Heligeiss painstakingly brushes calligraphy on error-prone scrolls, under the strict amusement and watchful eye of Galadin. Today’s daily lesson is missing a section on transmutation magic — a type of magic deemed useful as Heligeiss has not been instructed on combat magic. Galadin placed a curse on Heligeiss over ten ...

Photo: “Memorial dedicated to Professor Xavier” from X-Men ‘97 Trailer. Characters owned by Marvel Studio and Disney+. (2024)

A teaser trailer for the latest Marvel installation of X-Men’97 was released a few weeks ago leading up to the first episode’s release on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

The one ...

Welcome to the first interview of the Creator Interviews! Today, we're asking the awesome Inky Moondrop questions about her, her DD award winning comics, her art, and her creative process.

I'm not using the royal ‘we’ by the way. While some questions come from me, most are from ...

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Merry Christmas! Today we interviewed John Celestri, a new member of DD and a very cool person. John has worked as an animator on some of the coolest shows in the 70s ...

Last week I had the fortune of stumbling across Netflix's latest animated series, Blue Eye Samurai. I didn't expect much, but I was so bowled over by the sheer excellence of this show that I ended up binging the entire first season overnight. Like all shows, it's ...

So I know I got two pending articles to finish up my Religion and my Catharsis series but I'm too tired right now to talk about anything that requires sociopolitical analyses and extrapolations.

So let's talk about hands in comics!

One of the easiest way to mitigate the ...

Photo: “A Mutant Trying to Read”. The Uncanny X-Men by Marvel Comics. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (October 2023)
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Rogue: I figured you read this one already. But the cover looked pretty good.

Beast: Thomas Wolfe. An old favorite. I thank you.

Gambit: Beastie is easy to ...

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Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...

So lately there has been a repetitive sequence of events that seems to carry on until some kind of death- of the story, of the company, or of the genre for a few years or so:

1. Disney remakes a classic fairytale or animated feature (live action/3D/etc)
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It goes without saying that the newly released movie, Across the Spiderverse, is one of the most popular superhero movies. The creators took one of the most divisive iterations of Spiderman, Miles Morales, and made him into a now beloved version of the titular character. They expand the Spider-lore through ...