reason had any relevance to the situation."

John Constantine: Hellblazer

August 11, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB

(search function optimization initiate) Hunger Games director with Keanu Reeves from John Wick give Constantine (2005) movie, starring Rachel Weisz and Tilda Swinton!  Based on Alan Moore property written by Jamie Delano for DC Comics under Vertigo imprint (1988). All is owned by Time-Warner/Warner Bros. Margaret Thatcher and the Spear of Destiny. Hell is a mirror and you. Are in it. "I don't believe in the devil." "He believes in you."

Junji Ito - Tombs

August 04, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 26.3 MB

Back to the well of Junji Ito! The place where we deposit the unburied dead. Where physicians are baffoons and citizens sacrifice their blood to the soil. Can art transcend the material conditions of its production? Will we ever find our lost loved ones? WE DON'T KNOW. Our mouths are too full to scream. "I can't go dying until I finish... her gold statue."

Jim Lee - Deathblow #1-6

July 28, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes - 14 MB

Waiting for the Deathblow Waiting for the Deathblow Waiting for the Deathbloooowwww "I was raised as a patriot. Trained as a soldier. And became a killer."

TMNT: The Last Ronin

July 21, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 15.3 MB

The dark green turtle emerges from self-imposed exile. New York is out of control. Or under control. Not perverted enough, the villain nonetheless has mommy issues. Daddy gone away. A mirror to Michelangelo. Who watches the ladies come and go. "I'm sorry, Father. I failed."

Steven Seagal - Above the Law / Hard to Kill

July 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 25.2 MB

The blood bank is running dry. The number of withdrawals is outpacing revenue. Knives, guns, sticks, and bombs. What kind of high is this? Sky high. BOOM. The storm is upon us now and nothing will ever be the same. "I'm sorry, but your contractor's doing a lousy job."  

Chris Claremont - Uncanny X-Men #190-191

July 07, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 17.1 MB

Reborn from the dark crystal prison, Kulan Gath awakes hungry for power and flesh. The Man-Spider must pay for his crimes. Heroes will be made to serve the cause of Gath's revenge, transformed into Hyperborean analogues. Those who fail to obey will be changed. There will be hentai in Manhattan. You can count on that. "Rachel, use your mindblasts to punch a whole in that outside wall!"

Jonathan Nolan - Person of Interest

June 29, 2023 16:24 - 1 hour - 23.2 MB

Memory is at the centre of the human. Without it, we fade away into nothing. So we built a machine that watches us every hour of every day. It sees everything. And remembers. Now, when our number comes up, we are reborn as number, an infinite number, more moves on the chessboard than atoms in the universe.  Prime time TV never had it so good. "In addition to this being now, it's also probably the end."

Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Wake

June 23, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MB

The sharp blade of the scissors has trimmed the first molecule. The second. Metal ripping through reality, cutting to the core. Millions separated. And we are now sad. Processing our loss. The end of the Dream Weaver. Like this day wasn't a birthday, but the dream of a birthday ended early. Awoken into a sad sack nothing. "And nothing is truly lost."  

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season One

June 16, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 26.2 MB

Time to court controversy. In space! Are we just a dangerous, primitive, child-like species? Or are we on our way to the stars? Like, for instance, if for some reason all of us got really horny, would we die in a mass orgy? Or would we find the will to master ourselves? Must we be trapped on this industrialized nightmare, rape-gang orb? Or will we homogonize under a bland ideology, build star ships, and play at seamen? "Shut off that damn noise! Go to yellow alert."