The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Excalibur #125: “Tying the Knot”
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this our final week, talking Excalibur #125, “Tying the Knot,” we’ve got a wedding we don’t love concluding a comic book series we do lo...
Excalibur #124: “Someone”
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A certain someone called Zack Jenkins, aka the cohost of the Battle of the Atom podcast, aka the former EiC of ComicsXF, aka the Bad Boy of X-Men podc...
Excalibur #123: “Lost and Found”
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest, writer, critic, and game designer Armaan Babu, helps us find the joy we’ve lost talking Excalibur #123, “Lost and Found,” f...
Excalibur #122: “The Search, Part 1”
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we can’t do much better than mimic enjoying Excalibur #122, “The Search, Part 1,” but we’re fully focused on enjoying the company a...
Excalibur #121: “Friends Like These”
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our silly podcast about a seventh-tier X-Men comic from 30 years ago is more deeply embroiled in contemporary geopolitical events than it h...
Holiday Special, 2023 Edition!
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our latest (last!) Holiday Special! Join us as we answer YOUR questions, reflect on the year that was, and draw for PRIZES!! Please note: t...
Excalibur #120: “Current Events”
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Because no one asked for it: it’s Gosh Golly Wow, Love Connection (?) Edition, where old-fashioned comic book romance meets modern-day podcast techn...
Excalibur #119: “Preludes & Nightmares!”
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Excalibur #119, “Preludes & Nightmares!” feels more like a sequel than a prequel, but maybe that’s just the effect of us being haunted by 13...
Excalibur #118: “New Year’s Evil”
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re besieged by Bamfs gone bad in Excalibur #118, “New Year’s Evil,” and playwright and toy scholar Jonathan Alexandratos is here to help us...
Excalibur #117: “Amendments”
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re doing what we do every week, which is celebrating the most unique bond any two beings can possible share—the bond of FRIENDSHIP. ...
Excalibur #116: “Death in Venice”
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re fighting for our lives in the present when we’re not flashing back to our uncanny pasts in Excalibur #116, “Death in Venice”! Our guest,...
Excalibur #115: “Missionaries”
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re on a mission to understand Moira’s off-panel decision to finally confront the dangling plot thread of the Legacy Virus in Excalibur #115, “...
Excalibur #114: “For the One I Love”
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Wisdom is a right bastard in Excalibur #114, “For the One I Love.” But that’s good news for returning guest Dr. Keith Friedlander, current ...
Excalibur #113: “Faith”
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re definitely not making Bove/Bova puns as returning guest, comics scholar Bryan Bove, joins us to wonder why we’re in Wundagore in ...
Excalibur #112: “Survival”
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Pete and Kurt get clubby and Colossus and Meggan get chilly as we all try to survive Excalibur #112, “Survival,” in which Meggan forget...
Excalibur #111: “Broken Vows”
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re still in Hong Kong, doing dinner and drinking in between crying in the rain and throwing emotional and physical knives at our frien...
Excalibur #110: “Hearts Bled Crimson”
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back spending probably too much time and effort unpacking Salvador Larocca’s choices which are sometimes weird but definitely choices in Exc...
Excalibur -1: “A True and Terrible Sacrifice”
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome, to the “Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast,” the podcast where we talk about the Marvel comics series Excalibur, and nothing but Excalibu...
Excalibur #109: “Dragon Moon Rising”
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the beginning, there were no scholarly books about superhero comics. And then there was Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology, written by none other tha...
Excalibur #108: “The Old Ways”
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The streets are getting punchy and Kitty and Rahne are getting pretty in Excalibur #108, “The Old Ways,” co-starring Spiral and the Dragons of the...
Excalibur #107: “Focus”
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re focusing on the formal techniques of our new regular penciler, the artist formally known as Salvador Larroca, in Excalibur #107, “...
Excalibur #106: “A Portrait of the Artist”
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piotr Rasputin is a trouble starter, punkin’ instigator in the danger(ously) illustrated Excalibur #106, “A Portrait of the Artist.” And we’re...
Excalibur #105: “Hard Truths”
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Douglock’s sure he doesn’t love sausage but Kitty’s sure Doug Ramsey does in Excalibur #105, “Hard Truths”… in which Kitty (eve...
Excalibur #104: “Buried Secret”
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that we sometimes had our issues with the Ellis era. We’re celebrating a fresh start by going grave robbing with famous jerk Kitty ...
Excalibur #103: “Bend Sinister—Reprise”
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Ellis era of Excalibur reaches an appropriately multiversal conclusion in Excalibur #103, “Bend Sinister—Reprise”! We’re joined by comics ...
