Who Watches the Watchers?

This week we dive into the wonderful multiverse of What If...? with Chip Zdarsky and Pasqual Ferry's SPIDER-MAN: SPIDER'S SHADOW! We talk about this alternate reality where Peter Parker decides to keep the symbiote and unintentionally become Venom himself. We also talk about the first season of the Disney+ series, What If? So join us on this multiverse hopping episode as we continue the se...

This week we finally talk about DUNE, directed and written by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgard, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Javier Bardem rounding out this insanely stacked cast. We talk about and compare it to it's novel as well as the David Lynch v...

This week we return to the wonderful world of UNCANNY X-FORCE as we continue on with issues 11-19! Created by Rick Remender, Esad Ribic, Mark Brooks, Jerome Opena, Dean White, Robbi Rodriguez and more; Uncanny X-Force continues to deliver as we dive head first into the multi-part epic that is THE DARK ANGEL SAGA. So join us as we get all uncanny about it! Follow us on Instagram for the love of god...

This week we're talking about the 2003, Korean Crime/Drama, MEMORIES OF MURDER, directed and written by Bong Joon Ho. The film, also known as Salinui chueok, stars Jae-ho Song, Roe-ha Kim, Kim Sang-kyung, Seo-hie Ko, Park Hae-il, Byun Hee-Bong and Kang-ho Song. We talk about how stellar this film is and how it echoes out and ripples across all of Bong Joon Ho's films. So join us this episo...

This week we're talking about Uncanny X-Force (issues 1-10) by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Dean White, Esad Ribic, Matt Wilson, Rafael Albuquerque, Billy Tan and Rich Elson. We talk about the first two or three arcs in this overall fantastic book. Arcs like, THE APOCALYPSE SOLUTION and DEATHLOK NATION. So come join us as we forever search for the answer to WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS? Follow us on I...

This week we're talking about the 2007 period epic, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, Ciaran Hinds and Paul Dano. Join us as we get deep in the oil and forever ask the undying question, Who Watches the Watchers? Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/wwtwpodcast/

This week we talk about NARUTO Vol 53 by Masashi Kishimoto and published by Jump Comics. We also cover the episodes of the anime that encompasses what transpires within the manga. This is surely not the last time we'll go home and watch Naruto but it is the first! So listen in and join us as we continue to ponder the question, Who Watches the Watchers? Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: h...

On this episode, we talk about NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, created by Hideaki Anno. We talk about the director's cut version of the original 1995 series as well as Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (2007), Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (2009), Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo (2012) and Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time (2021). What a mouthful. So come join us on this extra long...

This week we return to the world of INVINCIBLE with issues 14-24 by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Bill Crabtree. We talk about how much of the series was able to pull from these issues even though they take place after the first big Omni-Man event. We also talk about some differences and events that have not yet been translated to the Amazon series. So come and join us as we continue our quest t...

This week we talk about THE THING directed John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Richard Masur, David Clennon, Peter Maloney, David Moffat, T.K. Carter and Wilford Brimley. We talk about how hot and heavy the alien genre must have been around the time of this film's release and how much of a staple it still exists within the body horror sub-genre. This is also the last Halloween e...

This week we talk about ICE CREAM MAN (issues 1-12) by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo and Chris O'Halloran. This book is an anthology of various twisted and terrifying stories with an underlying backbone centered around the unknowable ice cream man, Rick. This book continues on with this month of spooky episodes! Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/wwtwpodcast/

This week we talk about The Sixth Sense, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis, Olivia Williams, Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment. We talk about how ground breaking this movie was and how it now lives in an odd space of pop culture between originality and infamy. We also talk about depression and how all our homes have been destroyed by divorce... Follow us on Ins...

This week we talk about BLUE IN GREEN by Ram V, Anand RK, John Pearson, Aditya Bidikar and Tom Muller. BUT before we talk about Blue in Green, we also catch up on a book previously read, BOG BODIES by Declan Shalvey, Gavin Fullerton, Rebecca Nalty and Clayton Cowles. We talk about what we really enjoy about both books, but also little qualms we had with each title... so basically a book review. Da...

This week we talk about PERFECT BLUE but also PAPRIKA, both directed by Satoshi Kon. We talk about how both films play with the struggles of loss of identity and how it can change the way one may perceive reality. We talk briefly about Kon's entire library of work and how coincidental it was that we chose his first and final films to compare. We talk about all that and so so much more in this kind...

This week we're talking about SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN (issues 1-15) by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera and Miquel Muerto. We continue our series of Halloween themed episodes with this very frightening story, that's crafted near perfectly within the first 15 issues. We talk about all that the beginning arcs have to offer and where the story could go from here, as well as how we'd like...

This week we talk about LET THE RIGHT ONE IN directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Karin Bergquist, Patrik Rydmark and Johan Charles. We also briefly talk comparisons between it and it's remake, Let Me In, directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins. We talk about how beautiful the movie is and how i...

This week we travel into the post apocalyptic world of WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer. We venture into this story and discus what makes it so exciting and enthralling and how the art furiously breaks out of each panel. We also talk about how this comic could be the All-Star Superman or more appropriately, the Dark Knight Returns for Wonder Woman and the weight th...

This week we're talking about the latest entry in the MCU, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and staring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Meng'er Zhang, Fala Chen, Michelle Yeoh, Wah Yuen, Florian Munteanu, Ronny Chieng and Sir Ben Kingsley. We talk about our first impressions of the movie and all of its well crafted characters and how this story fits into...

This week we launch our month of spooky books with a real banger in THE IMMORTAL HULK (Issues 1-15) by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy Jose, Leo Romero, Paul Hornschemeier, Marguerite Sauvage, Garry Brown, Lee Garbett, Martin Simmonds, Eric Nguyen and Kyle Hotz. We talk about how this book morphs the Hulk into something far more sinister and disturbing and the implications that come along with his new...

This week we talk about the 2011 film Attack the Block, directed and written by Joe Cornish and starring John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones, Franz Drameh, SImon Howard, Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost. We talk about the effort to utilize practical effects that this movie enforces and it's economical runtime and how well it covers so much story within. We also talk about the effec...

This week we talk about ONCE & FUTURE (Issues 1-12) by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain. We talk about how much we love this take on the tales of King Arthur as well as some other surprising characters of legend. We also talk about how much we love some of the wonderful characters and cameos we get along the way. All that and so much more in this episode of Who Watches the Watchers...

This week we talk about the crime comedy film, Snatch, directed and written by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones, Ade, Benicio Del Toro, Lennie James, Robbie Gee and Dennis Farina. We talk about the multiple storylines to follow and the outrageous action and comedy that they entail, all within it's trim and tight 102 minute runtime. All that and so muc...

This week we talk about the monumental vision of a DC Comics future in KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid, Alex Ross and Todd Klein. We talk about the importance that the comic holds and how it was a reflection, not only of the future but very much also of the era it was created in. Join us as we delve in the waters that make this dense piece of work as we continue to search for the ever-ending question: W...

This week we talk about Knives Out, directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, LaKeith Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, and Christopher Plummer. We talk about the fascinating structure of the films plot and it's pseudo-cartoon characters and how these things pull this movie from the deep shadow that looms over from Johnso...

This week we talk about the tome that is AKIRA by Katsuhiro Otomo. We review all 6 volumes of the endlessly dense manga and talk about the vast differences between it and it's anime counterpart. We also talk about the influences spawned from this brilliant work across film, television, video games and even other manga and comics. Join our bike gang this week as we continue to search for the answer...