We often say that at its essence, VoxPopcast is people hanging out and drinking at the bar after a conference. That's not entirely true, but it's not NOT true either. But have you ever wondered what it actually is like when we just do that. Well, that's what we have for you today. It's our last show from PCA 2025 and Wayne, Katya, Mav and Hannah got together with several of our friends to just talk about whatever came to mind from the conference to podcasting to teaching to popular culture. There's a lot going on, and this is your chance to look behind the scenes and see what these conferences are really like. Citations and Links: Thank you to Maximilian’s thoughtForm Music for our theme Follow Hannah on BlueSky: @hannahleerogers Follow...
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e105. Animal Crossing & Cozy Games in Worldwide Pandemics
If you’re listening to our show, chances are you live on the planet Earth (and if not, welcome!) and so that means for the last few week, you have likely been dealing with the near worldwide ramicfications of COVID-19 pandemic. That means social distancing, self quarantine, staying inside and… and playing video games . Right…
e104. 5 Victorian Parlour Games for Worldwide Pandemics
If you live anywhere on the planet Earth — and if you’re listening to this podcast, we assume you do — then you’re probably aware that we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic… the worst that the world has seen in at least 100 years. For a large portion of the planet,…
Call For Comments: What’s Happening to Comics Retail (and most other retail), in a pandemic?
From Wayne: For awhile now we’ve talked about doing an episode where we discuss the changing face of comic book retail. I have believed for some time that the retail side industry has been going through a seismic change. The last change of any real magnitude was the introduction of the Direct Market in the…
Call for Comments: The Cozy Games Stress Vaccine
From Katya: Animal Crossing: New Horizons dropped on March 20th, much to the relief of a lot of folks gaming through the COVID-19 pandemic. In the tradition of the OG Animal Crossing on GameCube or Animal Crossing: Wild World, players build up a small community of cute animal neighbors, cultivate and collect natural resources, and–…
e103. Birds of Prey and the Fantaboulous Deconstruction of one VoxPopcast
All across the world, everyone is trapped in their homes riding out the COVID-19 pandemic. Movie cineplexes are shut down. Sports, Concerts and other Events are being cancelled. TV shows are running out of new episodes. Just this week, we learned that comic books are going to stop shipping. We’re running out of pop culture.…
e101. Not the Next Big Thing
So first some notes… we’re in a weird place. As we recorded this episode, we were on the cusp of much of America (where all of our hosts are located) just beginning to prepare (too late frankly) for the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Now, as we post this 4 days later, we are deep into it.…
Call for Comments: Birds of Prey and Women in Film
From Hannah: Birds of Prey premiered a little over a month ago to less fanfare than it deserved. I, admittedly, was hesitant to see it because of both how bad Suicide Squad was and questions about how the film would handle the character of Harley Quinn. I went in with zero expectations and had an…