Xtinction Agenda
375 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPost 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?
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Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Wake
June 23, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBThe 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 MBTime 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."
Random Roundup!
June 09, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 21.5 MBSins of Sinister #1 - March, 2023 - Written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by many, many others. The Ambassadors #1 - March 2023 - Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Frank Quitely. Batman/Spawn #1 - February, 2023 - Written by Todd McFarlane, pencilled by Greg Capullo.
Joe Casey - Wildcats 3.0 #1-12
June 02, 2023 12:29 - 50 minutes - 17.1 MBThe world is run by the invisible hands of invisible persons. Running wild and covert. But one team has had enough. For Cole Cash and Spartan, it's time for action! Time to become the most invisible of hands so that the world can be cradled into the future. "Evolution is an unavoidably violent process."
Predator (1987)
May 26, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBThe hunter, ruthless bloody bastard, will skin you to the bones. Sometimes wearing a monocle. Sometimes wearing fishnet stockings and sporting long, sharp nails. Question unasked until now: Is the Predator a woman? A space woman? An invisible space woman who KILLS ALL PERFECT MEN? Sadly, we do not answer this question. But we do enjoy a classic. Join us. "Same kind of moon, same kind of jungle. Real number 10, remember?"
Benjamin Percy / Juan Jose Ryp - Wolverine #29-33
May 19, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 22.4 MBNo mercy with Percy and let 'errrrr Ryp! Hey kids, it's WOLVERINE! What sort of shenanigans has our diminutive Canadian been up to since mutants go themselves yet another island utopia? The answer: far more and far less than we could have ever imagined possible. "Cover your ears and open your mouth!"
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
May 12, 2023 12:23 - 1 hour - 26.2 MBIt's all coming together now. The fates have activated the fates. The tragedy is in place, the gun aimed. A blackpowder dream. "I wish I could remember what you smell like."
Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness
May 12, 2023 12:21 - 1 hour - 25.5 MBWhat do the rich care, alive on their boats and up in the air, in the clouds, breathing the atmosphere of capital? We hold their trays for them and watch them feast, anxious for scraps, praying for a high pressure front to overturn their olympian existence, to turn the world inside out. The one word we failed to use: carnivalesque. Meat party. Now. Try to relax your triangle of sadness. "I'm so sorry about that. That was irresponsible."
The Menu
April 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 26.2 MBThe poor, struggling artist is trapped in the guilded cage by his own obsession. Blessed with every material he could ever want, staffed by the greatest assistants on spaceship earth, he nonetheless laments his life, fixating on past trauma. And the devil gnashed: how awful it is to be successful and desired, for the critics to know all your techniques, for them to identify all of your flavours. Where is the power in that? For him, the artist, there is now only the heat of the hellish ki...
Garth Ennis - The Lion and the Eagle
April 21, 2023 11:49 - 43 minutes - 14.9 MBHere is what we shall do. We shall take hundreds of our soldiers, most of them borrowed from a smash and grab that occurred hundreds of years ago. We will paint them as True Warriors. We shall put them behind enemy lines and ask them to help conquer themselves. We shall call this Valour. Then, when it all goes tits up, we shall pretend it never happened. "Ach, I've seen worse up the shore road on a Saturday night, sir. That's no word of a lie."
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: World's End
April 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBDid you feel that? Reality Storm. Always happens this time of year. Thunder. Lightning. Twenty centimetres of allegory expected. Chance of simile. Like a young girl hiding among men in a universe of No Girls Allowed, it's best to stay Inn. Find your stories there. If you have any. "That's your proof."
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 15-19
April 07, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBCaptain America #400 "Murder by Decree!" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. Avengers West Coast Vol. 2#82 "Shi'ar Hatred!" Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. Quasar #34 "The Scorched Sun" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Keith Williams, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettere...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
March 31, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes - 21.9 MBWarning: This episode has some terrible audio. We didn't realize it was recording so badly. Now we can't fix it. Sorry. Also, we try not to swear in this one. That doesn't go well either. Fortunately, we do have other attributes... "Okay, they're stupid infants."
Amalgam Comics
March 25, 2023 19:20 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBAnd there came a day when the chips were down and the deck was stacked and the rain fell and fell. Widows wept and pulled their hair, wailing. We waited for the dust to settle. We waited for a champion to emerge. They never arrived. They never even wrote to say they'd be late. All we got were these hideous amalgamations, these blurred icons, these terrible nightmares breathing flame, kicking mud all over the barn doors. Thanks for everyone who made it this far. We hope you survive the ...
