In in episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Kyle Hammonds further this season's mission to examine and assess writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven's crossover comic book event series, Marvel: Civil War. Conversation begins with a discussion about "crossover events" and the value they provide as a storytelling device in the superhero genre. Garret then considers the mass media modalities by which readers and super fans access and process information about their favorite texts, just as Kyle intimately dissects the narrative properties that belie social and political tensions debated within the fictional context of the Marvel 616 Universe but clearly signpost cultural critiques and real-world anxieties unfolding in a post-9/11 world. Ultimately, the hosts wind down this chapter of discourse by considering a key rhetorical question coinciding with the conclusion of Civil War: Issue #5, "Whose side are you on?"

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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