The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast

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Because you demanded it... We're re-reading the Marvel comics series Excalibur (1988-1998), one issue per week, for 126+ weeks.

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The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast episodes:

02.11.2024
Excalibur #125: “Tying the Knot”
On this our final week, talking Excalibur #125, “Tying the Knot,” we’ve got a wedding we don’t love concluding a comic book series we do love, in sickness and in health, till death do us part… And in honor of...
01.27.2024
Excalibur #124: “Someone”
A certain someone called Zack Jenkins, aka the cohost of the Battle of the Atom podcast, aka the former EiC of ComicsXF, aka the Bad Boy of X-Men podcasting, joins us to fete Excalibur #124, “Someone,” featuring bachelor and bachelorette...
01.20.2024
Excalibur #123: “Lost and Found”
This week’s guest, writer, critic, and game designer Armaan Babu, helps us find the joy we’ve lost talking Excalibur #123, “Lost and Found,” featuring the extended Calvin Rankin cameo nobody asked for and Meggan saying yes to the dress. Topics...
01.13.2024
Excalibur #122: “The Search, Part 1”
This week, we can’t do much better than mimic enjoying Excalibur #122, “The Search, Part 1,” but we’re fully focused on enjoying the company as we count down our final four with returning guest Dr. Michael Hancock, here to reminiscence...
01.06.2024
Excalibur #121: “Friends Like These”
This week, our silly podcast about a seventh-tier X-Men comic from 30 years ago is more deeply embroiled in contemporary geopolitical events than it has any right to be, as the team jets to Israel to hang (and quarrel) with...
12.23.2023
Holiday Special, 2023 Edition!
Welcome to our latest (last!) Holiday Special! Join us as we answer YOUR questions, reflect on the year that was, and draw for PRIZES!! Please note: this is the unedited audio version. Find the video version here.
12.16.2023
Excalibur #120: “Current Events”
Because no one asked for it: it’s Gosh Golly Wow, Love Connection (?) Edition, where old-fashioned comic book romance meets modern-day podcast technology! In honor of the anticlimax of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom’s torrid affair in Excalibur #120, “Current...
12.09.2023
Excalibur #119: “Preludes & Nightmares!”
Excalibur #119, “Preludes & Nightmares!” feels more like a sequel than a prequel, but maybe that’s just the effect of us being haunted by 133 episodes. But social psychologist and comics scholar Dr. Eric Wesselmann is here to help us...
12.02.2023
Excalibur #118: “New Year’s Evil”
We’re besieged by Bamfs gone bad in Excalibur #118, “New Year’s Evil,” and playwright and toy scholar Jonathan Alexandratos is here to help us have the smartest dang convo about bite-sized, upsettingly horny Nightcrawlers you’re ever likely to hear, exploring...
11.25.2023
Excalibur #117: “Amendments”
This week, we’re doing what we do every week, which is celebrating the most unique bond any two beings can possible share—the bond of FRIENDSHIP. But it’s an especially wet form of friendship in Excalibur #117, “Amendments,” featuring part 2...
11.19.2023
Excalibur #116: “Death in Venice”
We’re fighting for our lives in the present when we’re not flashing back to our uncanny pasts in Excalibur #116, “Death in Venice”! Our guest, comics scholar and art historian Josh Rose, guides us through the gooey catacombs, surveying the...
11.04.2023
Excalibur #115: “Missionaries”
We’re on a mission to understand Moira’s off-panel decision to finally confront the dangling plot thread of the Legacy Virus in Excalibur #115, “Missionaries.” Thankfully, we’ve got comics writer & scholar Dr. A. David Lewis in tow to help us...
10.28.2023
Excalibur #114: “For the One I Love”
Pete Wisdom is a right bastard in Excalibur #114, “For the One I Love.” But that’s good news for returning guest Dr. Keith Friedlander, current president of the Pete Wisdom Haters Society! We talk gendered violence and representations of BDSM...
10.22.2023
Excalibur #113: “Faith”
This week, we’re definitely not making Bove/Bova puns as returning guest, comics scholar Bryan Bove, joins us to wonder why we’re in Wundagore in Excalibur #113, “Faith.” Also! Boybots get kisses and Pete Wisdom needs stitches and Lockheed needs better...
10.15.2023
Excalibur #112: “Survival”
This week, Pete and Kurt get clubby and Colossus and Meggan get chilly as we all try to survive Excalibur #112, “Survival,” in which Meggan forgets she can fly and pays the horrible price of becoming an unwilling participant in...
10.07.2023
Excalibur #111: “Broken Vows”
This week, we’re still in Hong Kong, doing dinner and drinking in between crying in the rain and throwing emotional and physical knives at our friends in Excalibur #111, “Broken Vows.” Actor and aspiring comics scholar Chapman Blake is here...
