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So Amazon is making its Mass Effect show. Does it have the guts to make it good?

When news broke yesterday that Amazon MGM Studios was moving ahead with its long-dormant Mass Effect TV series, I had one wistful thought: Wow. I...

09.11.2024 6

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I can’t believe how much I like the fights in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The Dragon Age franchise is not known for staying exactly the same from game to game. Whether it’s changes in scope, in setting, in who your player...

02.11.2024 5

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Making my old Dragon Age character in Veilguard hit me where I didn’t expect

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a lot of rewards for fans of Dragon Age: Inquisition who’ve stuck out the decade-long wait between the two games....

31.10.2024 10

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DC is reviving Vertigo Comics because it has to

Among all the news from New York Comic Con this weekend, there was one item to make any comics fan gasp. DC Comics chief creative officer Jim Lee...

24.10.2024 30

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Dan Da Dan is horny and gross and frankly really intriguing

The first episode of the Dandadan anime adapts a scene that nearly put me off the manga entirely. In it, a teenage girl is abducted by alien perverts...

17.10.2024 4

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What does the Marvel Cinematic Universe think a witch is, exactly? 

There are any number of reasons to be watching Agatha All Along . Maybe you’re here for Kathryn Hahn Hahn-ing around, or to see Aubrey Plaza goth...

26.09.2024 5

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Rings of Power’s Celebrimbor plot is adapting a myth, not a book

Three episodes into its second season, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power feels more comfortable just being fucking weird than in all of...

30.08.2024 5

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Justice League Unlimited does the ‘mature Batman cartoon’ job better than Caped Crusader

Nostalgia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This month’s Batman: The Caped Crusader was billed as the grownup version of beloved and...

17.08.2024 6

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My favorite puzzle game has an unskippable Peter Gabriel interlude

There is a real community theater, backyard cinema earnestness to Cyan’s Myst games, beginning from Myst, in which founding developer brothers Rand...

09.08.2024 6

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When Deadpool says he wants to matter, he means he wants to be canon

They called the movie Deadpool & Wolverine , but maybe the title should have been Deadpool & Wolverine & Everybody Else, given how many character and...

01.08.2024 2

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When Robert Downey Jr. plays Doctor Doom he better keep the mask on

30.07.2024 6

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Marvel Studios can fix the MCU — but it has to start Saturday at SDCC

In 2023, Marvel Studios took a year off from the hype house that geeks built, San Diego Comic-Con. So did basically everybody else: Between the...

24.07.2024 3

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In Kite Man: Hell Yeah! the best running gag in comics has been co-opted by the worst

There’s something a little off-putting about the title of Kite Man: Hell Yeah! , Max’s new animated series spinning off Harley Quinn . That...

19.07.2024 10

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Damian Wayne irrevocably changed the Bat-family

Every superhero comic book character, even the most obscure, is somebody’s favorite. There are no boring or bad characters, just ones who haven’t...

18.07.2024 4

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Continuity doesn’t matter

In the post-Marvel Cinematic Universe era, it’s hard to find a savvy pop culture maven who can’t define “continuity,” whether they’re...

15.07.2024 6

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George Miller’s smartest move in Furiosa is totally dissing Immortan Joe

George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga complements and enhances the impact of his 2015 blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road in a lot of ways, but...

02.06.2024 30

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A meteorite sword is inherently cool, and Terry Pratchett knew it

Roll the phrase around your tongue with me: Starmetal sword. Starmetal sword. The lost secret to Damascus steel could totally have been meteorites!...

21.05.2024 40

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I’m dying to play D&D’s biggest idiot, but my parties keep putting me in charge

I have a Dungeons & Dragons curse. You won’t find it in the Player’s Handbook or on any list of spells, and yet it’s demonstrably real. Gather...

06.05.2024 60

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Star Wars has abandoned the prequel trilogy’s greatest gift: sick flips

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is returning to movie theaters on May 3 to celebrate its 25th anniversary. This essay was inspired by...

01.05.2024 30

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Game Changer’s first great mindfuck of the season was a simple game of bingo

The current season of Game Changer, Dropout’s endlessly inventive improv/prank game show, delivered its first real banger of a game in last week’s...

15.04.2024 20

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Shyamalan’s Avatar movie threw a giant wrench in firebending and it was right

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is infamous for the changes it made to the setting of Avatar: The Last Airbender — like saying...

24.02.2024 30

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A Fantastic Four movie set in the past would be the best case scenario

Marvel Studios has finally announced the cast of The Fantastic Four , after what feels like months of anticipation (and almost five years after the...

15.02.2024 30

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There’s only one new Avatar: The Last Airbender series I want

It feels like prequel series are a dime a dozen these days, with barely a franchise that hasn’t dipped its hand into the origin story well. We know...

07.02.2024 20

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Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender has cleared at least one (low) bar

Avatar: The Last Airbender fans have every reason to be skeptical of Netflix’s new show. Even if they hadn’t been legendarily burned by a...

23.01.2024 20

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Echo throws back to a time when characters mattered in the MCU

Echo , the latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is probably going to fly under a lot of people’s radar. The urgency of the...

11.01.2024 50

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People aren’t tired of superheroes, they’re tired of bad superhero movies

It’s the final days of 2023, and voices everywhere are predicting the final days of the superhero movie. Even that bastion of the mainstream, the...

28.12.2023 20

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We should be getting a new Muppet Christmas Carol-alike every year

Why can’t The Walt Disney Company make the Muppets work? Like, really work? Why do we keep getting TV shows and specials that fail to find an...

27.12.2023 20

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It’s totally legal for Batman to punch the Great Gatsby and yet I’m still waiting

Good people of the superhero comics community, I’ve kept quiet for 23-and-a-half months and I can remain silent no longer. It’s been almost two...

13.12.2023 10

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Comixology was never going to save comics, but it tried

The Comixology app, the mobile incarnation of the digital comics platform owned by Amazon since 2014, has finally shuffled off this mortal coil. On...

04.12.2023 20

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