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Few comics can claim to have changed the industry like 1961’s Fantastic Four#1. This single comic began the “Marvel Age of Comics,” and belongs to a run fans still routinely rank among the best ever published. In twenty-five pages, it set a standard for comic book characterization and plotting, establishing Marvel as a serious competitor…

When it comes to animated movies, 1988 was a great year — and several of its releases still hit incredibly hard, even decades later. It helps that many animated projects from the ’80s don’t pull their punches. From 1982’s The Secret of NIMH to 1989’s All Dogs to to Heaven, there are many examples that…

The Fantastic Four was the first superhero comic created by Marvel Comics. The comic book told the story of a family who took a spacecraft into orbit and returned with superpowers thanks to cosmic radiation. Reed Richards, his future wife Susan Storm, her brother Johnny Storm, and Reed’s best friend Ben Grimm became Mister Fantastic,…

Evan Dorkin has been making comics in one form or another for the better part of the past 40 years. Any career in comics that long is going to have its ups and downs, but Dorkin has been candid about his health issues, both physical and mental (most recently here whenhe talked to Robert Newsome…

Television has undeniably changed in nearly every way since the 1990s. Instead of appointment television and recording our favorite series on VHS tapes to enjoy later, we can stream any show at any time of the day or night. It’s fantastic, but somehow something was lost in the transition

Sometimes the worst elevator pitchesresult in the best television. In a thread on r/television, fans discuss the shows that sounded ridiculous on paper, like a sitcom about moral philosophy or an action thriller about talking turtles, but managed to become classics thanks to brilliant writing and casting

Daeron Targaryen has finally arrived in House of the Dragon. Viserys Targaryen and Alicent Hightower’s other children – Aegon, Aemond, and Helaena – have all made a significant mark on the series across the first two seasons, but Daeron has not only been missing, but hardly even mentioned. He was brought up briefly in Season…

Han Solo has been an iconic Star Wars character from the very beginning, and although he isn’t necessarily high on the list of characters who have appeared most in Star Wars movies and TV shows (although he climbs the ranks quite a bit more when accounting for just ), he has certainly had a lasting…

The Nintendo Switch boasts an incredible library of games, including a strong wave of initial titles from when the console launched in 2017. Following this, the Switch received a steady stream of support both from Nintendo itself and a whole host of third-party gaming publishers. But with the Nintendo Switch 2 now available and the…

Batman is well-known as the World’s Greatest Detective, and, as one of the faces of DC, he’s starred in more than his fair share of mysteries. The entire company is named after its detective stories, after all, and since Batman is their most published character, it only makes sense that he has been in countless…