Monthly Archive:: August 2019
Aug 31 2019
5 Reasons You Should End Your Summer with Black Summer
The Netflix series Black Summer arrived with little fanfare. And while there are numerous underrated, overlooked properties, this is a series that definitely deserves more attention. Created by Karl Schaefer (Eerie, Indiana; Monk) and John Hyams (Universal Soldier, NYPD Blue), Black Summer is…
Aug 30 2019
Everything You Need to Know about All Elite Wrestling
There’s a new player shaking things up in the professional wrestling industry. They sold 11,000 tickets to their first show, selling out in four minutes. Two weeks before that show even aired, they signed a broadcast deal with WarnerMedia to air a weekly wrestling show on the TNT network, the largest…
Aug 30 2019
Close Out Your August with the Conspiracy of Strange Girls Summer Night Market
Swampy summer heat seems to have already given way to milder days and cooler nights, and everyone’s thoughts are turning to the trappings of fall. In the arts world, the works whose turn it is to come out and play in this season tend to carry a darker tone, and while it has the word “summer” in its name, the…
Aug 29 2019
Win Tickets to See the Midnight at First Avenue on September 16!
The Midnight is coming to First Avenue in Minneapolis for an 18+ show with Flamingosis, and you have the chance to see the show for free—and even meet the band!
Courtesy of First Avenue, we’re giving away:3 pairs of tickets to the show
2 special pairs of tickets that come with a meet and greet with…
Aug 29 2019
That Time the Mall of America Turned Upside Down for Stranger Things
This summer, to celebrate the third season of Stranger Things, the city of Hawkins, Indiana, came to the Mall of America. The celebrations kicked off with a takeover of the Log Chute at Nickelodeon Universe, which from June 21 to June 23, 2019, welcomed guests to “The best small town in America”…
Aug 29 2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Youthful Epic to Satisfy Fans New and Old
Frankly, it’s hard not to be cynical about the hordes of content miners reaching back as far as they can to reboot and repackage well-respected franchises and intellectual properties. Between that and “cinematic universe” fever, it can sometimes be hard to get sincerely excited…
Aug 28 2019
The Characters of Stranger Things Are the Heart of the Show
Like many, I spent Independence Day 2019 in true geek fashion: consuming the third season of Stranger Things.
Now, I have admitted in the past that when the show premiered in 2016, I liked it but didn’t love it. Call it my fickleness, call it the series still finding its legs, but it’s how I…
Aug 28 2019
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling Is a Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
“Wrestling isn’t fake!” David Arquette would scream in the critically panned comedy Ready to Rumble—a guilty pleasure of this reviewer—and to many fans, professional wrestling is as real as oxygen. My own love for wrestling is undeniable, and so is my love for comics, and those…
Aug 27 2019
Comics I’m Picking Up the Week of August 28, 2019
Here are the books I’m looking forward to seeing at my local comic store the week of August 28, 2019.Tommy Gun Wizards
Publisher: Dark Horse
Words/Story: Christian Ward
Art/Colors: Sami Kivelä
“Eliot Ness and his team of Untouchables work overtime taking on dangerous criminals that hide in…
Aug 27 2019
The Okay Witch Is Much More than an Okay Read
Moth Hush is 13, and she knows she doesn’t fit in Founders Bluff, the small Massachusetts town where she lives with her mother. Founded in 1676, it’s the type of place that really embraces its past (the current mayor is a descendant of the founder), holding a pageant every year depicting its history—including…