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If there’s one thing publishers, authors, and readers agree on, it’s that everybody loves a series. The characters you’ve grown to admire, the world you’ve learned how to travel without asking for directions, the best hole-in-the-wall tavern selling deep-fried lembas on a stick – why would you ever leave? But I also love trilogies, which
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Get ready to lose hours in the vast vaults of DC as DC Universe Infinite, DC’s digital subscription service, is coming to the UK! <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#xFEFF;</span> With over 25,000 comic books available right now, DC Universe Infinite’s expansive library is constantly being updated with new books
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Marvel sure took their sweet time, but we finally have a Thor: Love and Thunder teaser trailer. It was absolutely worth the wait. Taika Waititi’s long awaited sequel to Thor: Ragnarok (the movie which landed at #1 on our comprehensive ranking of the MCU movies) is a brightly-colored blast of good vibes, Marvel Comics Easter
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Fantasy author Sharon Shinn once told me that all authors have a “thing” they write about. “Your thing,” she said, “is death. And what comes after.” Okay, fair. I grew up on Beetlejuice and the Addams Family and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, so my sense of the macabre and my sense of humor are often indistinguishable.
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Content Warning: Graphic Depictions of Nature Let me paint a scene. It’s 2017 and I’m in a courtroom in Pasadena, California, trying the country’s first lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for selling baby powder with asbestos in it. We’re seven weeks in. The defense has an expert on the stand. I’ve cross-examined her before, know
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This article contains Moon Knight spoilers When the first episode of Moon Knight hit, comic fans familiar with the character were a bit at a disadvantage. They already had an idea of what was going on, killing some of the drama that those uninitiated were experiencing. While the second episode explains the basics between Steven,
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For those of you who stared in wide-eyed awe at the haunting 2021 movie adaptation of Dune, with its vast starships, miniscule killer drones, and sophisticated survival suits, it is sometimes a shock to discover that the novel on which it is based was published as long ago as 1965, four years before humans landed
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Anti-establishment humor wasn’t mainstream in the 1950s, and grown-ups saw comic books as brain-rotting garbage. But in 1952, a comic came along which would come to proudly declare: “In Trash We Trust.” Born in the era of McCarthyism, kids who read MAD learned to distrust authority and give snappy answers to stupid questions. The “Usual
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It’s hard to explain Marvel’s Moon Knight on the best of days. The former mercenary-turned-vigilante can mostly be found after dark on the streets of New York City, protecting those who travel by night as the earthly avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. But the man behind the mask, Marc Spector, also has Dissociative
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The man called Nova is finally headed to the MCU. Deadline has announced that Moon Knight writer Sabir Pirzada will be shepherding the character into the MCU. At this point, we don’t know if Nova will be a series or a movie, but excitement is already building. Moviegoers have already received a glimpse of Nova in Guardians of the Galaxy,
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A sweeping fantasy romance set against the backdrop of an Ottoman Empire-inspired world, Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste Of Gold And Iron is out later on this year and we’re delighted to not only reveal its stunning cover (above) but we’re also publishing an exclusive extract from the novel! One false coin could topple an empire
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Publisher: Solaris Writer: Tom Beckerlegge Price: £7.99 Set in a literary landscape populated by poets, The Carnival of Ash tells the story of Cadenza, a city whose trade is poetry and whose taverns are overrun with wannabe wordsmiths. When Carlo Mazzoni arrives at the gates in the hope of becoming the next lauded laureate, he
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David Dastmalchian is the face of interesting characters. Although it has been nearly 14 years since he debuted as one of Joker’s gang members in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the performance remains chilling. Since then, he has continued making a mark as a Wombat in Ant-Man, a Mentat in Dune, and a Polka-Dot Man
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When Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke joined the cast of the upcoming MCU Disney+ series Secret Invasion, fans immediately asked, “Who is she playing?” And when the rumor mill suggested that she would play Veranke, many fans had a follow-up question: “Who is Veranke?” Over the years, the MCU has not been afraid to dig deep into
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