This is Acid Man.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the Weird Left. I'm Jeremy Gilbert, and today I am

joined only by my good friend Keir Milburn. Hello. Well, the theme to today is superheroes.

So why are we talking about superheroes, Jim? Well, you wanted to, and I said I'm happy to do so, because apart from anything else,

I would say the superhero movie is one of the dominant global cultural phenomena of this

century so far, like to an extent that really one has to have something to say about it

and have to try to to say about it,

we'll have to try to make sense of it.

And there obviously is going to be quite a lot to say,

putting it in historical context and thinking about what it all means.

So, and I also, it's one of those topics.

I often feel guilty for not really engaging with properly.

So as I'm sure he's bound to come out sooner or later in this show, I've hardly watched any of the MCU or the big DC superhero movies

that have been released this century.

I've seen some of the older ones.

I've seen one or two, but I've just not bothered with them,

even though I do objectively recognise it's like a huge cultural phenomenon. So I feel it's

important to talk about. But it was your idea. So where was your thinking coming from?

Well, first of all, dear listeners, please take note of that. Jeremy hasn't watched these films,

and it will not stop him expounding at length about them.

Well, I can talk about superheroes as a cultural phenomenon without having much engagement with that particular iteration of it.

Well, I mean, part of the reason I want to talk to them is because I don't even think you have to watch all of these films.

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