{"id":8192,"date":"2021-11-20T08:56:00-05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T13:56:00+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshgollywow.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:05:31-05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:05:31+00:00","slug":"excalibur-37-house-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2021\/11\/20\/excalibur-37-house-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur #37: \u201cHouse Call\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Excalibur #37<\/h4>\n<h1>\u201cHouse Call\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Writer: Scott Lobdell<\/p>\n<p>Pencils and inks: Mark Badger<\/p>\n<p>Colours: Glynis Oliver<\/p>\n<p>Letters: Chris Eliopoulos\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Terry Kavanagh\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Original publication date: May 1991<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excalibur #37: \u201cHouse Call\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=tm6yf-1137773-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sages foretold: lo, there will come a story, told in three parts, in which jokes are stale and motives are baffling. Nobody likes it; nobody wanted it. Yet it exists. And thus, Anna, Mav, and Andrew must discuss it. But the sages also foretold a savior: a shining beacon of righteous insight destined to cleave &#8220;The Promethium Exchange&#8221; in twain, and create from the sum of these parts something better, worthy of the mantle of\u00a0<em>Excalibur<\/em>. That savior is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nolapfau\">Nola Pfau<\/a>, two-time Eisner Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/womenwriteaboutcomics.com\/\">Women Write About Comics<\/a>. In other words: here&#8217;s an hour-and-a-half of awesome talk about a not-awesome comic formally known as\u00a0<em>Excalibur\u00a0<\/em>#37, &#8220;House Call.&#8221; Feel free to skip the comic. But skip this episode at your peril.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople talk about differences between the X-Men and Avengers &#8211; how the X-Men are family and the Avengers are co-workers. That really rings true to me, not just in that the X-Men have external lives when they&#8217;re not superheroing, but also in that those external lives are so interconnected and messy in the way that real families are. These are people who may not always get along, but always care deeply for each other, and will always put everything aside for each other.\u201d -Nola\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe X-Men are not out there acting like policemen. They&#8217;re not out there being cops for the world. They are, very often, fighting government and fighting the police. Because they are showing up for the most marginalized. They are showing up for the most vulnerable. And they continue to do that, even when the world makes them look like the villains for doing it.\u201d -Nola<\/p>\n<p>On humor and trauma: \u201cWe\u2019ve talked many times about\u00a0<em>Excalibur\u00a0<\/em>as a team founded in trauma. But it\u2019s also a \u2018funny book.\u2019 For me, when the humor\u2019s at its best, it\u2019s similar to the thing I love about Kurt\u2019s humor: it\u2019s rooted in trauma, a reckless protest against the impossibility of his existence.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeggan is absolutely an avatar of the hyperfeminine bimbo stereotype in superhero comics. When she is used to actually interrogate and challenge that stereotype, she is fantastic and amazing. When she\u2019s in the hands of someone like Lobdell, that doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d -Nola<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything about Kurt\u2019s body and powers is built for movement\u2014for transition from one place to another. And that extends to his characterization. Like Meggan, he\u2019s not the things that happen to him. He\u2019s always what he does to move on from that\u2014what he does to grow past that.\u201d -Nola<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKurt jokes about things in a way that doesn\u2019t make light of those things. It doesn\u2019t ignore his trauma; his humor is informed by trauma. Choosing to laugh at the things that happen to you, choosing to laugh at your own pain\u2014that\u2019s a powerful choice. It\u2019s a reclaiming of power from a place you didn\u2019t have it before.\u201d -Nola<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>X-Men: Gold<\/em>\u00a0is not a good series. But there&#8217;s a moment from it, after Kitty leaves Colossus at the altar, that I often think about, and that I used in my first essay on Nightcrawler and disability. Colossus says, &#8216;Kurt, can I not be here, please?&#8217; And Kurt says, &#8216;Yes, of course.&#8217; That&#8217;s Kurt&#8217;s power &#8211; the power to escape.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>On Lobdell quirks: \u201cLobdell\u2019s favourite character is Brian. I think Brian is exactly the type of character that Lobdell sees as the hero.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKitty having Illyana\u2019s Soul Sword was important because it was a tangible artefact of their love for one another that couldn\u2019t be denied, because of the tying of it to, specifically, Illyana\u2019s soul. We talk about things like soulmates when we talk about love, and when we talk about romantic contexts.\u201d -Nola<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s different forms of disability. There\u2019s a situation where you\u2019re going to get better, and it\u2019s going to take time. And there\u2019s a situation where you\u2019re not. And I think for people who identify with that second type of disability, it feels like a little bit of a slap in the face when a character is magically cured, out of nowhere, for reasons that are jubilant and joyful and disavow the very concept of the hero\u2019s journey through that disability.\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>Check out her recent essay on Paul Smith&#8217;s X-Men:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2021\/09\/09\/reading-between-the-lines-how-paul-smiths-fluid-style-made-him-the-best-x-men-artist-of-all\/\">&#8220;Reading Between the Lines: How Paul Smith\u2019s Fluid Style Made Him the Best X-Men Artist of All.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And! Check out her co-coverage &#8211; with Corey Smith &#8211; of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2021\/10\/27\/orchis-strikes-against-arakko-in-sword-9\/\"><em>S.W.O.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0at ComicsXF<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also! Nola&#8217;s also co-covering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2021\/09\/29\/the-house-of-x-burns-in-inferno-1\/\"><em>Inferno\u00a0<\/em>with Chris Eddelman!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus! She covers a whole lot of stuff over at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/womenwriteaboutcomics.com\/author\/nola-pfau\/\">Women Write About Comics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8211; there&#8217;s more!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out Anna&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2021\/11\/12\/through-nightcrawler-dave-cockrum-showed-his-mastery-of-the-craft-in-uncanny-x-men-147\/\">recent essay on the symbolism of teleporting<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Uncanny X-Men<\/em>\u00a0#147!<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the history of Greer Nelson (The Cat\/Tigra) in this essay by Anna (excerpted from a longer book chapter),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/on-marvels-first-female-superhero-written-by-a-woman\/\">&#8220;On Marvel\u2019s First Female Superhero Written by a Woman.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s that original Nightcrawler essay, about escape, and disability, and a bunch of other stuff:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaultofculture.com\/vault\/feature\/peppard\/undying\">\u2018Til Death Do We Part, at Least for a While: My Undying Love Affair with Undying Superheroes<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>And how &#8217;bout a Claremont Run thread by Andrew\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaremontRun\/status\/1422887611841056776\">about Kurt&#8217;s defining joy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And as usual:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find Anna on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peppard_anna\">@peppard_anna<\/a>) and on her podcast with Andrew and Michael Hancock,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/threepanelcontrast.podbean.com\/\">Three Panel Contrast<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3PanelContrast\">@3PanelContrast<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can find Andrew on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaremontRun\">@ClaremontRun<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You can find Mav on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismaverick\">@chrismaverick<\/a>) and on his podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/\">VoxPopcast<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoxPopcast\">@VoxPopcast<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>-GGW Team\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excalibur #37 \u201cHouse Call\u201d Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils and inks: Mark Badger Colours: Glynis Oliver Letters: Chris Eliopoulos\u00a0 Editor: Terry Kavanagh\u00a0 Original publication date: May 1991 The sages foretold: lo, there will come a story, told in three parts, in which jokes are stale and motives are baffling. 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