From Katya: It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a game scholar, comics scholar, and Victorianist walk into a bar, they must instantly bond over their shared study of serialization. Except… we never recorded it. It’s rather astounding that we haven’t already; serialization cuts across all of our fields from comics to games and…
Year: 2021
e169. The Subtle & Sophisticated Highbrow Culture of The Fast & The Furious
Movies are back! After a year and a half of almost total dormancy, movies came back to the American box office, and filmgoers were welcome with the very sophisticated and cultured experience of F9: The Fast Saga, the latest installment of Fast & Furious franchise. Many are joking about it, but many others are just…
Call for Comments: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F9
From Mav: I’m a guy who loves movies. I really love going to the movies… A LOT! Not being able to go out to the movies was actually one of the things I missed most during the last year and a half of lockdown. I remember a time early on when Chris Nolan decided that…
Excalibur #18: “Wild Wild Wheels”
Excalibur #18 “Wild Wild Wheels” Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Dennis Jensen Inks: Dan Adkins Colours: Mike Rockwitz and Brad Vancata Letters: Jade Moede Editing: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: January 1990 In this episode, manga scholar Dr. Mimi Okabe steers Anna, Mav, and Andrew through the mecha/shōjo/shōnen (?) inspired Excalibur #18, “Wild Wild Wheels!” Featuring cars, cars, and…
e168. Time to Stop Wearing Underwear on the Outside
Have you ever noticed how infrequently superheroes in most superhero TV shows and movies actually wear their superhero costumes? It makes sense when you think about it. Superhero costumes are actually kind of silly: wearing underwear on the outside of spandex bodysuits? They’re based on pop culture tropes from nearly a century ago, which honestly…
Excalibur #17: “From the Crucible–A Captain?”
Excalibur #17 “From the Crucible – A Captain?” Writer: Chris Clarement Pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Paul Neary Colors: Nelson Yomtov Letters: Jade Moede Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: December 1989 In this episode, Anna, Mav, and Andrew are joined by Liz Large of ComicsXF to ride a “Warlord”-inspired hangover straight into a never-ending bacchanalian…
e167. Considering the Fanboy Gaze
After last week’s primer on the male gaze, we wanted to spend some time thinking about the ways in which it could be complicated. What happens when we try to apply those concepts to characters not normally considered “male gazey”? What happens when a presumed male viewer is asked to identify with a female characters?…
Excalibur #16: “Warlord”
Excalibur #16 “Warlord” Writer: Chris Claremont Penciler: Alan Davis Inks: Paul Neary Colours: Glynis Oliver and Mike Rockwitz Letters: Tom Orzechowski Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: December 1989 Some people say you shouldn’t go full Nightcrawler. The GGW pod disagrees. Especially Anna, Kurt Wagner’s (Unofficial) PR Manager, who’s hoping he’ll be hiring her in…
Call for Comments: Photo Sharing isn’t for Photos?!?
July 7, 2021
From Katya: Instagram recently announced that the photo sharing app is no longer a place to share photos. The actual design implications aren’t clear nor is the actual goal. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says that the app’s goal is “to…entertain” with a focus on “Creators, Video, Shopping and Messaging.” Which reads as a pretty accurate…