Army of Crime - Comic & Film Bulletins
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SubscribersFew people cast as unlikely a literary shadow over pop culture as H.P. Lovecraft, the New England resident and author of weird fiction who has since inspired video games, plushies, key chains and innu...
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The oldest relationships in the world might just be the relationship between animals and humans. Cattle, sheep dogs, horses, our animal buddies have always been there for us. But what would the animal...
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Peplum, noun: a genre of Greco-Roman era costume adventure films, mostly made in Italy.
See also: Peplum, a phantasmagorical fool's journey taking place in a fantasy version of Imperial Rome written ...
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Few names stand out in European comics illustration like Moebius, known for his highly imaginative and highly detailed sci-fi and fantasy art. Edena is a story that only Moebius could tell, about old ...
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There are few places more inaccessible in the world than North Korea, and while most of us will never visit the Hermit Kingdom, a handful of foreigners have gone there and back. One such account is th...
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Somewhere between a psychedelic dream and an epic fantasy tale is Yragael and its companion story Urm the Mad. Beautiful visuals by French artist Philippe Druillet finds a pairing with a story that fr...
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Fear is the mind-killer! For fans of the science fiction novel Dune, there was no greater fear than another failed attempt at adapting Frank Herbert's un-filmable novel. Did Denis Villeneuve pull of t...
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As the world spirals into political and economic chaos, many of us are faced with increasingly existential questions. How can we be happy in a violent and atomized society? Should anyone ever go on Re...
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What is Judge Dredd? Is it a cyberpunk dystopia action/adventure? A sci-fi satire? A cop story? The correct answer is "All of the Above". Join us in examining Judge Dredd: America, an acclaimed Dredd ...
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Batman has a comically huge cultural footprint, from SNES games, to animated cartoons, Hollywood blockbusters and children's underwear. Did you know that there was even Batmanga? Written and drawn by ...
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The X-Men were a sort of Lee/Kirby also-ran for many years, sitting awkwardly between the sci-fi family styling of the Fantastic Four and the superhero dynamics of the Avengers. Now the X-Men are a ...
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Epic gods once strode the Earth in times of yore. I am, of course, referring to comics creator Jack Kirby. I could also be referencing the crimson hued tyrannosaur from Devil Dinosaur, a lesser discus...
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When you think of samurai drama, what type of talking animal comes to mind? If the question sounds absurd, you may not be familiar with the long running Usagi Yojimbo series written and drawn by Stan ...
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As the world slides further into the 21st century the themes of political isolation, revolution and the absurdity of authoritarian violence look to stay as relevant as ever. Perramus is a comic abou...
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H.P. Lovecraft casts a long shadow over pop culture, in ways the author himself would never have been able to envision. A perfect example of this is At the Mountains of Madness, an adaptation of the t...
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Frank Miller's story Dark Knight Returns has long been considered a masterwork in contemporary superhero comics, and has put a stamp on the character of Batman that is still felt to this day. Almost t...
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The coming of age story is a ubiquitous staple of film and television decade after decade. Sunny, however, is a story about coming of age in a very specific time and place, namely Tokyo in the 1970s a...
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The Man Without Fear started out as a second string Marvel hero, but over the years Daredevil has collected an impressive string of credited creators, including Frank Miller, Brian Michael Bendis, Dav...
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away the Rebel Alliance battled the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. The Tales of the Jedi comic series asks the question "What happened a long time before that?" Wr...
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What is Akira? Not only is this a question that characters in the eponymous story must decipher, it is a slippery question for a reader to answer. Is Akira a precursor to the cyberpunk genre, a landma...
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Army of Crime returns for Season 2! The theme for our second season is "Attack of the Modern Age", and what better place to start a freewheeling tour of the modern age of comics than with Watchmen, th...
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All pods have been cast for Season One here at Army of Crime headquarters. Our retrospective episode looks at Hellboy, Nat Turner, Hellblazer, the upcoming Dune film and uh, cattle. Your interprid hos...
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La Marseillaise is a 1938 French film from director Jean Renoir about the French Revolution. Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection is a 1989 graphic novel by Archie Goodwin and Howard Chaykin.
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This episode we look at two starkly different takes on historical fiction. Unconquered is a Technicolor epic from 1947 directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. This ...
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The Star Wars saga began over 40 years ago with the release of Star Wars (later re-titled A New Hope) in 1977. Now, decades later, Star Wars has spanned nine films in the main storyline, multiple spin...
