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Excalibur #102
“After the Bomb”
Writer: Warren Ellis
Pencils: Casey Jones
Inks: Jason Martin, Rick Ketcham & Rob Haynes
Colours: Ariane Lenshoek & Malibu Color
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Editing: Suzanne Gaffney, Matt Idelson, Jay Gardner & Paul Tutrone
Original publication date: October 1996
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] [/et_pb_code][et_pb_button button_url=”https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/8566/excalibur_1988_102″ url_new_window=”on” button_text=”marvel unlimited link” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”14px” button_text_color=”#FFFFFF” button_bg_color=”#ef00db” button_border_width=”8px” button_border_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” button_letter_spacing=”2px” button_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” button_use_icon=”off” custom_margin=”30px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_slide=”5%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”0px” box_shadow_vertical=”25px” box_shadow_blur=”45px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(148,166,191,0.25)” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”][/et_pb_button][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”My Books Section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”23px|||||” custom_padding=”100px||100px|” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”-78px|auto||auto||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||7px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]Is this VoxPopcast or Gosh Golly Wow? We think it’s probably the latter but it’s hard to tell when Mav is reunited with his VoxPop co-host—comics, pop culture, and fashion scholar Monica Geraffo—to talk a little bit about Excalibur #102, “After the Bomb,” while making a digression or two (or five) into the highs and lows of 90s fashion and what contemporary superhero costumes tell us about the state of our dread and denial amid ongoing climate catastrophes. Plus! Monica reacts to Nightcrawler’s new clothes and everyone makes a dick joke.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On costumes & climate catastrophes:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_star-lord-mask.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_star lord mask" sticky_enabled="0"]“Amid doomsday prepping and climate catastrophe, superhero costumes become a conversation about—how could you sustain life somewhere else?… But the impossibility of these garments means we’re performing for an apocalypse we can’t survive.” -Monica
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On belated character dev:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_character-dyamics.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_character dyamics" sticky_enabled="0"]“Ellis is starting to build some interesting character dynamics here, but I wish he’d done it earlier—before his second-last issue on the book.” -Andrew
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" custom_margin="-16px|auto||auto||" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="Revisiting Kurt's new stage outfit:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/98_Kurt-as-beautiful.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" custom_padding="0px|||||" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#98_Kurt as beautiful" sticky_enabled="0"]“I feel the same way about Nightcrawler’s new costume as I felt watching David Bowie in Labyrinth—that I’m having some kind of a sexual awakening I was not prepared for.” -Monica
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On cozy fashions:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_cozy.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_cozy" sticky_enabled="0"]“Carlos Pacheco and Casey Jones both draw those oversized 90s fashions that I remember from that era and—everyone just looks so cozy.” -Anna
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On projections:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_Pete-and-Kitty.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_Pete and Kitty" sticky_enabled="0"]“I think Pete’s admiration for Kitty Pryde is essentially a flex—look, Kitty Pryde loves me. It’s almost like this author insert character was a misogynistic narcissist…” -Andrew
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On Kitty's anger issues:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_kitty-fighting.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_kitty fighting" sticky_enabled="0"]“When Kurt gets in a fight, he’s like ‘yay I get to use my swords!’ When Kitty gets in a fight, she’s got aggression issues she needs to work out and she’s going to do it on your face.” -Mav
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_blurb title="On politics of difference:" image="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_politics.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_politics" sticky_enabled="0"]“We often don’t have a clear sense in X-Men comics about whether the anti-mutant sentiment that prevails in the US extends globally. This was a chance to comment on that.” -Anna
[/et_pb_blurb][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" custom_margin="20px|auto||auto||" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_team_member name="Want more Monica Geraffo?" image_url="https://voxpopcast.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/102_monica.jpg" _builder_version="4.18.0" _module_preset="default" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" title_text="#102_monica" sticky_enabled="0"]Monica is a PhD student in UCLA’s Theater and Performance Studies program. Her research utilizes dress as a site to explore the construction of identity, the spread of subculture and popular culture, and representations of materiality across visual and material culture— especially through superhero comics and their film and television adaptations. Her work as a fashion historian has been published and presented all over the dang place, and her work as a costumer has been a part of productions for Netflix and AMC.
You can find her on Twitter (@monicamarveloux), and every week on VoxPopcast alongside Mav!
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-107px|||||” custom_padding=”80px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-63px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]And as usual:
You can find Anna on Twitter (@peppard_anna) and at Sequential Scholars (@seqscholars).
You can find Andrew on Twitter (@ClaremontRun) and at Sequential Scholars.
You can find Mav on Twitter (@chrismaverick) and on his podcast, VoxPopcast (@VoxPopcast).
Enjoy!
-GGW Team
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