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After having been extracted from the creepiest basement ever and hosed clean of lotion by an FBI team, The Stack returns with a brand new episode on The Silence of Lambs. Join Chris, Hal, and special guest Chris as they discuss the book, the film, and all the related spinoffs (without spoiling the wonder that is NBC’s Hannibal series, the best TV show you’re not watching).
The Stack: Would you @#$% us? We’d @#$% us.
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After an unexpected hiatus (while Hal learned to edit audio), The Stack is back with Kraven's Last Hunt, one of the greatest Spider-man stories every published. The book should be unreadable (lion vest? Check. Forced literary allusions? Check? Mopey MJ? Check. A villain named Vermin? Check.), but the story works beautifully and is worthy of any collection. Join Chris and Hal with special guest host Mike as we dig into what makes Kraven tick. The Stack: more fun than a room full of hallucinogenic spiders.
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Mangler du episoder?
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What do you get when you combine Bruce Willis, bioterrorism, and an experimental French film that resembles a PowerPoint deck? You get 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's time-travel movie - well, other time travel movie - that manages to be both trippy and brilliant despite a distressingly low number of actual monkeys.
The Stack: we also exist in a time loop.
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Who benefits? YOU benefit from the return of the Stack!
In our third season premiere we are talking about DC's IDENTITY CRISIS, by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales.
Join us as we talk about DC's grand plans and difficult material. And Joss Whedon gets mentioned, because apparently that's impossible to avoid these days.
The Stack: not even Zatanna can stop us.
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Here we are! The finale of season 2. Yet another year has gone by in which we have proved the gypsy wrong!
Our extra-sized season closer (even for this notoriously long-winded show), in what is becoming a weird tradition, ranges far and wide over Marvel's great trade dress reimagining of last fall, Marvel Now. Is it a reboot? Is it a marketing ploy? Why are there two X-Force books that aren't very good? We discuss all this and more.
Plus that Hickman guy's name may come up once or twice in passing.
Season 2 of the Stack wraps up in typically ridiculous fashion. See you on the other side.
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This week we are rather profanely talking about the David Milch HBO Western Deadwood, famous for Al Swearengen and more f-bombs per minute than David Mamet's discarded drafts for Glengarry.
Seriously, folks, the explicit tag on this episode is not meant ironically. Very, very explicit.
But we have a lot of fun talking about a show we really, really love, and that you should too. Unless you're a hooplehead.
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To paraphrase the Tenth Doctor: we're sorry. We're so, so sorry.
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Sex! And violence! And superheroes! Oh my!
It's THE BOYS by Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, and a host of other artists. And Black Noir. And, gods save us, Team Titanic.
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There is something so monumentous in this week's show on the 117 versions of Ridley Scott's sci-fi neo-noir Blade Runner that we dare not spoil it here.
Here's a fun drinking game, though: every time someone says the word "replicant" or "subtle," take a drink.
Yes, we will visit you in the hospital.
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Before Jonathan Hickman's groundbreaking, earthshaking, heart-stopping run on FANTASTIC FOUR, the cover of the book used to read "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine."
On this episode, we go into great detail about why Hickman's run on this book literally is the greatest comic ever made.
All hope lies in The Stack.
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DAH
DAH
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DUM
DAH!
(repeat, adding hand signals)
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This week we are taking a look at TRUTH: RED, WHITE, AND BLACK, a book you may not have read. And if you want to read it that's going to be very hard, because it's out of print. And that sucks, because you should read it. It's incredible. Written by Robert Morales and drawn by Kyle Baker, TRUTH is the story of a second Super Soldier program in World War II that experimented on African-American soldiers, and the repercussions that had in the 1940s and today.
It's an astounding book, and the fact that it's out of print makes your faithful podcast hosts about as angry as you've ever heard them. If you have read it, or you manage to get your hands on it, you will very quickly learn why.
The Stack - yeah, Marvel, we called you a travesty. And we mean it.
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
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Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell take us on a harrowing tour of 19th century London and the secret history of Jack the Ripper in FROM HELL, their hulking, tome-like, extensively-cited black and white masterpiece. While FROM HELL may not necessarily be the first comic to have endnotes, it certainly has the best.
Join us as we talk about magical architecture, Victorian pornography, and unsettling Venn diagrams.
The Stack: the saddle point in the curve of history.
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Steven Moffat! A Tolkein dwarf! Wedge Antilles!
This episode we are talking about something that incredibly contains all of these things, and isn't that secret Doctor Who fanfic you wrote in high school. It's the BBC miniseries Jekyll, written by Doctor Who and Coupling scribe Steven Moffat, aka your god, and starring James Nesbitt, Gina Bellman and a host of comic actors in a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of Victorian repression and genetic damage.
Also we close with a patented Stack-style extended digression on the British television model.
The Stack: some happier podcast's dark side given form.
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Ah, yes. KINGDOM COME. Mark Waid and Alex Ross' mid-90s epic on the end of the DC Universe. It's painted! Stuff happens! And... uh... yeah, think we'll stop there.
The Stack: the world's only fully-painted podcast.
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What happens when a crazy alien in love with Death (the person) gains ultimate power? He snaps his fingers, kills half the universe, and then spends six issues talking about how weird it is to have ultimate power, and hey, what is ultimate power anyway?
You'd think we're making this up. We're not. This is the driving thrust behind THE INFINITY GAUNTLET by Jim Starlin, George Perez and Ron Lim, the brilliant, trippy, bizarre Marvel mega-event that dared to ask questions about... well, pretty much everything.
Also the Silver Surfer is in it, so that's fun.
The Stack - we also live in the Soul Gem.
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The Professor, The Designer and The Cannibal take us on a journey into one of the best new comics of the 21st century as The Stack dives headfirst into THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, the brilliant and bonkers creation of a rock star and half a set of twins.
Join us as we talk about the reluctant bonds of family with robots and monkeys, the joy of a perfectly executed comic, and Viggo Mortensen.
The Stack: we're what the world needs saving from.
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