Alternate realities have become a staple of pop-culture. Most of us have been exposed to them by now in some form thanks to shows like Rick and Morty and Loki heavily relying on them for their story structures and to generate new and interesting scenarios for their characters to encounter…

When it was first announced that Mark Waid was writing a new Avengers companion series featuring the titular teens of the Marvel universe in 2016, readers were pumped. Some of the core characters of the book, Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) and Miles Morales (Spider-Man), were (and still are) wildly popular…

If you’ve read a comic — hell, if you’ve consumed a piece of media featuring a super hero — you know that death doesn’t really serve as a strong point of tension in a narrative. So often are we told to fear for the lives of heroes, only to see…

A part of what makes comic books so hard for the average consumer to get into is due to the way that comics are released. On average, each new issue sells for around $4, and readers will get roughly 20 pages of content that makes up a chapter of an…

Nailbiter isn’t a particularly special or fantastic series. Built on the promise of great ideas and the bedrock of horror culture tropes, the series features the titular Nailbiter, a serial killer known for his penchant to chew the nails off his victims’ bodies. He, as well as 15 other prominent…

Like any entertainment medium, it can be hard to consume media ethically. Over the years, I’ve found myself in the awkward position of falling in love with movies, video games, comics, what have you, only to discover that the creators of said content have, in some way, harmed others in…

Discussing comic books is an inherently difficult thing to do, but far less so today. For the most part, folks have at least some basis for what to expect from your average graphic novel. With the boom of the MCU alongside a wide range of stories being adapted for television…

A look at three channels that transformed board gaming into a modern hobby Board games have been important to pretty much every culture in the world, from chess and checkers in ancient societies to Monopoly and Scrabble in suburban households across 1950’s America. …