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Spider-Noir has been making waves for all the right reasons. When the Amazon Prime and MGM+ show debuted, it was met with overwhelmingly positive reactions from fans and critics alike. People praised Nicolas Cage’s amazing performance as Ben Reilly and the more mature take on the friendly neighborhood hero. Furthermore, the mystery at the center…

In his new book, “Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000” (published by Viking), Barry Walters, a writer for such publications as Rolling Stone and Spin, explores how LGBTQ songwriters, musicians, execs and fans reshaped pop culture in the late 20th century, as queer messages in music became less coded

Anyone who’s watched even just a few episodes of Pawn Stars can see plain as day that Rick Harrison is a smart guy. Even though he has a roster of experts he brings in when he needs a second opinion, he often knows more about a particular item than the person selling it. From old military weapons…

The complicated and contradictory history of Clayface is explored in a new DC Comics miniseries. There are many characters who have used the name since 1940, in both the Batman comics and various adaptations to other media. Ironically, these adaptations often merged the various comic characters into gestalt creations. This made a muddy mess of…

The villains in the X-Men comics are some of the most colorful and interesting in Marvel’s long history. Some have proven to have real staying power, while others were very “of their time.” The first 20-ish years gave readers Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Hellfire Club, anti-Mutant hate groups and their Sentinels,…

Superheroes are no strangers to stealing the spotlight in the TV awards season. Back in 2021, WandaVision received a staggering 23 Emmy nominations, breaking the record for any Marvel live-action series ever produced. Since then, other iconic projects like Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and Loki have all seen their fair share of critical success, resulting in…

What does it take to dramatize the history of America on television? It must be more entertaining than slumber-inducing historical reenactments and demand more of its audience than being passive observers of a comfortable, sanitized civic mythology. There might have been a time when a network was happy to slap a recognizable actor with a…

The Oral History Of San Diego Comic-Con Panel – And You Don’t Need A Badge. For Thursday, the 23rd of July, 2026

But things aren’t much better at the bipartisan, congressionally sponsored 250th commission, a body that was created in 2016 to oversee this year’s commemorations, but which had much of its funding diverted to a newer, Trump-controlled rival, Freedom 250. America250, as the official Semiquincentennial Commission is known, has Democratic members, including Senators Alex Padilla of…