Excalibur #102: “After the Bomb”
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is this VoxPopcast or Gosh Golly Wow? We think it’s probably the latter but it’s hard to tell when Mav is reunited with his VoxPop co-host—comic...
Excalibur #101: “Quiet”
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our favourite mutant misfits might be having a quiet one but we’re getting loud about… our love for quiet issues? Our squad’s reunited with retu...
Excalibur #100: “London’s Burning”
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not our hundredth episode (been there, done that), but it is the mega-sized hundredth episode of the comic book we decided to dedicate 126+ wee...
Excalibur #99: “Fire with Fire”
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re coming in hot this week, joined by comics and pop culture scholar Dr. Anthony Michael D’Agostino to wield scorching takes about how everythi...
Excalibur #98: “Fireflies”
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explosive change is in the air in Excalibur #98! Kurt Wagner definitely feels that (plus every tiny breeze) as he debuts a brand-new Carlos Pacheco-de...
Excalibur #97: “Counterfire”
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New Nightcrawler™ takes centre stage only to be upstaged by another new Meggan and Mav’s story about wrestling Doink the Clown. Jamie James fr...
Excalibur #96: “Fireback”
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mav’s lost in the multiverse this week but we’re holding down the fort in his absence with the able assistance of podcaster extraordinaire Matt La...
Excalibur #95: “Amplified Heart”
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All that simmering tension had to come to a head sometime, and what better time than this time, in a comic about the most emo Omega mutant? Adam Reck,...
Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We promised we’d be talking about X-Man this week, and we didn’t lie because we are talking about that time Nate Grey created a perfect world for ...
Excalibur #94: “Days of Future Tense”
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hang on to your leather-clad butts, snap on your fingerless gloves, and fire up your razor for an undercut because we’re going back to the future pa...
Excalibur #93: “The Spire”
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re inspired to do some griping about thong-back costumes and the wolf-girls who wear them in Excalibur #93, “The Spire,” in which ...
X-Calibre #1-4
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome, to the Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast, where we talk about the Marvel comics event Age of Apocalypse, and nothing but Age of Apocalypse, ...
Excalibur Annual #2
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you forget about Excalibur Annual #2? So did we for a bit, but not anymore! Anna, Mav, and Andrew are on their lonesome this week, hashing out two...
Excalibur #92: “I Want You”
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We want to want Excalibur #92, “I Want You,” and mostly—we do! It’s a savage garden of multitudinous masculinities in which we’re compelled ...
Excalibur #91: “Baby I Love You”
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we raise our glasses to a fan-favourite issue, Excalibur #91, “Baby I Love You,” in which our merry mutant misfits take a night off fro...
Excalibur #90: “Blood Eagle”
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s gloves off, autopilot on as font of wisdom Liz Large joins us to debate and dissect the crushability of floppy haired sexy-criers who may or ma...
Excalibur #89: “Easy Tiger”
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got one by the proverbial tail in Excalibur #89, “Easy Tiger,” in which returning guest, comics and pop culture scholar Nicole Freim, help...
Excalibur #88: “Dream Nails”
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to “Our Son Pete,” a monthly analysis of the best/worst/worst-best mutant on Marvel’s main Earth! Just kidding! Or are we…? We ar...
Excalibur #87: “Back to Reality”
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to reality—we ain’t spat in it or nothing. (Though we can’t promise the same of Pete Wisdom.) But we’re jumping right from one a...
Excalibur #86: “Back to Life”
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a no-smoking podcast but Pete Wisdom’s coming in hot whether we like it or not. That’s right—it’s time for the debut of the asshole/he...
Excalibur #85: “Edge of Night”
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re slashing (and snikt-ing!) our way to the conclusion of the “Soulsword Trilogy” in Excalibur #85, “Edge of Night,” co-starri...
Excalibur #84, “Dark Adapted Eye,”
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re still adapting to this brand-new era in which Excalibur sucks less. But supernatural transformations are better with great company, and we’v...
Excalibur #83: “Bend Sinister”
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re (still) back from the winter break and reeling from term prep, but that doesn’t mean we’re not excited (positively possessed!) by the star...
Excalibur #82: “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn”
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back from the holidays and eager to discuss the very important symbolism of robot Velociraptors in wizard capes in the bafflingly titled Phala...
Holiday Special 2022!
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New VIDEO episode! Feast your eyes & ears upon our 2nd annual Holiday Special, featuring reflections on the year that was, too much talk about essay p...
Excalibur #81: “Beginnings, Middles, and Endings”
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we reckon with change and cosmic constants like the fact Charles Xavier is still a jerk in Excalibur #81, “Beginnings, Middles, and Endin...
