Stella! Shag! Summer! It’s time for the first of a three-part look at the summer of 2015 and it starts off with a talk about movies between me, Stella (Batgirl to Oracle), and The Irredeemable Shag (The Fire & Water Podcast). Then, it’s time for listener feedback. BUT WAIT … [...]
Remember all of the awesome music we used to jam to growing up in the ’80s and ’90s? Remember all of the important bands that you heard just as they came out and before they became huge? Well, in this episode I’m going to take you on a nostalgic musical [...]
High school reunion month concludes with my all-time favorite reunion movies and one of my all-time favorite John Cusack movies, Grosse Pointe Blank. For this look at the high school reunion of Martin Blank, professional killer, I’m joined by Michael Bailey (From Crisis to Crisis, Tales of the JSA, Views [...]
Everything’s a laugh riot here for this episode of my DC Comics retrospective, as I take a look at books that put the funny in funny books! I start out by taking a very quick look at couple of the short comic strips in New Fun Comics #5, then Brett [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s time for another look back at a classic teen movie and this time I’ve pulled out all the stops for one of the quintessential 1980s teen flicks, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I’m joined by Todd Liebenow of The Forgotten Filmcast to talk about the film, and its influence. [...]
80 Years of DC Comics rolls on as I take a look at an issue of Legends of the DC Universe starring my all-time favorite superhero team, The New Teen Titans! This episode is part of a mega podcast crossover with the Lantern Cast and I was happy to read [...]
“The Meat Loaf Episode.” Enough said. http://twotruefreaks.com/media/podcasts/popculture/mp3/PopCultureAffidavitEpisode47.mp3
For 77 years, DC Comics has been the home to Superheroes. But for 80 years, it has been the home to action-adventure. Join me as I take a look at action-adventure stories featuring Steve Conrad, Johnny Peril, King Faraday, Nemesis, and Dick Grayson in an episode that spans most of [...]
Riding the coattails of The Palace of Glittering Delights, I’ve got my own TV theme song countdown. There’s comedy! There’s drama! There’s Canadians! There’s Hasselhoff! Join me as I count down twelve of my all-time favorite TV theme songs. Show notes and pictures are available at http://popcultureaffidavit.com, which is also [...]
It’s a coattails-riding self-indulgent trip down comedy memory lane as I spend 30 minutes talking about Saturday Night Live, which just had a huge 40th anniversary special this past Sunday. Here, I look back on another anniversary special from the show, its 15th anniversary special, which aired in the fall [...]
My celebration of 80 Years of DC Comics continues with a genre that was once pretty strong and popular but is no longer around, which is romance comics. I’m joined by Stella from Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast and we take a look at Secret Hearts #153. There’s [...]
It’s literally a literary episode of Pop Culture Affidavit as Professor Alan joins me to talk about books and movies; specifically, adaptation. We get into what makes a good adaptation, what makes a bad adaptation, talk about movies based on books that we love and hate, and even discuss what [...]
Presenting the first episode in an all-new podcast miniseries from Pop Culture Affidavit, 80 Years of DC Comics. Throughout these twelve episodes, I am going to be taking a look at the various genres of comic books that DC Comics has produced in its 80-year history. For my first episode, [...]
So it’s Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanuaaaaaaaaaaaaary. Blah. BUT, thankfully I’m here to bore you all to death … I mean, get you pumped up for another year of pop culture randomness! Join me for 40 minutes of rambling where I talk about Christmas, highlights from last year, and what I’m looking forward to [...]