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Becky Cloonan - The Punisher Vol. 10 #1-6
Xtinction Agenda - January 19, 2022 01:42 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James kinda sell Steve Dillon short by not putting his name front and centre in the title of this episode. But sometimes that's just what life is: one bitter betrayal of memory after another. Rest in peace Steve. You did the good work. "...a Punisher was born."
James Gunn - Suicide Squad (2021)
Xtinction Agenda - January 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James return to Taskforce X. First with issues #11-16 of Ostrander's and McDonnell's acclaimed run and then, as the main event, James Gunn's cartoonish take on the Suicide Squad franchise. "This isn't going to work."
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 3 #4-2
Xtinction Agenda - January 05, 2022 20:42 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James just want to feel guilty about the murder of two women. Their ego scaffolding needs to be husked. The archon will manifest itself as the annihilation of all opposites. Join us, won't you, for the penultimate installment of our little danse macabre? "Time for the Queen Archon ...
The War Journal - Chuck Dixon's Punisher
Xtinction Agenda - December 31, 2021 02:41 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTune in to The War Journal - Chuck Dixon's Punisher. Find it. Do not give up. Hot new podcast.
Taken 2 (2012)
Xtinction Agenda - December 30, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdam, James, and James are left down and hanging around, watching Taken 2 (2012). "Hey Dad, please don't shoot this one - I love him!"
Walter Hill - Warriors (1979)
Xtinction Agenda - December 28, 2021 17:49 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this previously unreleased bonus episode, Chris, James, and James talk Walter Hill's Warriors. "Remember boppers, be lookin’ good.”
Junji Ito - Remina / Takashi Miike - Audition
Xtinction Agenda - December 22, 2021 14:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHark! the herald severed feet, glory to the newborn tongueless monstrosity. It's an Xtinction Agenda Christ Mass! With special guests Junji Ito and Takashi Miike! "Don't treat me as a child. I'm not so easily deceived."
Takashi Miike - Audition (1999)
Xtinction Agenda - December 22, 2021 14:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHark! the herald severed feet, glory to the newborn tongueless monstrosity. It's an Xtinction Agenda Christ Mass! With special guests Junji Ito and Takashi Miike! "Don't treat me as a child. I'm not so easily deceived."
Chuck Dixon - Punisher War Zone #1-6
Xtinction Agenda - December 17, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James commune with the Fridging Death God that is Frank Castle. 1992 was never so 1992 as this. Witness! Chuck 'Do I Need Your Permission to Work?' Dixon! As he teams up with: John 'Family Business' Romita Jr.! "Me, I like a nice car bomb."
Punisher War Zone #1-6
Xtinction Agenda - December 17, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James commune with the Fridging Death God that is Frank Castle. 1992 was never so 1992 as this. Witness! Chuck 'Do I Need Your Permission to Work?' Dixon! As he teams up with: John 'Family Business' Romita Jr.! "Me, I like a nice car bomb."
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 3 #8-5
Xtinction Agenda - December 13, 2021 11:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James develop a new relationship with time, the self, and death, growing smaller and smaller, until everything they were is folded so far in on themselves that they are gone forever. Edith is unveiled. Mr. Six is a traitor. Leave this to the professionals. "Show me these bowels o...
Mark Millar - Jupiter's Legacy
Xtinction Agenda - December 09, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James chase the splatter this episode. Robert Kirkman dialed it up to eleven on the Invincible animated feature, a Siren song for our intrepid heroes. Then, having crashed against the rocks of that gruesome display, they springboard over to Mark Millar's and Frank Quitely's Jup...
The Punisher - Kingdom Gone (Aug. 1990)
Xtinction Agenda - December 06, 2021 03:12 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames tackles Chuck Dixon's first Punisher story - The Punisher: Kingdom Gone, illustrated by Jorge Zaffino. "No percentage in blaming myself."
JMS' Amazing Spider-Man
Xtinction Agenda - December 02, 2021 15:46 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James find themselves suffering from that typical Parker luck as they thwip on down into J. Michael Straczynski and J. Romita Jr.'s run on Amazing Spider-Man. One James loves it. One James hates it. Who is right?! "I've been away too long. It's started."
Taken (2008)
Xtinction Agenda - November 25, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdam, James, and James dunk themselves into the first installment of Luc Besson's Taken franchise. You're going to need a special set of skills to take this one in folks. Locker room talk abounds. "Are you focused yet?"
