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Pretty much anything can become material for one of Joseph Nowak’s cartoons. Animals behave according to their own wonderfully questionable logic, everyday expressions are taken a little too literally, familiar characters find themselves in ridiculous situations, and even darker subjects can become the setup for an unexpectedly silly joke. The result is a collection in…

“You thought we were gone? We were just powering up,” they announced on social media. “Bahrain Comic Con is coming back. Guess the date.”

For fans of ‘CID’, the show’s exit in 2018 was never just another television farewell. Behind the scenes, there was apparently a bigger fight involving producers, the channel and a cast that had spent years becoming a family. Now, years later, actor Dayanand Shetty, best known as the much-loved Daya, has opened up about what…

It seems almost hard to believe, but it has been nearly three decades since Marvel Comics’ first successful superhero movie hit theaters. After a few missteps with titles like Howard the Duck, The Punisher, Captain America, and The Fantastic Four, the first Marvel hero that hit it big in movies was a horror character. It…

September is almost upon us, bringing with it more new video games than we can keep up with.

If you grew up in the mid-2000s and regularly tuned into the Discovery Kids channel, chances are you stumbled across a niche animated series that took ancient Greek mythology, superheroes, and teen angst, and threw them all into a blender. That show was the cleverly titled “Class of the Titans” — clearly a cute riff…

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy sees this beloved franchise take a huge leap forward. Following the stealth-focused adventures of A Plague Tale: InnocenceandA Plague Tale: Requiem, you might have expected the team to plough a similar furrow, but Resonance pushes the series in a new direction: all-out action-adventure.

Welcome to your end-of-week roundup of everything new on Netflix US! As we approach the tail end of August and the summer begins to wind down, Netflix has dropped a very respectable 27 new releases (13 movies and 14 series) to keep us entertained, with most of the lineup on Netflix’s own side cleared out…

Travel chaos lately, as climate change shifts the UK into a land of wildfires, and government warning alerts blaring out of phones with zero preamble, so, a lot of fraught commuting the last few days, that involved frowning at my ubiquitous comms device for items relevant to this week’s links, below, while delayed, and thinking,…

Vinny Roca turns away from a computer. The UCLA alumnus was recognized at the Independent Games Festival earlier this year for his experimental video game “Slot Waste.” (Photo by Nicholas Ismael Martinez/Courtesy of Vinny Roca; cropped from original)