Excalibur #72: “Oohhh…Siena!”

Excalibur #72 “Oohhh…Siena!” Writing: Richard Ashford Pencils: Ken Lashley Inks: Randy Elliott and Cam Smith Colours: Pat Garrahy and Chris Matthys Letters: Pat Brousseau Editors: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: December 1993 Your regular Upstarts are joined this week by Dr. Hailey “Stone Cold” Austin to talk about good and bad buts/butts in the totally radical…

Call for Comments: Act your wage! Quiet quitting or just doing your job….

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com From Katya: I don’t know if we’re talking more about labor trends more since COVID or I’m just paying more attention to them these days but we have another labor trend catchphase upon us: “quiet quitting.” “Quiet quitting” doesn’t have a fixed definition. The scale seems to slide between…

Call For Comments: The Lord of the Game of the Throne and the Ring and Things.

From Wayne: Wow, there’s a lot of fantasy on TV these days! Given my addiction to comics I wasn’t completely oblivious to fantasy as a genre. I’m sure I read something with knights and dragons in it when I was a kid. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons around tenth grade, but was oblivious to…

e234. Games4SocialImpact

On this week’s show we’re doing something a little different. As part of Mav’s new job he was asked if he was asked to volunteer as a faculty advisor and judge for the University of Pittsburgh’s Games4SocialImpact event this last weekend. Games4SocialImpact is a 2-day student game jam design competition based around the idea of…

Excalibur #71: “Crossing Swords”

Excalibur #71 “Crossing Swords” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Ken Lashley, Darrick Robertson, and Matthew Ryan Inks: Cam Smith, Randy Elliott, Randy Emberlin, and Mark Nelson Colours: Joe Rosas on colours Letters: Bill Oakley, Pat Brosseau, and Dave Sharpe Editors: Suzanne Gaffney and Bob Harras on editing. Original publication date: November 1993 For better or worse…