Kate Beaton - Ducks
March 17, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBIt's like a toilet plunger, isn't it? That suck suck sludging noise following you around. Like pulling your feet up from the mud. Or the oil sands. Black crude leaving marks behind you for the rest of your life. All for the slim hope of one day being an artist. Or at least human. Kate Beaton - Ducks. An investigation. "Coal, fishing, steel... but that's all gone, isn't it?"
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 12-14
March 09, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB"Assassination" Written by Bob Harras, pencilled by Steve Epting, inked and coloured by Tom Palmer, and lettered by Bill Oakley. "Bad Judgement" Written by Len Kaminski, pencilled by Paul Ryan, inked by Bob Wiacek and Keith Williams, coloured by Mike Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. "Now Strikes the Starforce" Written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Pat Olliffe, inked by Al Milgrom, coloured by Gina Going, and lettered by Michael Heisler. April 1992
Timecop (1994)
March 03, 2023 01:11 - 43 minutes - 17.7 MBIt is a truism that one never has enough time to pleasure a woman. Walker knows well this ancient truth. He learned it the hard way, splitting himself between ages like a muscular Belgian splits his legs. A man out of time, forever separated from himself. Halt! Put down the gold bullion! It's Timecop! "Poor bastard. Tomorrow might have been a brighter day."
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Brief Lives
February 23, 2023 21:46 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBTo walk the realm of mortals and feel the dirty air, risking death, bringing destruction in your wake. We all want this. Even the ones who cannot die. Them most especially. They look up to the ones below, secretly desiring their own inevitable loss. And then kill their children to bring it about. "Shall we go back to your place?" NOTE: Contestants of the 'He Who Dares Wins' Essay Competition can write to [email protected] by March 1st, 2023. Winner gets a full run of Alan Moore'...
Brad Meltzer - Identity Crisis
February 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBThese primary colour flatland print objects are growing up. They have kids now. Responsibilities lacking in youth. Time slips away from them, leaving past triumphs in the past. Tradition spurs them forward. Tradition and the perpetual threat that one day the status quo will no longer suffice to push units. Ask yourself who benefits. Ask yourself what possible motive could have inspired the death of Sue Dibny. And when you solve the mystery of Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis, remember: ".....
Frank Miller and Steve Gerber
February 09, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBBorn from the murky river of tarnished America, the trundling beast sat at its typewriter. One claw tick tack tick. Ding. Another sentence. Nixon is in the white room waiting with Kissinger. I will never forget this moment, the beast writes, not even in the dreamless sleep of the plaza strip. Nowadays, bastards everywhere you look. Frank Miller - Spawn/Batman. Steve Gerber - Adventure into Fear. "The lash is --- no illusion!" NOTE: Contestants of the 'He Who Dares Wins' Essay Competiti...
No Country for Old Men
February 02, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes - 21.6 MBThe horse walks slowly atop the dusty rough, carrying the man wearing a star. The man reads the signs left in the night, sees the swollen bodies and the blood. 9mm rounds, .45 ACPs. Knows that something larger is at play. And that someone needs his help. The man thinks it's all waiting on him. But that's vanity, isn't it? NOTE: Contestants of the Insult Essay Competition can write to [email protected] by March 1st, 2023. Winner gets a full run of Alan Moore's Promethea sent righ...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 9-11
January 30, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 22.9 MB"They Also Serve..." Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. "Spatial Deliveries" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Fred Fredericks, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettered by Janice Chiang. "Death Adrift" Written by Gerard Jones, pencilled by Jeff Johnson (w/Stephen B. Jones), inked by Jan Anton Harps and Art Nichols, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Pat Brosseau. Apri...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 9, 10, and 11
January 30, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 22.9 MB"They Also Serve..." Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. "Spatial Deliveries" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Fred Fredericks, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettered by Janice Chiang. "Death Adrift" Written by Gerard Jones, pencilled by Jeff Johnson (w/Stephen B. Jones), inked by Jan Anton Harps and Art Nichols, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Pat Brosseau. Apri...
Heavy Metal (1981)
January 26, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 20.9 MBWell, we finally watched it: animated cult classic Heavy Metal (1981). Although none of us are really pleased with ourselves, we like to think that we got something out of it. Something important. Like we put our finger on the pulse of a dying god and felt with our own flesh its final expiration. Ultimate evil is expunged. The universe is safe. "Earth women who experience sexual ecstasy with mechanical assistance always tend to feel guilty."
