Excalibur #64 “Ascension” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh and Mark Powers Original publication date: April 1993 Fresh off winning a freakin’ award, your very genetically stable team of comics scientists is back! Talking superheroes and science and why mutants are like vaccines in…
Month: July 2022
Call for Comments: Dissertations, what the hell are they?
From Katya: You know us as the pseudo-academic podcast with drinking and swearing. We also lied about that (very openly, in all fairness.) All of us have Ivory Tower experiences through teaching, conferences, independent scholarship, and the occasional long-winded degree. I left academic research a few years ago and the transition from being surrounding by…
e224. A Filler Episode on Filler Episodes
One of the most important things about academia is being in conversation with other academics. That is to say that the way knowledge happens is one scholar says something and then another scholar builds on it and so on and so on. About a week ago, our friends over at the Protagonist Podcast did an…
Excalibur #63: “Denial”
Excalibur #63 “Denial” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: March 1993 Don’t let the cool Kylun cover fool you—Excalibur #63, “Denial,” is in denial about being about Kylun because it’s clearly a Nightcrawler comic, in which Kurt Wagner superfan Alan Davis…
Call For Comments: Fill-in and Bottle episodes
From Mav: I was recently listening to our friends over at the Protagonist Podcast and they gave us a shout out of sorts. They mentioned that a great idea for a podcast episode might be to spend a show talking about fill-in and bottle episodes. Then, Joe mentioned that maybe instead of doing the show…
e223. The Cultural Impact of Ms. Marvel on Disney+
This Wednesday saw the season finale of Ms. Marvel on Disney+, a show that we have been thoroughly enjoying. However, there’s been a weird bit of reaction to Ms. Marvel and the MCU in general as of late. While the critical reviews of Ms. Marvel are overwhelmingly positive (it currently sits at a 98% on…
Excalibur #62: “Of Birth, Death and the Confused, Painful Bit In Between”
Excalibur #62 “Of Birth, Death and the Confused, Painful Bit In Between” Writer: Alan Davis Pencils: Alan Davis and Mark Farmer Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Joe Rosas, Dana Moreshead, Michael Thomas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: February 1993 We’re in (and on!) Cloud Nine talking Warpies, Warpies, and more Warpies in…
e222. So, The World’s On Fire… Everything is Fine…
It’s been a while since we spent the show just talking about the state of the world. Mostly because… well, the state of the world kinda sucks right now… and we sort of didn’t want to deal with it. But this is a show about culture and the culture in the world right now, particularly…
Excalibur #61: “Truth and Consequence”
Excalibur #61 “Truth and Cons-equence” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: January 1993 Gosh Golly Wow Returns! And so does Rachel Summers! Sort of! All that and the pod’s most anticipated guest of all-time, writer and founder of the Phoenix Force…
e221. Exploring the World of Stranger Things
It’s always odd when we hit on one of those episode ideas where we feel like “obviously we’ve done like half a dozen shows on this topic over the years” and we stop and we look and it turns out that no, we’ve never really talked about it at all. Stranger Things is one of…