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This episode we look at the black and white historical fantasy comic book Mort Cinder and the Taiwanese New Wave film The Terrorizers. These works together show a variety of people's lives subject to ...
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Hell is other people. Hell is also ourselves. It is also, I suppose, a magical realm where evil creatures and the like live. This episode we examine the Steven Soderbergh joint Unsane, which is possib...
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Hell will no hold no surprises for you after listening to our episode about the 1971 film The Devils, directed by Ken Russell. Repeatedly censored and often out of print, The Devils is a searing and p...
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This episode we look at Other Mothers and other types of dangerous characters. From witch haunted American woods to the Nazi controlled streets of Paris, nothing is what it seems in Coraline and Fligh...
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Hellboy returns! Wakanda Forever! This episode we check out the Hellboy Animated films, featuring the voices from the 2004 live action film and an assortment of vampires, witches and monsters. Then th...
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In this Halloween adjacent episode, your brave co-hosts take a deep dive into the Garth Ennis written and Goran Sudzuka drawn horror comic book A Walk Through Hell. The pervasive existential nausea th...
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This episode takes us into the reaches of outer space and the depths of the Warsaw sewer system. First we examine the acclaimed comic New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke that celebrates the Golden and Silver...
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More King Arthur! This episode we are looking at the complex and critically accliamed French comic Equinoxes and the animated movie The Sword in the Stone, an animated adaptation from the novel The On...
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More Hellboy! This episode we look at two "coming of age stories". The first is Hellboy: The Midnight Circus, written by Mike Mignola and drawn by Duncan Fegredo, in which a young Hellboy begins to gl...
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This episode we explore the Matter of Britain through the fantasy film Excalibur, directed by John Boorman. Then, we take a deep dive into the Matter of Hellboy, by way of Hellboy in Hell, the culmina...
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Take a look at the steampunk/dark fantasy styling of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army with us, and then take a stroll through Krazy Kat, the comic by George Herriman that was chosen by Comics Journal as the...
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This episode we talk about what could have been and what might have been with the Star Wars spin off movie Solo, and then grapple with the complex and critically acclaimed work of comics journalism, P...
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This episode we are checking out Batman: Ego, a collection of Darwyn Cooke's Batman stories and the film Bitter Victory, a World War 2 film about divided loyalties and the fog of war directed by Nicho...
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In our tenth episode we look at an EC comics archive, Spawn of Mars and Other Stories, and an animated movie about chickens escaping from a POW camp, Chicken Run. Spawn of Mars features the top shelf ...
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Join us as we take a look at the 2017 comic series The Goddamned, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by R.M. Guera, a sort of post-apocalyptic Bible story, and the 1963 Roger Corman directed horror film...
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In this delicious episode we took a look at the Bronze Age Jack Kirby series The Eternals, about immortal super beings and ancient alien gods, and The Witch (or VVitch, if you prefer), the acclaimed 2...
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The seventh episode features Agora, the 2009 film about the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria that highlights the struggle between Christianity and paganism in the Late Roman Empire, and Will Eisner's...
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Episode six features two epic struggles, the battle between Superman and Doomsday in Death of Superman and the crossover fight between Toshiro Mifune's Yojimbo character and Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi ...
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In the fifth episode we look at the trade paperback Superman: Past and Future, collecting a variety of Superman's time travel adventures from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages and the 1932 film adapt...
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In the fourth episode we read the manga about human evil created by Ozama Tezuka and watch the elder statesman of the superhero movie, Superman, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Ree...
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In our third episode we look at Ronin, Frank Miller's comic about time traveling samurai, and Warriors of the Rainbow, a Taiwanese epic about resisting colonization.
Music is by Free Rap Beats
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In the second episode of Army of Crime we look at the Wildstorm comic Planetary and the film Alexander Nevsky. Planetary is a genre bending sci-fi team comic from Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. Alexa...
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In the premiere episode we look at the independent comic epic The First Kingdom and Justice League. The First Kingdom is written/drawn by Jack Katz and is widely considered a precursor to the contempo...
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Army of Crime is your favorite comics/film crossover podcast. Every episode your hosts, Matt and Dustin, will take you on a deep dive into Soviet propaganda, Hollywood classics, superhero comics, samurai movies, manga, sci-fi & fantasy and a lot more.
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