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Call For Comments: Paw Patrol: Copaganda, Cartoons, and You

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June 16, 2020
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From Katya: This week on 2020: the world is on fire, the internet is grappling with representations of police in the media. “Good” cops, “bad” cops, and… dog cops. Paw…

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e114. Your Black Friend is Tired

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June 15, 2020
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A few years ago, in an interview with Stephen Colbert, Will Smith said that he believed that racism isn’t getting worse — it’s getting filmed. While it may be hard…

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Call for Comments: Your Black Friend Is Tired

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June 5, 2020
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From Mav: Well, it’s been a week. If you’re in America (or probably if you’ve simply bothered to watch the news at all anywhere else in the world), you know…

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e112. Social Media and Free Speech

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June 1, 2020
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If you’re unlucky enough to live on the planet Earth, you probably know that it’s not doing terribly well lately. We’ve had a global pandemic sweeping through every corner of…

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e106. COVID-19 & the Death of the Comic Shop

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April 20, 2020
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We live in strange times. Obviously, the number one problem right now is that we’re in the middle of a global pandemic that has ground the WHOLE DAMN PLANET to…

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e102. News by Meme

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March 23, 2020
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Newspapers are a dying breed in the twenty-first century. This isn’t a new thing; it’s been happening for a while. But at this point, more than just newspapers are dying.…

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Call For Comments: News by Meme

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March 14, 2020
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From Mav: I had the idea of doing a show based on the benefits and failings of meme culture quite some time ago and given the events of the last…

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e92: 2010s Decade in Review

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January 13, 2020
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Somehow it’s 2020. I don’t get how that happened. 2020 isn’t a year… 2020 is what you make up if you’re setting some science fiction story in the future and…

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e87. Sentimentalism: Punching Them in the Feels

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December 10, 2019
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As we move toward the holiday season, there is one thing for certain that we will see: more and more cheesy Christmas movies. You know the type… they’re on Lifetime,…

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e83. ?Watching Watchmen?

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November 11, 2019
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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is one of the most popular comic books of all time. It’s been a best seller since 1987, has never been out of print,…