Ever since the mid 1980s and the publication of Watchmen comics, their creators, and their fans, have been obsessed with the idea of “deconstruction.” Director Zack Snyder is extremely fond…
Tag: Batman
Call For Comments: Mask Theory
From Mav: Back when we started the podcast we made a list of stuff we thought we might want to talk about one day. One of the things that was…
e93. Golden Age of Comics
If you’re at least a casual comic book fan you probably know the terms Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Modern Age. If you’re a massive comic geek, you…
Call For Comments: The Golden Age of Comics
From Mav: Now that we’re done with all of the end of the year and beginning of the year stuff it’s time to get back to business as usual on…
Call For Comments: Joker and Irredeemable Protagonists
From Mav: As I write this, we are about two days away from one of the most highly anticipated comic book movies of all time being released, Todd Phillips’s Joker.…
e54. The Unbearable Whiteness of being Batman
Do you remember all of those great Batman supporting characters of color. You know… Batman’s black, latinx, asian and other ethnic sidekicks and villains like… errr… uh… you know… yeah……
e50. Are You What You Wear?
Somewhere along the line, when they were making the show The Big Bang Theory, someone said “hey, this guy is a geek. Put him in comic book T-shirts, and everyone…
Call For Comments: I Hate Continuity (and so do you)
From Mav: We haven’t really done an episode that focused on comics in while. This one doesn’t entirely FOCUS on comics, but that’s where we started. It’s also academic… or…
e31. Heroes, Villains & Antiheroes
The antihero… just like the hero… except he can kill. Wait… heroes kill too now. In fact they always have. Well maybe it’s that the antihero swears… Actually, heroes swear…