30 episodes
Collective Action Comics Collective Action Comics
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4.7 • 40 Ratings
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Corporate capes? Working class heroes?
It's a podcast about radical politics...told through some not so radical comic books.
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[Teaser] Vol.2 Interview #3 - Grist for the Millar w/ Elizabeth Sandifer
Today in Bonus Feed Land, we laugh! We cry! The great critic and writer Elizabeth Sandifer walks Nat through Mark Millar from his earliest work (it might surprise you) to his most recent corporate gambit (it won't)!
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/last-war-in-albion
https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer
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Email: collectiveactioncomics@gmail.com
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Vol. 2 #13 - Classless Conflict: How the Ultimates Fails the World
From oil fields to poppy fields to killing fields, the United States lays claim upon the world. Overwhelming force in service of the export of capital requires constant presence and insistent justification.
There is no excuse too craven nor apologia too callow for the media that abets these crimes. No matter how you costume it, the violence is beyond vindication and even beyond satire.
Our heroes can do better. We can do better. We will.
(This season owes love and gratitude to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, without whom poetry would be incomplete.)
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[Teaser] Vol. 2 Interview #2 - Whedon's Avengers vs. Millar's Ultimates (w/ The Black Casebook)
You asked, we delivered! We're finally doing it, folks! We're tackling the movies!
In this sweeping interview, Walt from the Black Casebook breaks down what works and what doesn't about Whedon's two Avengers movies and how they compare politically and narratively to Millar's The Ultimates.
Subscribe on Patreon to hear the whole thing!
Listen to the Black Casebook anywhere fine podcasts are sold!
https://pod.link/1618791941
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collectiveactioncomics
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Vol. 2 #12 - Capital Under the Cowl: Disguising History for Work and War
Sometimes, you have to break a few omelettes to get to the eggs inside.
"Conventional wisdom" is a curious thing, and, in the United States, it's been deliberately constructed, shaped, and molded over the last 70+ years.
Patriotic imagery and severely lacking history curricula have joined forces to warp the perception of the US, leaving its citizens believing it to be a historical force for good. Obviously, this isn't the truth.
But, hey, you certainly wouldn't know it from this issue.
And, yes. It's the one with Captain America doing that thing you've heard about.
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Email: collectiveactioncomics@gmail.com
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Tape - 8/4/23, Received and Catalogued
Message delivered. The end of the mission draws near.
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[Unlocked] Vol. 2 Interview #1 - A Prescription of Paper Medicine (w/ Ben Becker)
In this special bonus interview for season two, we get to hear from writer/artist Ben Becker on the first issue of his new anthology series "Paper Medicine" and follow him on the journey that led him to write about some very comradely goldfish piloting a mechanical man.
Join us as we talk comics, cooperatives, and the aquatic liberation that only communism can bring.
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Follow Ben! https://benmaxbecker.com/
Buy Paper Medicine! https://benmaxbecker.com/shop
Volunteer with the Cartoonist Cooperative! https://cartoonist.coop/
Customer Reviews
Excellent and Entertaining Analysis
As I told this creator, I’m not much of a podcast listener, but I’m hooked on this one. Each episode is engaging, moving, and quite funny. There’s a lot of valuable information, and the show models excellent leftist analysis— here are ways to understand the horrors of our world through comics. The music and sound design are also fantastic. Looking forward to the next season!
Great listen
Marvelous dissection of horrifying events and how they are further perpetuated through pop culture. Excellent research & context combined with deep comix lore.
You got incisive leftist critique all in my pop culture!
This show has found the line between entertainment, education and media criticism - and walks it deftly in every polished, tightly-produced episode. If the modern superhero always struck you as kinda fascist but you can’t help having grown up on them, CAC is right there with you. I have never had a thought or opinion that mattered, so I don’t generally write reviews - but this show’s worth checking out.