Daredevil was Born Again in Season 3 of the Netflix series. From brown-washing the FBI to NY pizza history, questionable journalism to plot significant Abstract Art and, Catholic Symbolism as far as your radar can sense. Who better to talk about it all than Pulitzer Award winner Spencer Ackerman, Senior National Security Correspondent for The Daily Beast (and lifelong New Yorker). Stay till the end for Spencer's shocking assessment of Iron Fist Season 2. And a predictably high amont of art history lessons from me.

The politics and place of Stan Lee, as told by two self admitted Jack Kirby Jacobins trying to find a balance in a tale of conflict and legends. Stan Lee and: Being Jewish The creative process Civil RightsThe Vietnam WarThe lawsuitsThe digressionsAnd screwing over Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko I'm joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, a senior national security correspondent at The Daily Beast. Read his article on Stan Lee's legacy here.

We survived the election to bring you in-depth analysis of the Season 7 Finale. Join us for a look at the season's themes, Empire Strikes Back vs Barbarella (only one of them has Terence Stamp playing Dildano) and a whole lot of Guild of Calamitous Intent ritual borrowed from the Masons. Steven explains who the fuck is Saphrax (and also who's Hank & Dean's mom!) and we get into the twin's psychology again (Jungian and otherwise). Fair warning: Elana's knowledge of the Masons largely comes from watching avante-garde filmmaker Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle and we both geek out about Alan Moore's From Hell (which are probably Hammer and Publick's sources on The Masons anyway).

Batman: Secret Files #1 features comics writer and critic Cheryl Lynn Eaton's debut Batman story! She joins us to talk about her comics and critical writing about DC, Wildstorm and the latest Marvel Netflix series. A New York metropolitan native (now safely nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta), Cheryl Lynn Eaton has contributed to pop-culture sites as a columnist and reporter, held court as founder of the Ormes Society, maintained a position as an editor for an academic press, written for comic publishers such as Image and DC Comics, and served as an editorial intern for Publishers Weekly. She is on twitter at https://twitter.com/cheryllynneaton

Things get Freudian, Jungian and John Carpenter-ian in the penultimate episode of Venture Bros Season 7. Join @Elana_Brooklyn and @StevenAttewell on a journey up the Hudson River to a real life secret island castle and meet the Villian With 1,000 References. We play Myth Busters about such topics as lawn darts and "chelation". So listen to the podcast here, on Graphic Policy Radio's iTunes or find all of our Venture Bros episodes on this playlist. PS: Here's the short story sequel to The Thing I recommended: Sam J Miller's Things With Beards. Here's the music video of Cult of Personality.

Come for the long game Venture Bros. lore, stay for the explanation of Curtis Sliwa & the Guardian Angels. Which far fetched as it sounds, is a real thing. Our podcast examines the themes of The Venture Bros show and all of its cultural and historical references. In this episode Steven Attewell and Elana Levin draw on their knowledge of NY, pop culture and discuss significant themes this season. Listen here, or on Graphic Policy Radio's iTunes or find all of our Venture Bros episodes on this playlist. PS Elana is on two panels at NY Comic Con: New York TimesOUT presents LGBTQ in Pop Culture and Old Classic, New Voices: Diverse Creators Rate the Comics Canon both on Saturday Oct 6th.

This week's episode, The Unicorn in Captivity is a perfect illustration of why we do this podcast: it is rich with Christ symbolism and Kubrick references. The episode is named after and significantly features one of a series of High Renaissance unicorn tapestries I just so happen to have studied, set in NY's none-more-goth museum, The Cloisters. This is the Venture Bros. podcast for people who want to dig into the narrative parallels between our two unicorns; Rusty Venture and The Monarch as well as the symbolism, the history and philosophical questions raised by the hit Adult Swim cartoon. Steven Attewell examines the episodes' commentary on sci-fi genre paradoxes via Warren Ellis and Fantastic Four comics. And OSI is no longer just a spoof of GI Joe, it's a critique of the military industrial complex. So join us! Here or on Graphic Policy Radio's iTunes or find all of our Venture Bros episodes on this playlist (plus Episode 6 which is here). And comment or tweet me here https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn if you have thoughts about this week's format. We went long this week. I promise you it's worth it.

Ramon Villalobos is a professional comic artist living in Stockton California. He's worked on books for Marvel such as Nighthawk, Secret Wars:E is for Extinction, America, among others and now Border Town (co created with Eric M. Esquivel) for Vertigo Comics. "When a crack in the border between worlds releases an army of monsters from Mexican folklore, the residents of Devil's Fork, AZ, blame the ensuing weirdness—the shared nightmares, the otherworldly radio transmissions, the mysterious goat mutilations—on "God-dang illegals." With racial tensions supernaturally charged, it's up to new kid in town Frank Dominguez and a motley crew of high school misfits to discover what's really going on in this town torn between worlds."

The Venture Bros has rich continuity and character arcs over years. Layer on pop culture and historic reference with thematic significance? It's a lot. So join pop culture & NY history experts Elana Levin and Steven Attewell for our podcast examining each episode of the Adult Swim show. Season 7 episode 6: The Bellicose Proxy Wherein: Newish villain Augustus St. Cloud is exploredArchitecture reveals a lost subway locationThe Guild is bad at being a labor organizationAnais Nin books your mom may or may not have hidden in a closetThe late Burt Reynolds is saluted

How many times did you cry watching The Adventure Time Series Finale? Come along with me as we discuss the meaning of the series finale of this revolutionary Cartoon Network show. We're joined by Oliver Sava who leads the Onion A.V. Club's Adventure Time coverage, also freelancing for Vulture, and Chicago Reader. @OliverSava And Jameson Hampton, a non-binary adventurer from Buffalo, NY who writes a lot of code and reads a lot of comics. They're a regular contributor for WWAC and you can find them on Twitter @jameybash. This episode includes spoilers for the entire TV series. We also discuss what we're looking forward to in the continuing Adventure Time comics series published by Boom Comics. I'm @Elana_Brooklyn on Twitter.