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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…

Over the years, Star Trek has boldly gone where no franchise has gone before by exploring different ways of telling killer sci-fi stories. We’ve had movies, live-action TV shows, 3D cartoons, 2D cartoons, all of which have been supplemented by entire libraries of books, magazines, and comics. The latter includes some surprisingly good Star Trek…

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,…

X-Men ’97 Season 2 is going from strength to strength. The story may not be perfect, but episode 4 ended in the most dramatic way; the time-traveling X-Men failed to prevent Apocalypse’s ascension, and the so-called “First Mutant” was transformed by the Celestial known as Eson the Searcher. Even more shocking, though, Apocalypse demonstrated his…

With its sheer ubiquity in American pop culture, it’s easy to take for granted how recently it was that anime was exported to the States. There are early examples as far back as the 1960s and 70s: Astro Boy is widely considered to be the first example of an anime finding immense success being syndicated…

Prince William made a surprise appearance on the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast on Friday, revealing that his dad, King Charles, “hates football” — even as Prince William himself is a lifelong Aston Villa fan