Episode 57: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Required Reading With Tom and Stella
Panarese
Fallen Walls Open Curtains Episode 8
It’s the eighth chapter in a podcast miniseries that looks at the fall of the Iron Curtain and the popular culture of the Cold War. To start us off, I look at what happened in Eastern Europe from June 1991 to August 1991 with a special focus on the attempted […]
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 124: Futuristic Van Damme-age
Jean-Claude Van Damme, made his name as “The Muscle from Brussels” off of B-level action flicks that were light on story but chock full of martial arts action. In 1989, coming off the success of Bloodsport, he starred in Cyborg, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi/action thriller about a man bent on revenge and […]
Episode 56: The House on Mango Street
Required Reading With Tom and Stella
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 123: Cardboard Heroes
The Eighties and Nineties were a boom for the baseball card and trading card industry, and since I was a kid, I was right there in the thick of it. Join me as I recount my days collecting baseball cards as well as cards featuring characters from Marvel, DC, Star […]
Episode 55: A Raisin in the Sun
Required Reading With Tom and Stella
Fallen Walls Open Curtains Episode 7
It’s the seventh chapter in a podcast miniseries that looks at the fall of the Iron Curtain and the popular culture of the Cold War. To start us off, I look at what happened in Eastern Europe from March 1991 to May 1991 with a special focus on Yugoslavia and […]
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 122: Titans Two-Fer Part Two, Apokolips Now
In 1982, Marvel and DC teamed up to present a story featuring their two hottest properties: The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans. Written by X-scribe Chris Claremont with art by Walt Simonson and Terry Austin, the crossover was one of the best ever produced and had the X-Titans [...]
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 121: Titans Two-Fer Part One, The Judas Contract
In 1984, Marv Wolfman and George Perez shocked their fans by revealing that the New Teen Titans’ newest member, Terra, was working with Deathstroke: The Terminator. Then, they finished Terra’s story in what is the high-water mark for their run, “The Judas Contract.” This episode, Donovan Grant joins me to […]
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