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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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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.

    Showdown in Little Tokyo

    Showdown in Little Tokyo

    America 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 accented, full bred American warrior has something to say about it. Trained in the arts of bushido, he will return America to its regular gangsters and take for himself the Asian wife he'd always dreamed of.
    "Yeah, I saw you strip down for that hot tub. I'd be frightened, too..."

    • 53 min
    Batman: Dark Victory

    Batman: Dark Victory

    Lesson 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. Another way of saying this? Find someone who puts the reader into a warm bath. Someone clean. Find yourself a Tim Sale.
    "I've just come from Arkham."

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Osamu Tezuka - Dororo

    Osamu Tezuka - Dororo

    Here, 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 is life returning to itself whole. Here devil gods are vanquished and order restored.
    "I'm still missing thirty body parts."

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Batman: The Long Halloween

    Batman: The Long Halloween

    The 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 imperatives, how one man shattered into two and how with both hands he brought the others down into misery with him.
    "Our jobs don't include murder, Harvey."

    • 46 min
    The Death of Superman

    The Death of Superman

    We 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 blood just the same as you and me. But to do that we needed a memorable villain, right? Something original and not like anything else Superman had ever faced before!
    *Draws a picture of Wolverine crossed with Punisher and the Incredible Hulk*
    "...violence is the price we pay to accomplish a greater good."

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Rambo

    Rambo

    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!"

    • 55 min

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James and James know their stuff

The conversations and relationship of these James’ is great to listen to. They know their comics history, what’s happening behind the scenes today, and how it all relates to the world today. I actually LOL’d! I hope these guys keep it up

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