Pride (2014): When Thatcher Made Allies of Queers and Miners
In 1984, a group of London lesbians and gay men decided to raise money for striking Welsh miners, because Thatcher was going after both comm...
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Spider-Noir: A Hero for the Wrong Reasons
"Ben's PTSD manifested as his alcoholism and his self-destruction as the Spider. ‘I'm just going to go out there and get punched in the face...
Masters of the Universe: He-Man and Nostagia Bait
He-Man was always camp. The loincloth, the harness, the flexing, the pink tunic, Masters of the Universe was masculinity as WWE spectacle.....
The Boys • Final Wrap Up
The Boys is over — but did it actually answer the questions it spent five seasons raising? Matthew is joined by returning guest Ocean Murff,...
Damn the Man! Empire Records After 30 Years
“Empire Records” bombed in 1995, got panned by critics, and spent the next thirty years becoming a cult classic — which tells you something...
Judges of the Card Rooms — TCGs & Poker
What does it mean to hold real authority in a card room? Matthew Fox has spent years as a judge for TCGs like Magic: The Gathering and Star...
What Made Rob McKenzie Rebel Scum?
What made you the kind of person who questions things? Returning guest Rob McKenzie joins Matthew to trace the science fiction and fantasy t...
Maul: Truth-Teller, Manipulator, or Self-Deceiver? • Maul – Shadow Lord Discussion
This conversation first aired on Star Wars Generations and we're sharing it here because it raises exactly the kind of question this show wa...
Are Superheroes Cops? Cyclops, Green Lantern & ACAB
Is Cyclops from X-Men actually a cop, or is he just annoying? That question turns out to be the perfect entry point for a much bigger one: w...
Project Hail Mary • Ethics in a Crisis
When the survival of every person on Earth depends on one unwilling scientist, one who explicitly said no to sacrificing his own life for hu...
Baseball Is Back, Along with Hard Questions
Baseball’s antitrust exemption gives team owners something no other American sport enjoys: a government-enforced monopoly — and Matthew and...
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Its Future
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing something rare for a franchise show: it’s willing to put its own hero institution genuinely on trial —...
What Made Us Rebel Scum? with Paul Hoppe
The Rebel Alliance symbol crossed with a Minnesota loon, is showing up at protests across Minnesota, and Matthew can’t stop thinking about w...
Superhero Daddy Issues
Superheroes can bench-press buildings, but they almost never have a healthy relationship with their parents. For this episode of Superhero E...
The Manga Bible with Author Helen McCarthy
Helen McCarthy has spent over forty years as one of the West's leading voices on manga and anime — and her new book The Manga Bible is her m...
The Ethics of Award Season
What does "best" actually mean when the Oscars put it on a ballot — and who gets to decide? Matthew sits down with Andy Nelson, co-founder o...
Dracula
Dracula has been rewritten as a brooding romantic lead so many times that it's easy to forget he's a rapist. Matthew sits down with AK and M...
What Would You Pay for Safety? with Author Michael C. Bland
The man who helped design the surveillance state is perfectly fine with it—until his daughter calls covered in blood with a dead boyfriend o...
Black Superheroes & Black History Month
Black Comic Books with JPenumbra This Black History Month, we sit down with JPenumbra—TikTok creator, podcast host, and comic journalist—to...
What Would Superheroes Do About ICE?
With ICE operations underway in Minneapolis and across the U.S., this episode asks a timely question: what would our favorite superheroes do...