Excelsior
A weekly podcast about superhero comics, movies, and TV shows in which three friends geek out and critically analyze superhero stories with super enthusiasm!
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Excelsior Commentary: Black Panther
We’re (back) on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we discuss the best James Bond/Star Wars/Marvel movie we’ve ever seen, Black Panther!
Excelsior 50: Marvels
This week, we grab our cameras and take to the streets to watch the world change in Marvels!
Excelsior 49: Mighty Thor, Vol. 1
This week, we discuss secret identities, the nexus of Natalie Portman and bringing down the hammer in Mighty Thor Vol. 1: Thunder in her Veins!
Excelsior 48: Avengers: Infinity War
This week, we reach the end of the road and discuss great motivations, cosmic action and all the spoilers in Avengers: Infinity War!
Excelsior Commentary: Thor: Ragnarok
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we print pamphlets for the rebellion and enjoy some time with a friend from work in Thor: Ragnarok!
Excelsior 47: Wolverine & The X-Men, Vol. 1
This week, we enroll in superhero school and dive deep into the most tangled corner of Marvel continuity in Wolverine & The X-Men, Vol. 1!
Excelsior Commentary: Spider-Man: Homecoming
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we crush on Aunt May and try not to engage Instant Kill Mode in Spider-Man: Homecoming!
Excelsior 46: Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1
This week, we learn the basics of the private-eye life and console ourselves with mini-doughnuts in Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1: Anchor Points!
Excelsior Commentary: Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week we discuss daddy issues and charge up our Zunes in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2!
Excelsior 45: Silver Surfer Vol. 1
This week, we cast the pod cosmic as we discuss the Doctor Who-inflected adventures of Silver Surfer Vol. 1: New Dawn!
Excelsior Commentary: Doctor Strange
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week we master the arcane arts and American accents with equal ease in Doctor Strange!
Excelsior 44: All-New Wolverine Vol. 1
This week: clones, claws and cliffhangers! We always heal but we never stop hurting in All-New Wolverine Vol. 1!
Excelsior Commentary: Captain America: Civil War
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, you got your Avengers movie in my Cap movie, and we all love Underoos in Captain America: Civil War!
Excelsior 43: The Witch Boy
This week, we unite the witches and the shifters by loving Molly Knox Ostertag’s all-ages graphic novel The Witch Boy!
Excelsior Commentary: Ant-Man
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, size isn’t everything and Baskin Robbins don’t play in Ant-Man!
Excelsior Commentary: Avengers: Age Of Ultron
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, the city is flying and we’re fighting an army of robots, and we have bows and arrows. Nothing makes sense in Avengers: Age of Ultron!
Excelsior Commentary: Guardians Of The Galaxy
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we sing, we dance, we steal things in Guardians Of The Galaxy!
Excelsior 42: Paper Girls, Vol. 2
This week, we visit the far-future year of 2016 to talk about tiny cars, abandoned malls and imminent mortality in Paper Girls, Vol. 2!
Excelsior Commentary: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, get the Cap and Nat road movie the world demanded in Captain America: The Winter Soldier!
Excelsior 41: Runaways, Part Two
This week, we will talk about expensive dinosaurs, bisexual tension and the slowest hack in history in episodes six to ten of Marvel’s Runaways!
Excelsior Commentary: Thor: The Dark World
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we return to Asgard for the MCU/Doctor Who crossover the world demanded in Thor: The Dark World!
Excelsior 40: Black Panther
This week, we will talk about heroism, identity, building bridges and the wonderful women of Wakanda in Black Panther!
Excelsior Commentary: Iron Man 3
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we get heated about Extremis and WAR MACHINE ROX in Iron Man 3!
Excelsior Commentary: The Avengers
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we bring the party to you with The Avengers!
Excelsior 39: Runaways (Part One)
This week, we talk about dinosaurs and domestic drama in the first five episodes of Marvel’s Runaways!