10.01.2023
Excalibur #110: “Hearts Bled Crimson”
We’re back spending probably too much time and effort unpacking Salvador Larocca’s choices which are sometimes weird but definitely choices in Excalibur #110, “Hearts Bled Crimson,” with the help of the eagle eyed superstar comics scholar Dr. Barbara Postema! Plus,...
09.23.2023
Excalibur -1: “A True and Terrible Sacrifice”
Welcome, to the “Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast,” the podcast where we talk about the Marvel comics series Excalibur, and nothing but Excalibur, every week for 126+ weeks. And this is one of those “plus” weeks, except it’s also...
09.09.2023
Excalibur #109: “Dragon Moon Rising”
In the beginning, there were no scholarly books about superhero comics. And then there was Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology, written by none other than this week’s guest, Richard Reynolds! We discuss Brian Braddock’s epic battle against the Crimson Dawn...
09.02.2023
Excalibur #108: “The Old Ways”
The streets are getting punchy and Kitty and Rahne are getting pretty in Excalibur #108, “The Old Ways,” co-starring Spiral and the Dragons of the Crimson Dawn and also Shamrock is there! Molly Fitzgerald is too good for this comic...
08.26.2023
Excalibur #107: “Focus”
This week, we’re focusing on the formal techniques of our new regular penciler, the artist formally known as Salvador Larroca, in Excalibur #107, “Focus”! To help us concentrate through the chaos, we’ve recruited venerable comics scholar Chris Galaver, author of...
08.19.2023
Excalibur #106: “A Portrait of the Artist”
Piotr Rasputin is a trouble starter, punkin’ instigator in the danger(ously) illustrated Excalibur #106, “A Portrait of the Artist.” And we’re drawing on the artistic insights of one Adam Reck, co-host of the Battle of the Atom podcast, to illuminate...
08.05.2023
Excalibur #105: “Hard Truths”
This week, Douglock’s sure he doesn’t love sausage but Kitty’s sure Doug Ramsey does in Excalibur #105, “Hard Truths”… in which Kitty (eventually) apologizes for being a jerk. We’re joined by returning guest, comics scholar and educator Dr. Nicholas E....
07.30.2023
Excalibur #104: “Buried Secret”
It’s no secret that we sometimes had our issues with the Ellis era. We’re celebrating a fresh start by going grave robbing with famous jerk Kitty Pryde in Excalibur #104, “Buried Secret,” accompanied by the accomplished insights of artist, writer,...
07.22.2023
Excalibur #103: “Bend Sinister—Reprise”
The Ellis era of Excalibur reaches an appropriately multiversal conclusion in Excalibur #103, “Bend Sinister—Reprise”! We’re joined by comics scholar Dr. Daniel Stein to pick up the pieces and talk about how they relate to serial storytelling and the emotionality...
07.15.2023
Excalibur #102: “After the Bomb”
Is this VoxPopcast or Gosh Golly Wow? We think it’s probably the latter but it’s hard to tell when Mav is reunited with his VoxPop co-host—comics, pop culture, and fashion scholar Monica Geraffo—to talk a little bit about Excalibur #102,...
07.01.2023
Excalibur #101: “Quiet”
Our favourite mutant misfits might be having a quiet one but we’re getting loud about… our love for quiet issues? Our squad’s reunited with returning guest Laura Grafton in a new base with new boys but some of the same...
06.24.2023
Excalibur #100: “London’s Burning”
It’s not our hundredth episode (been there, done that), but it is the mega-sized hundredth episode of the comic book we decided to dedicate 126+ weeks of our lives to discussing, which warrants a mega-sized ep! That can only mean...
06.17.2023
Excalibur #99: “Fire with Fire”
We’re coming in hot this week, joined by comics and pop culture scholar Dr. Anthony Michael D’Agostino to wield scorching takes about how everything that happens in the underwhelming Excalibur #99, “Fire with Fire,” is actually a narcissistic projection of...
06.11.2023
Excalibur #98: “Fireflies”
Explosive change is in the air in Excalibur #98! Kurt Wagner definitely feels that (plus every tiny breeze) as he debuts a brand-new Carlos Pacheco-designed costume that our returning guest, writer, music critic, and Excalibur super-fan Quentin Harrison, describes as...
06.04.2023
Excalibur #97: “Counterfire”
The New Nightcrawler™ takes centre stage only to be upstaged by another new Meggan and Mav’s story about wrestling Doink the Clown. Jamie James from the Marvel by the Month podcast joins us to jam about that plus Hellfire Clubs,...
05.20.2023
Excalibur #96: “Fireback”
Mav’s lost in the multiverse this week but we’re holding down the fort in his absence with the able assistance of podcaster extraordinaire Matt Lazorwitz, hyping Hellfire and scolding smarmy pets in Excalibur #96, “Fireback”! Featuring the return of Alistaire...
05.13.2023
Excalibur #95: “Amplified Heart”