Excalibur #80: “Out of Time”
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Excalibur #80 might be “Out of Time,” but we’ve got all the time in the world to talk about a bunch more cyberpunk (and a little cybersex!) in a...
Excalibur #79: “Twisted Logic”
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What twisted logic brought us here, to Excalibur #79, “Twisted Logic,” in which the main characters aren’t member of Excalibur and child-size fl...
Excalibur #78: “Fire in the Wild”
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Things got tecno-organic so quickly, we didn’t notice until it was too late to separate our Dougs from our Warlocks. That’s right—it’s the deb...
Excalibur #77: “Lowest Common Denominator”
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever wondered what Kurt Wagner would look like as a kid, Excalibur #77, “Lowest Common Denominator,” has the answer, which is—either...
Excalibur #76: “Dog Years”
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you can teleport and so can your foster sister/girlfriend, going home again should be easy. But when you’re a persecuted mutant and a witch wit...
X-Men Unlimited #4: “Theories of Relativity”
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re relatively sure the team won’t fire Anna for making them talk about this outrageous and sometimes-funny but also eye-searing and fairly nons...
Excalibur #75: “Hello, I Must Be Going”
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re talking about Excalibur #75, “Hello, I Must Be Going,” and trying not cry through the loss of a beloved character who’s been ...
Excalibur #74: “In the Name of Love”
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re not always in love with 90s superhero art but we are in love with analyzing its ins and outs and twists and turns and complex cultural context...
Excalibur #73: “Memories Are Made of This”
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have always lived in the ‘90s. Or so it seems, when we’re this Ken-and-Barbie-doll-crotch deep in strange and violent and occasionally baffling...
Excalibur #72: “Oohhh... Siena!”
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your regular Upstarts are joined this week by Dr. Hailey “Stone Cold” Austin to talk about good and bad buts/butts in the totally radical Excalibu...
Excalibur #71: “Crossing Swords”
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For better or worse and death 'til us part—Excalibur is an X-Men comic now. It’s also definitely a 90s comic, with all the explosive melodrama tha...
Excalibur #70: “Crime and Punishment”
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the crime of podcasting about Excalibur for 126+ weeks, we're being punished with reading one more issue about kissing Cerise goodbye... if in fac...
Excalibur #69: “Blight and Fog”
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A sexy little number can’t save Excalibur #69, “Blight and Fog,” from living up to its title. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun writin...
Excalibur #68: “Facades”
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief sojourn lost in a temporal wave, we’re back and ready to talk you through Excalibur #68, “Facades”—a comic that maybe shoulda st...
Excalibur #67: “Days of Futures Yet to Come”
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 90s have arrived in 2015 and Excalibur is a gun now... but actually, Excalibur is still Excalibur, which is to say—a beautiful story about love ...
Excalibur #66: “Back to the Present”
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re going back to “Back to the Present,” and by present we mean future, and by future we mean the far-flung year of 2015, when the...
Excalibur Annual #1
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew got lost in the timestream this week, but we learned from the best that when you lose a founding member to cosmic forces beyond your control, y...
Excalibur #65, “White Lies, Dark Truths”
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some truths are dark and many lies are white in the not-aptly-named Excalibur #65, “White Lies, Dark Truths.” We talk about that plus KISSING with...
Excalibur #64: “Ascension”
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh off winning a freakin’ award, your very genetically stable team of comics scientists is back! Talking superheroes and science and why mutants ...
Excalibur #63: “Denial”
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t let the cool Kylun cover fool you—Excalibur #63, “Denial,” is in denial about being about Kylun because it’s clearly a Nightcrawler co...
Excalibur #62: “Of Birth, Death and the Confused, Painful Bit In Between”
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're in (and on!) Cloud Nine talking Warpies, Warpies, and more Warpies in Excalibur #62, “Of Birth, Death and the Confused, Painful Bit In Between...
Excalibur #61: “Truth and Consequence”
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gosh Golly Wow Returns! And so does Rachel Summers! Sort of! All that and the pod’s most anticipated guest of all-time, writer and founder of the Ph...
Excalibur #60: “Braddock of the Jungle”
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re trying to emphasize the positive this week... while still doing plenty of griping about part 2 of a crummy colonial sojourn in Wakanda known a...
Excalibur #59: “Enter… the Panther!”
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We sure hated this week’s comic, but we sure love this week’s episode, talking hip hop, comics, Black Panther, and Afrofuturism with scholar Dr. M...
Excalibur #58: “Troll Call”
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are most definitely not calling all trolls to this week’s nuanced discussion of the different but equally complex personal and professional succe...
