Drawn Or Alive

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A rag tag band of art lovers ride out on the hunt for the shapeshifting monsters of animation and live-action cinema

Episodes

  1. 4D AGO

    Show #4: Battle Angel Alita VS Alita: Battle Angel

    A new year but the same old tricks, going two-in-a-row on profligate projects from cinema luminaries that took years to emerge. This also has us breaking the seal on the imposing vault of live-action adaptations of Japanese anime with one of its most storied sagas. Two decades sitting on the film rights to Yukito Kishiro's cyborg epic was enough time for mariner and part-time director James Cameron to grow weary of the prospect, enlisting Robert Rodriguez to assemble the spare parts into functional form. Amongst the dreary scrapheap of Western anime remakes how does this one compare with the perfectly enjoyable 1993 OVA from which it so liberally borrows? We steel ourselves for the task, with Niall on hand to expound on the fantastic tableaus from the manga which may grace the big screen any century now!

    1h 27m

  2. 12/24/2025

    Show #3: The Dick Tracy Animated Canon VS Dick Tracy (1990)

    Veteran of the force Joseph Wade responds to our call for backup in taking down the notorious criminal enterprise comprised of the many screen incarnations of yellow-coated copper Dick Tracy! For a newspaper comic strip Ol' Dick has quite the heinous rap sheet on the animated side outside of a Daffy Duck short. The live-action cohort exists in the shadow of Warren Beatty's hubristic effort, celebrating its 25th anniversary of biting on the style of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. Is there a place in this world anymore for an old-fashioned two-fisted dick and his gallery of gruesome goons? Our investigations uncover a sordid saga of death, money and the bizarre sex games of showbiz royalty, not to mention Joe solving the mystery of a cartoon cameo that's dogged him for years!

    1h 19m

  3. 11/30/2025

    Show #2: Predator - Killer Of Killers VS Predator

    The terms "versus" and "Predator" have historically been a volatile combination, comparable in potency to when a popular franchise tosses off a haphazard animated tie-in to gin up interest in its next instalment. However director Dan Trachtenberg, not content with only getting the Predator universe back to fighting form in the celebrated Prey, seeks to do equal justice to the cartoon counterpart with a fatal four-way anthology piece.    Besides expanding the scope of the new films' story to the stars above, Killer Of Killers gets Predator back doing what he does best: pitting the gruesome game hunter against the fiercest fighters from across Earth's history in the sort of matchups Deadliest Warrior could only dream of. We push too many pencils weighing its merits against the formidable 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie and more, wondering awhile why such a simple setup is thrown so frequently in the meatgrinder. If it bleeds, we can grill it!

    1h 16m

  4. 11/28/2025

    Show #1: Our Past VS Our Future (featuring Community!)

    At long last our animation investigations have resumed, and a reintroduction is in order! Niall and Dwayne lay out their bona fides for the task ahead of them before unveiling the patented DOA system for colliding pop culture particles into each other. To calibrate this baby the late 00s self-aware sitcom Community fits the bill, focusing on one of its later form experiments in GI Joe parody and how it fits against the show's regular dalliances with other genres & mediums. Many memories are unearthed, regrets are shared and much excitement builds for what's to come. It can be scary coming back to school after all this time, but being a little older & wiser this go around may make all the difference!

    1h 3m
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A rag tag band of art lovers ride out on the hunt for the shapeshifting monsters of animation and live-action cinema

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  • Creator
    Drawn Or Alive
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Drawn Or Alive