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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Excalibur #67: “Days of Futures Yet to Come”
Excalibur #67 “Days of Futures Yet to Come” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Dana Moreshead and Mike Thomas Letters: Janice Chiang Editor: Terry Kavanagh and Mark Powers Original publication date: July 1993 The 90s have arrived in 2015 and Excalibur is a gun now… but actually, Excalibur is still Excalibur, which…
Call for Comments: A League of Their Own
From Hannah: I love baseball. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, A League of Their Own (the 1992 film) means a lot to me — and I’m not alone in this. But as much as I think the 1992 film is one of those “great films,” Amazon Prime’s new television version may be just as important. The new…
e228. Investigating the Style Cycle
We’ve all heard complaints that the current pop-culture fad du jour is getting repetitive. For instance, right now, it’s superhero movies. People are constantly complaining about “the MCU formula” where “all the movies look the same, they all have the same plot, and they all make all the same jokes.” Whenever some other company makes…
Call for Comments: She-Hulk is Sensational… you just don’t know it yet!
From Monica: I know….we’ve only had one episode air so far and usually over at VoxPop we wait on this kinda thing. We’re also usually big champions of “adaptations don’t need to hold a deep reverence for adhering to their source materials.” But this time around, I think we should do things a little backwards.…
Excalibur #66: “Back to the Present”
Excalibur #66 “Back to the Present” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Dana Moreshead Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: June 1993 This week, we’re going back to “Back to the Present,” and by present we mean future, and by future we mean the far-flung year of 2015, when the…
e227. the Endless Culture of the Sandman
After “endless” years in development, the impossible has happened. The Sandman TV show is now streaming on Netflix. Of course we watched it! Remarkably, it appears to be a hit. The show is getting critical buzz as well as doing well with the fans. In fact, its arguably the most popular that the property has…
Excalibur Annual #1
Excalibur Annual #1 “Black Magic” Writer: Evan Skolnic Pencils: Chris Marrinan & Audwynn Newman Inks: Mark McKenna, Danny Bulanadi & Keith Williams Colours: Dana Moreshead & Mike Thomas Letters: Janice Chiang Editors: Terry Kavanagh & Susan Gaffney “Honey is Money” Writer: Joey Cavalieri Pencils: David Boller Inks: Kevin Conrad Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Richard Starkings Original…
e226. So… uh… what is a Dissertation? (and why would you do one?)
When we started our little psuedo-academic pop-culture analysis podcast with drinking and swearing, we had a few requirements. One of those was that the show would be smart and would celebrate academia but wouldn’t be overly hung up on it. We specifically didn’t want to be an academic show. And we didn’t want to be…
Excalibur #65, “White Lies, Dark Truths”
Excalibur #65 “White Lies, Dark Truths” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: May 1993 Some truths are dark and many lies are white in the not-aptly-named Excalibur #65, “White Lies, Dark Truths.” We talk about that plus KISSING with scholar, educator,…
Call for Comments: Mr. Sandman Bring Me a Dream
From Mav: Well, today is the day that I don’t think I ever believed would happen. There’s a Sandman TV series premiering on Netflix. It’s not that I’m surprised that there COULD be a Sandman TV series or even that someone would want there to be a Sandman TV series. Quite the contrary, it seems…