Army of Crime - Comic & Film Bulletins

018. A Walk Through Hell

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 that resulted may take weeks to fully fade. Our most macabre episode is probably one to listen to with the lights on! 

 

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

 

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Topics for this episode include A Walk Through Hell volume 1 (available print and digital) and A Walk Through Hell volume 2 (available print and digital), Caliban by Garth Ennis and Facundo Pericio (available in digital or print), and Helllblazer written by Garth Ennis (available in an omnibus or as volumes 5-8 of Hellblazer).

017. Kanal + DC: The New Frontier

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 Ages of DC comics, followed by the film Kanal, a harrowing saga about the Polish resistance in the last days of the Warsaw Uprising, directed by Andrzej Wajda. 

 

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

 

Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 and on the web at armyofcrime.com.  

 

Topics for this episode include Kanal, (available on streaming), New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke (available in digital or print), Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (available on disc or digital), and Ashes and Diamonds directed by Andrzej Wajda (available in digital).

016. Equinoxes + The Sword in the Stone

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 Once and Future King. This episode has it all! Time travel! Airports! Multi-level socio-political narratives! Talking animals! 

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 and on the web at armyofcrime.com. 

Topics for this episode include Sword in the Stone, (available on disc or digital), Equinoxes by Cyril Pedrosa (available in digital or print), The Once and Future King written by TH White (available in digital or print), and Peplum by Blutch (available in digital or print).

015. Hellboy: The Midnight Circus + How I Live Now

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 glimpse the dark outlines of his cursed life. We also look at the love story/post-apocalyptic film How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Kevin Macdonald. Evil circuses! Angst! Bildungsroman! 

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 or on the web at armyofcrime.com. 

Topics for this episode include: 

Hellboy: The Midnight Circus (available in print or digital) (written by Mike Mignola and drawn by Duncan Fegredo), 

Hellboy Omnibus Editions, created by Mike Mignola and collected in Volume 1 (print or digital), Volume 2 (print or digital), Short Stories Volume 1 (print or digital), Short Stories Volume 2 (print or digital), Volume 3 (print or digital) and Volume 4 (print or digital), 

How I Live Now, (available on disc or digital) and 

Hope and Glory (available on disc or digital).

014. Hellboy in Hell + Excalibur

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 culmination of decades of storytelling by legendary comics creator Mike Mignola.

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 or on the web at armyofcrime.com. 

Topics for this episode include Excalibur, directed by John Boorman, available on disc or digital. Hellboy in Hell, written and drawn by Mike Mignola, available in print and digtal in an omnibus format. Camelot 3000, written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Brian Bolland, is available in print or digital. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola, available in print and digital.

013. Hellboy 2 + Krazy Kat

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 best comic strip of all time.  


Music is by Free Rap Beats. 


Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 or on the web at armyofcrime.com. 

Topics for this episode include Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, directed by Guillermo del Toro, available on disc or digital. Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918, written and drawn by George Herriman, available in print and digtal. Hellboy: The Crooked Man collected in Hellboy Short Stories Omnibus 2 in print or digital. Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond, the first volume is available in print as well as the complete series.

012. Palestine + Solo

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, Palestine, created by Joe Sacco. 


Music is by Free Rap Beats.


Find us on the web at www.armyofcrime.com and on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444. 

Topics for this episode include: 
Palestine, written and drawn by Joe Sacco (available in print), 
Solo, directed by Ron Howard (available in digital, disc, and dvd), 
Star Wars: Dark Empire, written by Tom Vietch, art by Cam Kennedy (available in print and digital) and 
Death in Gaza, directed by James Miller (available on dvd).

011. Batman: Ego + Bitter Victory

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 Nicholas Ray. Ego also features Selena's Big Score, a top notch crime thriller starring Catwoman. 

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

Find us on the web at www.armyofcrime.com or on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444.

 

010. Spawn of Mars + Chicken Run

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 sci-fi art of comics legend Wally Wood and Chicken Run is directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park, co-creators of Wallace and Gromit.

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

Find us on the web at www.armyofcrime.com or on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444.

 

009. The Goddamned + The Raven

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 The Raven, which features an all star cast of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson. Music is by Free Rap Beats. Find us on the web at www.armyofcrime.com or on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444.