While Brett is off covering San Diego Comic Con, Elana's doing the next best thing: podcasting with two academics!  Returning guests Steven Attewell and Sarah Rasher join her to talk SDCC news, Marvel Comics, the Eisner winning Lumberjanes and popular indie books like Rat Queens and the new Arclight.  Sarah Rasher blogs about religion and politics for Friendly Atheist, recaps Teen Wolf for The Rainbow Hub, and writes comics reviews for Graphic Policy. In her own blog, Sarah Explains the Finer Sports, she talks about figure skating and football from a queer feminist geek perspective. Sarah earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut and is now working on a book on Shakespeare in popular culture and building an iambic pentameter ray in her secret lair. Steve Attewell is a political & union activist. Steve got his PhD in Policy History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and teaches public policy at CUNY's Murphy Institute for Labor Studies. He is the founder and writer of Race for the Iron Throne as well as The Realignment Project. Elana is here every week. This week she will be playing the role of Brett.