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DC‘s Golden Age, lasting from 1938 to 1956, introduced many of its most enduring super-heroes and villains. This Golden Age was kicked off by the almost-mythical Action Comics#1, the comic that introduced Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman, a cultural icon whose selflessness and decency have become the standard against which all other super-heroes are…

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MobLand is one of those series that may not receive tons of recognition at awards shows, but it’s easily one of the most entertaining shows on TV these days. Perhaps it’s the star power of the cast, which includes Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, or maybe it’s the action pedigree of the show’s…

Anyone who has wandered Tokyo’s Nakano Broadway knows the joy of a cramped shop stacked floor to ceiling with secondhand manga. Those shops smell like old paper and feel like treasure hunts, and Lumibricks has imagined what one might look like in a neon cyberpunk future. The Manga Shop is a 1,699-piece building block set…

There was a time when admitting you watched the most popular show on television or knew the words to a chart-topping pop song felt like a form of personal failing. For years, a specific brand of cultural snobbery convinced us that true taste required constantly turning up our noses at anything embraced by the masses.

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Well, we did at least have dedicated TV seasons. If you’re of a certain age, you will remember that network TV stations began new seasons in fall — usually September, but it always seemed like the shows you really wanted to see (looking at you, “The X-Files”) wouldn’t start up again till October or even…