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Captain Marvel, Reborn: How Carol Danvers Became Marvel Comics’ Flagship Hero
Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More…
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DC’s Elseworlds Imprint is Making a Multiversal Comeback
In the same way that Marvel Comics has imprints for stories featuring alternate universe versions of its characters, DC Comics has that in Elseworlds. But that line disappeared after 2010, and was semi-replaced with similar enough imprints like Earth One (which was similarly short-lived), the Black Label, and the young adult graphic novel line. At…
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The 2023 Hugo Award Nominees Are Here
It’s that time of year again: Chengdu WorldCon has released the full list of nominees for this year’s Hugos, the premiere science fiction and fantasy awards ceremony highlighting the best in books, film, TV, and criticism in genre material. This year marks the 81st WorldCon, the traditional home of the Hugo Awards winners ceremony, taking…
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The 14 Best (and 9 Worst) Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror and Superhero Movies of 2021
We’re over halfway though 2022, and there’s been a lot of attention given to movies out, or coming out, this year. We thought it was important to remember those that came before, specifically just last year. Let’s take a look back and decide what were the real highs (and real lows) of a very peculiar…