All that simmering tension had to come to a head sometime, and what better time than this time, in a comic about the most emo Omega mutant? Adam Reck, writer, artist, and co-host of the Battle of the Atom podcast,...
05.06.2023
Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler
We promised we’d be talking about X-Man this week, and we didn’t lie because we are talking about that time Nate Grey created a perfect world for mutants where no one was allowed to have sex and hey guess what,...
04.30.2023
Excalibur #94: “Days of Future Tense”
Hang on to your leather-clad butts, snap on your fingerless gloves, and fire up your razor for an undercut because we’re going back to the future past of 2013 in Excalibur #94, “Days of Future Tense”—or was it all a...
04.22.2023
Excalibur #93: “The Spire”
This week, we’re inspired to do some griping about thong-back costumes and the wolf-girls who wear them in Excalibur #93, “The Spire,” in which Rahne Sinclair goes home again and heals from her traumatic past by revealing it was even...
04.08.2023
X-Calibre #1-4
Welcome, to the Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast, where we talk about the Marvel comics event Age of Apocalypse, and nothing but Age of Apocalypse, every week from now ‘til eternity. This week, your regular hosts Dr. Michael...
04.01.2023
Excalibur Annual #2
Did you forget about Excalibur Annual #2? So did we for a bit, but not anymore! Anna, Mav, and Andrew are on their lonesome this week, hashing out two decent stories and one that made us mad, featuring the returns...
03.25.2023
Excalibur #92: “I Want You”
We want to want Excalibur #92, “I Want You,” and mostly—we do! It’s a savage garden of multitudinous masculinities in which we’re compelled to contend with a colossal party crasher with a figurative colossal chip on his shoulder and a...
03.18.2023
Excalibur #91: “Baby I Love You”
This week, we raise our glasses to a fan-favourite issue, Excalibur #91, “Baby I Love You,” in which our merry mutant misfits take a night off from saving the world to take a tipple, dance on tables, and threaten to...
03.11.2023
Excalibur #90: “Blood Eagle”
It’s gloves off, autopilot on as font of wisdom Liz Large joins us to debate and dissect the crushability of floppy haired sexy-criers who may or may not be sociopaths in Excalibur #90, “Blood Eagle,” in which pride’s better than...
03.04.2023
Excalibur #89: “Easy Tiger”
We’ve got one by the proverbial tail in Excalibur #89, “Easy Tiger,” in which returning guest, comics and pop culture scholar Nicole Freim, helps us peel back Pete Wisdom’s battered trench coat to reveal… a guy who might be more...
02.18.2023
Excalibur #88: “Dream Nails”
Welcome back to “Our Son Pete,” a monthly analysis of the best/worst/worst-best mutant on Marvel’s main Earth! Just kidding! Or are we…? We are! But only mostly, because we are joined to chat Excalibur #88, “Dream Nails,” by the man...
02.12.2023
Excalibur #87: “Back to Reality”
Welcome back to reality—we ain’t spat in it or nothing. (Though we can’t promise the same of Pete Wisdom.) But we’re jumping right from one apocalypse into another, driving a bumpy jeep through Genoshan metaphors and marvelous mutant ones in general,...
02.04.2023
Excalibur #86: “Back to Life”
This is a no-smoking podcast but Pete Wisdom’s coming in hot whether we like it or not. That’s right—it’s time for the debut of the asshole/heartthrob/irritating author surrogate (opinions vary!) mound of teen angst who walks like a man and...
01.28.2023
Excalibur #85: “Edge of Night”
This week, we’re slashing (and snikt-ing!) our way to the conclusion of the “Soulsword Trilogy” in Excalibur #85, “Edge of Night,” co-starring Wolverine + Wolverine afficionado Dr. Justin Wigard! Our discussion digs into retributive violence, Final Girl tropes, 90s maximalism,...
01.21.2023
Excalibur #84, “Dark Adapted Eye,”
We’re still adapting to this brand-new era in which Excalibur sucks less. But supernatural transformations are better with great company, and we’ve got that in spades talking demons, magic swords, and the girls who wear them best in Excalibur #84,...
01.15.2023
Excalibur #83: “Bend Sinister”
We’re (still) back from the winter break and reeling from term prep, but that doesn’t mean we’re not excited (positively possessed!) by the start of a brand-new era for our beloved British-y mutants, with a new regular writer (Warren Ellis)...
01.07.2023
Excalibur #82: “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn”
We’re back from the holidays and eager to discuss the very important symbolism of robot Velociraptors in wizard capes in the bafflingly titled Phalanx Covenant crossover issue Excalibur #82, “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn,” in...
12.24.2022
Holiday Special 2022!
New VIDEO episode! Feast your eyes & ears upon our 2nd annual Holiday Special, featuring reflections on the year that was, too much talk about essay plagiarism, a few technical difficulties, revisiting the top eps of '22, and a draw...

