There's this funny thing that happens with TV shows. Because of the nature of human actors, TV shows are the one type of serialized media where a natural change to the series might be FORCED to occur because forces outside of the narrative require the change of the narrative. That is to say that in a comic book, the Spider-man can go on from issue to issue as long as Marvel wants him to be. If the writers decide to replace Peter Parker with Ben Reilly or Miles Morales that is for storyline reasons and they can change it back whenever they want. But on TV, actors die or move on to other roles. There are contract disputes. People age out of roles. There are budgetary considerations. There are any...
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e244. An A.I. Took Your Art, Daddy!
If you listen to our show, chances are you’re on the Internet. If you’re on the Internet, then chances are in the last couple weeks you’ve seen a proliferation of people posting A.I. generated selfies in crazy art styles. Then, you’ve perhaps also seen the explosion of controversy over people arguing about whether or not…
Excalibur #80: “Out of Time”
Excalibur #80 “Out of Time” Writers: Scott Lobdell & Chris Cooper Pencils: Amanda Conner Inks: Harry Candelario, Keith Champagne & Randy Elliott Colours: Chris Matthys Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: August 1994 Excalibur #80 might be “Out of Time,” but we’ve got all the time in the world…
Call For Comments: Is AI art or ‘theft’? Yes and No… probably…
From Mav: So, like a lot of other people I used the Lensa app to make myself a collection of random avatars last weekend. Why? Because all of my friends were doing it and if they were all going to jump off a cliff I would too. And yeah, that sounds silly, but honestly, that’s…
e243. What’s in a Name? (or Several)
Sometimes we come up with an episode idea that we just completely mean to be filler. We have no real agenda and not as much research as normal, but we need to fill a week before a much more complicated show and so we just decide “lets have a discussion topic and see how it…
Excalibur #79: “Twisted Logic”
Excalibur #79 “Twisted Logic” Writers: Scott Lobdell & Chris Cooper Pencils: Ken Lashley Inks: Harry Candelario & Randy Elliott Colours: Chris Matthys Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Bob Harras & Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: July 1994 What twisted logic brought us here, to Excalibur #79, “Twisted Logic,” in which the main characters aren’t member of…
Call For Comments: Dual Identities as Single Identities
From Mav: So, while taping my other show, Gosh Golly Wow, we had a brief discussion about how while some of the X-men characters have two names, a public and a privater personal (e.g. Kurt Wagner is Nightcrawler, Scott Summers is Cyclops, and Ororo Monroe is Storm) there are others that have only one single…
e242. A Specifically Very Positive Thanksgiving Ep
If you’ve been watching the news lately you might have noticed that things have been… kind of gloomy. Trump is running for president again. Twitter is imploding. The pandemic is still here. BUT… it’s Thanksgiving! At least it is here in America. Thanksgiving’s origins tell of friendship and togetherness between natives and colonizers. OK, it’s…
Excalibur #78: “Fire in the Wild”
Excalibur #78 “Fire in the Wild” Writers: Scott Lobdell & Chris Cooper Pencils: John Royle Inks: Harry Candelario Colours: Chris Matthys Letters: Pat Brosseau & Jon Babcock Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: June 1994 Things got tecno-organic so quickly, we didn’t notice until it was too late to separate our Dougs…
e241. Wakanda Forever & MCU Diversity
Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Black Panther, is finally here. Obviously we have to talk about it. Due to the unfortunate passing of Chadwick Boseman, this movie sort of had built in cultural appeal from the very start. We knew that going in. However, it also somehow managed to be a lot more than that.…
Excalibur #77: “Lowest Common Denominator”
Excalibur #77 “Lowest Common Denominator” Writers: Scott Lobdell, Richard Ashford & Chris Cooper Pencils: Ken Lashley & Robert Brown Inks: Randy Elliott, Keith Champagne, Jason Gorder & Don Hudson Colours: Chris Matthys Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: May 1994 If you’ve ever wondered what Kurt Wagner would look…