The Death of Stalin
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 18.6 MBWhen you go into the circle and it gets tighter and tighter and you realize that something is around your neck and know that if you don't smile in just the right way you are dead. That's life in the Big Leagues. Where the Grand Ones live and dine. Where Stalin lived and died. And where you and I must now go. Tonight. "I wasn't afraid but now I'm afraid."
Operation: Galactic Storm Part 7 and 8
January 12, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 12.2 MB"The War and the Warrior" Written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Pat Olliffe, inked by Al Milgrom, coloured by Mick Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. March 1992 "Twenty Million Light Years From Earth" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. April 1992
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 7-8
January 12, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 12.2 MB"The War and the Warrior" Written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Pat Olliffe, inked by Al Milgrom, coloured by Mick Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. March 1992 "Twenty Million Light Years From Earth" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. April 1992
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
January 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBGod this collection of stories sucks. Somehow though, because Chris, James, and James are True Professionals, they still manage to talk for nearly two hours. This is the nature of the beast that is The Sandman: Fables and Reflections. Like this podcast, it is a great yawning chasm of words that numb you into complacency. Do you wish to submit to our discourse? "I do not dance. Not even with you, my wife."
Violent Night / Fatman
December 31, 2022 04:34 - 1 hour - 25.6 MBSpoiled western rat children are run amok. A psycho has seized Santa's village. The Federal government has activated the contract. James and James are on the scene. Santa is here to clean house. And clean house he does. Christmas is back everyone. No worries. "Fentanyl. Yeah. That'll get the job done."
Junji Ito - Tomie
December 24, 2022 13:38 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBDeck the halls with gore and monsters, fa la la la la, lalala. 'Tis the season to be sorry, fa la la la la, lalala. Don we now our dreadful horror, fa la la la la, lalala. Christ Mass time is Junji Ito time. Your time to connect with the one you love. Tomie. The only one you love. The one who's love consumes you from the inside out. The one who's love just makes you want to cut her into pieces. Don't hide it. I want it too. She is everything.... "I told you not to leave my condo!"
Eli Roth - Green Inferno
December 16, 2022 04:35 - 53 minutes - 22.8 MBThis December, Chris, James, and James celebrate the Mass of Christ. And what better way to celebrate the flesh and the blood than a cannibal flick? Eli Roth had a beautiful experience deep in the forest of Peru. He shows us how beautiful. We gaze into the crimson mirror of gore. We are the enemy. There is nothing we can do. "Only a freshman would speak with such insolence."
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 5 and 6
December 10, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes - 20.6 MB"Storm Gathering" Written by Bob Harras, pencilled by Steve Epting, inked and coloured by Tom Palmer, and lettered by Bill Oakley. "Decision in a Vacuum" Written by Len Kaminski, pencilled by Paul Ryan, inked by Bob Wiacek, coloured by Mike Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
December 04, 2022 14:20 - 58 minutes - 25.2 MBChris, James, and James sit down to a banquet of authentic Indian cuisine, including snake surprise and chilled monkey brains. The child ruler assures us that the Thugee are no more. We rest comfortably, fattened in our ignorance. All is well until an interloping grave robber sees fit to insult our hallowed palace... "Indie, I love you!"
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: A Game of You
November 28, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour - 27.3 MBChris, James, and James, like a myriad of eyes winking across the desert floor, squat firmly among the blackness of sleep. We pull back the curtain of self-deception and insecurity to reveal the final drama of a forgotten land. The Cuckoo is our mistress. We obey. We give all to obey. "Um. Are you okay?"
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 3 and 4
November 17, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 14 MB"The Tomb of Mar-Vell" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Greg Capullo, inked by Henry Candelario, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Janice Chiang. "Shared Space" Written by Gerard Jones, pencilled by Jeff Johnson, inked by Dan Panosian, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Pat Brosseau. March, 1992
Stephen King - Misery
November 12, 2022 14:47 - 52 minutes - 22.3 MBChris, James, and James discuss Misery. Not the book though, none of us had ever read that. In fact, of the three of us, only one soldier had ever read a Stephen King novel before. Mind you, that one soldier read, like, a lot of Stephen King novels so we felt sufficiently qualified to tackle the matter. Besides: great movie. Real classic. Who even reads nowadays anyway? Losers. "Oh Darling, it will be so beautiful."
