{"id":2151,"date":"2023-02-18T17:02:08-05:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T22:02:08+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshgollywow.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:04:06-05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:04:06+00:00","slug":"excalibur-88-dream-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2023\/02\/18\/excalibur-88-dream-nails\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur #88: \u201cDream Nails\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Excalibur #88<\/h4>\n<h1>\u201cDream Nails\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Writers:\u00a0Warren Ellis<\/p>\n<p>Pencils: Larry Stroman Darrick Gross, Ken Lashley &amp; Jeff Moy<\/p>\n<p>Inks: Cam Smith, Farrick Gross, Tom Wegrzyn, Philip Moy, Don Hudson &amp; Kames Palmiotti<\/p>\n<p>Colours: Joe Rosas and Digital Chameleon<\/p>\n<p>Letters: Comicraft<\/p>\n<p>Editors: Suzanne Gaffney &amp; Bob Harras<\/p>\n<p>Original publication date: August 1995<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excalibur #88: \u201cDream Nails\u201d\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=b37fk-139604d-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2023\/01\/03\/wmqa-presents-our-son-pete-episode-11-the-one-with-the-london-hellfire-club\/\">\u201cOur Son Pete,\u201d<\/a> a monthly analysis of the best\/worst\/worst-best mutant on Marvel\u2019s main Earth! Just kidding! Or are we\u2026? We are! But only mostly, because we <em>are<\/em> joined to chat <em>Excalibur<\/em> #88, \u201cDream Nails,\u201d by the man who <em>does<\/em> host that podcast, daring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpgrote\">Dan Grote<\/a>! Love Pete or hate him, here\u2019s here to stay we\u2019re here to reckon with it, talking what makes this broody super-spy him tick and how he\u2019s actually pretty crushable\u2026? (But we\u2019d definitely warn you away from dating him!) Plus memories of X-Files past and praise for Larry Stroman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was a big soap opera fan\u2026 Ultimately, I think I connected with the soap opera aspects of X-Men, and it made me better understand her fandom as I cultivated my own. Which is nice.\u201d -Dan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in that period now where Comicraft is lettering everything and trying out all the fonts in their candy box\u2014for good or ill.\u201d -Dan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParts of this really feel like someone watched X-Files and said\u2014yeah, let\u2019s just do that.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPete Wisdom is in that very \u201890s school of broody, snarky, wounded wolf archetype whose powers are largely there to assist in violence\u2026 But for some reason, he was the version of that archetype that spoke to me.\u201d -Dan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banter gives me a better sense of Pete\u2019s character in this issues, whereas in the previous issues, he\u2019d just been brooding because trench coat guys brood.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing Pete Wisdom\u2019s friends and associates, seeing him interact effortlessly with people from different social registers, you get a sense of the bigness of his life and the complexity of his character.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are smack-dab in the era of hyperrealism, and Larry Stroman says to hell with that, I\u2019m just going to be a graffiti artist.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a newspaper editor by day, a comics site editor by night, and in the temporal spaces between he co-hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/category\/podcasts\/wmqa\/\">WMQ&amp;A<\/a>, a weekly comics creator interview podcast, with his longtime best friend Matt Lazorwitz. 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