Mark Waid - Strange Fruit (2015)
Xtinction Agenda - November 18, 2021 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James explore the byways of Mark Waid's extensive bibliography. What does America's Greatest Hack get up to when he thinks he's contributing to literature? Prepare to feel ambivalent! Or offended! Dealer's choice. Today! Potter's Field (2007) and the well-meaning but ultimately baffl...
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 3 #12-9 Continued...
Xtinction Agenda - November 11, 2021 22:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat's the worst thing that you've ever done? For Chris and James, its almost having failed for a third time to talk about Percy Bysshe Shelley in relation to The Invisibles. We got cut off last time. The dirty Outer Church tried to suppress our golden truths. What we have to say, they'd nev...
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 3 #12-9
Xtinction Agenda - November 05, 2021 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James return from India, charged with a new mission and a new insight. We pilot a jet fighter straight into enlightenment. But it all goes horribly wrong when The Outer Church cuts off our transmission. Technical difficulties? Yes! Utter defeat? No! Enjoy 2/3 of our discourse. We w...
Azzarello and Bermejo - Batman: Damned
Xtinction Agenda - October 29, 2021 12:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James talk the team up of Azzarello and Bermejo, from Deathblow to Batdick. Who are these strange men? And what have they been doing behind our backs all the long years? The answers will SHOCK you. "Oxymoron"
The Crow (1994)
Xtinction Agenda - October 23, 2021 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James, in the spirit of October, engage this week with some spooky material. First up: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac! Does it hold up to the scrutiny of our wise old eyes? FIND OUT! And then... a journey into the dark heart of ungovernable Detroit. Is The Crow the greatest superh...
Immortal Hulk - Special Message
Xtinction Agenda - October 16, 2021 01:05 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI am sorry. Punish me. Punish me for being a human. Teach me to obey. Send me running to get you milk. I'll buy your milk for you and feed it to you. With a straw. You'll never get better milk than that. Pervert. Why would you ask me to do that? Please stop. Please. Read Ewing and Bennett's ...
Warren Ellis - The Batman's Grave
Xtinction Agenda - October 09, 2021 17:02 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James continue with their inadvertent Warren Ellis Appreciation Society. None of this should be taken as an endorsement of Ellis himself. It's just that we like Batman. And we like Bryan Hitch. And when Hitch and Ellis get together, there is a special sauce which goes well with many fi...
Blade Runner - Final Cut
Xtinction Agenda - October 01, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdam, James, and James sit 'round the campfire and tell stories about LA in the year 2019. Oil refineries as far as the eye can see. We fail to discuss in any way the film's oriental style, but what do you expect? We're fucking savages over here. Careening toward extinction. "Do you like our o...
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #21-22
Xtinction Agenda - September 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James bring it all crashing down in a crescendo of analysis and good humour. Do you dare to brave the waters of our discourse?! "This is how human fears look like, rising and condensing on the inside surface of the holographic membrane."
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #17-20
Xtinction Agenda - September 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James are bigger than Hollywood this week. Their machinations have germinated in the soil of time. And now they are bursting forth into 3D space, ready to make friends with death. "Interesting request"
Kevin Smith - Clerks (1994)
Xtinction Agenda - September 17, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James reach back to a simpler time, when doc martins were cool and nerd culture was only just beginning to claw its dirty way into the mainstream. Give yourself over to it. Kevin Smith. Clerks (1994). Then THRILL! at a late period Smith entry: Batman: The Widening Gyre (2009) "Ther...
Michael Bay - Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Xtinction Agenda - September 11, 2021 00:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames and James fight for freedom against those who dream of tyranny, saving the people of Earth from themselves, all while a mystery of intergalactic proportions unveils itself before us like a beautiful woman in a white dress. A brief discourse on the topic of Michael Bay. "Never mourn the p...
Star Wars (1977)
Xtinction Agenda - September 03, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Search of The Terminator - Part Four Adam, James, and James look back to the movie that made sci-fi epics into box office magic: George Lucas' Star Wars. And while at no point whatsoever do we ever get around to talking about The Terminator in relation to this film, it is strongly implied t...
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #14-16
Xtinction Agenda - August 29, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris and James get some R&R and manifest a demon or two as they prepare themselves for the explosive finale of Volume 2 of The Invisibles. "It made me sick and sent me mad for a month."
Garth Ennis - Crossed, Vol. 1
Xtinction Agenda - August 28, 2021 00:35 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode: the triumphant trio takes on in a tempestuous tango of torture, the origin, the start of it all: Crossed, Volume 1. It's a banger, if you have the stomach for it. "You could even call it moral courage--"
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