Marvel Civil War: GIANT-SIZED Issue #7

THIS IS IT. The culminating final issue to writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven's landmark 7-part superhero event series, Marvel Comics' Civil War Issue #7. Host Garret Castleberry sits down with burgeoning comics pedagog Kyle Hammonds in a GIANT-SIZED entry to Special Topics in Media. The pair formulate a dialogic analysis of the Civil War comic finale, joisting over the narrative outcomes depicted in Marvel's best-selling series. Garret and Kyle weigh Civil War's short-term versus longterm impacts, the shadow this mini-series casts over superhero storytelling, and it's loose connections to several key theories, theorists, and concepts relevant to academic studies of popular culture. Conversation culminates in a broader consideration of sides taken and what such fantasy decisions have to say about real-world beliefs and belief systems. 

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.

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