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Poltergeist Girls, Part 1: The Exorcist and Regan’s Rebellion0
- Essays, Television and Film
- October 10, 2019
After she foolishly plays with a Ouija board, an innocent and cheerful early-adolescent girl begins showing a distinct change in personality. Her behaviour becomes strange, even sinister. Before long, she is the focal point of apparently supernatural phenomena: objects around her are moved by unseen forces, while her body undergoes hideous transformations. All the time
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#CarrieOnForever: Carrie Fisher’s Life Still Resonates Almost Three Years After Her Death0
- Essays
- October 4, 2019
It’s been a little over two and a half years since Carrie Fisher passed away. In the immediate aftermath, people continue to share some amazing stories of how she touched their lives. And even while she was still with us, it was easy to see how much of an impact she could have on people
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Comics and Kink: Bettie Page, the Dark Angel of Comic Books0
- After Dark, Essays
- September 27, 2019
Humanity uses fiction as a means of escape; it’s a pretty old refrain. At the same time, that doesn’t necessarily mean the realities of our world don’t bleed into the margins. Certain environments, foods, educational systems, and the general laws of physics are common enough to be negligible, for example. We structure ourselves around these
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Disney’s The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Is a Chance To Do Right By Sharon Carter4
- Comics, Essays, Television and Film
- September 27, 2019
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has turned many comics characters into pop culture darlings, from Iron Man to Groot to Shuri. Sharon Carter is, arguably, not one of those characters.
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The Harmful Pseudoarchaeology of Mythological Atlantis1
Having made its recent debut, Lost City Explorers is a brand new comic series by Aftershock Comics. In this series, siblings Helen and Homer Coates find themselves reeling from the sudden death of their archaeologist father, Dr. Tom Coates, who they believe has died in an underground work accident. That is until they find out
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Comics and Kink: The Erotica Side Hustle of Superman Co-Creator Joe Shuster0
- After Dark, Essays
- August 23, 2019
The starving artist is one of the most curiously enduring cultural images of the last four centuries or so. Its Romantic origins established a sense of noble prestige to the cycle of poverty, sacrifice, and professional obscurity in which many artists found themselves in the pursuit of a career. These days, there’s more scorn behind
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
- Essays
- August 30, 2016
