Author: Anna Peppard

Excalibur #65 “White Lies, Dark Truths” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: May 1993 Some truths are dark and many lies are white in the not-aptly-named Excalibur #65, “White Lies, Dark Truths.” We talk about that plus KISSING with scholar, educator,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Excalibur #60 “Braddock of the Jungle” Writers: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Scott Kolins Inks: John Holdredge Colours: Mike Thomas Letters: Michael Higgins Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: January 1993 We’re trying to emphasize the positive this week… while still doing plenty of griping about part 2 of a crummy colonial sojourn in Wakanda known Excalibur…

Excalibur #59 “Enter… the Panther!” Writers: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Scott Kolins Inks: John Holdredge & Raymond Kryssing Colours: Dana Morsehead & Mike Thomas Letters: Michael Higgins Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: December 1992 We sure hated this week’s comic, but we sure love this week’s episode, talking hip hop, comics, Black Panther, and Afrofuturism…

Excalibur #58 “Troll Call” Writers: Alan Davis and Scott Lobdell Pencils: Joe Madureira Inks: Josef Rubenstein & Hector Collazo Colours: Kevin Tinsely Letters: Ken Lopez Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: December 1992 We are most definitely not calling all trolls to this week’s nuanced discussion of the different but equally complex personal and professional…

Excalibur #57 “For Whom the Bell Trolls!” Writers: Alan Davis and Scott Lobdell Pencils: Joe Madureira Inks: Josef Rubenstein Colours: Kevin Tinsely Letters: Ken Lopez Editor: Terry Kavanagh  Original publication date: November 1992 Not a dream, not a hoax, not a fuzzy image of Cable on a video screen asking who the heck’s calling at…

Marvel Comics Presents #101-108 “Male Bonding” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Gene Colon Inks: Al Williamson Colours: Kelly Corvese Letters: Michael Higgins Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: April 1992 You know that we do it together. In our case, that means podcasting about Excalibur with super-smart friends, and in Nightcrawler and Wolverine’s case, it means…