What's The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast about?

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The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast episodes:

Excalibur #125: “Tying the Knot”

Excalibur #124: “Someone”

Excalibur #123: “Lost and Found”

Excalibur #122: “The Search, Part 1”

Excalibur #121: “Friends Like These”

Holiday Special, 2023 Edition!

Excalibur #120: “Current Events”

Excalibur #119: “Preludes & Nightmares!”

Excalibur #118: “New Year’s Evil”

Excalibur #117: “Amendments”

Excalibur #116: “Death in Venice”

Excalibur #115: “Missionaries”

Excalibur #114: “For the One I Love”

Excalibur #113: “Faith”

Excalibur #112: “Survival”

Excalibur #111: “Broken Vows”

Excalibur #110: “Hearts Bled Crimson”

Excalibur -1: “A True and Terrible Sacrifice”

Excalibur #109: “Dragon Moon Rising”

Excalibur #108: “The Old Ways”

Excalibur #107: “Focus”

Excalibur #106: “A Portrait of the Artist”

Excalibur #105: “Hard Truths”

Excalibur #104: “Buried Secret”

Excalibur #103: “Bend Sinister—Reprise”

Excalibur #102: “After the Bomb”

Excalibur #101: “Quiet”

Excalibur #100: “London’s Burning”

Excalibur #99: “Fire with Fire”

Excalibur #98: “Fireflies”

Excalibur #97: “Counterfire”

Excalibur #96: “Fireback”

Excalibur #95: “Amplified Heart”

Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler

Excalibur #94: “Days of Future Tense”

Excalibur #93: “The Spire”

X-Calibre #1-4

Excalibur Annual #2

Excalibur #92: “I Want You”

Excalibur #91: “Baby I Love You”

Excalibur #90: “Blood Eagle”

Excalibur #89: “Easy Tiger”

Excalibur #88: “Dream Nails”

Excalibur #87: “Back to Reality”

Excalibur #86: “Back to Life”

Excalibur #85: “Edge of Night”

Excalibur #84, “Dark Adapted Eye,”

Excalibur #83: “Bend Sinister”

Excalibur #82: “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn”

Holiday Special 2022!

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