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<p>Austin Gorton is a pop culture writer and critic who can also be found reviewing older issues of X-Men at the Real Gentlemen of Leisure website or posting trading card pics on social media. He lives outside Minneapolis, where sometimes, it is not cold.</p>


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<p>Latonya &#8220;Penn&#8221; Pennington (they/them) is a prolific freelance pop culture critic who has written for publications such as Into More, Popverse, Comics XF, and more. They are also a poet and have been published in Videodame, The Daily Drunk, and Sage Cigarettes, to name a few.</p>


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<p>Derek B. Gayle is a RVA-based writer and podcaster. He is a co-founder of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective, and currently hosts and produces five queer-centered pop culture analysis shows (Walloping Websnappers, Skreeonk, Gimmicks, Lee Carvallo&#8217;s Podding Challenge, and Falling With Style). In his scant free time, he enjoys sharing obscure tokusatsu, digitizing old VHS tapes, and searching the woods for werewolves.</p>


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