Thank you to our Co-Producer patron Chris Marlton for selecting this week’s topic!

This 1997 Australian alternative rock record was a massive success in its home country, but is something we (the hosts) were totally unfamiliar with. We look at how music subjectively builds identity for some “young people” to understand why Unit is so important to adults looking back on their outsider adolescence.

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• Unit

Additional Resources:

• Polyester genius: reflecting on the boundary-pushing perfection of Regurgitator’s 1997 classic, Unit
• MUSIC REVIEW | Regurgitator – Unit (1997)
• ! (The Song Formerly Known As) by Regurgitator – towering electronic fuzz
• Jade Lazarevic. (2012, September 8). The way we were. Newcastle Herald, The (Includes the Central Coast Herald), p. 12.
• ELIZABETH LORD. (2012). Regurgitator relive retro. Mercury, The (Hobart), 6.
• Regurgitator has always pleased itself — and fans are happy to tag along Andrew M c Millen. (2018, August 2). Band of outsiders. Australian, The, p. 15.
• Regurgitator crowd still partying like it’s 1999 By: Craig Platt, Age, The (Melbourne), 03126307, Aug 13, 2018
• Brain uploading, warts and elaborate subterfuge: a chat with Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator

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This 2015 Vertigo comic by Tom King and Mitch Gerads sets a murder mystery in the Iraq War in 2004. We discuss how the creators strived for accuracy and reverence with this complex story while struggling with our own distaste for violence, glorification, and authority.

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• The Sheriff of Babylon

Additional Resources:

• One of comics’ best writers is a former CIA agent
• Inside ‘The Sheriff of Babylon,’ DC Comics’ Wartime Crime Drama
• Comic-Con: DC’s Vertigo Imprint to Launch 12 New Series Before End of Year
• Why the CIA Has to Read This Comic Before You Can
• The Best Retelling of the Iraq War Story Is a Comic Book
• 15 Reasons Why You Should Be Reading The Sheriff Of Babylon
• https://twiststreet.tumblr.com/post/181648879026
• Did Batman’s Tom King Work For the CIA? Yes, Yes He Did.
• PERSPECTIVES ON A CRIME: TOM KING AND MITCH GERADS ON ‘THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON’

Thank you to our Co-producer patron Kevin Wetter for selecting this week’s topic!

This 2003 superhero film adaption went through ten screenwriters during its production and suffered poor critical reception. We look back before the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we now know it and ask why the formula of Greek tragedy mixed with Cold War paranoia failed to work.

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• HULK

Additional Resources:

• Countdown to Hulk: Screenwriter John Turman talks about a fan’s dream job
• U Bulks Up Hulk
• Hulk Makes a Monster Out of Gamma Rays
• Green With Anger
• Ang Lee Gets Inside Hulk’s Head
• Countdown to Hulk: Screenwriter Michael France Talks ‘Hulk,’ ‘Punisher,’ and Beyond.
• Countdown to ‘Hulk’: Producers Avi Arad and Gale Anne Hurd talk
• Temper, Temper
• Ang Lee looks back at his Hulk movie
• The successful failure of Ang Lee’s Hulk
• Credit Grab
• The Hulk. (2003). Millimeter, 31(6), 14.

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