Being Super seems to be attempting for Kara what American Alien did for her cousin Clark, offering a surprisingly human and familiar coming of age story in which typical teenage highs and lows are given greater dramatic height and depth through the lens of a super-powered protagonist.
Given all the attention and intention Manapul has poured into Trinity thus far, it’d be a challenge and a joy to squeeze out of the series all the meaning he’s put into each and every panel.
Klaus is a Christmas miracle, perfectly hitting on the meaning of the holiday while still accomplishing such superlative world-building, avoiding the logical inconsistencies of so many other seasonal specials, and telling a thrilling tale in its own right
Rogue One has more to say about Jedi and The Force than those works which feature them front and center, offering a look at the real role of religion and God in the lives of everyday denizens of the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
The illogical premise of preventing an unpreventable future is the same predicated in Civil War II… The only saving grace of Action is that it never flirts with the notion that such pre-crime policing has any validity
Aphra is more Belloq than Indiana… but Gillen imbues her with all the charm of Jones, Drake, and Croft, giving us reason to root for a character who’d in any of those franchises would be the villain.
In its gameplay mechanics, narrative themes, and artistic direction, Final Fantasy XV is a work clearly enamored by and emulative of occidental culture.
I don’t expect future issues to delve deeper into deontological ethics or the metaphysics of time-travel, which is unfortunate, as Superman comics could stand for more sophisticated storytelling.
Fantastic Beasts is Rowling’s response to and critique of the bibliophobic Biblicists who burned her books.
The comics published presently must be made with futurity in min; they are today’s tapestries and vases, the repositories of our modern mythology, meant to preserve and pass down who we are as a culture.
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