From Mav: In the last few days an interesting meme of sorts has popped up on Facebook: people posting their “Facebook Avatars,” stylized cartoonish self-made images generated with Facebook’s mobile…
Category: Comics
e110. Comic Studies-350: X-Men Course Syllabus
Way back on episode 23 we did our first syllabus episode. We got a bunch of comic scholars together and asked the question “if we wanted to teach a class…
Call for Comments: The X-men Syllabus
From Mav: Back when we did our first comics syllabus episode, we went out of our way to make sure that we had a breadth of topics and genres instead…
Call For Comments: What’s Happening to Comics Retail (and most other retail), in a pandemic?
From Wayne: For awhile now we’ve talked about doing an episode where we discuss the changing face of comic book retail. I have believed for some time that the retail…
e103. Birds of Prey and the Fantaboulous Deconstruction of one VoxPopcast
All across the world, everyone is trapped in their homes riding out the COVID-19 pandemic. Movie cineplexes are shut down. Sports, Concerts and other Events are being cancelled. TV shows…
e100. Hollywood vs. FanCasting
Think about your favorite book, video game, or comic. Who do you think should play the protagonist in the movie? Chances are you have a pretty good idea. Chances are…
Call For Comments: Fan Casting Adaptations
From Mav: Once upon a time, back when magazines used to be a thing, Wizard magazine used to have a semi-regular feature where they’d take a theoretical movie property that…
Call For Comments: Minor Characters
May 22, 2020
From Wayne: Ostensibly, every story has a protagonist or two, those characters who we are meant to focus and root for, the focal point through which we experience the story.…