In this episode, Steve and Chris discuss the serialized story, GENERATION ZERO, from Marvel Comics' defunct Epic Comics flagship book, Epic Illustrated. A sci-fi story written by long-time comic industry luminary Archie Goodwin with painted art by the famed Spanish cartoonist, Pepe Moreno.

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0:00:00 - Music & Intro
0:02:55 - Primer on Generation Zero
0:07:26 - Contextualizing Contemporary Pop Culture
0:17:35 - Moreno on his love of America
0:20:46 - Praise of Archie Goodwin as Editor and Writer
0:24:09 - Discussing Chapter One (Epic Illustrated 17)
0:47:38 - The issues of Epic Illustrated that contain Generation Zero
0:48:10 - Irony of the collected version by DC Comics
0:50:00 - Obscure nature of Generation Zero
0:52:08 - Discussing Chapter Two (Epic Illustrated 18)
1:05:18 - Discussing Chapter Three, "Desert Hunt" (Epic Illustrated 19)
1:17:21 - Moreno's penchant of Suspect Page Design Readability
1:24:40 - Discussion Chapter Four, "The Rat's Nest" (Epic Illustrated 20)
1:27:00 - The Lived-In Detail to Moreno's Incredible Casablanca
1:30:00 - Inexplicable Cybernetic Arm Non-continuity
1:50:18 - Discussing Chapter Five, "Jungle Trail" (Epic Illustrated 21)
1:55:48 - Yonomani Tribe makes an appearance?
2:12:16 - Discussing Chapter Six, "Terror In Paradise" (Epic Illustrated 22)
2:25:50 - Shock at the giant story reveal!
2:26:55 - Discussing Chapter Seven, "The Last Battle" (Epic Illustrated 23)
2:29:22 - Odd letdown of exposing the lingering mystery of Juan's father
2:54:47 - Discussing Chapter Eight, "Face To Face" (Epic Illustrated 24)
2:55:00 - The inappropriate nature of the cover art
3:19:00 - Steve's Theory that there were supposed to a follow-up series
3:27:00 - Talk about what made Epic Comics line so special

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