Author: James

TV

Screenwriter-filmmaker Joss Whedon’s career hit a pretty ignominious downturn for someone who indisputably changed pop culture twice over. His creation “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” became the template for a whole generation of genre television, and Whedon cemented cultural dominance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when he wrote-directed 2012’s “The Avengers,” pulling off the world’s first…

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When I first took a gander at the upcoming slate of manga announcements this fall, Sound Of A Blinkcaught my eye. It was in the macro overlaying sketches gracing its cover, its provocative title, and the eyebrow raising prospect of it being a semi-autobiographical work by the author who penned one of my favorite psychological…

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