At first, you think you know what you’re getting in the first issue of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1: adorable girl genius befriends crimson T-Rex for eventual hijinx. Then you get to page 8 and a very bleak moment adds a grim undercurrent to everything. The main character of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur—out…
There’s something very heavy in one of Just Cause 3’s mountain craters and no amount of fancy tether-work by Rico Rodriguez can pick up it up. The latest entry in Avalanche’s open-world chaos series comes out tomorrow but YouTube channel Arekks Gaming has already uncovered a cool nod to the thunder god of Norse mythology.…
For years, it seemed like comics fans wouldn’t be getting another Batman story set in Frank Miller’s Dark Knight universe. Then, this summer, DC Comics announced that Frank Miller and a team of other creators were wrapping up work on Dark Knight III: The Master Race. It’s bombastically goofy and absurd, like you’d think. But…
These things are huge up close, guys. “Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu!” My family and I woke up entirely too early today and went to the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After more than an hour of waiting with a restless kid—gotta get there early to get a good spot—the pageantry started to roll by. I shot…
Batman: Arkham Knight’s latest add-ons focus on Catwoman and Robin, with both characters taking on Gotham’s bad guys in the aftermath of the game’s ending. Is it worth dusting off this summer’s latest Bat-game? Not really. These DLC chapters don’t break the streak of mediocrity established by their predecessors. Like the bite-sized installments built around…
Ever since the new modernized relaunch of Archie hit a few months ago, it’s been a mystery as to why Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper abruptly broke off their seemingly perfect romance. This week, we found out why. The crucial element in most of the old-school Archie comics was that Archie never had to definitively…
Millions of people are binging on Jessica Jones right now. They’re watching as a sadistic predator named Kilgrave makes the title character’s life a living hell. Kilgrave’s even worse in the comics, though: he’s a crappy absentee dad who passed his powers to a bunch of angry, neglected sons and daughters. Mild spoilers follow for…
Everybody has a little bit of caged, writhing terribleness inside of them, frightening for what it can reveal about oneself. Monstress makes that metaphor literal and shows the struggle of one young woman trying to make her demons serve her angels. This article contains mild nudity and other scenes that some readers might find disturbing.…
The series where Gwen Stacy is the superhero swinging around Manhattan beating up bad guys is a fan-favorite twist on the Spider-Man mythos. Last week, a great version of Captain America showed up in Spider-Gwen #2. She eats nachos off her shield. I want to see more of her immediately. The secret ingredient to Spider-Gwen’s…
The sharp comedy and the bittersweet romantic drama is great but, on the real, the fashion in the 2015 Archie comics has been the best stuff in the publisher’s reboot. Presenting a sense of style—or anti-style—to the world is 96.3% of what it means to be a teenager. Kids in the puberty zone put undue…
Back in 2004, DC Comics announced Batman: Europa, a miniseries with art by pencil god Jim Lee that would take the Dark Knight and the Joker out of Gotham and across the Atlantic. Years went by. Children were born that learned to walk and talk. Twitter was invented. The book never came out. Now it’s…
2015 has been a hell of a year for the Man of Steel, bringing the biggest changes that the character’s seen in decades. And, while I mostly like how the current Superman reads after getting his powers reduced and secret identity outed, his monthly adventures feel like they’re losing steam to me. DC Comics shook…
If you played GTA V like this, you’d probably hurl in, like, ten minutes. This video by small-scale engineering outfit Force Dynamics shows a GTA V session played in a seat designed to transmit motion feedback. The reactive platform turns a ride on Los Santos’ roller coaster from a boring side activity to something that’s…
Skintight suit with very specific contrasting panels. Poses and artists chosen to highlight her body. Pheromone powers that made her control dudes. Once upon a time, Spider-Woman was a Marvel Comics character that was seemingly tailor-made for ogling and creepy fantasies. She’s mad pregnant now, though. So, yeah, those days are over. When the longtime…
The guy standing next to Doctor Doom is Jonathan Hickman, the comics writer behind Marvel’s big-but-hella-late Secret Wars event. Doom is not pleased with him. Marvel’s line-wide relaunch—with a crop of new first issues and heavy status quo changes for leading characters—is well underway. As far as most readers can tell, the plan was for…
Unlike the big blond guy who preceded her, the woman who’s wielding Mjolnir isn’t immortal. In fact, she’s fighting one of the worst fatal diseases to ever plague mankind. And being a superhero is complicating her treatment a whole lot. The latest version of Thor has been in action since last October, ever since a…
Star Wars canon has changed, and some of that has happened in a new wave of Marvel Comics series. Months ago, we saw Luke Skywalker wield a lightsaber against his father way before their fateful meeting in The Empire Strikes Back. This week’s Star Wars comic has them dogfighting against each other and it’s damn…
The Street Fighter version of the Ronda Rousey/Holly Holm fight isn’t quite as bloody as the real thing. Still really quick, though. YouTuber Richie Branson—who previously modified Street Fighter characters to stand in for the former UFC women’s champ and Floyd Mayweatherin another video—has a quick clip that uses a modded Chun Li as a…
“Jenga.” Depending on where you’ve played it, the very word conjures up memories of family holiday gatherings or boozy dorm room parties. But, if Hasbro had its way, the world-famous tower game would have a different name. This past Sunday, the woman who created Jenga spoke at the Practice game design conference at New York…
“And how come you ain’t dead?” “‘Cause God’s a fucking asshole, that’s why.” Sunday school, this is not. Over the last decade or so, comics writer Jason Aaron has shown a startling proficiency in a number of genres and paradigms. He’s done fantasy-inflected, big-deal superheroics on Thor for Marvel and put out his own deep-fried…
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