Marvel Civil War: Dossier Special - New Warriors
04/26/23 • 35 min
In this first follow-up to the Season 6 "Marvel Civil War Dossier Special," host Garret Castleberry is once again joined by Allison Bratcher to discuss the tie-ins released continuity alongside Civil War. The goal with this discussion series is not to confuse the continuity of the Special Topics dialogic lecture series between Garret and Kyle Hammonds. Rather, their focus is to evaluate and assess the merits of key comics that lead up to, parallel with, or spin out of writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven's groundbreaking event series. After a brief orientation, Garret establishes the context for these dossier specials before introducing the lead-off collected in the Marvel Civil War: Prologue hardcover edition, writer Zeb Wells and artist Scottie Young's New Warriors (8:51). Conceived by Tom DeFalco and reinvented in various cycles, the latest incarnation of this C-level superteam cleverly carves a cultural commentary on the intersection of twenty-first century economics in ways mimic the reality TV boom while prophetically anticipating the rise of mass mediated influencers monetizing largely staged public adventures. Two key questions will drive these dossier specials. First, it is important to consider the value any given tie-in book provides to the main story when weighed against time, labor, and economic constraints (books cost money!). Second, our hosts conclude the special by evaluating whether the Marvel Civil War: Prologue can be considered "Essential or Expendable".
Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Allison Bratcher
Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)
Recommended readings paired with Season Six "Marvel's Civil War":
Mark Millar & Steve McNiven. Civil War. Marvel Comics, 2006.
Marvel Civil War: Prologue (Hardcover). Zeb Wells & Scottie Young. New Warriors #1-6. Marvel Comics, 2016.
Chris Gavaler. Superhero Comics. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Ways to Connect with us online:
Follow and engage with Special Topics in Media on Twitter at @podcast_topics.
"Like" to follow our Special Topics in Media Page on Facebook (search Special Topics in Media).
Join the Special Topics in Media Facebook Group and share your reviews of the film or this episode.
Follow Kyla Hammonds's hot-topic media insights in the Facebook Group MovieTalk, with Kyle Hammonds.
Subscribe to Dr. Castleberry's academic YouTube Channel.
Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/.
In this first follow-up to the Season 6 "Marvel Civil War Dossier Special," host Garret Castleberry is once again joined by Allison Bratcher to discuss the tie-ins released continuity alongside Civil War. The goal with this discussion series is not to confuse the continuity of the Special Topics dialogic lecture series between Garret and Kyle Hammonds. Rather, their focus is to evaluate and assess the merits of key comics that lead up to, parallel with, or spin out of writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven's groundbreaking event series. After a brief orientation, Garret establishes the context for these dossier specials before introducing the lead-off collected in the Marvel Civil War: Prologue hardcover edition, writer Zeb Wells and artist Scottie Young's New Warriors (8:51). Conceived by Tom DeFalco and reinvented in various cycles, the latest incarnation of this C-level superteam cleverly carves a cultural commentary on the intersection of twenty-first century economics in ways mimic the reality TV boom while prophetically anticipating the rise of mass mediated influencers monetizing largely staged public adventures. Two key questions will drive these dossier specials. First, it is important to consider the value any given tie-in book provides to the main story when weighed against time, labor, and economic constraints (books cost money!). Second, our hosts conclude the special by evaluating whether the Marvel Civil War: Prologue can be considered "Essential or Expendable".
Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Allison Bratcher
Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)
Recommended readings paired with Season Six "Marvel's Civil War":
Mark Millar & Steve McNiven. Civil War. Marvel Comics, 2006.
Marvel Civil War: Prologue (Hardcover). Zeb Wells & Scottie Young. New Warriors #1-6. Marvel Comics, 2016.
Chris Gavaler. Superhero Comics. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Ways to Connect with us online:
Follow and engage with Special Topics in Media on Twitter at @podcast_topics.
"Like" to follow our Special Topics in Media Page on Facebook (search Special Topics in Media).
Join the Special Topics in Media Facebook Group and share your reviews of the film or this episode.
Follow Kyla Hammonds's hot-topic media insights in the Facebook Group MovieTalk, with Kyle Hammonds.
Subscribe to Dr. Castleberry's academic YouTube Channel.
Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/.
Previous Episode
Marvel Civil War: Issue #5
In in episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Kyle Hammonds further this season's mission to examine and assess writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven's crossover comic book event series, Marvel: Civil War. Conversation begins with a discussion about "crossover events" and the value they provide as a storytelling device in the superhero genre. Garret then considers the mass media modalities by which readers and super fans access and process information about their favorite texts, just as Kyle intimately dissects the narrative properties that belie social and political tensions debated within the fictional context of the Marvel 616 Universe but clearly signpost cultural critiques and real-world anxieties unfolding in a post-9/11 world. Ultimately, the hosts wind down this chapter of discourse by considering a key rhetorical question coinciding with the conclusion of Civil War: Issue #5, "Whose side are you on?"
Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Kyle Hammonds
Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)
Recommended readings paired with Season Six "Marvel's Civil War":
Mark Millar & Steve McNiven. Civil War. Marvel Comics, 2006.
Chris Gavaler. Superhero Comics. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Ways to Connect with us online:
Follow and engage with Special Topics in Media on Twitter at @podcast_topics.
"Like" to follow our Special Topics in Media Page on Facebook (search Special Topics in Media).
Join the Special Topics in Media Facebook Group and share your reviews of the film or this episode.
Follow Kyla Hammonds's hot-topic media insights in the Facebook Group MovieTalk, with Kyle Hammonds.
Subscribe to Dr. Castleberry's academic YouTube Channel.
Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/.
Next Episode
Marvel Civil War: Dossier Special - Spider-Man
In this continuation of our Marvel Civil War: Dossier Specials, Nerd Alert co-founder Allison Bratcher joins host Garret Castleberry to discuss the Spider-Man graphic novel that corresponds with Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's best-selling event comic series. The graphic novel comprises issues ofThe Amazing Spider-Man (primarily #532-538) written by J. Michael Straczenski. The team use their Spider-Man familiarities to continue a conversation about superhero elasticity (7:30). Then, Allison formalizes an assessment of whether Civil War: Spider-Man necessitates "required reading" status for interested readers, or if it merely functions as an article of convenience for the book's publisher. Once again, two key questions drive these dossier specials. First, it is important to consider the value(s) that a tie-in book supplies to the main story when compared to consumer time, labor, and economic constraints (books cost money!). Second, our hosts conclude the special by evaluating whether the Marvel Civil War: Spider-Man can be considered "Essential or Expendable" (26:53).
Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Allison Bratcher
Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)
Recommended readings paired with Season Six "Marvel's Civil War":
Mark Millar & Steve McNiven. Civil War. Marvel Comics, 2006.
Marvel Civil War: Amazing Spider-Man (Hardcover). J. Michael Stracynski & Ron Garney. Marvel Comics, 2016.
Chris Gavaler. Superhero Comics. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Ways to Connect with us online:
Follow and engage with Special Topics in Media on Twitter at @podcast_topics.
"Like" to follow our Special Topics in Media Page on Facebook (search Special Topics in Media).
Join the Special Topics in Media Facebook Group and share your reviews of the film or this episode.
Follow Kyla Hammonds's hot-topic media insights in the Facebook Group MovieTalk, with Kyle Hammonds.
Subscribe to Dr. Castleberry's academic YouTube Channel.
Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/.
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