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Horror franchise video games have become a regular staple of pop culture in recent years, from Friday the 13th to Alien to Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Now, after several years of waiting and anticipation, the newest addition to this catalog, Halloween: The Game, is nearly upon us. The video game releases on September 8, and…

There are numerous origin tropes in comics, but some are more prevalent than others. There’s the government experiment, the alien visitor who decides to become human, people who lost their spouse or entire family and decided to take revenge, being orphaned, and loads more. However, one thing that a lot of characters’ origins have in…

Dave Lanphear was a comic book letterer, graphic designer, and art director who died unexpectedly on the 18th August at the age of 58 from complications relating to diabetes. The news was shared by his sister, Tera Lanphear, who said, “I’m sad to have to share the news of my dear older brother’s unexpected passing.…

Per a Facebook post from his family, prolific comic book letterer Dave Lanphear died unexpectedly sometime last week. Lanphear lettered countless comics for Marvel, CrossGen, Valiant, DC, and more, including the original Thunderbolts run, Kurt Busiek and George Pérez‘s Avengers, The Mighty Avengers, Secret Warriors, Immortal Iron Fist, and X-Men: Magneto Testament, sometimes in collaboration…

At noon on Sunday, the third floor of Yongsan’s I’Park Mall in Seoul offered a compact map of what is famous among young Koreans: Instagram-famous desserts, fashion labels, electronic keyboards, anime and Harry Potter merchandise. In the middle of it all, visitors were quietly leafing through Virginia Woolf, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ernest Hemingway and…