016. Equinoxes + The Sword in the Stone

09/27/19 • 36 min

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.

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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).

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

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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).

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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).