Excelsior: Recent Episodes
Common Room Radio
A weekly podcast about superhero comics, movies, and TV shows. Three friends geek out and critically analyze superhero stories with super enthusiasm.
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!
This week, we grab our cameras and take to the streets to watch the world change in Marvels!
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!
This week, we reach the end of the road and discuss great motivations, cosmic action and all the spoilers in Avengers: Infinity War!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
This week, we cast the pod cosmic as we discuss the Doctor Who-inflected adventures of Silver Surfer Vol. 1: New Dawn!
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!
This week: clones, claws and cliffhangers! We always heal but we never stop hurting in All-New Wolverine Vol. 1!
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!
This week, we unite the witches and the shifters by loving Molly Knox Ostertag's all-ages graphic novel The Witch Boy!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
This week, we will talk about heroism, identity, building bridges and the wonderful women of Wakanda in Black Panther!
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!
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!
This week, we talk about dinosaurs and domestic drama in the first five episodes of Marvel's Runaways!
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!
This week, we fire up our phone-tasers and talk about teen supergeniuses with Nadia Pym, The Unstoppable Wasp Vol. 1: Unstoppable!!
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!
This week, we share magical-girl adventures with our favorite magical boy in Steven Universe!
This week, we're looking forward to blowing up The World of Tomorrow at the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2!
This week, we dive into the magical mysteries and mysterious magic of Wanda Maximoff in Scarlet Witch Vol. 1: Witches' Road!
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!!
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!
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!
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!
This week, we make friends and celebrate the excessively kind and gleeful Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy!
This week, we discuss boxes of kittens, cybernetic Nazis and pamcakes in Hellboy (2004)!
This week, we discuss the first eighteen issues of Brian K. Vaughan's story of teenage angst and justified rebellion, Runaways!
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!
My man! This week, we discuss the highs and the lows and asterisks of the long-awaited DC team movie Justice League!
This week, we finish up our listicles, catch up with cult TV, and love the superhero life in Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine!
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)!
This week, return to the Burtonverse and fall in love with Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992)!
This week, we hooq up with Babs in Gotham's coolest neighborhood in Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside!
You wanna get nuts? This week, we give a name to our pain as we discuss Batman (1989)!
This week, we delve deep into the noir-inflected shadows of Gotham in Batman: The Long Halloween!
This week, we microwave our Lobster Thermidor while waiting for The Lego Batman Movie!
This week, we discuss the Big Blue Boy Scout in Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale!
This week, we could all use a hug in the back half of the first season of The Defenders!
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!
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!
This week, in our silliest episode yet, our heroes discuss the camp classic Batman: The Movie!
This week, our heroes travel in time to 1988 and enter the strange suburbia of Paper Girls, Vol. 1!
This week, our heroes watch a collection of trailers released at San Diego Comic-Con. It's the SDCC Trailerpalooza!
This week, our heroes do as Peggy says, and discuss the post-war adventures of our favorite SSR agent. It's Agent Carter!
This week, our heroes talk about the greatest superhero movie since... well, since Wonder Woman, anyway? It's Spider-Man: Homecoming!
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!
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!
This week, our heroes are led to beer and superheroics by one of our favorite heroes, Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat!
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!
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.
Amazon is currently running a huge Marvel sale on digital trades, and we've picked some of our favorites!
This week, our heroes discuss Black Hammer, Vol. 1, golden age heroes in a modern world, the tragedy of enforced adolescence, and Kirby brilliance.
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.
This week, our heroes discuss Chelsea Cain's short-lived but incandescent Mockingbird series. Puzzle box!
This week, our heroes discuss the second Captain America movie, spy thrillers and Agents Carter, Sam and Nat, and who the hell is Bucky?
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.
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?
In a special episode, our heroes discuss the new teaser trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, and why they are so excited!
This week, our heroes discuss the the recent two-volume series of Vision, by Tom King!
This week, our heroes discuss the latest X-Men film: "Logan," the R-rated Wolverine story that we never knew we needed.
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!