It doesn’t matter what you put on a pizza; if the cheese, sauce, and crust aren’t good, the pizza won’t be good, no matter what you pile on top. The same is true for combative action games. If the ...CONTINUE
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As a middle-aged, middle-class white man living in a good apartment in America, it would be easy for me to believe a white washed version of U.S. history, one where this land wasn’t stolen from the indigenous people already ...CONTINUE
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While reading fiction can take you places you might never imagine, the same can also be true of writing it, professionally-speaking. Take author E. Lockhart, whose work as a novelist led her to write Whistle: A New Gotham City ...CONTINUE
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According to their website, the comic book company A Wave Blue World is, “…an independent publisher of high-quality graphic novels, anthologies, and art books, focusing on socially conscious storytelling and providing a platform for a multitude of creative ...CONTINUE
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While you may not know his name, you undoubtedly know the work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), who, as Hokusai, created such classic work as the iconic woodblock print series “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.” But ...CONTINUE
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While it’s been fifty-five years since Frank Herbert published his epic sci-fi space opera novel Dune, its influence is still being felt. And no, not just in Star Wars stories. Not only is the novel being adapted into ...CONTINUE
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With Harmony, Vol. 1 (hardcover), Insight Editions are bringing Mathieu Reynès sci-fi comic of the same name to the U.S. for the first time. In the following email interview about it, Reynès discusses what inspired and influenced both ...CONTINUE
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In her new graphic novel memoir Kimiko Does Cancer (paperback, Kindle), writer Kimiko Tobimatsu shows what happened when she found out she had breast cancer. But as she and artist Keet Geniza explain in the following ...CONTINUE
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Like in a lot of video games, the co-operative “Escape” mode in last year’s Gears 5 added some colorful characters to the sci-fi shooting series. Now players of that game, and “Escape” mode, can learn more about those characters ...CONTINUE
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