Thank you all for a wonderful three years of Collective Action Comics!

Please find attached the answers to all your burning questions. I tried my best to answer each one with the appropriate proportion of sass and humility.

Here's to the future! Very proud to be fighting for it alongside all of you.

(Please don't X-communicate me for having once liked Joss Whedon's X-Men)

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, friend of the show Shaun Corley takes Nat on a historical jaunt through a catalog of Marvel's earliest anticommunist stories and characters all the way up to some of their more recent racist depictions of dastardly foreigners.

Find the full episode on the Patreon!

(A contribution to MECA has been made in Shaun's name in appreciation for his appearance on the show.)

BIG APOLOGIES FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY. Nat was trying something new, and boy howdy did it not work.

https://screenrant.com/author/shaun-corley/

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, we laugh! We cry! The great critic and writer Elizabeth Sandifer walks Nat through Mark Millar from his earliest work (it might surprise you) to his most recent corporate gambit (it won't)!

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From oil fields to poppy fields to killing fields, the United States lays claim upon the Earth. Overwhelming force in service of the export of capital requires constant presence and insistent justification.

There is no excuse too craven nor apologia too callow for the media that abets these crimes. No matter how you costume it, the violence is beyond vindication and even beyond satire.

Our heroes can do better. We can do better. We will.

(This season owes love and gratitude to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, without whom poetry would be incomplete.)

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You asked, we delivered! We're finally doing it, folks! We're tackling the movies!

In this sweeping interview, Walt from the Black Casebook breaks down what works and what doesn't about Whedon's two Avengers movies and how they compare politically and narratively to Millar's The Ultimates.

Subscribe on Patreon to hear the whole thing!

Listen to the Black Casebook anywhere fine podcasts are sold!

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Sometimes, you have to break a few omelettes to get to the eggs inside.

"Conventional wisdom" is a curious thing, and, in the United States, it's been deliberately constructed, shaped, and molded over the last 70+ years.

Patriotic imagery and severely lacking history curricula have joined forces to warp the perception of the US, leaving its citizens believing it to be a historical force for good. Obviously, this isn't the truth.

But, hey, you certainly wouldn't know it from this issue.

And, yes. It's the one with Captain America doing that thing you've heard about.

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Message delivered. The end of the mission draws near.

In this special bonus interview for season two, we get to hear from writer/artist Ben Becker on the first issue of his new anthology series "Paper Medicine" and follow him on the journey that led him to write about some very comradely goldfish piloting a mechanical man.

Join us as we talk comics, cooperatives, and the aquatic liberation that only communism can bring.

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Buy Paper Medicine! https://benmaxbecker.com/shop

Volunteer with the Cartoonist Cooperative! https://cartoonist.coop/

Good news: There's very little of The Ultimates in this episode.

Bad news: That means we have to fill air time talking about ways in which the US government infiltrates and shuts down left wing movements, how the working class needs to learn to come together, and how other countries are good, actually. Hooray.

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Tony Stark knows you better than you know yourself.

In this age of sensors, cameras, and speculative markets, everything we do is catalogued and sold to the highest bidder.

Unlike the Earth in this issue, our privacy isn't being invaded. We're giving it up willingly.

(Ultimate Celebrity Sighting Count: 23)

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