Happy Halloween!!! Or I guess, happy a couple days after Halloween. Whatever, as far as we’re concerned we’re still squarely in the domain of “spooky season” and one of the spookiest things we could think to talk about was Stephen King. Actually, we’ve done this once before. Way back on show #81, we talked about…
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e445. Fly My Pretties! Witches, Performance, and Salem Dialogues
It’s Spooky Season! Halloween is right around the corner. And so we decided we wanted to celebrate by looking at one of the the most enduring tropes of popular culture. The Witch! But unlike many of the spooky Halloween standards, like vampires, ghosts, or goblins, witches have the distinction that they’re undoubtedly real. People have…
e441. In Blackest Night: a Deep Dive into the World of Lanterns
Are you watching Lanterns? Ratings and critical response imply that you very well might be. Which is why we’re talking about ti again. If you’re wondering “wait, didn’t you do this before?” Well, yes and no! We did have an episode about the Green Lanterns a few weeks ago where we talked about the history…
e437. In Brightest Day: The History and Popularity of Green Lantern
Every once in a while an adaptation property really surprises us by capturing the cultural zeitgeist far more than its source material would imply that it should. That seems to be the case with the TV show Lanterns. For comic book fans, this always looked interesting — an unlikely buddy cop period drama in the…
e436. Robotic Dreams and Digital Nightmares: Is A.I the Monster… or the Mirror?
Obviously, Artificial Intelligence has been a big topic in the news of late. But in the world of pop culture, it really isn’t anything new. A.I. has been a huge theme in literature in one way or another for essentially the last century if not longer. As long as we have dreamed of creating life,…
e435. Zines! Where Art Meets Activism
Let’s talk about zines! Why? Because in many ways, they are one of the oldest and most revered artifacts of grassroots pop culture. Also, it turns out that pretty much the entire cadre of VoxPopcast hosts has a history with them. So, on this week’s episode, Mav, Hannah, Wayne, Katya and Maybe get together to…
e434. History is History!
So there’s a weird thing that happens when you get older. You start to realize that the things that seem indelibly important to you simply don’t matter to younger generations. Usually on our show, when we talk about the past we’re talking about movies, TV, comics, or music. But what about real events. What about…
e430. Tyrant: Dinosaurs and the Evolution of Indie Comics
To a lot of people “comics” seems to mean superheroes. So much that “comic book movies” is the term that we sometimes use for what should properly be called “superhero movies”. This makes sense, given the stranglehold that DC and Marvel comics have had over the American comic publishing industry for nearly a century. However,…
e428. The Supergirl Legacy: The Evolution of the Maid of Might
If you pay attention to the weekly pop-culture media landscape you might be aware that a new Supergirl movie released the weekend before this episode. It performed… somewhat underwhelmingly at the box office. It also had mixed reviews. But is that fair? On this episode Mav, Wayne and Hannah welcome returning guest, comics scholar Anna…