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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e236. Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show a Bad Movie?
If you’ve been following the show the last several weeks then you know we’ve started a series where we have been looking at some of our favorite controversial movies and trying to convince you of the value of them as great films. It’s also October, so we wanted to get some Halloween content in for…
Excalibur #73: “Memories Are Made of This”
Excalibur #73 “Memories Are Made of This” Writer: Richard Ashford Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Randy Elliott Colours: Pat Garrahy & Chris Matthys Letters: Pat Brosseau Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: January 1994 We have always lived in the ‘90s. Or so it seems, when we’re this Ken-and-Barbie-doll-crotch deep in strange and violent and occasionally…
Call For Comments: Do We Need To Talk About Kanye?
From Mav: A few days ago, friend of the show (and host of the Handsome Genius Club Radio Show) Kingdom James texted me asking if I wanted to do a crossover episode where we talk about Kanye West’s recent nonsense. So I sat down to write it, but wasn’t feeling quite inspired, so I figured…
e235. Is Jennifer’s Body a bad movie?
A couple of weeks ago we looked over the film Under the Cherry Moon to prove that it was a good movie. Mav got Monica to watch the film and agree that there’s far more to it than its reputation. Now it’s Monica’s turn to suggest a movie for the same treatment and in the…
Call For Comments: Then Something Went Wrong
From Wayne: My first exposure to The Rocky Horror Picture Show was back around 1980 or so. I was in college and working as a volunteer teaching assistant for the secondary gifted program in my incredibly rural home county. One of the students had a copy of the Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel…
Excalibur #72: “Oohhh…Siena!”
Excalibur #72 “Oohhh…Siena!” Writing: Richard Ashford Pencils: Ken Lashley Inks: Randy Elliott and Cam Smith Colours: Pat Garrahy and Chris Matthys Letters: Pat Brousseau Editors: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: December 1993 Your regular Upstarts are joined this week by Dr. Hailey “Stone Cold” Austin to talk about good and bad buts/butts in the totally radical…
Call for Comments: Act your wage! Quiet quitting or just doing your job….
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com From Katya: I don’t know if we’re talking more about labor trends more since COVID or I’m just paying more attention to them these days but we have another labor trend catchphase upon us: “quiet quitting.” “Quiet quitting” doesn’t have a fixed definition. The scale seems to slide between…
Call For Comments: The Lord of the Game of the Throne and the Ring and Things.
From Wayne: Wow, there’s a lot of fantasy on TV these days! Given my addiction to comics I wasn’t completely oblivious to fantasy as a genre. I’m sure I read something with knights and dragons in it when I was a kid. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons around tenth grade, but was oblivious to…
Excalibur #71: “Crossing Swords”
Excalibur #71 “Crossing Swords” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Ken Lashley, Darrick Robertson, and Matthew Ryan Inks: Cam Smith, Randy Elliott, Randy Emberlin, and Mark Nelson Colours: Joe Rosas on colours Letters: Bill Oakley, Pat Brosseau, and Dave Sharpe Editors: Suzanne Gaffney and Bob Harras on editing. Original publication date: November 1993 For better or worse…