{"id":8245,"date":"2023-01-28T01:35:13-05:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T06:35:13+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshgollywow.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:04:11-05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:04:11+00:00","slug":"excalibur-85-edge-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2023\/01\/28\/excalibur-85-edge-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur #85: \u201cEdge of Night\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Excalibur #85<\/h4>\n<h1>\u201cEdge of Night\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Writer: Warren Ellis<\/p>\n<p>Pencils: Ken Lashley<\/p>\n<p>Inks: Tom Wegrzyn<\/p>\n<p>Colours: Joe Rosas<\/p>\n<p>Letters: Jon Babcock<\/p>\n<p>Editors: Suzanne Gaffney &amp; Bob Harras<\/p>\n<p>Original publication date: January 1995<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excalibur #85: \u201cEdge of Night\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=ta5zu-1376120-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>This week, we\u2019re slashing (and snikt-ing!) our way to the conclusion of the \u201cSoulsword Trilogy\u201d in <em>Excalibur<\/em> #85, \u201cEdge of Night,\u201d co-starring Wolverine + Wolverine afficionado <a href=\"https:\/\/justinwigard.com\/\">Dr. Justin Wigard<\/a>! Our discussion digs into retributive violence, Final Girl tropes, 90s maximalism, and the complexity of loving a guy whose main thing is being extremely stabby. Plus, we discover a new unit of comics time involving cigars and how long it takes to smoke them while going to stabby town\/proving your mutant manhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never know whether to say I like Wolverine\u2026 It kinda depends what he\u2019s up to that day, and whether the story embraces retributive violence or rejects it.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lot of Wolverine\u2019s mentorship is about survival and less about creating more of himself.\u201d -Justin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWolverine is a big fat liar. He was absolutely training this 13-year-old girl to be a murdered, and he made himself feel better by pretending he wasn\u2019t.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Claremont, Wolverine is like a detached father. He cares deeply about Kitty, and wants the gentler path for her, but he\u2019s never going to go to her. She has to come to him.\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have liked to see a little bit less of Wolverine\u2019s influence and a little bit more of the things that make Kitty special.\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been dealing with a lot of 90s maximalism recently\u2026 this felt like a more readable version of that style than a lot of what we\u2019ve encountered lately.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Soulsword is a mixture of physicality and magic. So Ken Lashley has to give you a finale that is a punching content\/sword fight\/magic context\u2026 there\u2019s a high degree of difficulty representing that visually.\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>You can check out Anna&#8217;s article on loving\/hating Wolverine, titled &#8220;Choosing Violence: The Complexity of Loving Wolverine,&#8221; via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbookherald.com\/author\/annapeppard\/\">Comic Book Herald<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>You can him on Twitter (<span>@JustinWigard), and at his personal website, <a href=\"https:\/\/justinwigard.com\/\">justinwigard.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He is co-editor of<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/attack-of-the-new-b-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Attack of the new B Movies: Essays on SYFY Original Films<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(McFarland Press, 2022), the first academic treatment of SYFY Channel\u2019s original films, including\u00a0<em>Sharknado<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(2013),<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>2 Lava 2 Lantula<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>(2016),<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Frankenfish<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>(2004), and more.<\/p>\n<p>His article on<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.proxy1.cl.msu.edu\/article\/804829\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.proxy1.cl.msu.edu\/article\/804829\" target=\"_blank\">visual parody and pulp signifiers in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>was awarded a 2021 Honorable Mention for Best Article from the Comics Studies Society. He has further published on popular representations of race, representation, gender, and sexuality in visual forms, including the Hallmark Channel\u2019s\u00a0<em>Garage Sale Mystery<\/em>\u00a0film series; professional wrestling and\u00a0<em>Street Fighter<\/em>; chronotopal representations of feminism in Marvel\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jessica Jones<\/em>; monstrous motherhood in Neil Gaiman\u2019s\u00a0<em>Coraline<\/em>; and the transmission of ludemes across video games in the<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Jurassic Park<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>X-Men: The Animated Series<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>properties.<\/p>\n<p>Justin\u2019s dissertation,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/justinwigard.com\/level101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games<\/a><\/em>, is a video game that he has developed which explores, explains, and interrogates the medium through a methodology of play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>nd as usual:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find Anna on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peppard_anna\">@peppard_anna<\/a>) and at<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sequentialscholars.com\/\">Sequential Scholars<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seqscholars\">@seqscholars<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can find Andrew on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaremontRun\">@ClaremontRun<\/a>) and at Sequential Scholars.<\/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>).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>-GGW Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excalibur #85 \u201cEdge of Night\u201d Writer: Warren Ellis Pencils: Ken Lashley Inks: Tom Wegrzyn Colours: Joe Rosas Letters: Jon Babcock Editors: Suzanne Gaffney &amp; 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