Excelsior Commentary: Captain America: The First Avenger
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, take the super soldier serum and plant ourselves like a tree by the river of truth with Captain America!
Excelsior 38: The Unstoppable Wasp Vol. 1
This week, we fire up our phone-tasers and talk about teen supergeniuses with Nadia Pym, The Unstoppable Wasp Vol. 1: Unstoppable!!
Excelsior Commentary: Thor (2011)
We’re on the Road to Infinity War with our Marvel commentary series — and this week, we chase Meow-Meow to New Mexico in the beautiful and bombastic Thor!
Excelsior Issue 37: Steven Universe
This week, we share magical-girl adventures with our favorite magical boy in Steven Universe!
Excelsior Commentary: Iron Man 2 (2010)
This week, we’re looking forward to blowing up The World of Tomorrow at the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2!
Excelsior Issue 36: Scarlet Witch Vol. 1
This week, we dive into the magical mysteries and mysterious magic of Wanda Maximoff in Scarlet Witch Vol. 1: Witches’ Road!
Excelsior Commentary: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
In the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War, we’re going to watch all of the MCU movies, and talk all over them — and this week, we’re hungry! And angry! It’s The Incredible Hulk!!
Excelsior Issue 35: Sailor Moon Vol. 1
This week, we dive into a world of talking cats, moon magic and pretty guardians with the first volume of Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon!
Excelsior Commentary: Iron Man (2008)
In the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War, we’re going to watch all of the MCU movies, and talk all over them — and this week, we begin in a cave! With a box of scraps! It’s Iron Man!
Excelsior Issue 34: Marvel Super Hero Adventures Frost Fight
This week, Santa Claus in the Marvel universe, the powerset of Carol Danvers, the right to be called “Cap”, and the inexplicable Rocket and Groot: join us for a festive commentary track for Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!
Excelsior Issue 33: Lumberjanes Vol. 1
This week, we make friends and celebrate the excessively kind and gleeful Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy!
Excelsior Issue 32: Hellboy (2004)
This week, we discuss boxes of kittens, cybernetic Nazis and pamcakes in Hellboy (2004)!
Excelsior Issue 31: Runaways, Volume 1
This week, we discuss the first eighteen issues of Brian K. Vaughan’s story of teenage angst and justified rebellion, Runaways!
Excelsior Issue Minisode: Infinity War Trailer
This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning. In this special episode, we discuss the amazing trailer for Infinity War!
Excelsior Issue 30: Justice League
My man! This week, we discuss the highs and the lows and asterisks of the long-awaited DC team movie Justice League!
Excelsior Issue 29: Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine
This week, we finish up our listicles, catch up with cult TV, and love the superhero life in Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine!
Excelsior Issue 28: Thor: Ragnarok
This week, we are the lords (and lady) of the nine realms as we discuss our new favorite character, Valkyrie (and the rest of Thor: Ragnarok)!
Excelsior Issue 27: Batman Returns (1992)
This week, return to the Burtonverse and fall in love with Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992)!
Excelsior Issue 26: Batgirl of Burnside
This week, we hooq up with Babs in Gotham’s coolest neighborhood in Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside!
Excelsior Issue 25: Batman (1989)
You wanna get nuts? This week, we give a name to our pain as we discuss Batman (1989)!
Excelsior Issue 24: Batman: The Long Halloween
This week, we delve deep into the noir-inflected shadows of Gotham in Batman: The Long Halloween!
Excelsior Issue 23: The LEGO Batman Movie
This week, we microwave our Lobster Thermidor while waiting for The Lego Batman Movie!
Excelsior Issue 22: Superman For All Seasons
This week, we discuss the Big Blue Boy Scout in Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale!
Excelsior Issue 21: The Defenders, Part 2
This week, we could all use a hug in the back half of the first season of The Defenders!
Excelsior Issue 20: The Defenders, Part 1
This week, we try not to use the H-word as we take to the streets of New York and make some superfriends in the first four episodes of The Defenders!
