Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And he’s a fucking bad-ass! The most wonderful time of the year is finally upon us. The fully decorated Christmas tree in my living room, up since the day after Halloween, will certainly attest to such. So will this week’s publication of Klaus #1, Grant Morrison’s gritty reboot of…
“It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.” The words jumped out at me as I meandered through the bookstore. It is a phrase every self-respecting gamer who had grown up with the video games medium from its nascent Golden Age on through the present day knows by heart. It is arguably among the most famous…
The idea of a Cyborg solo-series was sound: a Detroit-based hero with cybernetic enhancements who “never asked for this.” Vic Stone could have been DC’s very own Adam Jensen, and his book could have been just as serious an exploration of the transhumanist themes implicit to the character in comics as Human Revolution was in…
Chaos already dominates enough of our lives. The universe is an endless raging sea of randomness. Our job isn’t to fight it, but to weather it together, on the raft of life. A raft held together by those few, rare, beautiful things that we know to be predictable. -Abed Nadir, Community Episode #304 “Remedial Chaos…
Often when the works of a great writer become inaccessible to later generations, whether due to differences in language or changes in culture, subsequent writers engage in a process that is a strange admixture of adaptation, appropriation, inspiration, and translation. Such is extremely common among the works of Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew was…
The trail for the herbalist’s apprentice had led Geralt to a village all but abandoned, save for a lone elderly couple. They confessed to having seen him a few days prior, but heard the wolves howling that same night. With the conversation over, the in game quest log automatically updated. Geralt was to report to…
Beginning with the 1960’s Batman series starring Adam West, live action adaptations of super-heroics on television has had a penchant towards camp. Only in the past decade have recent entries into the genre taken significant steps to sanitize such shows of their soapier elements. Arrow, The Flash, and season one of Heroes all favored mythology…
Spacecraft need to be flawless in their design and execution. The disasters of the Apollo 1, the Challenger, and the Columbia were not brought about by glaring errors of engineering, nor were they haphazardly constructed, nor were they crewed by foolhardy thrillseekers filled with hubris and bravado. It was infinitesimally fine details, like the maximum…
Even with Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming out on a weekly basis, the promotional blitz leading up to the film’s December release has been so frenzied that this outstanding miniseries has hardly had the chance to grab the Star Wars spotlight for itself. The first issue released mere days after Force Friday,…
Justice League #45 is an issue that should have been delayed. Whereas Jason Fabok, currently the series’ main artist, has drawn every issue in The Darksied War so far, and according to solicitations will finish the remainder of the arc from #47 onward, this issue and the next mark a drastic artist shift, one which…
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