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Comics have been a storytelling medium for a long time, even dating back to Roman history, although today we often associate it with the mass media publication of superheroes. Since the introduction of Superman and other icons, comics have largely centered on superheroes and their fictional endeavors.

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As a longtime Marvel fan, one of my favorite things about X-Men ‘97 is how many fun Easter eggs are stuffed into every single episode. Sometimes, these are winking references to earlier episodes; more often than not, they are connections to the comics and to the larger Marvel universe. Of course, these references are often…

Christopher Nolan’s The Odysseytransforms Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem into a modern cinematic blockbuster that many are already calling a “masterpiece.” What’s even more impressive is that Nolan did not take the expected route of grounding the mythical story in the framework of a swords-and-sandals epic; to the contrary, he brought almost every supernatural and…

One thing that Marvel Comics fans have long joked about is the sheer number of superheroes who are based out of New York City. Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four…believe it or not, these are just a few of the characters and groups based around the iconic city. How and why did this…