It's that time again! Every year we have one very special show where all of the hosts get together to reveal the results of last years Fantasy Box Office Game AND to draft for the upcoming year. Last years game was a barn burner that basically came down to the very end where it could be anyone's game. So join Mav, Hannah, Wayne, Monica and Katya as we reveal who pulled it out in the end and the as Fantasy Draft Commissioner Stephanie Siler walks us through this year's draft. We'll explain the rules and then you'll get to hear us preview 75 of our most anticipated films of the year 2026. It's a lot to get through, so let's jump into it. And then let us know if you...
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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…
e233. Is Under the Cherry Moon a bad movie?
Have you ever had a favorite movie, that you’ve loved since childhood and then all of a sudden as an adult you discover that other people don’t like that movie? In fact, it seems MOST people don’t like that movie. And then you question yourself. Is the movie any good? Have you been deluding yourself…
Excalibur #70: “Crime and Punishment”
Excalibur #70 “Crime and Punishment” Writing and pencils: Scott Lobdell and Richard Ashford Pencils: Ken Lashley Inks: Don Hudson, Rick Parker, Agop Gemdjian, and Danny Taverna Colours: Steve Buccellato Letterers: Lois Buhalis Editors: Bob Harras and Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: October 1993 For the crime of podcasting about Excalibur for 126+ weeks, we’re being punished with reading one more issue about kissing Cerise goodbye……
Excalibur #69: “Blight and Fog”
Excalibur #69 “Blight & Fog” Writer: Evan Skolnik Pencils and colours: Steve Buccellato Inks: Don Hudson Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editors: Bob Harras and Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: September 1993 A sexy little number can’t save Excalibur #69, “Blight and Fog,” from living up to its title. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun…
Call For Comments: Then Something Went Wrong
October 9, 2022
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…