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Imagine you are rushing to the mailbox to see if your favorite orange cat has a new comic. You run as fast as you can inside and scrounge through the pages till you see him. Then you find a comic strip you don’t quite understand. It seems that politics have made its way into your […]
Housepets! is a long-running webcomic written and illustrated by furry artist Rick Griffin. It explores the lives and relationships of anthropomorphic animals, primarily dogs and cats, living as pets in an American suburb. The comic began with a focus on humor and slice of life stories, but eventually incorporated supernatural elements and magic to create […]
Pokémon, a vast world full of strange and wonderous creatures. Coming out in February 1996, Pokémon Red and Blue arrived on the Gameboy and exploded in popularity. Two serialized products spawned off these games. The Pokémon anime follow, Ash, Pikachu, & gang, and the Pokémon Manga, named Pokémon Adventures. While the Pokémon anime made […]
Spoilers ahead for the DC comic and Netflix show Translating a comic from its pages to the screen is no easy feat. Especially when the comic being adapted comes from the complex mind of Neil Gaiman. Despite that difficulty, the countless people who worked on the Netflix series “The Sandman” were able to relay some […]
Talia Al Ghul has existed in the DC universe for 51 years since her first appearance in 1971. As the daughter of Ra’s Al Ghul, she is an expert and trained assassin who, despite being loyal to her father and his position as head of the League of Assassins, is often characterized as an antihero […]
Before you begin to read this article, allow me to quickly summarize what you’ll learn in this article, you’ll be learning today, or, if not, relearning about Little Nemo in Slumberland and all its glory! Along with also seeing what sets to get so that you can read them for yourself. At the bottom of […]
Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the highest rated animated series of all time. It is set in a world that is divided into 4 nations – the water tribes, the earth kingdom, the fire nation, and the air nomads. Some people in this world possessed the ability to “bend” 1 of the 4 […]
Marvel and the MCU Marvel has, with no doubt, been one of the most ambitious companies when it comes to adapting comics into TV shows and movies. The MCU consists of 20+ movies and TV shows that all exist in an interconnected universe telling an ever-expanding story, that has plans to continue years into the […]
Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic by Winsor McCay, can be seen as the beginning of what would become the surrealist movement in art. Okay, sure, but what is Surrealism? Surrealism, in the common vernacular, refers usually to off the wall strangeness and the use of elements that don’t go together in the making of […]