Excelsior Issue 19: Black Widow Vol. 1
This week, we ditch the gadgets and return to the Red Room in Black Widow Vol. 1: S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Most Wanted!
Excelsior Issue 18: Batman: The Movie (1966)
This week, in our silliest episode yet, our heroes discuss the camp classic Batman: The Movie!
Excelsior Issue 17: Paper Girls, Vol. 1
This week, our heroes travel in time to 1988 and enter the strange suburbia of Paper Girls, Vol. 1!
Excelsior Issue 16: SDCC Trailerpalooza
This week, our heroes watch a collection of trailers released at San Diego Comic-Con. It’s the SDCC Trailerpalooza!
Excelsior Issue 15: Agent Carter Season 1
This week, our heroes do as Peggy says, and discuss the post-war adventures of our favorite SSR agent. It’s Agent Carter!
Excelsior Issue 14: Spider-Man: Homecoming
This week, our heroes talk about the greatest superhero movie since… well, since Wonder Woman, anyway? It’s Spider-Man: Homecoming!
Excelsior Issue 13: Ms. Marvel Vol. 1
This week, our heroes survive the Terrigen Bomb and hang out in Jersey City with our favorite new hero — and more anthropomorphic bird men — in Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal!
Excelsior Issue 12: Suicide Squad
This week, our heroes are introduced six times over and find themselves adrift in teen culture as they discuss the fascinating disaster that is Suicide Squad!
Excelsior Issue 11: Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!
This week, our heroes are led to beer and superheroics by one of our favorite heroes, Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat!
Excelsior Issue 10: Wonder Woman
This week, our heroes leave their paradise island and venture out into a wider world as they discuss ice cream pride, crossing no man’s land and the missed potential of Doctor Poison!
Excelsior Issue 9: Captain America: Civil War
This week, our heroes pick sides and discuss Captain America: Civil War, why Nat and Wanda should be BFFs, how great Black Panther is, helicopter wrasslin’, and the Sam and Bucky spin-off story we’d like to see.
Excelsior Minisode: Amazon’s Marvel Sale
Amazon is currently running a huge Marvel sale on digital trades, and we’ve picked some of our favorites!
Excelsior Issue 8: Black Hammer
This week, our heroes discuss Black Hammer, Vol. 1, golden age heroes in a modern world, the tragedy of enforced adolescence, and Kirby brilliance.
Excelsior Issue 7: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2
This week, our heroes discuss the latest Marvel cosmic adventure, evolving characterization, Car Boys, Sarah emoting in the movie theater, and being killed in a sexy way.
Excelsior Issue 6: Mockingbird, Vols. 1 & 2
This week, our heroes discuss Chelsea Cain’s short-lived but incandescent Mockingbird series. Puzzle box!
Excelsior Issue 5: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
This week, our heroes discuss the second Captain America movie, spy thrillers and Agents Carter, Sam and Nat, and who the hell is Bucky?
Excelsior Issue 4: Saga, Vol. 1
This week, our heroes discuss the first volume the epic Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, as well as depictions of childbirth in fiction, Whedonic dialogue, wooden rocketships and robot sex.
Excelsior Issue 3: Captain America: The First Avenger
This week, our heroes discuss origin stories, why Peggy Carter works so well, why Bucky doesn’t, what’s up with the Red Skull, and share a dramatic reading that will break your hearts. You’re welcome?
Excelsior Minisode: Thor: Ragnarok Teaser Trailer
In a special episode, our heroes discuss the new teaser trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, and why they are so excited!
Excelsior Issue 2: Vision
This week, our heroes discuss the the recent two-volume series of Vision, by Tom King!
Excelsior Issue 1: Logan
This week, our heroes discuss the latest X-Men film: “Logan,” the R-rated Wolverine story that we never knew we needed.
Excelsior Issue 0: Excelsior!
Sarah, Alastair, and Vinton are finally doing a superhero podcast! They are excited to introduce themselves and their plans in this introductory episode of Excelsior. New episodes drop every Sunday!