Comics
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How The Wonder Woman Trailer Converted Disinterest into Fierce Anticipation
Wonder Woman is about to become a champion of female agency. I am about to do something completely uncharacteristic. I will write about a trailer. A…
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Hoping for an Extra Dose of Weird from Doctor Strange
Let this be the first Marvel movie that gets truly bizarre. Yes, even more so than that one with a city-sized alien head for a…
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Why We No Longer Travel to Comic-Con
The Big Idea A requiem for a time when Comic-Con was cost effective. A day late, but not a dollar short. Here’s this week’s Big Idea. Over…
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Marvel and DC Show Off Diversity at Comic-Con 2016
And it’s about damn time.Kevin Feige, Ryan Coogler, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman. (Marvel/Disney).At the 2010 San Diego Comic Convention and in…
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Justice League Trailer Builds an Eclectic, Wise-Cracking Team
Zack Snyder’s superheroes find purpose and a sense of humor. DC has hit a few stumbling blocks in its attempt to play catch-up with Marvel’s cinematic…
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Mark Hamill’s Comic Book: The Movie Shows That Luke Skywalker is One of Us
A love letter to Mark Hamill’s great Comic-Con set mockumentary. When I was in college, some friends and I had a ritual we’d do on…
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We Have Some Theories About The Flash Season Three
A spoilerific look into the next season of the CW hit. Last Tuesday, DC revealed that Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) will don an adapted version of…
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The Righteous Violence of Batman
Superheroes that kill when killin’ is needed are the superheroes I want. Generation Y-ers like me know that we unequivocally had the greatest lineup of cartoons…
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When Fandom Swings The Sword
The Big Idea The distressing way in which fandom overreacts before stories are complete. Every week there’s a new controversy in the world of fandom. It’s…