{"id":8216,"date":"2022-02-19T00:00:26-05:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:00:26+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshgollywow.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:05:12-05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:05:12+00:00","slug":"excalibur-49-let-there-be-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2022\/02\/19\/excalibur-49-let-there-be-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur #49: \u201cLet There Be Dark\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Excalibur #49<\/h4>\n<h1>\u201cLet There Be Dark\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Writer and pencils: Alan Davis<\/p>\n<p>Colours: Glynis Oliver<\/p>\n<p>Inks: Michael Heisler<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Terry Kavanagh<\/p>\n<p>Original publication date: April 1992<\/p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excalibur #49: \u201cLet There Be Dark\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=wg8ig-11aeafb-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><p>This week, Anna threatens to spend the whole show talking about teleporting, but shows admirable restraint in letting our honored guest, comics and pop culture scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nfreim\">Nicole Freim<\/a>, lead us through at least twelve fun and fascinating discussions of at least twelve other dimensions in the mostly-stationary but nonetheless jam-packed <em>Excalibur<\/em> #49, \u201cLet There Be Dark.\u201d In which Necrom gets closer (and stays naked), Feron gets a snack, Brian gets bigger, Alistaire gets pretty, and Micromax (finally) gets to do something cool.<\/p><p>\u201cThese heavily armed officers are ironically called \u2018mediators\u2019 and they\u2019re going after a target they know very little about. This opening emphasizes the thuggish-ness of police.\u201d -Nicole<\/p><p>\u201cWe see Kurt adding a tactical component to his emotional intelligence, and therefore achieving ultimate leadership. He\u2019s taking an existing skill and adding a little Cyclops to it. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve seen that before. It\u2019s him becoming the unquestionable leader of Excalibur.\u201d -Andrew<\/p><p>\u201cThe Mircomax stuff is so trope-y, but it works. Suddenly, you realize: he\u2019s just this young guy struggling to be taken seriously, who doesn\u2019t fully understand his powers, doing the best he can. It made me way more interested in the character.\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>\u201cIn fiction there are redeemable and irredeemable monsters. You become an irredeemable monster by combining too many of the wrong kinds of differences. Necrom is an irredeemable monster because he\u2019s naked, powerful, sexual, and old\u2014things are aren\u2019t \u2018supposed\u2019 to coexist.\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m very attached to the limits of Kurt\u2019s teleportation and how it relates to his character. He has to have total faith in his abilities and sacrifice his body and maybe die each time he does it. These days, he doesn\u2019t have limits, and I don\u2019t like it. It\u2019s less interesting to me.\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>\u201cI lot of this issue is about trust. Who do we trust? Do we trust Roma? Do we trust Necrom? Do we trust each other? Do we trust ourselves, and our own bodies? Do we trust the reality of the world around us?\u201d -Nicole<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s walking back some of the dignity Brian\u2019s recently earned, and it\u2019s not helped by the fact he looks very silly as a giant muscle baby with a tiny head. Also, this should be his worst nightmare, becoming so hyper-male he can\u2019t even use a computer. Choosing not to explore that is a bit of a missed opportunity.\u201d -Andrew<\/p><p>\u201cI loved Meggan specifically asking if Brian is in pain. I thought that was a wonderful nod to empathy being her superpower.\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve never really been much of an Alistaire girl but then we get to this panel and I\u2019m like heyyyyyyyyyyyy Alistaire\u2026 Maybe I\u2019ve misjudged you all this time. Can we go to that toga dimension for a little while?\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>\u201cKurt confronts the Meggan skeleton, and she\u2019s appropriately decomposed. Then he confronts his own skeleton, and his hair still looks great.\u201d -Anna<\/p><p>Anna likes talking about teleporting! Here&#8217;s her doing more of it for ComicsXF!<\/p><p>You can find her on Twitter (<span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nfreim\">@nfreim<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can find her writing about superheroes and pop culture lots of places, but most recently, she penned the chapter \u201cSuperman vs. The Soap Opera: The Success of <em>Lois &amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman<\/em>,\u201d in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/adapting-superman\/\"><em>Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel<\/em><\/a>! Edited by past guest John Darowksi with additional essays by Anna and Mav.<\/p>\n<p>And! You should definitely check out the recent Voxpopcast episode \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2022\/01\/31\/e199-nancy-drew-the-hidden-staircase-to-pop-culture-immortality\/\">Nancy Drew &amp; the Hidden Staircase to Pop Culture Immortality,&#8221;<\/a> featuring Mav (natch) and Nicole! Guaranteed you&#8217;ll learn something new about everyone&#8217;s favourite plucky teen girl detective.<\/p><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 #49 \u201cLet There Be Dark\u201d Writer and pencils: Alan Davis Colours: Glynis Oliver Inks: Michael Heisler Editor: Terry Kavanagh Original publication date: April 1992This week, Anna threatens to spend the whole show talking about teleporting, but shows admirable restraint in letting our honored guest, comics and pop culture scholar Nicole Freim, lead us through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"venue_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[18,1829,3063],"class_list":["post-8216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gosh-golly-wow","kind-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Excalibur #49: \u201cLet There Be Dark\u201d &#8212; 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