Excalibur #56 “Things That Go Shriek in the Night” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: November 1992 If you’re a superhero, you probably shouldn’t throw a party. And you especially shouldn’t throw a party where you invite the fascist dictator from…
Month: April 2022
Call For Comments: Pouring Some Gritty On It
From Mav: I’ve had this idea rolling around in my head for a bit. It started to really formulate back when we had our “Pour Some Sexy On It” episode. There, and in its Call for Comments, I talked about the concept of making a show (especially an IP reboot property) more seemingly mature and…
e211. #PCAACA22: The Presentations
Regular listeners of our show will know that the last couple weeks we have devoted to #PCAACA22, the annual conference for the Pop Culture Association. Two weeks ago, we devoted the show to our planning workshop. Last week, you got to hear us meet with other conference attendees to talk about how it went at…
Excalibur #55: “The Ghost of Braddock Manor”
Excalibur #55 “The Ghost of Braddock Manor” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: October 1992 The last time Excalibur threw a party, Meggan became a vampire and tried to eat a dog. So expectations are high! But this issue’s up to…
e210. #PCAACA22: The Afterparty
For the last several weeks the hosts of VoxPopcast have been preparing for a conference. Well, that was this week! Last week you heard our conference workshop where we tried to help each other with our ideas. Next week., we’re going to bring you the papers themselves so you can see what we did. But…
Excalibur: Air Apparent
Excalibur Special Edition “Air Apparent” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Ron Lim, Brian Stelfreeze, Dwayne Turner, Jackson Guice, Rick Leonardi, Erik Larsen, and James Fry Inks: Al Gordon, Karl Story, Klaus Janson, Tom Palmer, Josef Rubenstein, Erik Larsen, and Don Hudson Colours: Glynis Oliver, Dana Moreshead, Ariane Lenshoek Letters: Michael Heisler and Steve Dutro Editors: Terry…
e209. PCA2022 Conference Paper Workshop & Preview
This week we’re going to try something a little different on the show. We’ve been mentioning in the past few weeks that we several of the hosts and our most frequent guests are all gearing ups for our big annual pop culture academia conference, PCA. In the past, we’ve had shows where we presented our…
Excalibur #54: “Curiouser and Curiouser”
Excalibur #54 “Curiouser and Curiouser” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: September 1992 Listeners of this pod know we share one thing with Brian Braddock, which is that we’d follow Meggan anywhere, including down a rabbit hole into a series of…
e208. What Time Is It? It’s Bridgerton Time! (Again)
Last year, we (like many people) were so overcome with the Netflix show Bridgerton that we recorded not one but two episodes about it. We weren’t the only ones. It was a runaway sensation. Well, it’s been a year and Bridgerton time has returned with slightly more fixed fanfare. Even this week’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has…
Excalibur #53: “The Litter”
Excalibur #53 “The Litter” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: James Fry Inks: Christopher Ivy Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: August 1992 Welcome back to the podcast where we talk about Excalibur and nothing but Excalibur… except when we talk about Spider-Man! Which we’re doing this week! Comics scholar and…