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If you’ve been fortunate enough to attend the Small Press Expo any year since 2011, you’ve likely seen Warren Bernard zipping by, talking to staff, exhibitors, guests, and show regulars. As Executive Director of the longest-running North American indie comics show, Bernard has been instrumental in keeping the organization afloat year after year, even when…

The X-Men are mutantkind’s premiere protectors and one of the most important superteams on the planet. While the Fantastic Four and the Avengers get all the recognition and the praise, the men and women of X are in the trenches doing the work that no one else wants to, fighting the greatest threats to mutantkind…

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“Reacher” may have made Alan Ritchson a major star, but the actor was already quite busy long before the Prime Video series. Even outside of the major roles on this list, he’s landed a series of charming one-off roles. He starred in the “Black Mirror” episode “Nosedive,” as the handsome, potentially closeted groom of the main character’s…

As a gaming industry fixture since 2017, “Fortnite” remains an enduring phenomenon nearly a decade after its initial launch. The game popularized the battle royale genre, literally dropping players into a steadily shrinking environment until one person is left standing. Keeping players coming back for more are regular guest characters and battle pass unlockables along…

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A season finale can get away with leaving a few unanswered questions when everyone assumes another batch of episodes is coming. The problem starts when a network or streaming service has other plans. Some shows have introduced new characters, revealed alternate realities, put their heroes in serious danger, or completely changed everything viewers thought they…

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Judging the past by present standards is genuinely unfair most of the time. Television made decades ago answered to a completely different audience, with different assumptions and a different sense of what counted as edgy versus cruel. And yet the fact that so much of it wouldn’t clear a modern pitch meeting proves something real:…