Xtinction Agenda xtinctionagenda6@gmail.com (xtinctionagenda6@gmail.com)
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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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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." -
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." -
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!" -
On Carnage
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
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
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 Bain Capital for its blessings.
"Meanwhile, the two Supermen have battled each other, first to a standstill-- and then, to a lie-still!"