It’s time for another dose of that anarchic comic-book “medicine” that your ears desperately need, so join us as we have a chat about a Doom Patrol TV series, and a prequel/origin story spinoff for Gotham about Bruce Wayne’s trusty butler Alfred (which is going by the simple moniker Pennyworth). […]
Books
Literary Loitering 85 – Middle-Class Oedipus Rex
An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we find out that domestic dramas are apparently crowding out traditional fantasy fiction in children’s books. It’s then time for a long-haul art vandal in the family, fake terrorist movie promotions, […]
Keyframe 116 – Giant Furry Space Hoppers
4-Panel 139 – Free Comic Book Day 2018
Literary Loitering 84 – Middle-Class Mutant Hipster Turtles
Keyframe 114 – Post-War Pat’s Big Bag of Letters
Literary Loitering 83 – John Updike’s Pee Maze
Cinema Eclectica 153 – Oprah: Floating Benevolent Space God
Keyframe 110 – Hooray For Jim!
Animation is serious business so this week we scrutinise the trailers for Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and BallMastrz: 9009 through the lenses of our stop-motion microscopes. After that we dissect Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards for 2017 as we really want to know why …? Not why anything. Just […]
Literary Loitering 82 – Peter Rabbit’s Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been […]