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Ep. 39: Abandon of Hope’eth, Ye Who Enter Here’eth

Good news: There's very little of The Ultimates in this episode.

Bad news: That means we have to fill air time talking about ways in which the US government infiltrates and shuts down left wing movements, how the working class needs to learn to come together, and how other countries are good, actually. Hooray.

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Vol. 2 #11 - Secret Identities: Guises, Spies-es, and Ruling Class Lies-es

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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[Unlocked] Vol. 2 Interview #1 - A Prescription of Paper Medicine (w/ Ben Becker)

Message delivered. The end of the mission draws near.

Tape - 8/4/23, Received and Catalogued

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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Vol. 2 #12 - Capital Under the Cowl: Disguising History for Work and War

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!
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[Teaser] Vol. 2 Interview #2 - Whedon's Avengers vs. Millar's Ultimates (w/ The Black Casebook)

New version of this song with updated lyrics: National flags as emblems of much more than mere identity.

Double-speak or platitude, in any language, means the same / Talking-head apologist, deflection is your game / New-blood spilled 'over there', 'matter of national security' / 'Mow the grass', beyond the wall, 'defend our boundary'
That Flag, fluttering, heavy on the breeze
That Flag, signifies, people on their knees
Dog-whistles raise the heat, kerosene on raging flames / Shouts of 'country right or wrong', promote your fascist aims / 'Full-spectrum dominance', enhance war-profit machinery / 'Show of force', 'Shock therapy', in the name of sovereignty
That Flag, fluttering, light on the breeze
That Flag, represents, people on their knees
Take it down, take, it, down, Jingoism’s day is done / Billions of cousins, One-family, Mama-Africa’s Children / One World, One Heart, all will be forgiven
It’s not too late, It’s not too late
Those Flags, fluttering, heavy on the breeze
Flags, only continue, shameful history, All Flags…

Composition & performance by Stephen Scott. Lyrics, BMI 2023.

THAT FLAG! 2.0

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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Vol. 2 #13 - Classless Conflict: How the Ultimates Fails the World

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
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Ep. 39: Abandon of Hope’eth, Ye Who Enter Here’eth

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