Looking Forward with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
by Brian Hadsell To hear everybody tell it a year ago, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a terrible show. Clark Gregg – a balding, middle-aged bit-player from Marvel’s Phase 1 – was too old to…
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The Naming of Things
That’s a pretty clever name, right? Squid Vicious. I thought of it entirely independently. I got really excited, because it hit me in just the perfect way – clever, catchy, irreverent. I was going to…
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The Seven Best Big Screen Jumps for Animated Series
Adapting a thirty minute TV series usually seems like a horrific mistake. The tidy length of most TV shows coupled with their episodic format allows a lot of writers to shore up issues that would…
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Xena and Gabrielle Get Disney Makeovers
Despite the “princess” identifier in her name, Xena has not a terribly large amount in common with princesses of the Disney variety. Until now, that is. The character has been given a Disney-style animated…
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Little Mikasa vs. the Titan
Sometimes, cosplay can be so much better in video form. The above clip shows little 4 year-old Mikasa taking on a Colossal Titan from the newly famous anime, Clash of the Titans. I mean Attack…
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When Disney Meets Avatar
No not THAT Avatar, the other, cooler one. With elemental superpowers and a ridiculously good story better than almost anything else on TV. That one. In any case, I can’t get over how massive this…
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Berserk: Still the Dark Fantasy Anime of Choice
Have the Game of Thrones off-season blues got you down? Do you love your sex, violence, political intrigue, deception, seduction, and tales of comradery, ambition, and brotherhood with horror elements all trussed up in an…
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Visual Epic-ness In Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
When you think of science fiction and fantasy as a whole, one thing that binds them together is an expectation of a grand scale or scope. You’re much more likely to find an epic clash…
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Ten of the Laziest and Least-Inspired Alien Designs
Designing an alien is a tricky business. On the one hand, you want to unhinge your imagination and craft something that is truly foreign and unexpected. On the other hand, if you make the design…