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Xtinction Agenda

Xtinction Agenda isn"t for everyone. It"s a book club and a movie club and a place for people to talk TV and comic books. But nothing too new. It"s a rough place where tired old dads tackle pop culture artifacts of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s (mostly). Not a lot of hand-holding as a consequence. These are not introductions to pop culture but discussions about it. As such, we expect the audience to have some degree of experience. Basically then, if you"re a hotdog and you"re looking for a mustache

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52:29

Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta - Absolute Batman #1-6

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/29

It was once common to ask if one could place the essence of a life into that another world. Now, numerous times, this has been done. New question: can a soul descend into its own material self and somehow speak? Time to find out.

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43:24

Katsuhiro Ôtomo - Akira

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/25

Buncha do nothings, deadend bored at the bar, desperate to keep away the night, riding sleek, red single-rider beasts into the maw of the city, slipping between teeth and nearly swallowed by the belly of it all. Sometimes the future comes to us from places that we didn't expect.

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55:42

Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man #1-10

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/23

Man, the strait waistcoat that folds over struggling breast, weighs tightly. Heavy, coarse-haired, inescapable, old when history was young, he binds wrists and spreads legs. He is a charnel house. What will remain from his passing? "So, uh...How much do I owe you for the clean underpants?"

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55:08

Kenji Tanigaki - The Furious

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/19

The peen of a hammer unsheathed crunches the unsuspecting sternum of child trafficker baddies. He climbs their bodies, bludgeoning bone. Somewhere in all this violence, innocence huddles, waiting. "Looks like a Chinese mute looking for his daughter."

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40:09

Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/13

Red volcanic screams sought peace, blooming fire and sucking dust. To no avail. Peace instead inched its way into the world through a firm foot slid backwards into sand, through piteous burning whimpers, and through thin filaments of care. "My heart's pounding."

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01:07:58

Alan Moore - Watchmen #12

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/10

O Seymour, Crank file keeper, Reach through those thin missives. O Seymour, Green shirt avatar, Grasp the leather-bound truth. O Seymour, You are A stomach Ready to burst. "You have two more pages to fill before you eat, thanks to that goddammed ass-kissing accord!"

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01:08:52

Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing / Point Break

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/05

Whether on green, unbroken crests Or across the barreled boneyard, Love fetches and lifts. Keep your ear close to the face of the wave, Let its thunderous static surround you. "Two bricks coming up."

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01:01:34

Peter Cullen - The Return of Optimus Prime Pt. 1-2

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/09/01

Faced with the threat of burning, crawling, infectious hatred, Of mothers clutching babies, popping thin skulls on cobblestone, Of last days in the third Cybertronian war, The second king quested and beguiled Ripped wisdom from the heart of his son, And in a sacrifice of souls proclaimed, "Now light our darkest hour." "- But Prime, I'm just a soldier. I'm not worthy. - Nor was I."

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51:52

Bryan Fuller - Hannibal

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/08/26

He asks you to ask questions about yourself, All the while imagining a scalpel-sharp blade Severing your horizontal fissure, Soft pink cubes soon soaked in vinegar For ten minutes or more, Before washed, salted and spiced, Cooked and finally fried, A thin sliver of smile across his face. "You have to convince yourself the lion is not in the room. When it is, I assure you, you will know."

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44:31

Eric Larsen - Savage Dragon

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/08/20

The pressure of sex Bends mirrored love Like stone on spandex; It shatters it into thin sharp fragments, And then mends it, fitting glass madly, Until time and choice collapse. "Time to win some hearts and minds!"

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55:02

Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez - Batman #1-12

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/08/11

How cool is this comic? We didn't even talk about the costume re-design. The costume re-design was literally the least interesting thing about this comic. And that's not a slight. It's a cool re-design. A cool re-design in a cool comic. For cool people. Like you.

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52:01

Patrick Swayze - Steel Dawn

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/08/08

Blue womb in barren sand, an endless supply of civilization. Soon the city will return to the nuclear wastes, born of nuclear love. All that now remains is a man.

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01:14:55

Alan Moore - Watchmen #11

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/08/03

Brain hemorrhaging cadaverine cephalopod stares, unblinking. Fearing crosshairs of world's grim end, it is released.

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01:01:55

Steven Seagal - On Deadly Ground

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/31

Like grease on your beard, greed flavours the rich man's every bite. He sniffs and snorts and rummages in greed, the rich man. Crawling, he seeks just one more thing to swallow and shit. Better to burn such a creature and leave its bones for the dogs. "Is this the one who's got you all concerned about the dirty snow? Jesus, Forrest! You and me, we bought hookers better than this for five bucks in Bangkok!"

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54:53

Geoff Johns - Batman: Earth One Vol. 1

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/24

Within the predator, prey, survivor types fallen into the trash-strewn streets, guilt blossoms, a black flower with leather petals, seeding some simulacrum of restored hope and the promise of brutal revenge.

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01:00:49

Matt Fraction and David Aja - Hawkeye #1-11

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/18

Bro is just like us, bro. Sure he's an Avenger, and an adventurer and a ladies man, but--bro--underneath all of that, bro is actually a Zen slacker screw up. So it's okay for bro to like him. I mean, look at bro's relationship with his sidekick. That's a good dude, bro. The creators definitely aren't engaging in a high-end art rock Gen X nostalgia white wash of a shitty character, bro! "Hey, my laserdiscs!"

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47:07

Stefano Sollima - Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/14

Smirking mini-van mother, self-aware, symbol of a fallen world, pockets the cash. Its getting so you can't even tell who the gangbangers are anymore. School yard bullies turn out to be lost, wounded princesses, needing saving. And soldiers know sign language.

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41:58

Peter and Bobby Farrelly - Kingpin

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/03

Stubborn rubber ring bearing hand strokes the veiny shaft, milking the bull, oblivious as hot cream pulses neighing into grey bucket. He is reminded of her yellow teeth. And yet he drinks.

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56:45

Alan Moore - Watchmen #10

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/07/01

You know how sometimes people do that thing where they come at The Odyssey or whatever from an oblique angle? Like that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern shit? What I want to know is: what if we did that with Archie in Watchmen? That rugged and loyal companion abandoned like truth in the snow. What was his story, I wonder?

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54:41

Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice

Xtinction Agenda ·

2026/06/27

Hunkered down in cathode glow, cutting grass, dirty hippy hunter, "Doc" Sportello, Ponders the mystery before him, the tarot, And scrawls his prayer, a steadfast arrow. "Honey, make it quick. I got a live one tonight and I totally fucked up my face."

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