It's finals week. Well, ok, finals are over, so that means it's finals GRADING week, the worst week of the academic semester for anyone who teaches for a living. It can really burn you out. So, for this week we decided to do something of a pallet cleanser episode. Longtime listeners might know that VoxPopcast was originally patterned after being something of an academic happy hour... so we decided that it might be fun to play a common drinking game but with a pop culture twist. So on today's episode, Mav and Monica are joined by returning guest Blake Collins to play Pop Culture Fuck-Marry-Kill! It's a quite simple game... the rules are pretty much right there in the name and if you don't get it... well, we expect you'll...
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e211. #PCAACA22: The Presentations
Regular listeners of our show will know that the last couple weeks we have devoted to #PCAACA22, the annual conference for the Pop Culture Association. Two weeks ago, we devoted the show to our planning workshop. Last week, you got to hear us meet with other conference attendees to talk about how it went at…
Excalibur #55: “The Ghost of Braddock Manor”
Excalibur #55 “The Ghost of Braddock Manor” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: October 1992 The last time Excalibur threw a party, Meggan became a vampire and tried to eat a dog. So expectations are high! But this issue’s up to…
e210. #PCAACA22: The Afterparty
For the last several weeks the hosts of VoxPopcast have been preparing for a conference. Well, that was this week! Last week you heard our conference workshop where we tried to help each other with our ideas. Next week., we’re going to bring you the papers themselves so you can see what we did. But…
Excalibur: Air Apparent
Excalibur Special Edition “Air Apparent” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Ron Lim, Brian Stelfreeze, Dwayne Turner, Jackson Guice, Rick Leonardi, Erik Larsen, and James Fry Inks: Al Gordon, Karl Story, Klaus Janson, Tom Palmer, Josef Rubenstein, Erik Larsen, and Don Hudson Colours: Glynis Oliver, Dana Moreshead, Ariane Lenshoek Letters: Michael Heisler and Steve Dutro Editors: Terry…
e209. PCA2022 Conference Paper Workshop & Preview
This week we’re going to try something a little different on the show. We’ve been mentioning in the past few weeks that we several of the hosts and our most frequent guests are all gearing ups for our big annual pop culture academia conference, PCA. In the past, we’ve had shows where we presented our…
Excalibur #54: “Curiouser and Curiouser”
Excalibur #54 “Curiouser and Curiouser” Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: September 1992 Listeners of this pod know we share one thing with Brian Braddock, which is that we’d follow Meggan anywhere, including down a rabbit hole into a series of…
e208. What Time Is It? It’s Bridgerton Time! (Again)
Last year, we (like many people) were so overcome with the Netflix show Bridgerton that we recorded not one but two episodes about it. We weren’t the only ones. It was a runaway sensation. Well, it’s been a year and Bridgerton time has returned with slightly more fixed fanfare. Even this week’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has…
Excalibur #53: “The Litter”
Excalibur #53 “The Litter” Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: James Fry Inks: Christopher Ivy Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: August 1992 Welcome back to the podcast where we talk about Excalibur and nothing but Excalibur… except when we talk about Spider-Man! Which we’re doing this week! Comics scholar and…
Excalibur #52: “All You Ever Wanted to Know About Phoenix… But Were Afraid to Ask”
Excalibur #52 “All You Ever Wanted to Know About Phoenix… But Were Afraid to Ask” Writer: Alan Davis Pencils: Will Simpson Colours: Kelly Covese Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti and Dave Hoover Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: July 1992 And we’re back! With a special episode of “Retconning with Reck,” in which writer/artist/podcaster Adam Reck of…