High school reunion month kicks off with a look at the 1996 movie Beautiful Girls, which was directed by Ted Demme and has one of those “Everyone from the Nineties” ensemble casts, which includes Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Michael Rappaport, Rosie O’Donnell, Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman, and Natalie Portman. I […]
For as long as DC has been publishing, talking animals have been part of their lineup. In this episode, I take a brief look at the history of DC’s funny animal comics with a story from The Fox and the Crow as well as some Looney Tunes stories. Plus, I […]
It’s an extra-sized 50th episode of In Country. We’ve hit the halfway point in our journey through The ‘Nam as well as our look at the Vietnam War as a whole, so it’s time to look at a novel and movie that share a name with this podcast: In Country. […]
It’s the 50th episode of Pop Culture Affidavit! For this special episode, I take a look back twenty years to the year I graduated from high school. Along the way, I look at how senior year of high school is represented in movies. It includes stops at, among other things, […]
In 1997, Sean McKeever self-published his very first work, The Waiting Place, a story about the ennui that comes with being a young adult trapped in a town that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. It was soon picked up by Slave Labor Graphics and McKeever along with Brendon and […]
My look at non-superhero comics throughout DC’s 80-year history continues with the crime-drama genre and to represent that, I’ve chosen the 1988 miniseries Cinder and Ashe, which was written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (praise be his name). It’s a story about two private investigators looking […]
Doug Murray is back after a brief fill-in by Chuck Dixon for The ‘Nam #44, a story entitled “Football Hero” that is a meditation on the fear that can paralyze a man, especially in the ‘Nam. As always, in addition to the summary and review of the issue I’ll be […]
It’s the fifth part of my look at 80 years of DC Comics and I cover not necessarily a type of comic, but a type of character. It’s an all-gorilla episode! Listen as I recap a classic Congo Bill story as well as Secret Origins #40. Comments and feedback are […]
Chuck Dixon fills in for regular writer Doug Murray with a tale that takes us forward in time to April 1970. “The Weight” is a collection of three separate war stories told by GIs in a bar in Saigon with art by Wayne Vansant and Geof Isherwood and a cover […]
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