Kazuo Umezz - Cat Eyed Boy
November 06, 2022 15:42 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBChris and James meow me ow meowmeow meow me ow meowme ow moew Kazuo Umezz meow me owmeowmeow meow me Cat Eyed Boy Vol. 1 and 2 ow meow meowmeow Viz Media meow meow adolescent horror meow me owmeow no innocence meow me owmeow. Meow. "They got my eyes and throat!"
Richard Stanley - Colour Out of Space
October 31, 2022 19:15 - 59 minutes - 36.4 MBThis episode, Chris, James, and James are enveloped in a radiant, indescribable light. Their bodies, mutated, fused together, struggle like amoebas--hungry, monstrous, internecine war stomachs. A Colour Out of Space compels them, drives them, burns them into and against one another. An Alpaca screeches its unholy misery while Tommy Chong passes the blunt. "Drink? I'm having one."
Operation: Galactic Storm - Part Two
October 27, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 15.1 MB"Turn of the Sentry" Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. March, 1992
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Season of Mists
October 24, 2022 00:38 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBChris, James, and James are back at it! The Sandman: Season of Mists. We look it over from stem to stern. But be warned! At the 50 minute mark or so some communist infiltrators attack the podcast--YOUR podcast--with a sonic weapon, leaving our hosts mildly irritated and apologetic. Rest assured, we've destroyed the enemy and you needn't worry about anything at all ever again. "Hell is closed."
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman #21-28
October 24, 2022 00:38 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBChris, James, and James are back at it! The Sandman: Season of Mists. We look it over from stem to stern. But be warned! At the 50 minute mark or so some communist infiltrators attack the podcast--YOUR podcast--with a sonic weapon, leaving our hosts mildly irritated and apologetic. Rest assured, we've destroyed the enemy and you needn't worry about anything at all ever again. "Hell is closed."
Tom King - Sheriff of Babylon #1-12
October 15, 2022 19:30 - 59 minutes - 36.9 MBChris, James, and James hit the LZ running, moving straight into the ruined heart of a once vibrant but oppressed country. Tom King guides the way. Mitch Gerads makes it real. We are smitten (almost). We are troubled (completely). But at least there is progress. At least there is that. "I want a cigarette before you kill me"
Operation: Galactic Storm - Part One
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 11.5 MB"It Came From Outer Space" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. March 1992
Operation Galactic Storm - Part One
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 11.5 MB"It Came From Outer Space" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. March 1992
Frank Miller - Sin City: Booze, Broads, and Bullets
October 04, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 17.9 MBJames and James are very enthusiastic this week. Our breathless passion will give you pause. Can you trust us? Do you know, really know, where we stand? And where you stand? In Sin City? I doubt it. I really really doubt it. "Everybody calls it Blitz"
Akimi Yoshida - Banana Fish Vol. 1-3
October 01, 2022 12:51 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBTo be powerful as a man, you must be corrupt. The truth-seeker is inept and jailed. Listen to Chris and James marvel at their hero's uncompromising purity of purpose. Ponder the meaning of his love with the innocent foreign boy. Grow concerned as they elaborate upon the strange world contained within Akimi Yoshida's.... Banana Fish! "Of course, if he's been infected with HIV, that's a different story."
James Tynion IV - Something Is Killing The Children Vol. 1
September 22, 2022 19:54 - 40 minutes - 17.4 MBJames and James are hunting snark. They look for it under the logs and in the forest of the night. But something is killing the children. And so they ask whether James Tynion IV or Werther Dell'Edera have anything to do with it. A steady drum beat wakes the dawn. "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?"
The Reign of the Supermen
September 17, 2022 16:10 - 1 hour - 25.9 MBChris, James, and James explore yet another of the comics industry's extended reactions to the Image Revolution of the 1990s. This week: The Reign of the Supermen crossover. But only the middle part. That's right, the boring part with the lowest imaginable stakes. The part where you can have the least amount of fun. That was a good idea, right? "Toast 'im!"
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman #17-20
September 10, 2022 13:02 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBChris, James, and James renewed their passport. The flight for Dream Country leaves anon. And although the journey may be short, our intrepid explorers vow to wander among the byways and corridors and cul de sacs of this furtive realm. There are mysteries and secrets to unearth. Open a page. Start the adventure. "A beautiful child. Most pleasant. Will I meet him?"
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Dream Country
September 10, 2022 13:02 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBChris, James, and James renewed their passport. The flight for Dream Country leaves anon. And although the journey may be short, our intrepid explorers vow to wander among the byways and corridors and cul de sacs of this furtive realm. There are mysteries and secrets to unearth. Open a page. Start the adventure. "A beautiful child. Most pleasant. Will I meet him?"