"To what extent can you throw a person away?" - Dr. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond on Darth Maul.

Maul – Shadow Lord, the latest Star Wars animated series on Disney+ is stunning. It hits topics like raising kids amidst fascism, cycles of abuse, and it's even got Weird Little Guys. Resident Star Wars expert Holly Schaeffer-Raymond returns to the podcast. She's a writer and professor at Temple University. She's the author of Mall is Lost (2018) and Maul is Lost (2023) and featured in the Lambda nominated We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetic.

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Spoilers for the Darth Maul TV series begins around minute 13.

" It's not so much that Mayor Fisk is like [Former NYC Mayor] Eric Adams, it's that Eric Adams is a comic book character," -- John Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist who works with the DSA Upper-Manhattan Bronx chapter and a published Marvel author with Strange Tales Volume One.

I've been involved in New York politics for over 20 years and I'm a lifelong Daredevil reader so I was thrilled to geek out about this Disney + season him.

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Marvel Disney's recent TV series is about a struggling actor and I have the perfect guest to discuss it with me: filmmaker, life-long Los Angelino, and Marvel comics fan Brandon Wilson. Wonder Man is delightful and we've got a lot say about the show's portrayals of LA, Simon Wilson's existence as a Black Haitian-American actor, the prison industrial complex, queer readings and more. You don't need to know about Wonder Man to enjoy the show but Brandon gives us the download on Simon Wilson's comics history.

Plus: the parallels with Midnight Cowboy run deeper than you think!

Spoilers marked at 20 min in.

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