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CAL MCDONALD: PLAGUE OF EVIL AND OTHER STORIES Interview with Steve Niles – Daily Dead

Though he’s not yet a century old, Batman’s career spans ten decades. Since his first appearance in May 1939’s Detective Comics #27 to the latest issue of Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez’s ongoing “All In” Batman series, new adventures of the Dark Knight have appeared in print continuously, usually on a weekly basis. To celebrate…

15 new titles are coming to Netflix in the coming months, including series, films, documentaries, and reality shows.

On Saturday, Netflix announced the premiere date for the third edition of its popular film anthology franchise Lust Stories. With notable filmmakers like Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, Shakun Batra, and Vishal Bhardwaj on board, Lust Stories 3 will arrive on September 18. 

Batman is among the oldest and most influential superheroes of all time, and he has helped shape the entire comic book industry. The Dark Knight has managed to become such a pop culture phenomenon because many of his stories represent the gold standard of what superhero comics are supposed to be. Tales like The Killing…

Midway through the 1990s, the sausage festiest decade of American comics, Viz Media miraculously published three volumes’ worth of shojo (girls’) and josei (women’s) manga, collected inShojo Stories,A, A’,andLove Song.These books, the Holy Trilogy of old shojo, affected my college-age self too deeply for me to judge them objectively. It’s as useless to ask me…

Superman has reached a new level of popularity, thanks to the DCU. 2025’s Superman was a hit and, unlike its MCU counterparts was actually comic accurate, it brought fans to the comic stores in a way that previous superhero movies haven’t. There’s way more interest in the Man of Steel than there’s been in years…

I’ve always been captivated by artists’ sketchbooks. They’re wonderful places for experimentation: random drawings, collages, taped notes, found objects, and whatever else helps make sense of an idea before it’s fully formed. Memory has always felt much the same way to me: a collection of fragments, fleeting images, and moments that seem random, but rarely…

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With monsoon extending its cosy embrace on our windowpanes, and the moody grey skies casting a surreal spell on our minds, it is time to indulge in some slice-of-life stories or imaginative escapades which take you through the pages into faraway lands. Monsoon’s cosy ambience calls for visual as well as imaginative storytelling, for which…