Latest Alanmoore Podcast Episodes
Jim Lee - Batman: Hush
Xtinction Agenda - June 15, 2024 03:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRoll up! Roll up! Jim Lee presents all your favourite beats! THIS WEEK: ultra cover band Jim Lee LIVE! It would be a good life to die this way, in Jim Lee's arms. Bring in the hot babes. Selina... I wish that I'd called her sooner. "We've got seconds before he realizes we're not going to stand...
Showdown in Little Tokyo
Xtinction Agenda - June 07, 2024 04:05 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmerica is crumbling. Its businesses, its gangs, its drugs all worthless, all left behind. The nation is ripe for corporate takeover. Enter the Yakuza, twisted perversions of Japanese honour and American style. They'll leave you with one hand to wipe your ass. That is, unless an unplaceably acce...
Batman: Dark Victory
Xtinction Agenda - June 05, 2024 02:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLesson One. April Fool's Day is not a holiday. Understand what a holiday is. Then, Lesson Two: understand what a mystery is. If you cannot understand such things as holidays and mysteries, then skip to Lesson Three: find an artist who can make an audience forget that stories should make sense. A...
Osamu Tezuka - Dororo
Xtinction Agenda - June 01, 2024 00:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere, the dead have no shape of their own. Nor does the hero of our story. Not at first anyway. For him, life is first lived as the form of life and then as content. Watch the eyes bulge and fall to the ground. Watch the limbs grow back. Watch sword fall from shoulder joint onto the earth. This ...
Batman: The Long Halloween
Xtinction Agenda - May 25, 2024 01:06 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe three men each made a vow. To women they pledged their lives. And then, to uphold those vows, they made an oath. To each other they promised to bend but not break the laws that bind. They did this for the greater good. This is ultimately the story of how one man buckled under those twin im...
The Death of Superman
Xtinction Agenda - May 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe wanted to tell the best possible story we could. Nothing more. Kids those days, they didn't get what the Big Guy stood for, you know? They thought he was all gee shucks and apple pie, flying around saving kittens from trees. So we thought we'd shake it up a little, show them his heart pumped ...
Rambo
Xtinction Agenda - May 11, 2024 01:17 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBore 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'...
On Carnage
Xtinction Agenda - May 04, 2024 00:38 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSplatters 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. Con...
Ed Piskor - X-Men: Grand Design
Xtinction Agenda - April 27, 2024 13:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPanels 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
Xtinction Agenda - April 20, 2024 12:57 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDollarama 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 establishmen...
Mike White - The White Lotus: Season 2
Xtinction Agenda - April 13, 2024 14:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat 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 hi...
Rambo 3
Xtinction Agenda - April 06, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRambo 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 int...
On Gambit
Xtinction Agenda - March 29, 2024 13:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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
Xtinction Agenda - March 23, 2024 01:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDoom 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 ple...
Jonathan Glazer - Birth (2004)
Xtinction Agenda - March 15, 2024 16:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBefore 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 aft...
Mark Millar - Civil War
Xtinction Agenda - March 08, 2024 15:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThese 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 u...
Ed Brubaker - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Xtinction Agenda - February 29, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHistory 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 ...
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Xtinction Agenda - February 24, 2024 13:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCut 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. Ideolog...
Kihachi Okamoto - The Sword of Doom
Xtinction Agenda - February 17, 2024 01:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCome 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 t...
X-Men: X-Cutioner's Song
Xtinction Agenda - February 11, 2024 01:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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...
J Michael Straczynski - Captain America #1-5
Xtinction Agenda - February 03, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn 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...
Michael Mann - Thief / Manhunter
Xtinction Agenda - January 28, 2024 14:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNo 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 Mich...
Art Spiegelman - Maus
Xtinction Agenda - January 12, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 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...
Peter Milligan / Mike Allred - X-Cellent
Xtinction Agenda - January 05, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor 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 ...
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Xtinction Agenda - December 29, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating“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 demo...
Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Xtinction Agenda - December 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTyranny 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 a...
Rambo: First Blood
Xtinction Agenda - December 18, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHe 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...
Batman / Judge Dredd
Xtinction Agenda - December 08, 2023 12:48 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJustice 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 ma...
Garth Ennis - Punisher MAX #1-12
Xtinction Agenda - December 01, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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 gr...
Mike Baron - The Punisher Vol. 2 #10-11
Xtinction Agenda - November 25, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPeople 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 r...
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