Alas, Connor Roy. Connor, always presented as the most objectively warmhearted and open of the Roy siblings, spent four seasons developing a romantic subplot with high-price call-girl Willa. At first a controlling business arrangement, the pair’s connection organically blossomed into an a kind of friendship, which grew into a partnership…

The Kryptonian Epic wasn’t originally conceived as a bunch of insane Youtube videos of a guy yelling. In fact, it was, like Superman: American Alien, conceived as a massive series of comic releases. Here’s a summary of them, in order. The story of the #KryptonianEpic begins with a 22-page one…

So, Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader. If someone in real life murdered an entire school full of children with a sword, then led a fascist movement that annihilated planets and led to the death of billions, I think it would take a lot for you to give a shit about…

It’s always a little alarming to hear someone dismiss the discourse around corporate filmmaking right now, especially around Star Wars. Yet lately for what seems like the umpteenth time, I’ve seen a line drawn in the sand about the discourse surrounding these movies. One of the strangest and most alienating…

AVATAR 2: The Way of Water makes the bizarrely blatant choice to portray the water-cultures of Pandora very directly as Oceanic. By that I don’t mean “of the ocean,” I mean “of the Oceania area of planet Earth.” For those who don’t know, “Oceania” is the very real name for…

I enjoyed playing through God of War Ragnarok, until about the beginning of the third act. The whole game, you’re sort of waiting for it to get serious, to stop placing you and identical realms from the last game which themselves are almost identical, functionally and visually, to each other…

Here’s the thing: I didn’t. There are many parts of the online narrative around me that are invented or mutated beyond recognition, but I don’t think even the people involved in my shaming would ever describe “The Colour Society” as a cult. It wasn’t even a thing. It was the…

5 MONTHS AFTER AMERICAN ALIEN ISSUE 6 FULL ACE CHEMICALS INCIDENT TIMELINE VIDEO. SECURITY LEVEL BLUE CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET AS PART OF PROJECT SLE. NOT FOR INTERNAL RELEASE PENDING ONGOING INVESTIGATION. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE DESK OF GEN. ARMAND HARDCASTLE TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GEN. AMANDA WALLER ::: Manders, We’re…

Stephen King’s work is, and has always been, nostalgic. For a writer who’s been active for more than half a century, that’s pretty impressive; you can now read a book by King written in the eighties yearning for the fifties just as easily as you can read King book written…