Excalibur #57: “For Whom the Bell Trolls!”
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not a dream, not a hoax, not a fuzzy image of Cable on a video screen asking who the heck's calling at 3 am. The real X-Men are here, in the same room...
Marvel Comics Presents #101-108, “Male Bonding”
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You know that we do it together. In our case, that means podcasting about Excalibur with super-smart friends, and in Nightcrawler and Wolverine’s ca...
Excalibur #56: “Things That Go Shriek in the Night”
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a superhero, you probably shouldn't throw a party. And you especially shouldn’t throw a party where you invite the fascist dictator from...
Excalibur #55: “The Ghost of Braddock Manor”
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last time Excalibur threw a party, Meggan became a vampire and tried to eat a dog. So expectations are high! But this issue’s up to the challeng...
Excalibur: “Air Apparent”
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A legally binding Twitter poll said we had to cover Excalibur: Air Apparent, and we are very law-abiding citizens so here we are, giving you an hour a...
Excalibur #54: “Curiouser and Curiouser”
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners of this pod know we share one thing with Brian Braddock, which is that we’d follow Meggan anywhere, including down a rabbit hole into a se...
Excalibur #53 “The Litter”
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the podcast where we talk about Excalibur and nothing but Excalibur… except when we talk about Spider-Man! Which we’re doing this ...
Excalibur #52: “All You Ever Wanted to Know About Phoenix… But Were Afraid to Ask”
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
And we’re back! With a special episode of “Retconning with Reck,” in which writer/artist/podcaster Adam Reck of the Battle of the Atom Podcast j...
Excalibur #51: “Don’t Drink the Water”
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New logo… new species?? That right—we’re back to regular episodes and getting weird about dinosaurs with Christi and Chris Eddleman, sauropod en...
X-Men Legends #12: “Start Again: A Prelude to Excalibur”
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s this? Anna, Mav, and Andrew talking about a current comic book? Released this very past Wednesday?? It took Chris Claremont writing a tie-in ...
Anniversary Special
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anna, Mav, and Andrew plus a plethora of amazing guests have been podcasting about Excalibur for an entire year—54 weeks to be exact! Which seems li...
Excalibur #50: “Winner Loses All”
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest, venerable comics scholar Dr. Andrew Kunka, says he wanted to join us for the mega-sized Excalibur #50, “Winner Loses All,” in part to h...
Excalibur #49: “Let There Be Dark”
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Anna threatens to spend the whole show talking about teleporting, but shows admirable restraint in letting our honored guest, comics and po...
Excalibur #48: “Irish Stew”
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We forget to celebrate our 50th episode with a deep dive into an archeological dig turned theological dilemma in Excalibur #48, “Irish Stew,” guid...
Excalibur #47: “Come One and All to the Ugly Bug-Eyed Monster Ball”
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s about time we talked about the guy who introduces every episode: the one and only Merlin, who may not be so one and only. Our journey is guided...
Excalibur #46: “Colin the Barbarian”
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not a spoiler since it’s right there in the title—for the first time since Excalibur #2, Colin McKay is back in the 616 and out for revenge… on ...
Excalibur #45: “Nightcrawler’s Technet”
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is Kurt a good leader or is he just an expert in dressing the part? Anna, Mav, and Andrew debate this and other important questions with comics & pop ...
Excalibur #44: “Witless for the Prosecution”
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt’s got a cast but he’s not letting it cramp his style in an issue that compels Anna, Mav, and Andrew to question whether 1991 was a particular...
Excalibur #43: “Home Comforts”
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're giving Anna's favourite issue of Excalibur the celebration it deserves, chatting with award-winning comics creator and educator Dr. N...
Excalibur #42: “A Hatch is Plotted”
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New Year, new era of Excalibur, as Alan Davis makes his triumphant return to the title he co-created to write and draw one of our all-time favourite b...
Holiday Special! (audio version)
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The holidays are upon us, but GGW never rests. To celebrate the season and the first year(ish) of the podcast, we did a *special video episode* which ...
Excalibur #41: “At Last… The Reunion!”
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Excalibur #41, “At Last… The Reunion!” Nightcrawler and not-Wolverine have one on-panel conversation, which is all the excuse Anna, Mav, and ...
Excalibur #40: “The Trial of Lockheed”
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for a journey in rhyme/In spirit but static in time/Will Lockheed get back to his body/Before his rhyme schemes get too shoddy? In other wor...
Excalibur #39: “The Heart of the Matter”
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Anna, Mav, and Andrew are positively giddy about closing out “The Promethium Exchange,” chatting Excalibur #39, “The Heart of the Mat...