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Best comics of 2025, including two DC Absolute books, Gail Simone's backlist, and two outstanding original graphic novels.

The complicated and messy history of Tetris, a game that began as a fun side project for a Soviet scientist.

Fantastic Four: First Steps is a fun, well-cast, well-acted movie but it can be too optimistic for its own good.

"You are who you choose to be." Superman has choices to make in his new movie and they're informed by his upbringing.

So, the obvious question that we’ve all been asking is, has anybody ever read a Savage Land comic actually in Antarctica? I can now definitively answer this question of the ages: Yes.

These Violent Delights | A Literary Hub Best Book of Year • A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year!

I almost hesitate to write a review of Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Case of the Missing Men, as it’s difficult to convey how immersive and intense it becomes for the reader. It’s a teen investigative story with supernatural elements but it’s far more…

When I took the assignment to write this article, I fully expected to recommend only one or two episodes of Marvel’s What If…? season 2. The first season had been erratic at best, leaving me with trepidation instead of excitement about the return of…

Birds of Prey #4 Writer: Kelly Thompson Art by: Leonardo Romero Colors by: Jordie Bellaire Letters by: Clayton Cowles Variant Cover art by Chris Bachalo The reason fight scenes work is because they’re all about character and, in Birds of Prey #4,…

Whenever people ask me about my favorite sci-fi television show of all time, my answer is . Yes, I grew up with the original series Star Trek, still love it but still tops my list. It had a fervent and dedicated fandom at the time of its airing in…

DC’s is one of the few superhero series that I’m extraordinarily territorial about. The initial Chuck Dixon run pulled me back into comics. I was disappointed in his two short-lived replacements (though both had done incredible work elsewhere) and…

The Difference Between Comic-Con in San Diego and New York Comic Con: Broadway! The plethora of Broadway musical panels is one excellent reason to choose NYCC over the more famous con in San Diego. Over the last two years, the east coast con has…

“Punch Up” by Zachary Sterling is a duel story, meaning that the plot is centered around a fighting tournament. Pitch, our orphaned, naïve, and impulsive lead hears of a great tournament headed by his favorite fighting champion. Despite the…

Wicked the musical is a play from a book based on a movie musical based on a book. In This LitStack Review: An Exciting Work Of Fan-FictionThe Origins of WickedRevealing a Deeper TruthCurling A New Tale Around An Old TaleThe Suspense Is Not What Will…

It’s taken me over a week to process the whole of my experience at Comic-Con 2023. Was it fun? Yes. Exhausting? Yes. Was it worth going? A qualified ‘yes,’ though this is likely my last time at Comic-Con in San Diego. Mini-Atomic Junk Shop Meetup As…

It’s taken me over a week to process the whole of my experience at Comic-Con 2023. Was it fun? Yes. Exhausting? Yes. Was it worth going? A qualified ‘yes,’ though …

The Comic-Con 2023 Jurassic Park Experience assumes that lots of people will want to experience the world created by the original Jurassic Park thirty years ago. They’re right in that assumption, even if that Jurassic Park Experience means being spit…

Comic-Con 2023 on Thursday was in full force, proving my suspicion that the absence of the actors did not equal the absence of crowds. This is my third time at Comic-Con. I’ve learned that my limit of things to experience is about three. I attended…

Wednesday was a day of setup for Comic Con 2023. I call it preview day. The Studio installations were in construction or finalizing the last details for opening on Thursday. You can see a bit of those in the slideshow above. The wraps of the various…