Comics
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“The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”: A Review
Remaking old classics with a darker twist has been a common trend in film and television lately, and Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is…
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The Sins of Professor X (Part Two)
Hey, did you miss me? Well I missed you! Welcome back to: The Sins of Charles Xavier! (Part Two) Let us jump in right where…
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The Sins of Professor X (Part One)
Let me roll off some key features of a comic book character and see if you figure out who I’m talking about: Kindly father figure,…
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4 Heroes. 4 Movies. 4 Mistakes. 4 Puns.
There have been four attempts to bring Marvel’s first family to life on the big screen. First in 1994, then 2005, 2007, and most recently…
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Not My Superman
The twenty-first century is home to a world that is perhaps a little darker and more complicated than the century that came before it, and…
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Playground Politics
The funny books aren’t funny anymore. By this I mean that, excluding Archie and the odd issue of Squirrel Girl, mainstream comics haven’t been true…
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Not Your Usual Post-Apocalypse: The World of Stand Still Stay Silent
Ninety years later, everything is gone. Everything except Scandinavia, that is. Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are all that remain of the Known world,…
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Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name
When Marvel announced that it would be putting out several series on Netflix about street-level heroes, they told us who we’d be getting: Daredevil, Luke…
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When (Super) Strength Isn’t Enough: An Examination of Strong Female Protagonist
What if you were both invincible and had super-strength—yet you still couldn’t save the world? That’s the problem confronting Alison Green, the twenty-year-old protagonist of…
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Your Daily Dose of Comics: an Interview With Dakota McFadzean
If you’ve been to a comic arts festival in Toronto you can bet you’ve seen Dakota McFadzean there, selling his books and sketches. This Canadian…
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