Xtinction Agenda

Sins of Sinister #1 - March, 2023 - Written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by many, many others.

The Ambassadors #1 - March 2023 - Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Frank Quitely.

Batman/Spawn #1 - February, 2023 - Written by Todd McFarlane, pencilled by Greg Capullo.

The world is run by the invisible hands of invisible persons. Running wild and covert. But one team has had enough. For Cole Cash and Spartan, it's time for action! Time to become the most invisible of hands so that the world can be cradled into the future.

"Evolution is an unavoidably violent process."

The hunter, ruthless bloody bastard, will skin you to the bones. Sometimes wearing a monocle. Sometimes wearing fishnet stockings and sporting long, sharp nails.

Question unasked until now: Is the Predator a woman? A space woman? An invisible space woman who KILLS ALL PERFECT MEN?

Sadly, we do not answer this question. But we do enjoy a classic. Join us.

"Same kind of moon, same kind of jungle. Real number 10, remember?"

No mercy with Percy and let 'errrrr Ryp! Hey kids, it's WOLVERINE!

What sort of shenanigans has our diminutive Canadian been up to since mutants go themselves yet another island utopia? The answer: far more and far less than we could have ever imagined possible.

"Cover your ears and open your mouth!"

It's all coming together now. The fates have activated the fates. The tragedy is in place, the gun aimed. A blackpowder dream.

"I wish I could remember what you smell like."

What do the rich care, alive on their boats and up in the air, in the clouds, breathing the atmosphere of capital? We hold their trays for them and watch them feast, anxious for scraps, praying for a high pressure front to overturn their olympian existence, to turn the world inside out.

The one word we failed to use: carnivalesque. Meat party. Now.

Try to relax your triangle of sadness.

"I'm so sorry about that. That was irresponsible."

The poor, struggling artist is trapped in the guilded cage by his own obsession. Blessed with every material he could ever want, staffed by the greatest assistants on spaceship earth, he nonetheless laments his life, fixating on past trauma.

And the devil gnashed: how awful it is to be successful and desired, for the critics to know all your techniques, for them to identify all of your flavours. Where is the power in that?

For him, the artist, there is now only the heat of the hellish kitchen.

"You will eat less than you desire and more than you deserve."

Here is what we shall do. We shall take hundreds of our soldiers, most of them borrowed from a smash and grab that occurred hundreds of years ago. We will paint them as True Warriors. We shall put them behind enemy lines and ask them to help conquer themselves. We shall call this Valour. Then, when it all goes tits up, we shall pretend it never happened.

"Ach, I've seen worse up the shore road on a Saturday night, sir. That's no word of a lie."

Did you feel that? Reality Storm. Always happens this time of year. Thunder. Lightning. Twenty centimetres of allegory expected. Chance of simile. Like a young girl hiding among men in a universe of No Girls Allowed, it's best to stay Inn. Find your stories there. If you have any.

"That's your proof."

Captain America #400 "Murder by Decree!" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen.

Avengers West Coast Vol. 2#82 "Shi'ar Hatred!" Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen.

Quasar #34 "The Scorched Sun" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Keith Williams, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettered by Janice Chiang.

Wonder Man Vol. 2 #9"Big Decisions" Written by Gerard Jones, pencilled by Jeff Johnson (w/Stephen B. Jones), inked by Dan Panosian and Bud LaRosa, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Pat Brosseau.

Avengers #347 "Empire's End" Written by Bob Harras, pencilled by Steve Epting, inked by Tom Palmer, coloured by Gina Going, and lettered by Bill Oakley.

May, 1992