Paul Cornell, Demon Knights, Trans Treatment
Paul Cornell turned trans people not passing into a joke every issue of Demon Knights. We, readers, have to deal with that without unintentional fallout, without unintended insult. Wee! us.
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Sailor Moon Says Don’t Fear Changing Things
Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon as been around almost 30 years and its adaptations are always their own animal. This is good.
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The Brilliance Behind Masks in HBO’s Watchmen
During its original run, DC’s Watchmen famously proposed the idea that the people behind the mask were far from heroes. True to its text, HBO’s Watchmen masterfully explores that very same theme.
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The Murder Tourists and Oscar Zarate
Oscar Zarate and Alan Moore’s I Keep Coming Back is a horror story in which a fairly normal man just has a drink and watches strippers. Expressive, desperate art bringing us low-blow misogyny and a walk.
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Please Stand By: The Evolution of TV Super Heroes-1980’s Part 2
Believe it or not I’m walking on air. I never thought I could feel so free.
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Having a Point Other Than Narrative
From Al Hartley to Tom King, Archie, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Andy Capp, a comic has to get to a point eventually or the diminishing returns and lack of believable consequence make us shut off.
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Don’t Keep Perspective, Pursue Perspective
How did the Comics Code leading to an inability to sell massage wands or tampons leading to adult Colossus waiting for Kitty Pryde to turn fourteen to date her, turn into Zatanna performing stage shows with men dressed as the real life rapists of her friends, in comics that still can’t sell tampons?
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“Where’s My Show?”: Cancellations And New Shows Coming
The following is a list of genre shows that have been canceled since January 1, 2019. No doubt you will already be aware of some but you might also find some surprises! Also…some interesting new series premiering between now and the end of the first quarter of 2020.
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I’m a Jerk About Nerdcore
Nerdcore is music by people with nerdy interests expressed in that music, except it excludes all the really successful and most of the well-lauded people who fit that, and about then I become a jerk about it. Prince, Ghostface Killah, Bob Dylan, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, Rob Zombie, Amanda Lear, Tupac, Bat for Lashes, QueenAdreena!
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Wolfskin is a Role-Playing Game
Warren Ellis, Juan Jose Ryp, Juanmar, Jacen Burrows create an England that never was, an alt-history sword and sorcery riff with barbarian philosophers, traveling conquerors, lions, bears, wolves, drug trips and angry widows. They turn high fantasy crystal Europe into crystal guts.
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Baby Yoda: Bigger Than All of Us
These are divisive times, desperate for some aggressive agreement. By charming people across multiple backgrounds and beliefs, Baby Yoda unites us.
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Hell Raiser, Star Chaser, Trail Blazer
Ming Doyle, James Tynion IV, Vanesa Del Rey, Riley Rossmo bring us a thirteen issue romantic, old home week disaster of horror, charm, death and betrayal featuring John Constantine.
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