It's everyone's favorite time of year... the time where we celebrate that birth of... Cheesy Christmas movies! I mean, I'm sure there's probably some other significance to this time of year too, but round these parts, we know that the December Holiday Season is all about the seasonal Christmas movie rom coms. And so, it's time for our annual Christmas movie special. This year, Hannah and Mav are joined by retuning guest Jackie Johnson and Sandy Eckard to talk all about this years — actually somewhat limited — crop of new streaming Christmas movie options. Or at least, there seem like there were fewer on the major services than there have in the past. BUT, what's the quality like? Join us on this week's episode to see what we thought...
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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…
Call For Comments: Styles and Cycles (or, a funny thing happened on the way to Ragnarok)
From Wayne: So the biggest complaint I’ve heard about Thor: Love and Thunder is that is too silly. It’s a Taika Watiti movie, so I’m not really surprised by this, but the complaint seems to center around the idea that this change in the basic character of Thor from the comics is a bridge too…
e225. Can We Talk About Climate Change?
If you line in the United States and follow political news you might have noticed something crazy last week. The Democrats kind of… did something! In fact, they did something potentially huge. On Thursday, July 28th, essentially out of nowhere, senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced that they had come to terms on what…
Excalibur #64: “Ascension”
Excalibur #64 “Ascension” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh and Mark Powers Original publication date: April 1993 Fresh off winning a freakin’ award, your very genetically stable team of comics scientists is back! Talking superheroes and science and why mutants are like vaccines in…
Call for Comments: Dissertations, what the hell are they?
From Katya: You know us as the pseudo-academic podcast with drinking and swearing. We also lied about that (very openly, in all fairness.) All of us have Ivory Tower experiences through teaching, conferences, independent scholarship, and the occasional long-winded degree. I left academic research a few years ago and the transition from being surrounding by…
e224. A Filler Episode on Filler Episodes
One of the most important things about academia is being in conversation with other academics. That is to say that the way knowledge happens is one scholar says something and then another scholar builds on it and so on and so on. About a week ago, our friends over at the Protagonist Podcast did an…
Excalibur #63: “Denial”
Excalibur #63 “Denial” Writing and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Gylnis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: March 1993 Don’t let the cool Kylun cover fool you—Excalibur #63, “Denial,” is in denial about being about Kylun because it’s clearly a Nightcrawler comic, in which Kurt Wagner superfan Alan Davis…
Call For Comments: Fill-in and Bottle episodes
From Mav: I was recently listening to our friends over at the Protagonist Podcast and they gave us a shout out of sorts. They mentioned that a great idea for a podcast episode might be to spend a show talking about fill-in and bottle episodes. Then, Joe mentioned that maybe instead of doing the show…