The MOST DANGEROUS Comic Book Ever Published
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- In this episode, Chris and Steven confront highly disturbing revelations about the CIA and American global politics, courtesy of the explosive whistleblower comic, BROUGHT TO LIGHT (Eclipse Comics, 1988), written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz. Buckle up, folks. This is a wild one. BROUGHT TO LIGHT really is the most dangerous comic book ever published!
COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comic books (plus a few notable exceptions) in a weekly podcast format. Screenwriters Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) and Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) discuss their favorite comics and creators from the Bronze Age.
SHOW NOTES
0:00 - CRYB! theme song
01:07 - The origins of BROUGHT TO LIGHT: The Christic Institute, Eclipse Comics, Cat Yronwode, Dean Mullaney, Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, Warner Books, the CIA, the U.S. government, and the target on everyone's back for even telling this story
14:49 - “How America Was Robbed...”
17:17 - An American eagle walks into a bar... A discussion of the audacious narrative conceit of this comic
23:42 - Swimming pools of blood as a visual metaphor ...for the horrifying worldwide death toll caused by far-reaching immoral CIA covert operations ...and for the U.S. government's secret involvement in a multitude of global assassinations and coups = “An infographic from Hell”
28:47 - “I want to talk about Sienkiewicz’s art.” “We need to.”
38:55 - A reading from the gospel of our CIA eagle-agent guy and his squawkings about the assassination of JFK
44:35 - “An assault on your whole belief in America.” In the spirit of Noam Chomsky & "Manufacturing Consent"
46:29 - The suppression and burial of BROUGHT TO LIGHT
57:30 - Peak Alan Moore and peak Bill Sienkiewicz -- reinventing comics with everything they do at this point
1:02:08 - Our eagle agent contemplates suicide with a gun to his own head; the brilliant juxtaposition between Moore’s words and Sienkiewicz’s pictures
1:15:00 - Things get meta. The eagle goes after The Christic Institute with vitriol and makes his final desperate case to us, the readers
1:21:17 - Creators who risk infusing their art with their own deeply held political beliefs
1:28:14 - Sienkiewicz’s stunningly-wrought hand-done lettering on BROUGHT TO LIGHT; Steven's eternal soliloquy raging against the dying of the light, as the scourge of font lettering comes over the hillside like a plague of end-time locusts devouring modern comics, etc.
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🎙SHOW NOTES
In this episode, Chris and Steven confront highly disturbing revelations about the CIA and American global politics, courtesy of the explosive whistleblower comic, BROUGHT TO LIGHT (Eclipse Comics, 1988), written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz. Buckle up, folks. This is a wild one. BROUGHT TO LIGHT really is the most dangerous comic book ever published!
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - CRYB! theme song
01:07 - The origins of BROUGHT TO LIGHT: The Christic Institute, Eclipse Comics, Cat Yronwode, Dean Mullaney, Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, Warner Books, the CIA, the U.S. government, and the target on everyone's back for even telling this story
14:49 - “How America Was Robbed...”
17:17 - An American eagle walks into a bar... A discussion of the audacious narrative conceit of this comic
23:42 - Swimming pools of blood as a visual metaphor ...for the horrifying worldwide death toll caused by far-reaching immoral CIA covert operations ...and for the U.S. government's secret involvement in a multitude of global assassinations and coups = “An infographic from Hell”
28:47 - “I want to talk about Sienkiewicz’s art.” “We need to.”
38:55 - A reading from the gospel of our CIA eagle-agent guy and his squawkings about the assassination of JFK
44:35 - “An assault on your whole belief in America.” In the spirit of Noam Chomsky & "Manufacturing Consent"
46:29 - The suppression and burial of BROUGHT TO LIGHT
57:30 - Peak Alan Moore and peak Bill Sienkiewicz -- reinventing comics with everything they do at this point
1:02:08 - Our eagle agent contemplates suicide with a gun to his own head; the brilliant juxtaposition between Moore’s words and Sienkiewicz’s pictures
1:15:00 - Things get meta. The eagle goes after The Christic Institute with vitriol and makes his final desperate case to us, the readers
1:21:17 - Creators who risk infusing their art with their own deeply held political beliefs
1:28:14 - Sienkiewicz’s stunningly-wrought hand-done lettering on BROUGHT TO LIGHT; Steven's eternal soliloquy raging against the dying of the light, as the scourge of font lettering comes over the hillside like a plague of end-time locusts devouring modern comics, etc.
COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comic books (plus a few notable exceptions) in a weekly podcast format. Screenwriters Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) and Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age.
+ Check out our TH-cam channel to get a look at some of the fantastic art featured in our episodes. Visit us at www.ComicsRotYourBrain.com to sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column. You can also find us wherever you stream your favorite podcasts.
