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Coverage of and commentary on current events and announcements in the world of TV, Movies, Comic Books, and Literature.

Last year, I wrote about the top 10 anime characters who I felt would make ideal guests at a Thanksgiving dinner. In my household growing up, planning a dinner party of any kind was treated as seriously and meticulously as planning a wedding, so I chose those characters based on punctuality, manners,…

Besides creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, few names are as synonymous with the X-Men comics as Chris Claremont. He holds the distinction of the longest writing tenure on Uncanny X-Men, from 1975 to 1991, during which time he is credited with introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien famously detested allegory, and any one-for-one analysis of his life and work runs the risk of making a dead man roll over in his grave. Still, it’s impossible not to see echoes of Middle-Earth in almost every sentence of his biography. Tolkien was four years old when…

Many of us have had a crush on a fictional character at some point in our lives. Whether they’re from a movie, a TV show, or a book, well-written characters have the power to capture our hearts in ways that real-life people seldom can. I’m certainly no exception—I’ve been catching…

Since its release in 2017, the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game by Modiphius Entertainment has introduced a bevy of supplemental products for its proprietary 2d20 system. The publisher recently announced it would be launching a second edition of the game at this year’s Gen Con, with…