Excalibur #35: “Heartbreaker”

The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast

We're back! And debating the merits of punchable problems in Excalibur #35, "Heartbreaker," with comics scholar Dr. Jocelyn Sakal Froese! With their help, we apply a graphic medicine framework to an issue in which a kidnapped girl and a despair-hungry demon named—naturally—D'Spayre force Rachel to revisit her defining trauma (again), with some new and not-always-welcome twists, including the first appearance of Father Kurt Wagner. We talk visualizations of grief, medicalized gazes, and intersections of gender and trauma in an comic we found interesting if not always good.

*Note: We had a few sound issues on Mav's channel in this episode. We did our best to clean it up and appreciate your patience!