+ We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: www.patreon.com/ComicsRotYourBrain
+ For even more cool shit, read Chris's Substack (cinema, comics, and culture) - THIN ICE, christopherderrick.substack.com
I think the part where the eagle tries to unalive itself represents that this legacy that it represents cannot be erased or killed? Like that it’s not that simple. Giving American gods a little bit.
@YungAngelo69
Valid Theory! Yeah, that scene is so multi-layered I think it (purposefully) lends itself to multiple legit explanations.
- Steven
Great video and discussion. Why have I never heard of this comic?
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, exactly… The invisibility of this book has been a crime against comics!
- Steven
As we said, this book was suppressed! - Chris
Uh… I’m sure the Bush & Reagan admins had something to do with the scant knowledge of the book.
- Chris
Great episode guys. I finally snagged a cheap copy on eBay after listening. I’ve wanted to read it for years, but couldn’t find it when it came out. It seems to be even more prescient the past 20 years with the CIA being exposed as being even more actively involved in our own country as opposed to foreign nations.
I’d like to suggest the 2 issue series from Eclipse- REAL WAR STORIES. I was able to snag number 2 at my LCS wayyy back when it came out. Very interesting and eye opening, in particular the story “Body washing “.
Recently finally found issue 1. Not as gripping as 2, but still a great read. This stuff is pretty common knowledge now, but not back then.
I lean conservative, but things like Real War Stories taught me at a young age to hold a very critical eye towards government whether republican or democrat.
Shout out to Cat Yronwode!!! Read her Fit to Print for years. Opened my brain to lots of amazing art, books and American history. She did an entire column on the WPA artists. There are two huge WPA paintings in my local postal office
The WPA artists’ murals are amazing. That government program and the art that came from it is barely talked about today, which is a crime.
Those Diego Rivera works are still mind blowing.
I guess as an FDR program to help ease the unemployment from the Great Depression it’s not going to the necessary love and respect after the Red Scare and Reagan’s deriding of government as “being the problem” but the nation got a lot of beauty and great infrastructure.
Glad you’re enjoying the show, we’ll take a look at REAL WORLD STORIES, but can’t promise when or if we’ll get to it. We’re neck deep in the season 2 selection of material. So stay tuned! - Chris.
I know I’m less than 5 minutes in, but really reading the panels & examining the little details on the page, I’m reminded of a recent documentary I watched about a Tech Journalist in the 90s, who was found unalived in his hotel room w/ way too many slits where you’d usually find them + all his notes/paperwork on the Story gone.
He was writing about something he called “The Octopus”, which fits the description of what The Christic Institute stated: A multi-prong cabal of world-shakers & movers who deal in all sorts of illicit activity and influence domestic & international affairs.
I may chime in to this later after the episode but so far, this is a great obscure pick!
Ooo! I’m very intrigued by this “The Octopus” story, do you recall the name of the documentary? - Chris
@@ComicsRotYourBrain yes, it’s a Netflix docuseries called American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
It’s pretty wild, man. I would even go as far as to say that’s it’s very charitable to both sides of the conversation around Conspiracy Theories and is headed by a photojournalist who spent a decade researching it to try and compile it all 👍🏽
@@yeez13 Thank you for the very intriguing-sounding recommendation… Will check it out!
- Steven
love the art in this book. great talk
Yeah, Sienkiewicz was channeling some kinda divine inspiration here. Glad you enjoyed the episode - thanks for commenting!
- Steven
Thank you!
- Chris
The importance of the blood is because wars are rituals and these entities require blood.
Wow, that is a fascinating and eerie point. Damn!
- Steven
For some reason, I thought this was an angry birds comic......lol.
Haha, that’s hilarious 😂 Thanks for commenting!
- Steven
I mean, that’s one way to read it! Maybe this was the inspiration for the video game 🤣 - Chris
@@ComicsRotYourBrain 😉
I’ve never heard of this wtf
Hopefully you can grab a copy on eBay.
- Chris
I feel like it's a Mandela Effect,😅 I've been very involved( since age12?) in fandom and sales (worked for Diamond and owned 3 shops) NEVER heard of it
🗯 COMICS TRIVIA
Alright, all. Famously, Moore & Sienkiewicz had one other collaboration, the unfinished BIG NUMBERS; however, that wasn’t always the title.
❓What was the original title for the comic that became BIG NUMBERS?
Pretty sure it was GARGANTUAN FIGURES.
Or was it MASSIVE DIGITS?
@@_Ag-LOL! 😂😂
- Steven
The bird looks like Alan Moore.
😂
I miss my wife
Search for “Freebird”
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Thank you for the sub and the comment!
- Steven
💯 🦅
😊
The Eagle is WILD!