Discovery’s “Die Trying” provides all kinds of fun easter eggs and connective tissue for both the Star Trek franchise and Discovery, but unfortunately it fails at telling a cohesive story.
REVIEW: EXCALIBUR #14 – Fell To Pieces and I’m Still Falling
The competition begins in earnest in Excalibur #14 and immediately takes a wildly unexpected turn. After all, Otherworld is the realm of the Fae, and with them, nothing is ever as it seems.
Viz Pubwatch November
What a year this month has been. With everything going on in the world recently, you might have missed these news items and volume releases from VIZ media. Luckily, the monthly VIZ Pubwatch is here! This month we’re mostly focusing on long-running fan favorites and some classic series, including Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi. First,…
Vampires on the Margins: Forbidden Desires
One reason for the enduring appeal of the vampire as a concept is its erotic element, and this is something that manifests in both heterosexual and homosexual terms. From the lesbian vampire exploitation films of the seventies to the queer undead of Anne Rice’s bestsellers, modern audiences have come to expect vampires to exist outside…
When Fandom & Canon Collide: Revisiting Supernatural’s Destiel Scene
Fans of Supernatural had more than just the USA election to think about last week. In a year full of surprises, one of the show’s biggest ships, “Destiel,” was made canon and it took over the internet.
REVIEW: Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem is The Comic That 2020 Needs
The national anthem. It played on the original Danger Days album. It’s written on the side of Mike Milligram’s car. I’ve heard it in classrooms and sports arenas my entire life. I’ve thought, at times, about what it represents in terms of the American consciousness. So has Gerard Way, and apparently, now it’s time to…
REVIEW: Marauders #15: Stabbing Saturnyne? Right in Front of My Salad?
It’s a bit unusual for a multi-title crossover event to continue its story in the very same title, but here we are, leaping into Marauders #15, right where we left off.
Previously on Comics: The Crushing Weight of Capitalism
Good morning! The pandemic is getting worse here in the States, because no one in charge values lives over property! Let’s talk about comics, I guess. WarnerMedia is laying off a few more people in addition to the several mentioned this past summer. 2020 has hit the comics industry particularly hard, and once again, those…
Last Week’s Episode: Double Stuffed News
Seeing as the US election was last week–is it over? who knows–and we were all just trying to survive, we’ve got a double stuffed stack of news for you this time round. From hilarious schadenfreude to shocking exposes and of course plenty of casting, releases, and overly optimistic announcements about movies and TV in the…
REVIEW: Phobos and Macroverse
Phobos by Jason Brubaker is a new premium comic on the mobile comics platform Macroverse, a platform whose unique selling point is the fact that instead of scrolling the reader taps to progress in their comics reading. Phobos follows the humorous and horrifying misadventures of a mad scientist and his wacky assistants in a vampire’s…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: November 2020
In the year that seems like it will never end, we somehow have made it to November. (And through a contentious election week in the United States, which itself felt like a year!) This month, we take a look at a few finales (Adler and Horizon Zero Dawn), as well as the debut of Cutting…
REVIEW: The Low, Low Woods is a Haunting Tale of Strange Memories
Sitting in a cinema together, teenage friends El and Vee realise that neither of them has any memory of the film that has just ended. They soon find that Vee has unexplained mud on her shoes, no-one else went to see the film, and the sole staff member present is behaving oddly. Clearly, something has…