I 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 Immortal Hulk. Today.

Xtinction Agenda: Comics of 80s, 90s, and Beyond

Immortal Hulk - Special Message

James 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 fine foods. Oh yeah,  and it is not a vp70z. That was stupid. "People buy these and put them in their home?"

Warren Ellis - The Batman's Grave

Adam, 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 owl?"

Blade Runner - Final Cut

Chris 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 #21-22

Chris 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"

Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #17-20

James 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) "There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"

Kevin Smith - Clerks (1994)

James 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 past, young warrior. Thanks to you, our race survives"

Michael Bay - Transformers: Dark of the Moon

In 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 that we meant to. "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Star Wars (1977)

Chris 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."

Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #14-16

In 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--"

Garth Ennis - Crossed, Vol. 1

James and James answer the most important question of our times: billionaires, threat or menace?!! And then after about 14 minutes of that, they get into some Warren Ellis Avatar work--Black Summer (2007-2008). "I'm not a good liberal like you and John."

Warren Ellis - Black Summer

Chris, James, and James explore some post-apocalyptic landscapes imagined in the earliest of the 1980s. They find anxieties over computers and robots, blown-out-of-proportion fears regarding oil shortages, and the ever-present threat of the rampaging homosexual gang. What does it all have to do with The Terminator? Find out! "Looks like I got some gasoline..."

X-Men: Days of Future Past (1981) / The Road Warrior (1981)

James and James dive into a newly returned library. Resting on the periphery? A little something Avatar Press liked to call Crossed: Badlands #1-3 and #25-28. Stand to. "We don't get to be in that story. All we get's the crossed."

Garth Ennis - Crossed: Badlands

Adam, James, and James are back in the saddle. Talkin' The Driver (1978). Stripped down. Spare. Clean. Dark like an alley that never ends. Get in. "Guy with your attitude? Doesn't carry a gun? Stupid. Very stupid." PS: One of the James has crap audio this round. Very sorry.

The Driver (1978)

Chris and James ask themselves the immortal question: who are they? Are they who they think they are? Or who they want them to be? Or who they think that they want them to think that they are? Or something deeper??? They also talk about 'American Death Camp: Part Two'. "That disgust, that shame... that's the ecstasy of abaddon."

Grant Morrison - The Invisibles Vol. 2 #11-13

In-your-face discussions regarding comics of the 80s, 90s, and Beyond, focusing often on X-Men comics, classic moments in comics history, and nerd topics generally, with the occasional harsh words for alt-right 90s journeyman Chuck Dixon.

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Xtinction Agenda: Comics of 80s, 90s, and Beyond

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