456 - FCF: Outer Darkness

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” So says Matthew 25:30, and in John Layman and Afu Chan’s</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outer Darkness</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, there is plenty of weeping–and so, so much gnashing of teeth. For their last</span> <strong>Four-Color Flashback</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of the year, Paul and Arlo discuss Layman and Chan’s 2018-19 Image/Skybound series, which imagines a far-flung future where spaceships need exorcists onboard and the dead can be resurrected so long as you cast a net wide enough to catch their souls. The boys discuss the book’s ingenious mash-up of space opera and supernatural horror, how Layman & Chan expertly juggle a number of timelines, why the visceral</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">splorch</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">es of Chan’s art are so satisfying, and the depressing realities behind the series’ cancellation.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NEXT: what if…we did another MCUTV episode with Hollywood’s own Michael Holland? We’ll be discussing, you guessed it, the animated Marvel series</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What If…?</span></em></span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>BREAKDOWN</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">00:00:57  -  Intro</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">00:04:39  - </span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Outer Darkness</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">01:37:00  -  Outro / Next</span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>MUSIC</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Spiri