Oops All Monsters

THE SLIDE ROCK BOLTER - 013

Our FIRST cryptid episode! Can you dig it!?

In 1910 William T Cox's FEARSOME CREATURES OF THE LUMBERWOODS was published, a fantasy field guide of the bizarre monsters and aberrations of the mountain west, plains, and beyond. 

Perhaps the most infamous of which is the Slide Rock Bolter, a colossal land-leviathan that swallows unwitting tourists and lumberjacks unlucky enough to cross its path. 

Are you from Colorado and have been eaten by the Slide Rock Bolter? If you get cell service from inside that massive beast, let us know what it's like in there. 

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The ISZ from THE MAXX - 012

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Gavin unleashes  MTV's cutest cannibalistic trauma baubles, the impish minions of Mr Gone. They're relentless, they're multitudinous, they're unscrupulous, they are: THE ISZ. 

In the mid-90s illustrator and comic artist Sam Keith scraped together the chance to create a graphic novel of singular personal vision. In THE MAXX he depicted a twisted, grim-dark America populated by nightmarish creatures lurking in every shadow, and sensitive souls trying to navigate deadly villains, as well as the hallucinatory invasions of their own trauma and mental illness. 

Gavin posits his theories as to the ultimate meaning of The Isz, and the complexity of communicating psychological injury through media, as well as juxtaposing the mental anguish of Keith's THE MAXX with David Cronenberg's CRASH, even as Hess describes David Spader as "the guy from Mannequin". 

MONSTER MASH S1 PART 1 w/ PIXEL LIT - 011

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We have a special treat for you, Dear Readers! This is the first in a new set of Special Features we are going to run from time to time to help expand the show and bring in new voices. 

Friend of the show Kevin @thearcadologist joins us to help referee our first MONSTER MASH episode, where we put the monsters that we have been presenting into a bracket (like sports!), and use a rudimentary dice system to determine WHICH IS THE STRONGEST MONSTER OF THEM ALL!!!!

This game is a chopped and screwed version of a system invented by @thecritshow 's  Rev, which I mention in the episode, please check them out if you enjoy Actual Play goodness here: linktr.ee/thecritshow

But make sure you don't sleep on Pixel Lit, where Kevin & Phil discuss the novelizations of your favorite video games, and you can get all that here: 

The PixelLit Podcast! Because the only thing better than playing a video game, is reading about it. Hosts: @bringphilariesling and @thearcadologist

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The Kurgan - 010

Hess delivers this kickass, testosterone-fueled, 1980s rooftop sword-fight of a topic, chock full of MTV lightning, pedestrian-running-down, and the most confusing accents this side of Schwarzenegger.  Clancy Brown (Mr Crabs from Spongebob) portrays 1985's most vicious barbarian, the stud from the Russian Steppe, the sonafabitch with the segmented sword, he is: THE KURGAN.  

What else does this episode have? Queen music, Sting wearing a hood ornament bikini, and impressions of Sean Connery as Raoul Duke from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and MORE SWORDS.  Don't get greedy.

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The Interloper - 009

Gavin delves deep into the holotapes under West Virginia and mines the unknowable eldritch horror that haunts Bethesda's nightmares. Is it a tree? Is it a squid? Is it going to rise into the sky and pulverize all of Ayn-Randian Philosophy in its terrifying deterministic maw? 

Spoiler Alert...

Yes. Yes it is. 

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The Chimera - 008

Hess comes in hot with the fire-breathing triple-threat of antiquity, that luminous lady from Lycia; the Chimera!

Our hosts discuss the ancient lineage of this bronze age battle-beast, her symbolism, and then of course David Cronenberg, The Thing, and GIJOE because what show did you think you were listening to anyway? 

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Trap-Jaw - 007

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Hess delivers our first single-topic episode about Masters of the Universe's malicious metal mouthed maniac - TRAP-JAW!

Learn how Trap-Jaw is built ad-hoc from the disparate parts of Ian Fleming's 007 stories, the James Bond villain Jaws, a lost-to-history Mattel Toy line, is recycled into his true form in 1982, mangled in the Filmmation cartoon series, crippled in a graphic novel, and perhaps strangely signifies 21st century humanity's struggles to integrate with technology? Yes? YES!

Leviathan & Signs - 006

Hess brings the 1989 underwater flop starring Peter Weller and Stan's Winston's worst #fishmonsterman hangover, and Gavin discusses whether the devout Pennsylvania family in Signs are really battling a menace from outer space, or their own inner demons. 

Also an introduction to describing Benicio Del Toro

Candyman & Aquateen Hunger Force - 005

In preparation for the upcoming reimagining of the 1992 horror classic, Hess slices up what's most terrifying about Chicago's surliest bee-keeper, and Gavin disorients us with the exhaustive menagerie of surly monsters, aliens and robots that harass Adult Swim's absurd junk food heroes. 

Fimir & Deathclaw - 004

Hess details the oddly complex origins of these #MysticalLizards from Heroquest & Games Workshop, and Gavin pounces into our hit-box like a blind, radioactive T-Rex with Fallout's most menacing man-munching monsters; the Deathclaw.