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Adult Swim has another exciting series on its hands, Invincible Fight Girl begins airing this upcoming weekend. Heavily influenced by anime and wrestling, this show is a new take on the classic “follow your dreams” storyline. Andy (voiced by Sydney Mikayla) works as an accountant because her father and mother were accountants, as well as her grandparents, and so on and
Read MoreThe Remarkable Life of Ibelin is the antidote to the dystopian view of technology that’s prevalent to day, and a loving tribute to a truly special man.
Read MoreJohn Jackson Miller’s Batman: Resurrection is a thrilling return to Tim Burton’s dark, gothic world of Batman with Michael Keaton as the famous vigilante. This novel serves as a connection between these two iconic films and now. It finally answers questions that were left unresolved between those movies. This book also serves as a satisfying continuation of the story and an immersive
Read MoreVenom is one of Spider-Man’s most iconic villains. The symbiotic alien was first introduced in 1988’s issue of The Amazing Spider-Man #300, and quickly became a fan-favorite Marvel character. While he’s primarily an antagonist, he’s served as an anti-hero in popular storylines like Lethal Protector. These comics serve as the primary launching point for the Tom Hardy trilogy of films. While
Read MoreRepresentation is important, especially in media. I think that is a fact that everyone can agree on. As a queer man, I want to see stories that are representative of me and my identity or those from my community. It’s for this reason alone that I was drawn so intensely to Heartstopper when I binged the first and second seasons last
Read MoreJurassic World: Chaos Theory season 2 is the seventh season overall in the animated Camp Cretaceous saga. This series follows the Nublar Six, survivors of the disastrous events of Jurassic World who lived on Isla Nublar for months. In Chaos Theory, they are adults and finally back on the mainland, but so are the dinosaurs. [Warning: light spoilers for seasons 1
Read MoreThe story of Venom in Marvel Comics is always complicated. He was created in 1988 and immediately became one of Spider-Man’s most terrifying foes. Venom was brutal, ruthless, uncanny, and evil. As an offspring of a symbiote from Spider-Man’s Secret Wars suit, he had a deep connection with Peter Parker. In the later story of Spider-Man, this became a key relationship
Read MoreNowadays, they can make a horror movie about anything. Want a horror film about a loveable teddy bear turned monster? There’s a film for that. Want to see a version of Freaky Friday but with a murderer and a teenage girl? We’ve got you covered. Some ideas are sillier than others, but that doesn’t stop the churning out a wide variety
Read MoreGuy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s film Rumours is very telling of what I like about cinema. Everything I love about the art form is found in this picture: experimentation with an ever-changing aesthetic, satirical jokes that take zero prisoners, and a slight jab at the audience for sitting through a movie that does not reward or fulfill them in
Read MoreIt’s strange to think we are nearly at the end of the Star Wars‘ High Republic publishing initiative with the release of Tears of The Nameless by George Mann. We are two-thirds of the way through phase 3, known as “Trials of The Jedi,” with the last wave of the phase set for release in mid-2025. With us being at the
Read MoreRuby Tucker has problems. She just can’t seem to get her temper under control. But she’s been doing better lately, her probation is almost up, and she’s going to finally leave her rinky-dink town and head to Atlanta to start a band with her best friend, Tina. Then she finds an old ring and everything changes. Now she’s got an evil
Read MoreLook! What’s that in the sky? It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No! It’s the season premiere of Superman & Lois! That’s right! The DC series returned to The CW this past week with a 2-hour premiere, signaling the beginning of the end of the Arrowverse’s reign on the cable network. It’s bittersweet, the beginning of the end, but with
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