From Mav: There’s an article that appears in the textbook I use when teaching Freshman Composition 101 that I find quite fascinating. It’s called “Little girls or little women? The…
Category: Call For Comments
Call For Comments: Genre, in General
From Wayne: We all have our favorite genres in our choice of entertainment. I like superheroes and science fiction and some kinds of Horror. I’ve recently discovered an affection for Thrillers.…
Call for Comments: Comics Class Canon Syllabus
From Mav: We like comics. We love comics. If you’ve heard at least two seconds of the show, you probably picked that up on that. It’s one of the reasons…
Call For Comments: Monuments to Racism
From Mav: Once again, we’re in a situation where fortune calls upon us and I am presented with an idea for an episode related to an episode I was already…
Call for Comments: Cosplayers of Color
From Mav: Usually we try to mix topics on our show up from week to week; one week generally has very little to do with whatever happened the week before.…
Call For Comments: She-Ra and the Male Gaze – To Sexy or Not TOO Sexy, That is the Question…
From Mav: Fun fact, this show has its origins in two places. One is geeky conversations that I have had with Wayne in the comic book shop he works in…
Call For Comments: Sex, Gender and Video Games
From Mav: Way back on our third show, we talked about violence in video games. It was a fascinating show. Neither Wayne or I are experts, so that was the first…
Call For Comments: The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Critic
September 28, 2018
From Mav: In the last couple weeks, we’ve done a couple shows that have dealt with interpreting the non obvious sexual subtext in children’s media (Disney Princesses and Sesame Street…