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Reviews
JJ Crass

Bluesday Review: Thor

The God of Thunder strikes down on Blu-ray: but does he create the perfect storm, or is this just overcast?

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The Story of “Hideo”

A fan of games, anime, and their respective music, Blair Baker attended two separate Final Fantasy concepts and felt a hole in the performance. It wasn’t in the sound, which was fine, but in the lack of anything on-stage accompanying the music. “Video games and anime have so much imagery,” she said. “Especially the older

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #29 – Heroes Assemble

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! With the more then sad news of Atomic Comics our heroes take a moment to remember our favorite comic shops while discussing the current state of the industry. Then it’s time to monkey around as resident host: Anthony Silva returns from his

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TV & Movies
Stephanie M.

There’s No Escaping the Greatness of this Live-Action Portal Movie

If anyone is as big of a Portal fan as I am, then a live-action Portal movie has been something we’ve thought about for a while.  I’ve never been entirely sure how a game centered on puzzles and problem solving could really translate to film, but what I just watched has proven Portal can be

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Anime Ima: Now and Then, Here and There

Steampunk! Almost anything with a steampunk aesthetic is awesome.  Throw in some dystopian society and militarism and you’ve got a great recipe for an anime. There are quite a few series that take the route of a post-apocalyptic future, but none do it quite as well as Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, Soko

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #26 – Cursing, Movies, and Vaults Oh My!

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s Wednesday, which mean it’s time for another exciting episode of Comic Issues. This week our heroes get their movies on. They battle with the Barbarians of Conan and then hit up the galaxy far far away with some Lego Star Wars.

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TV & Movies
James Huneycutt

Anne Catha…Woman?

The wrath of the faithful is dire. And the wrath of the comic faithful is far, far worse. Nothing raises the blood pressure and sends the spittle flying like a divergent interpretation of an origin story, plot-line, or character redesign. Enter the newly-minted shots of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Anne Hathaway as Selina

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