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Venture Bros. Co-Creator Talks Toxic Nerds And Making The Show In A World Saturated With Superheroes
A glimpse of Hank and Dean from the upcoming seventh season of The Venture Bros., as shown in the Go Team Venture! The Art and Making of The Venture Bros. art book.Image: Adult Swim/Dark Horse Comics Next month, Dark Horse Comics will be putting out Go Team Venture! The Art and Making Of The Venture…
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Incredibles 2 Shows How Hard It Is To Be A Super-Parent
The first Incredibles movie invoked the time-honoured tradition of using superpowers as a metaphor for what makes people unique and special. In Incredibles 2, the tropes of being a superhero complicate the characters’ lives even more, especially the grown-ups who have to take care of children.
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In Paper Girls, Time Travel Makes It Too Damn Easy To Hate Yourself
Detail from the cover of Paper Girls #8.Image: Cliff Chiang (Image Comics) It’s a good ol’ standby question in celebrity interviews: What advice would you give your younger self? The scifi shenanigans of Paper Girls allow these moments to happen but the advice never gets passed on, because the young ladies in this comic are too…
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Sabrina Is An Excruciating Portrait Of How The Fake News Era Is Crushing Our Souls
A sequence from Sabrina. Image: Nick Drnaso (Drawn & Quarterly) For a handful of pages in Nick Drnaso’s new graphic novel, the title character of Sabrina is a real person. We see her eat, talk, and laugh with her sister. But after she’s brutally killed on camera, strangers on the internet pick apart her death…