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Disclaimer: This article will contain spoilers for Game of Thrones seasons 1 through 4. Also the author of this article would like to disclaim she has not read the “A Song of Of Ice and Fire” novels and can’t speak to how they would contest her analysis and criticisms. Winter is Coming, Sometime Soon? I’m…
Fairytale retellings: everyone’s doing them. Usually the shows, books, and movies are touted as “darker takes” on the original story, featuring beloved characters as villains or villains as beloved characters. Once Upon A Time has turned just about every fairytale on its head, and it occasionally makes for good TV. One of their main changes…
If you haven’t heard, this week marks the release of the ambitious X-Men: Days of Future Past. Starring actors and characters from separate X-Men franchises, the film works to build continuity between them and create a mega-franchise. But X-Men fans know all this already. It was the year 2000 when the first X film was…
I am back from my trek across the Narrow Sea. I saw everything! Daario Naharis’ junk, I rode a boat through the crotch of the Braavosi statue and I even got mistaken as a slaver. I’m all like, “Don’t nail me to a post, guys! That ain’t me.” The red waste, by the way, not…
Avid readers know that the Young Adult genre can be the literary equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, in recent years more than ever, the genre is going through what some are calling a golden age or renaissance. With so many options, for better or worse, sometimes it’s easy to walk or…
I recently stumbled across an Internet argument that has become fairly common nowadays. It was a discussion on whether Frozen was overrated. Now, ignoring the fact that this is an argument taking place half a year after the film already made hundreds of millions of dollars and won two Oscars, it represents a deeper issue…
With the recent success and popularity of comic adaptations of The Walking Dead, Arrow, and Agents of SHIELD, network television has doubled down on bringing the panels to the small screen for some nightly viewing. Coming soon, here are some of titles viewers should be expecting to see soon. ABC Agent Carter As Adrienne Athanas first…
On May 5, Geek Insider published the article “Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review: Why We Reboot,” by David Frank. His article lauds the movie for being the best version of the title character as well as solidly nailing the relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. He did have issues with the numerous plot elements; his…
There are no bears in Issue 9 of Ghosted. But plenty of other angry beasts ready to tear Winters apart and that’s my kind of forest! We delve into the memory that made Winters such a cold customer, see a comic book artist really shine and some people get possessed. This is Ghosted, not a…
Looking for some great book recommendations in YA? Not every fantastic series makes it to the Harry Potter status of movie deals, parks, and franchise. Many of the following titles have been published for years, but they remain gems to many millennials. If you want to keep your title of “avid bookworm since childhood,” you…
Everyone loves zombies. And why shouldn’t they? There are as many types of zombies as there are people. Heck, there are even love stories involving zombies. Brainsssss Looking around at modern entertainment (and shooting reality TV shows in the head to ensure that they stay down), I hear the moans and see the walkers/zombies/infected/shuffling corpses…
Upper One Games, a partnership of Iñupiaq elders and games developers, title Kisima Inŋitchuŋa (Never Alone) will be released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One this fall. “Never Alone features co-operative and single player modes and will have encounters with traditional characters from the Alaskan Native Folklore,” “This is the first in a new category of games…
A Brand New Day For the Brand New Spider-Man Calamity can not keep Miles Morales down as adversity, both new and old, comes his way. After the death of Ultimate Peter Parker, Miles took over his book, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man. Now following a world changing event, he’s got his own book bearing his own namesake,…
Everyone knows the characters of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. But there is an entire universe of characters that not many people know about. In honor of the seventh Star Wars movie announcing its cast list and that the expanded universe will not be cannon anymore, I present seven…
In a historic and unprecedented turn of events, the CW passed up on an opportunity to order a soapy drama about sexy monsters, and the blame or thanks (depending on your opinion of the backdoor pilot), rests largely on the fans. The CW ordered several new series, including iZombie, a story about a zombie private…