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A comic character’s next line appears only when the reader looks directly at them, as three-dimensional figures, speech bubbles and sound effects appear nearby.

Marvel Comics has always gone their own way with the superhero. Their distinguished competition gave readers gods trying to be human, their stories tapping into the kind of spectacle you can only get with the most powerful heroes ever. However, the House of Ideas decided they wanted their characters to be more real and incorporated…

“I think I’m gonna die in this house,” sings Charli XCX on the soundtrack of Wuthering Heights. It could just as easily serve as the unofficial motto of contemporary pop culture, and perhaps of our generation as well. Over the past few years, films, TV series, books, and music have all seemed to revolve around…

DC Comics was doing big superhero sci-fi back when Marvel was still Timely. Back in the day – in this case the Golden Age of Comics – Marvel was more grounded than DC (although both were still mostly grounded) and once things got weird in the ’50s, more cosmic storytelling started to pop up; even…

Few works of fiction have had as much real-world influence on football as Captain Tsubasa. Since debuting in 1981, Yōichi Takahashi’s manga has sold more than 90 million copies, while its anime adaptation became a global phenomenon, inspiring Messi, Zidane, Iniesta, and a generation of professional footballers to pick up the game. With the 2026…

Indie anime studio beesinc.is the latest focus of PC maker Galleria’s Creators Scene video series, which showcases the daily life of creatives who use its products. The 30-second peek depicts bees inc’s animation creatives, which comprises various indie creators, at work while rendered as their respective 2D avatars

Marvel Comics has been going through some power scaling in the 21st century and it’s gotten to that level that is kind of annoying. The problems with power scaling are manifold, but the biggest is how they rob stories of stakes. Just look at the Hulk books lately; he’s an unstoppable force of the cosmos,…

More than just featuring some of the most iconic superheroes and supervillains in pop culture, the Marvel Universe features some of the most lethal. From cosmic gods to supernatural powerhouses, there is no shortage of Marvel characters who could wipe out countless lives without a second thought. Those are the characters that we’re highlighting today,…

While the majority of your playthrough focusing on treating random patients, you’ll come across a handful of unique creatures as you move through your shifts. Each of these NPCs has their own mysteries to uncover, quests to complete and secrets to unearth, and as it turns out, they know a bunch more about the monsters…

Living in the Marvel universe can feel like hell sometimes, but a few characters made it worse for themselves when they turned to the devil for help — well, the closest thing to the devil, at least. Mephisto has made it clear he’s not the boss from downstairs, but he enjoys pretending to be what…